The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-11-06

,eelection When the rejuvenated old
man steps into the middle of the ring,
look out for a good scrap. There is
nothing like bacon and beans to put a
GOOD bottom on Teller
The newspapers quite generally con-
denim South Carolina over the acquittal
off. II. Tillman for killing editor Con
zales. The Judge INSTRUCTED 1ne jury,
in effect that if they believed from all
the evidence that at the supreme mo-
ment when the defendant fired the
fatal shot he really believed, acting
as a sensible man, that Gonzales was
about to shoot him, and that he had
reason for so believing, and that he
shot to save his own life, or save him
self from great bodily harm, and for
no other purpose, that it would make
no difference whether defendant was
in actual danger or not, they '''''Ss ''c-
quit. -rlo foregoing Is ABOUT uhe IN
struetion, as given, and it is the in
struction the newspapers are having
fits over. But it is correct, and has
been given again and again in nearly
all the courts. and it would be error
to refuse to give it, if there is any evil
dence to support it. The only ques-
ton left for argument is whether the
jury actually believed, from all the
evidence, that Tillman shot to save
himself, truly believing himself in
danger? True, witnesses swore that |
no weapons were found on Gonzales. |
But that would not prove that Con
zales was not armed and ready to
shoot. The District Attorney may |
have known that Gonzales was armed,
and hidden the evidence. Gonzales !
fell in the hands of friends, and the |
first thing they would do would be to |
conceal the weapons, and the fact that |
he was armed. Gonzales had persist
entity attacked Tillmau most viciously |
in his newspaper, and he knew that |
Tillman would shoot Newspaper men |
in South Carolina usually go "heeled,"
as they have to- particularly when at
lacking public men, who are always I
armed. Gonzales made certain quick |
motions with his hands, and Tillman |
may have believed, and with reason,
in State like South Carolina, and I'M
der all the circumstances, that he was
about to be shot. 1t is therefore evil
dent that the jury did not believe that
Gonzales was not armed, and that they
did believe that Tillman acted as a
reasonable person, in believing that
his life was in immediate danger.
}. Pierrepont Morgan, who helped
to organize the United States Steel
Company, a billion dollar concern, and
also helped to organize the ship build
ing trust for S3O,0OO,0oO, organizing
property worth less than $4,000, 900,
and sharing the profits with c. NJ.
Schwab, lately visited the tomb of the
late President Me Kinley, and wept.
The public who digested $40, 900, 900 of
Morgan's "undigested securities in
the shipbuilding trust are weeping
yet.
The methods by which Morgan and
Schwab beat the public out of 800, 0OO.-
900 in the organization of the ship
trust are not different from
the methods of bunkoe steerers. hood
lie ringers and gold brick" operators.
sold the trust the Bethlehem
works for $1,000, 900 and 500, 900, 900 of
bonds, which were in some way divid-
ed, but he made am arrangement by
which the public should digest his Sc
curities first. As soon as they were
taken up by the public he allowed the
to go to the wall He is
credited with having cleaned up about