Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-15
While Not Sanotioning Method, They
Say Result Will Be Good.
LEGAL MACHINERY IN ACTION
Judge Butler of Circuit Court Will
Call Grand Jury.
FULL INVESTIGATION PLEDGED
Bad weather Keeps Crowds Away
from City which Has Long Been
Mecca for sunday Rev
elers-City quiet.

CAIRO, ILL.,, Nov 14.-Cairo was in the
grasp Of a firm authority today and ex-
perienced the quietest Sunday that has
been its lot in years No saloons we're
open and the few attempts to evade the
orders Of Governor Deneen in this regard
met with quick detection, several arrests
being made by the military patrols. A
heavy rain kept away the excited crowds
from surrounding towns and the element
that usually makes this city a Mecca for
the dry" communities on the first day
of the week, turned back when they found
that liquid refreshments were as difficult
to obtain here as in their home towns.
Definite indication that the legal ma
chinery of the state would be started in
an effort to bring the lynch leaders into
court came with the arrival at his home
here of Judge w. N. Butler Of the circuit
court. He indicated that he would call a
grand jury to take up the work as soon
as the adjourned session Of this tribunal
is assembled December s, and said the
matter would be called to the attention
of the county commissioners within a few
days.
Pastors Criticize Officials.
Despite this announcement from Judge
Butler there was no change in the atti-
lgs in this district. Half a dozen pastors
lshed the constituted authorities without
tint, telling their congre cations that the
ynchings were likely to prove a blessing
n disguise in the long run.
Cairo stands disgraced before the world.
but the disgust is not in the lynching, "
said Rev. George NJ. Babcock of the Church
| Of the Redeemer Episccpalian
The real disgust lies in the fact that
the city has allowed lawless elements to
control civic affairs. In the same alley in
| which Miss Pelley was murdered there
have been four assaults on young women
within year. This defiance Of law and
order made the lynchings necessary for
the infliction of justice"
'"rhe lynchings were the harvest of the
seeds of lawlessness that have been sown
in Cairo for years" said Rev. A. S Bu-
chanan, minister of the Presbyterian
church
In this case It seems that the lynch
ings were necessary to arouse the people
do not mean to say that the crime OF
! lynching is ever justifiable, but Calro's
citizenship had to be aroused to a sense
of its own responsibility by some great
horror like this"
People Side with Clergy.
The declarations Of the clergymen were
endori ed by many OF the townspeople.
! Ca ro's disgrace is not the mob, but
the condition which made the mob neces.
sary," said E. w. Thielcke, editor of tn,
Cairo Bulletin. For these conditions the
authorities, from the Judge on the cour
bench down to the deputy sherlffs ant
bailiffs and the police department Of tn,
c.ty, a.e responsible"
Henry Salzner, the second victim of tn,
mob was buried at Anna today. OnlJ
members Of his Immediate family, includ
ing the two boys orphaned by the violen
deaths of their parents, accompanied tn,
coffin from this city. At Anna no clergy
man was at the grave to commit the bod,
to earth nor was there any indication from
the townspeople that the fate of thei
former neighbor had aroused any lastin,
interest.