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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
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John R Lynch, ihe negro
polilici. i' of Mississippi. w ns in
Atkn a hist week with Pled;;
or. It is purpose was t<> organ
ize clubi in the interest of Har
vis in's par v\
Alexander imy le of New
Vo - k, has been awarded the
contract to build the Henry
Grady monument. Mr. Dovle
ir, one of die twenty live that
is a e made applications.
William If Pope, teller of
t'l. .Louisville, X Ci y Na
na 1 . dm;, hia skipped to
r.i da or some vhen? else. Lie
car i 1 th hi n SJ9.O 0 oi die
bank’s money. ile left the
• alav right of ih s
!. . • lend was hanged in
-o vior;ati county, the
2> . as. or rap * and murder,
of a it!-, white g.ri Thane
g : was taken out and lunged
to u telegraph post. His body
was riddled withoverone hun
dred shots. The hanging took
p ace abou" 9A-o’clock tho 1,1
lowing night. The Banner’s
special train didn’t arrive un
til 11 .-50. Ihe negro had been
hanging two hours.
F x-Congressman Tan! bee
who was shot by Correspond
eat Kincaid a few days ago. at
the cupii'd in Washington, is
very low. The trouble grew
out ot Kincaid publishing a
scandal and implicating Taul
bee. Taulbee slapped Kincaid
in the face. The latter shot
Taulbee in the head.
Kincaid has been released on
bond.
Livingston has opened the
campaign for governor. Liv
ingstonisthe ailiauce candi
date. Though this body has
not. as yet, made its choice, it
is known that it favors either
Livingston or Northern Those
t . 0 are its leaders.
However, Livingston sajslhe
alliance propose to do their
lighting within the lines of the
democratic party.
How this will take through
out the state, and what opposi
tion may arise from the repub
lican party, .just, now, cau not
be predicted.
The National, State Demo
cratic Nominating Convention
lias its claims, of course An
other man outside of the alli
ance may receive the nomina
tion. The alliance will have 1
to be governed in this cnvon
tion. if it would make a success
fui tight within democratic
lines.
The Federal Judicial System
The organization and machin
er.v provided by the federal
government for the administra
lion of justice in the courts of
the United States have not for
two decades been adequate to
the needs of their expanding
business. Jhe result is that
the judicial force, both in the
interior courts and in the su
preme court, has not beensudi
cient to do the work devolved
upon them in uoh way and
with such promptitude as to se
cure the rights of parties liti
gant.
These facts have been well
understood for a long time, bat
the unprecedented, number of
bills introduced at the present
hpssior:, both in the senate and
tin house, o.i the subject indi
cait-s that ihere is at least a
probability that something will
• t,e done.
The Je! v.-:- < f .jit-lice in the
supreme court—caused not by
the fault of judges; but by att
overflow of cases—are so griev
ou i tint they have assumed pro
portions o r a national reproach.
By impairing respect and rev
erence for law, they have be
come a source of public dang
er. Considerations of this
character lift the whole subject
above tha plane of parly poli
tics and elevate to the range
of a high public duty on the
part of congress to provide a
remedy for existing abuse.—
[Constitution.
I Dick Hawes.
Friday the 2Sth, iust., at 12:-
SS. Dick Hawes gave his life
on the gallows in the Binning
ham jail yard for the murder of
his wife and 2 daughters. He
walked from the cell wiih a
coolness and nerve hardly ever
displayed at the point of deal!).
With him was SheriiT Smith
and two ministers. Hawes was
dressed neatly in his burial
suit. On the left lapel of his
coat was a boqnet of delicate
red and white. In tho right
hand pocket appeared a por
tion of a delicate white ailk
handkerchief. On his feet he
wore a pair office toilet slip
pers. His hair was combed re
markably. Every hair was
smoothly to its plaie; giving
the full texture and shape of
his head. As he came up the
steps on the platform, he turn
ed his face aside to keep from
touching the noose that was
soon to take his life. Turning
on the scaffold, he faced the
audience. lie sasv Mr. Kann,
and told SheriiT Smith to call
him to him. Sheriff Smith did
so. Hawes said, “Kann, I want
to die in peace with everybody.
I want to tell you that I forgive
you for the many hard things
you have said about me in the
papers.” Then he wanted to
know if Mr. Milburn was pres
ent. When informed (hat he
was. lie gave Milburn iusluc
tions to sea to his body. This
was acknowledged and accept
ed by Milburn. Then afeve,-
ent prayer was offered up b ,r
Dr. Purser, one of the minis
ters who was on the sea Told;
Hawes frequently chiming in
with amen. After prayer was
over Idawos walked out on Hie
trap. He was asked if he had
anything to say. He said all
he had to say would be given
to the public in his book. lie
didn’t want die people to think
lie was going lo die with a lie
on his lips. Then Sheriff Smith
Stepped up and put the noose
around his neck. At this Hawes
face turned extremely red.
Sheriff Smith asked, “How does
that feel, Dick?” Hawes re
plied, “Its too tight around my
neck.” Then he was asked to
hold out his hands. This ha
did. Sheriff Smith produced
from his pocket a pair of hand
cuffs. He fastened them on
the rists. Hawes locked his
fingers. Then a cord was tied
around each arm at the elbow
and tied behind his bark. An
other was tied below his knees.
Then Sheriff Smith took from
his pocket a black silk cap.
Hawes looked at it, and again
reminded Milburn to care for
his body; telling the spectators
as Sheriff Smith was putting
ihe cap over his head, “to shun
whiskey and vile women. I
wish I had.’’ Alter the cap
was put on Sheriff Smith s epp
ed back. Hawes called out in
a muffled voice, “Hold on,
down then, Joe. Let me stand
here a minute, please!'’ After
hu elapse of a minute, Sheriff
Smith counted one. two, three!
The tiap sprung and Ha we;,'
body went down full length,
and then sprang up an inch or
two. He faintiy raised his fed
twice, as though Tying to kick,
iiis stomach and chest rose and
went down like a bellows. In
fourteen minutes the doctors
pronounced him dead. Then
' Sheriff Smith cut the rope and
Ihe body was received by four
of tire dead man's friends and
taken into a room in the jail
|and laid on a bod. When the
cap was removed Ihe face bore
a mild repose. The features
seemed natural. The body re
mained in the jail until morn
ing, when put in a costly cof
fin and taken to Atlanta. The
burial took place at Oakland
Cemetery, Monday morning.
Thus ends, seemingly, an un
surpassed tragedy.
Wanliiuaiuo I. eller.
From the Joui nut’s Cortespondent
Washington, March 3.— r i he
senate elections committee is
deep in the intracioies of the
Montana Senatorial troubles.
I Several hours were devoted
i Saturday to discussing purely
legal questions. The printed
copies of the arguments ay
Bayne and Jenks had not been
received in time (o allow of
consideration bv the members.
A further meeting will be held
next Saturday, in pursuance of
the leisurely and dignified prac
lice of the senate.
Dr. Norviii Green, president
of the Western Union Tele
j graph company, has been for
two days before the house pos
tal commit lee, arguing in op
position to Mr. Wanamaker's
proposition of a postal tele
graph. He contends that the
English system has been run
at a loss, even with salaries
one half as large as those paid
in this country, and where the
distances were but trilling and
Hie rates for long distances
greater.
The pressure for official pla
ces centers about the Census
office. Supt. Porter tries to
shove oft' the applicants upon
the chief clerk, but only par
tially succeeds. The chief clerk
merely surrenders to the ava
lanche, and is miserable all
day. The civil service saves
the other departments to a
great extent, but it does not
relieve pressure upoa the Cen
sus office. There are many
haggard men and pitiable look
ing women in the crowd that
daily besiege the doors. The
other day I heard one miser
ably dressed old man telling
another that he had worked on
the census in 1860, 1870 and
j 1880. What he had done be
tween times, no man, not evrn
himself, I suppos , could
tell. him stood a hard
faced woman who, I re
member, has been discharged
from three departments and
more than once from each on
account of incompetency. With
her was her daughter, a beauti
ful girl of eighteen. Any one
acquainted about the depart
ment could recognize a score
of familiar faces in the crowd
of applicants.
The civil service investiga
tion, even if ir should fail to
accomplish the dismissal of
that highly scented fraud Com
missioner Lyman, has brought
to public notice tw o deeply in
teresting personage that might
hive otherwise remained un
known to fume. These are Ly
in n's brother in-law Campbell
and Rev. Mr. Bailey. The for
nier is the individual who stole
the exaniina’ion questions that
Were peddled about town, for
which mild offense he was re
primatuled and uftewards twici
promoted by Lyman, (lie sob
commissioner. In his appear
ance upon the witness stand In
was abject and confused, con
tradicting himself and admit
inghis contradictions. Camp
bell is the ideal poor relation
always clinging to a bright
man's skirts, ids coarse face,
with its piggish, over-fed ex
pression, fades into a red, bull
neck and a frouzv suit of cloth
es.
Bailey is his opposite in*ap
p arance. Neatly dressed;
plump, oily, pursuasive. lie is
the ideal of an upright man.
nis complexion is as pure as a
girls, and on his round jaws
grows tha beard ol one that has
never shaved, uis only bad
feature is his mouth, a large or
gan upon which rests a continu
al smile that borders on a sum k
and a “dod you is always
< n his lips.” He is charged
with having been promoted,
without examination, as a sfen
ographer, when he was abse
lutelv incapable of doing short
hand work, in violation © r -be
civil service law. He has been
carried on the rolls as a steno
grapher without attempting to
perform such duties, lie is a
member of Lyman’s church.
Very thrifty, this Bailey,
The civil service offices are in
the city hall and lie is general-
ly called on during the hours
when the government is sup
posed to employ him to per
form marriages for eloping
couples. Quite a snuc little
sum he makes in this way. He
is also head of a praying band
that goes about the streets in a
big wagon, lidding meetings at
corners, nis exposure does no
mortify his Chad band. Meekf
ly, he turns the olher cheek
and the tear upon it is one of
meekness and forgiveness. The
man doesn’t really compie
heiul his shame.
It is comforting to think that
the departmental forces are
not composed alone of bung
ling rascals and hypocritical
knaves. The “Livery of Heav
en” is not always stolen, as the
patient Christian lives of so
many useful government em
ployees prove. Perhaps the
future painter of cur manners
will find a rich mine in the re
cords of the investigation of the
Lyman administration.
The shooting of Ex Repre
sentative Taulbee by Mr. Kin
caid of the Louisville Times,
is the final outcome of one of
the most disgraceful scandals
ever known in this city. About
two years age the Times pub
lished an account cfTaulbee’s
indecent conduct with a wo
man in a public place, audits
truth lias never been denied.
The most amazing feature of
the case is that the woman is 1
still retained in the interior j
department. Ever since the
publication Taulbee, a power
ful raw b med man, over six
feet, has hounded Kincaid, a
small, sickly man weighihg
about one hundred pounds. lie
pursued the game t o long, an l j
now lies in the hospital with aj
ball in his brain. The shooting J
occurred in a corridor on tl.ej
House side of the capilol. j
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