Evening gazette, Thursday, August 27, 1896 · page 4

 

 

THE EVENING GAZETTE.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1896.

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THE WEATHER-«Forecast for to-
day: Fair, cloudy and cooler.» Tem-
perature yesterday: Highest, 79 de-
grees; lowest, 68; average, 74%. '

" To-morrow it promises to be fair,
with slight temperature changes.

 

As “Body ” View It.

Sister Parsons, editress of the Win;
sated Mayflower, writes to the Citizen.

“we, who connot vote, are in favor
141f Lorrin Cooke for Governor of Con-
:necticut."

The unhappy thing about it' re, that so
many who are in favor of Bre’r Cooke.
, can’t vote.—._—News.

It would look as if those republicans
in Hartford, who convened in caucus,
laltnight, one thous 1nd strong, could
Vote, and that very effectively, as the
Rotter-for-Governor delegates had a
emaiority of 250. At this distance, it
looks as if the small peanut politics that
has emenated from the Content oflice,
in. unfriendly, if not unfair opposition
to Porter’s candidacy, was not an entire
success in and around Hartford:

Murder and the Law.

Dvor ten thousands homicides in the
United States in 1895, two and a half
Stamens many as in 1890, and constantly
increasing at a ratio out of all propor-
tion to the increase in population!

These are facts which demand serious
attention and a serious investigation to
discover if possible their causes. It has
been the fashion to attribute this
alarming increase in crime against life
do the inferior character of the later
immigration from foreign countries.

 

 

But‘eliminating from the statistics all '

homicides which may properly be
tracedjto this undesirable class of our
population, theta remains, in the. ag-
gregate, the bulk of cum), untouched.

There exists a cause for this, and that
cause exists in our methods of dealing
with crime and criminals. Within the
last six years 44, 000 homicides have oc-
cured 1n the United States, and for this
terribe army of men, women, and
children slaughtered, four-fifths of the
murderers have gone scot free, and only
one-sixtieth, €723, have expiated their
crime by a legal execution. Is it any
wonder that, in 1,118 of these 44,000
cues, the people, banded in mobs, to
execute, by lawless lynchings, the pun-
ishment due to crime denied by the
law? '

That there is something wrong here
almost every one recogn‘z 18. We are
prone to blame Judges, juries, and the
executive officers of the law f 11' this
state-of affairs. But this is not always
a fair criticism, and probably seldom is
much: , 2 - _ - .,

,Judge J. G. Parker of the United
States District Court for the Western
district of Arkansas, suggests that in
every State, there be organized special
courts of criminal appeal where but one
inns" is to be retried, viz., the guilt or
innocence of the accused. Such a re-
form as this would accomplish much to
relieve criminal administration from
Ehejust odium into'which it has fallen.

It is a much needed reform, but we
suggest that a reformation is needed ‘in
the law as administrated in the trial
court. ' (

The criminal enactments and codes
of the several States consist, for the
most part, of mere declarations of de
fining the punishment due to convicted
«criminals. How the trial itself is to be
conducted to elucidate the main issue of
guilt or innocence is court-made law,
always intending, under the plea of pro-
tecting individual right, and a one-
sided right of appeal, to more and more
leniency toward the accused. There is
acoustant tide lapping away the foun-
dations of criminal justice. Judges
mean to be honest. The fault is not in
them. it is in the law.

But thefaultis not alone in this grow-
ing tendency of the law to one side.
The foundations were built in Edgland,
under monarchical rule, and undera
11inch heavier-handed rule than ex1sts

' there to-day, and were intended ass
bulwark to the citizens against the
crown. Under our- free institutions
and in the light of our later civilization,
itueociety which demands protection
ggainst the” lawless individual. The

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law of criminal evidence. It would
seem that rules of evidence should tend
to but one end, 'viz., to favor'the in-
troduction of all testimony necessary
to show guilt or innocence, and the re-
jection of all other.

A istried for the murder of B, and
the State’s attorney seeks to show. that
A made a full confession in all its de-
tails to D, a policeman or jailer. It is
shown that D advised the prisoner to
make the confession as the best thing
he could do in order to secure mitiga-
tion of punishment.
permitted to hear one word of such a
confession. and, unless the case can be
otherwise proven, there must be an ac-
quittal, and then the accused, having

. been oncetried, rs safe to boast his

guilt on every street corner.

That is law, butlis it justice ? _

Such legal technicalities beset I the
course of justice to a still greater de-
gree in the cases of assaults, drunks
and other minor criminal delinquencies,
and it would seem that our penal laws
require a very thorough revision.

MB. FESSENDEN SPEAKS.

 

 

Why the Letter to Chairman I-‘yler was
Written.

 

The Stamford Advocate publishes
what is evidently an authorized and
authentic interviewwith the Hon.Sam-
uel Fessenden. He says he wrote his
letter to Mr. Fyler, published in yes-
terday’s GAZETTE, because he had been
annoyed by the groundless but persis-
tent talk of a “compact,” by the terms
of which Mr. Cooke, in return for help
in the preliminary canvass, was to use
his influence as governor, to promote
Sam Fessenden’s election to the Sen-
ate. He made up his mind, he says,
“at once, effectually and forever to sil-
ence such baseless assertions”—to shut
the mouths of the persons who were
trying to make trouble between his
friends and Mr. Platt’ s friends.

By way of further clearing up his po-
sition, Mr. Fess'enden read to the in-
terviewer—and permitted him to copy
in part—another letter which he had
just written. Here are extracts: —
“With reference to the second sub-
ject to which I have referred, namely
the sentiment which finds daily expres-
smu in the press cf the state, and even
beyond the limits, of— Connecticut, that
I favor the candidacy of Mr. Cooke from
selfish motives, and indeed that every
word and act of mine-1n connection

with the politics of this state has a. di- \

rect reference to my aspirations for the
United States senatorsh-ip, -I have do.
dided to express myself more fully than
in my last, and to adopt a course which
Will, I hope, convince the republicans
of the state thatv’vhatever I may do or
say in the coming campaign will be, not
with the thought of benefiting myself
nor of aiding the personal interests of
others, nor of gratifying the ambition
of friends, but with the sole‘purpose of
ensuring victory to' the National and
state republican tickets'in what seems
to me to be a grave crisis in the» afiairs
of our country. *.' * * I say to you
that whatever aspiration I may have for
the great honor of being a senator of
the United States, I am ready in this
contest to lay aside every personal am-
bition, and labor only for the success of
our party. * * * In view of what I
have above stated, I think it can no
longer be said that my motives in favor
of Mr. Cooke’s nomination are of a as]-
fish character. or that my interest or
zeal in the success of the ticket will be
in any manner affected by the selection
of the gubernatorial candidate, or that

’ I will not earnestly labor for the suc-

cess of such nomineeswas the state con-
vention may elect.”

 

Bicycle for a Name.
Messrs.’Curtis Davis & 00., of Bos-

 

ton, the well known manufacturers of ‘

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a wh1te floating soap which they are
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which ’will be significant of purity merit
and sterling worth and which will har-
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soap is applied. They solicit the aid of
our readers in seeking, for this name,
and to stimulate a contest, have decided
to give to. the person who first sends to
them. the name they will finally decide
upon, any bicycle,which the successful
competitor may select not .exceeding
$100. This competition will close at 6
p. 111. Sept. 10. Further information
can be obtained by applying to Curtis
Davis & 00.,136 State street. Boston,
Mass.

 

Record for Connecticut.

Robert J. the phenominal New Ha-
ven pacer, made a record yesterday,on
the new Readville track of the New
England Breeders’ Association of 2:01%,
the fastest mile ever made in harness. ..

 

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