The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, October 23, 1903, Image 4
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UNION, 8. C., OCTOBER 23, 1903.
According to the experts it tnki
ten pounds of milk to make a pouc
of cheese and twenty-three pounds
milk to make a pound of butter.
Beware of blood-guiltiness. It is
crimo that never goes unpunished, f
though men may fail to do their Go
given duty, yet the avenging voice
conscience gives no peace, and t
troubled heart crlos out in its anguis
"My punishment is greater than
can bear."
The failure of so many Trusl
some of them capitalized at enormo
figures, is a prominent feature of t
financial news of the days.
Perhaps, as has been predicted,
is the beginning of the end of th<
huge monopolies. The general pi
is not shedding any tears over th
misfortunes.
The eyes of the whole country w<
fS G/Mitli riurnlina in f.
ii Ann upv/U kjvuwii v/w? * "
Tillman trial with intense intere
The (act that the victim of his G
man magazine pistol was the edil
of one of the leading papers of t
State, whose otlenso was his vig
A11AG
ilorts to prevent the election
gift or tlie peopie,
crime and the trial to be publish
in every corner of the land.
The verdict of a jury made up fr
a list of men selected under the jt
law as being persons fitted for
responsible a position as juryn
will bo given equal publicity.
The damage done to the good nni
and material welfare of the State
incalculable.
The attorneys for the defence
the trial of James IT. Tillman, w
are responsible for the introducti
of witnesses whose evidence is 1
Iieved to be false by ull intellige
citizens, and who appealed to the f
litical prejudices of the jury to i
duce them to violate their oath
< render a verdict according to t
la* and evidence, rest under the ju
condemnation of every law-abidi
citizen. The venom and perversit
of truth with which they assuil
. the conduct and character of tl
Silent victim of their client, went f
beyond the' duty required in tnt
profession, and we think should 1
publicly repudiated by the lawyers
the State.
We remember hearing the la
Jucgo Wallace say that he alwa;
told his clients in criminal case
that if he was guilty he must n<
tell him so, for he could not then d<
fend him.
THE TILLMAN TRIAL.
r The verdict in the Tillman tria
though not unexpected, has greati
increased the feeling of contempt fc
a jury system that makes such a(
quittals possible.
In fact, no one expects a verdic
of murder where the accused is
man of means or prominence, Bu
it did seem that no jury of self-re
specting men could be brought to th?
polnt'of exonerating a man who had
shot down on the street a fellow-be
ing, who was unarmed, and who had
made no attempt to do him bodily
harm.
The only thing that can he said in
Tillman'* behalf is that Gonzales
was often somewhat intemperate in
hi* criticisms, but all claim that the
deed was done in the heat of passion
was lost when he waited five months
after the cause for anger had been
given,
Bnt though acquitted by a jury of
his peers, (?) he stands convicted by
the law-rospeetir.g people of the State
ci amost brutal and cowardly murder.
3
WILLIAM Ti CVMS1SH
SHERMAN.
An equestrian statue of "The
Great Incendiary," and author of tlie *
famous sayiDg, "War is Hell," was 1
unveiled in Washington on the lfith (
inst. i
5 President Roosevelt delivered the >
address oi the day, luuding his char- 1
aeter and career, but not mentioning
the vindictive cruelty with which he
^ scourged the helpless people living in
the path of his raid through Georgia
- and this State. Only those who saw
the devastation left behind him, the
H) naked chimueys and smoking ruins,
and listened to the tales of sorrow told
s.
by the afllicted women and children,
can fully comprehend the truth, that
0 war as he made it, is hell,
8 Henry urady, in nis uroomyn
er speech, said that "down South ho
was considered a little careless with
e- fire*"
e_ In his memoirs ho states that he
burned Columbia, and then laid it on
General Hampton, so as to discredit
him with the people.
But a new generation has arisen,
^ and in the absorbing fight for the
things that are now most sought
after, no thought Is given to the horrors
of "the war."
or The Tillmau trial has brought one
thing, observes the Charleston Post,
that is very disgraceful, and that is
ne .the common practice of State officials
h carrying pistols and indulging in
j excessive whiskey drinking.
THE PRESS AND THE VERDICT.
tS' VARIOUS COMMENTS UPON
U9 ACQUITTAL OF TILLMAN.
he
Views of the Slaying ot Mr. Con..
zales which do not Always Ac"
cord With the Findings of
>80 the Lexington Jury.
lb
e,r "BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE."
(From the Louisville Courier-Journal)
Tillman has been acquitted in
ere South Carolina, but before the Amerlie
ican people he stands as foul a murderer
as ever escaped the gallows
aud every member of the jury that
er- 1 _ ? . ? ,1 ?l n. u
<-AV-ui|Juvcu nil" aiioioo wiu"""" P""'
tor iic condemnation and contempt.
'10 A STIGMA ON THE COURT RECORDS.
?r] (From the Clinton Chronicle.)
Ol T u
-lul The jury In the trial of James H
cuuunil nf Editor
l(?d South Carolina. South Caroliua has
been weighed in the balances and
om found wanting as a law-abiding State.
The evidence brought out at the trial
Ir5 was sufficiently too strong to hnve
90 permitted him to go free of punishicn
ment. The verdict is unquestionably
a political, instead of a penal one,
e and as such it will remain a stigma
upon the Court records of the State
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DARK FOR SOUTH CAROLINA.
(From the Meriden Conn. Repulican.
j10 The public expected a 'verdict of
acquittal and yet there was a forlorn
(jn hope that manhood might develop so
)e" that this new shame need not be
mt added to the burden which the State
)0. has been compelled to bear for just
such deviltry as that for which Tillman
has been tried. South Carolina
to had the opportunity to establish a
he precedent which would make for law
ist and order. She disregarded it, and
np her reputation has been made darker.
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A MOST SHAMEFUL OCCURHKRCE.
ed
(From the Boston Tost.)
he
ar The acquittal of James H. Tilltnan
of all crimo in the murder of N. G
:ir Gonzales, editor of the Columbia
be State, ranges South Carolina alongof
side of Russia and Turkey, as regards
the freedom of the press
PL!- ? - " "
i mis iniscurriage of justice will have
c no eiTect outsido of South Caroiina.
But in thnt State it is a warning thai
s, the freedon of the press can only be
at enjoyed at the pleasure of the
, bully and the bravo. The acquittal
of Tillman is the most shameful occurrence
in the recent history of the
South.
SOUTH CAROLINA ANI> ASSASSINATION.
' (From the Philadelphia Inquirer )
y
The Inquirer has been careful not
to join in with those newspapers that
are condemning South Carolina as a
State because of a miserable failure
t of justice in the Tillman case. There
u must be somo honest men in South
Carolina to speak up in defence of
the Commonwealth. It is not right
* to condemn a whole community una
heard. But if the acquittal of ExI
Lieutenant Governor lillmon does
not arouso public indignation to a <
high pitch, then the barbaric senti- ,
' ment which seems to have pervaded |
* -
...? juijuicii in us ii lie taxen as repre- j
sentative of the State at large, and ]
South (Carolina will richly deserve t
the contempt that honest men aje ,
heaping upon the heads of the ig- t
noble twelve. Is it possible that j
i South Carolina's notion of chivalry ?
embraces cold-blooded assassination? r
There was a time when South Caro- x
lina believed in fair fighting. Is it. n
possible that a man can be permitted t
to walk the streets with a revolver in t
his pocket ready for instant U9e when a
he sights a political enemy, can he 0
shoot that unarmed enemy down and j,
be received Into society as a hero? f
We shall see. ^
???L EM???
SHOT DOWN AV UNARMKD MAN.' |
(From the New York Tribune )
l)o the people of South Carolina
jonestly believe that Northern capi-1
al In large quantities will be attrnetsd
to the State for the development
>f her resources, and that desirable
immigration in troops while such a
reproach upon her good name as the
acquittal of Tillmau, her former
Lieutenant Gevernor, who shot down
an unarmed man in cold blood closo |
to the doors of the State House, is
fresh in men's minds?
(From the Philadelphia R&Sbrd.)
The Tillman Gonzales murder trial
in South Carolina was removed from
the county where the murder occurred
into another county where the
Tillman iniluenco was persuasive.
This was ominous of the result.
Even in Kentucky such a course
would hardly have been possible.
The Breathitt murderers were taken
for trial out of a jurisdiction where a
fair trial would have been impossible.
Tlllmnn wns sont, to hn tried in the
camp of his friends. This is a stain
on the escutcheon of South Carolina
that will remain. It has been made
a matter of record,
"A BARBAROUS COMMONWEALTH."
(From the New York World.)
It was John Seldo'n, the great English
law writer, who said that "equity
is according to the conscience of
him that is chancellor, and and as
that is larger or narrower, so is
equity." The final standard by
which every community must be
measured is the attitude of its juries
towards the laws and toward human
life. Judged by that aimpl^T^\.the
acquittal of Tillman is th ,' conviction
of South Carolina as a barborous
commonwealth, a disgrace to American
civilization."
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80UTH CAROLINA'S PI/^ftACE,
(From the P^|^ence (R. I.) Journal.)
The ver^ito of acquittal for former
Li mtenant Governor Tillman is *J
verdict of conviction for South Cag c
Una. It convigts the State of onjypL
the most serious offences again^tjJ; T
and order of which"organized society"
can be guilty?inability to secure to
its members that protection of life
which is lost when the deliberate
slayer of his fellow man, under whatever
irritation of temper or to vent,
however reasonable, a personal hatred,
is allowed to go unpunished,
save for the expense and inconvenience
of submitting to a formal trial.
It convicts the State of that outrage
on civilization, the maintenance of a
Court system which can be diverted
from the administration of justice to
the promotion to the ends of injustice
personal influence
(From the Macon Telegraph.)
The acquittal of Jim Tillman for
the assassination of Editor Gonzales
is another one of those cases that
mock justice, jar our institutions and
beget lynch law. Law-abiding people
stand aghast in the faco of Km.I,
verdicts. According to this finding,
Tillman was not even guilty of an
assault and battery, to say nothing
of involuntary homicide, or voluntary
homicide?or murder, which it
was! The jury couM have found
him guilty of any of these lesser of
fences, if it was not clear to the
jurors tha&itt was a case -of murder.
But they have declared that *-?jb"nan
was justified in coolly bho<5^ V^wn
an i^oajK\ed. man without
catioir (f an immediate alTro^^ i-rMout
the Impulse of suddenly aroused
passion,
I
"A FA KOI A1, VEKDMT."
(From the Philadelphia Press.)
Trial by jury bus proved a wretched
farce in South Carolina, J. H. Tillman,
on a public strfeo-, in the city
of Columbia, In broad daylight, in
the presence of many witnesses shot
and killed N. G. Gor.zales, who was
unarmed and able to make no resistance.
Tillman was prepared and his
opponent wos unprepared for host ilities.
No words wero exchanged.
The men were bitter politicul encI
mica, and Tillman selected his time
and killed his opponent when he
could do so with no personal risk to
himself.
In the face of theso facts a sympathetic
jury sets Tillman freo by
pronouncing a verdict of "not guilt
ie '' :
"j ano jurymen nad no doubtful
evidence before them. They simply
did not propose to punish Tillman for
killing a political opponent, and so
they agreed to a verdict which,
though directly opposed to the facts,
would roleaso the Ex-Lieutenant.
Governor of the State from the penalty
which tho law prescribes for the
crime of murder.
aftothku wjot on houtii oauouna.
(From the Brooklyn Standard-Union.)
(
The crime for which Tillman was ]
tried was a most cowardly act. He {
ahot down an unarmed roan in cold
blood, even whilo that man was trying
to avoid him. Tillman admits
limself that ho is a coward, for he
mid he drew his .pistol because he <]
vhh afraid of Gonzales, and, although t,
die latter was unarmed and was try- y
ng to evade his slayer, Tillman, in
jreat trepidation, perhaps, fired, '
iiucii ?h a woman thrown a atone, c
rith no certainty of hitting what ahe
iim? at. Probably the jury took
hat into coneideration and deemed (
he fatal result of the shooting an
ccident, due to the trembling hand *
f a frightened man. That, at least, ^
i the most charitable explanation of
he strange verdict. Put the thought
rhich will occur to overy one, out- jj
"HAVE
Our line
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side of South Carolina, is that i(T~
lynching is ever justifiable, it is in a
case like this, where justice is mocked
at and there is no punishment for
crime at the hands of the law. As
for South Carolina, it means that
the same ruffianism that existed in
the time of "Bully Brooks" exists
today, and is vented against free
speech and a free press.
"a standing invitation to thk mukDEHKIt."
(From tho Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.)
Despite tho law and the evidence,
the acquittul of James II. Tillman*,
who is charged with tho murder of
N. (J. Gonzales, will cause little surprise
among-those who have followed
tho course that "justice" takes in
the trial r?f ^
U....biut'a in ooutn Caro- 4
Knu. That tho acquittal was secured i
on trumped up evidence goes without
tho sayiug. Skilful counsel and J
equally skillful witnesses manufao- ?
tured a theory that Tillman lived in 1
dread of his life and fired on Gon
zales in what he believed to be self- J
defence. This theory was apparent
ly driven home in the minds of the
jury and the abortion of justice re- 2
suiting in Tillman's acquittal was
tho result. The crime with which 3
Tillman was charged was not merely
deliberate and brutal, it was coward
l^y as well. Tillman knew Gonzales, J
and knew that he was game to the *
core. He knew that Gonzales would
not (ire on him when he. Tillman, g
was in company with others. And *
knowing this he gave Gonzales no q
show for his life, and shot him down
like a dog. His acquittal under 2
such circumstances is a standing in
vitation to tho murderer to ply his 0
trade in South Carolina. We would
by no means he understood as imply- J
ing that Tillman had no provocation. *
Many men have been- killed for say- 2
ing less bitter things than Gonzales J
said of Tillman. Hut it is seldom {
that they have been shot, firm"* ?
tively and when they were (inarmed. ?
rhat is the crime that James H.
Fillman committed, and that is the a
irime that South Carolina, through
ler courts, has said should go uopun- "
shed.
better to W. 1). A rthur, %
Union, S. C. m
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