The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1899, Page 20

FRANCISCO UNDAY. APRIL 80, 1899 = A e e e '/"I"‘"’/ T 1052 B 2 . . = Barbara of anta althoug S ind in order ¢ m with the eet of Lady : s garde ild have to be moved :h, 1888, the City Council ordered v Lady Broome and Baxter to correbt their 1 S0 they ld conform to those of the street. Lady Broome refu to comply, holding that her was t »rrect one under the old Norway survey, made some time o threatened, she was dis- > bring the matter to the United courts, which right she had as a h subject e matter was dropped for some time, until at a recent Couneil meeting the Councilmen ordered the Marshal to have e obstruction removed, as it was the intention of the city to soon grade the he Marshal notified Lady Broome that the work of removal of the hedge would commence the following morning. Lady Broome replied that she would re- and threatened the use of dynamite in case anything was done to her hedge. At the usual hour of commencing work the Marshal, with his force, appeared on the seene. The gardener, Valenzuela, was prepared for the onslaught. He was armed witha largesix-shooter strapped to his waist. In full view he stood at the entrance of the grounds. He ordered the officers off the place. The Marshal an- turbed, State Bri of a public street and the public bad a perfect right thereon. re - ment. side: in this St with which their tongu: their innocence. to be guilty wi festation of my dan ages, ‘ GOVERNOR MOUNT, Indiana. 1ts membe of contempt county that can ¢ court of justice. dethroned and courts are myths. and lawless men. I believe that to defend lynching, even in 5 o GOVERNOR PINGREE, Michigan with the people. Ticulty i might not int in guarding prisoners, b e SE S with burglary. @ they were charged. shot down. of courts and s ety what may seem tc cases. I have alw There is 8orely needed, but there of Governor Mount’s prescription. that the mobs, influenc h the the law of n to me that have the effect the r of the moment” v unprepared to resist or protect. smewhat in the same line I would call attention to that portion message to the Legislature of Michigan recommending Valenzuela offered no violent opposition suppler rdener’s - swered that the land In dispute was part at the time. R gy Lady Broome, who was absent at the ders in a more emphatic way. ‘When the officers, instead of leaving the to the county that would the relatives of the lynched person, recommended by aking the county authorities cause lynchings are very often and find officers of the OVERNOR MOUNT of Indiana proposes, as a solution of the lynching problem, the enactment of a law making the county ponsible for such conditions and liable in a elvil suit for the nearest of kin of the victim to institute the suit. posed solution of the lynching problem: The good name of Indiana has been dishonored by a lawless mob that took from the jail in Ripley County and lynched five men charged Even if these men had been by a court found guilty, as charged, their punishment would have been im- prisonment and not death. All sense of —————& justice and safety revolts mob as a tribunal for pronouncing judgment or administering punish- Governor Atkinson of Georgia, in his message to the Legis- lature, presents at length the dangerous tendency of mob violence. In the course of his argument he says: “The mob judges without a full and complete hearing from both sare not the most capable of judging. in passion, and too often in whisky. How ecan it fail to make mis- takes and sacrifice the lives of the innocent? I feel,” he says, “the more deeply upon this question because, from the best information I can secure, I believe that during my administration there have been e several men lynched who were not guilty of the crimes How many can never be known, for are hushed and they are denied an opportunity to prove 1 am informed that one man whom the mob belleved A question then arose as to his identity, and he was salted down like a hog and shipped to the location of the crime and found to be the wrong man—an innocent man.” It cannot be argued that lax enforcement of law justifies a mani- disregard for the law. anize a sentiment to prevent lynchers from being punished can also organize againet crime and punish criminals in a Where lynch lawlessness obtains there justice is The constitution and laws of the State would there be trampled under the blood-stained feet of brutal If mob violence is to go unpunishe malice will sit enthroned, and passion, fired by intoxiCation and gov- erned by a spirit of revenge, instead of evidence, justice and the law will render insecure life and property. such conditions and would then feel licensed to proceed to even up things according to his dwarfed sense of equity being authorized The following is Governor Mount's pro- against The anarchist would welcome there is no law-abiding citizen who will attempt be the most extreme ys taken the position that if laws are not observed they should not be on our statute books, laws cannot be promptly and justly ‘en- ® forced there is something radically wrong no doubt that some cure for the lynch- a question in my mind as to d by passion, would not esult from a eivil nor would it she picked up a heavy mattock and ad- severe, and bounded harmlessly from his vanced upon them. ‘Waller Richardson was the first to re- beginning of the work, soon returned, and place, continued to root out. the hedge, cefve a blow, which, to be sure, the It decides Any then hate and If criminal Governor law the NFEDNCHINGPROBLETT B Governors OF Six STATES = : e—=="TELL WHAT TheY THink ARov T IT:— payment of costs and damages to persons convicted of crime who are afterward demonstrated to be innocent, as follows: ¢ “In the main the laws of this State have been passed with the object in view of according to all—the lowliest as well as the highest, the weakest as well as the strongest, the poorest as well as the richest—equal rights and privileges, and subjecting each to the same hment, under like circumstances and conditions. While it is the theory of the law that all men stand equally before it, yet there has been made no provision by means of which justice can be done a man who has been convicted of a crime and is afterward shown to be innocent, or those who are sometimes wrongfully tried for an offense against the State and their innocence established. : “I would recommend the enactment of laws giving those charged with crime, and whose innocence is established, the same costs against the respective counties in which they were prosecuted as are given to a successful party in a civil suit. “I would also recommend that some provision be made for com- pensating those who shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment and whose innocence shall afterward be shown. If they are wrong- fally deprived of thefr liberty by the State it is but right that the State should compensate them for the time forcibly taken from them. Such claims might perhaps be heard and allowed by the Board of State Auditors, Circuit Judges, or a commission created for the purpose.” I do not think that Governor Mount's GOVERNOR McLAURIN, proposed law will prevent lynching. This judgment is based on verience in such Mississippi. matters and my knowledge of laws in ———————+—9 general. . s . It is not more legislation that is required, but execution of the law. Here in this State we have had in the past a number of “lynch- ing bees.” The cause in every instance GOVERNOR ROGERS, was, 1 think, the fear on the part of the 5 ” people that crime would not be punished. | Washington. They therefore took the law into their @ —————& own hands. For the laxity in the execution of the laws the lawyers are largely to blame. Lynchings will continue, no matter what the law may be, until the public i fed that criminals will be properly dealt with under the law. hen legal procedure is made to conform with pub- lic opinion lynchings will cease. If you wish to know when this can be brought about I refer you to the legal profession for an answer I have heard a lawyer say that he had defended forty murder or men charged with capital crime, and that no man who him had suffered the extreme penaity. This is a case in poi illustrates my position and the main fact in the matter under cussion. AT Re My own opinion is that legislation, however stringent, will not do away with the offense if cogent reasons for its occurrence exist. el “Lynch law” is but a symptom of a GOVERNOR THOMAS, far more ser social disorder. Except where inflicted in exceptional instances | Colorado. | its occurrence indicates that the particu- & lar community believes the ends of jus tice will be otherwise defeated. If laws were administered effectively and punishment for crime were certain under the law lynchings wou be far less frequent. If the courts and juries will punish cr and the executive decline to exerci the pardoning power, ¢ cases where the innocent have been convicted, it is my opinion that lynchings will be of comparatively rare oceurrenc *"In short, if we should minimize the practice of 1 execute the law, make punishment certain and criminals. ynching we must quit pardoping shins. In a good-natured way he remonstrated was not with Lady Broome, but she Persistently OO0 replied that she would strike the Marshal next. She was as good as her word, but no great damage resulted. was quickly taken from her and she was -——————— ¢ My first = 7 EX-GOVERNOR W. J. | should be n [ homes NORTHEN, Kood pistol: that w ° weapon - o firearm protectors in the absence of the hus a casional negro lying dead in-the bs . shot Gatense of her honor, will do more to stop this awful c chings that may occur in a year. I would have h at least half a dozen well trained bloodhounds ization of at least twenty men In each county, Gion of all lawlessness and disorders in the county. . + B Hose's erime, the horrid de t have not been published, and a GOVERNOR CANDLER, ble for publication, i Ceorgin. the annals of crime. 4 community lost the t 4——— ¢ will ever have to lt_‘e'va!- estimation of their white neighbors. The diabolical n crime was well known to every one of them; the perpet known, and they owed it to their race to exhaust every me: Hose to justice. This course would have done more to ele the estimation of the good pecple and to protect their race aga than all the rewards and proclamations of the Governors for the next years, 3ut they lost the opportunity, and it is a deplorable fact that w scores of intelligent negroes, leaders of their race, have talked to me ahc the Palmetto lynching, not one of them has ever in the remotest w luded to either the burning of Palmetto, wiica provoked the lyn to 1 crime of Hose. I do not belleve these men sy or the Palmetto incendiaries, but they are blinde nd can see but onc side of the question. T want to 1 1 right and against mob violence, and I stand r e of € in doing so, but they must rea of the com comm "o secure protect ition to protect the white pe own_race whites th: v a dispc the lawles: e T e g T would like to write at length upon these | Georgia occurrences and others of a like na | W. T. BOOKER, Pres. Tuskeges Inst P e keep silent and not engage in an work to which T am now lending my service to the race by giving my time and strength in hel foundation for an education which will be a permanent curi ng to lay the for such out- dding that I am opposed to mob violence under all cir- g - guilty of crime should be ely, swiftly and terribly 1ed, but by legal methods. As a rule the men gt of these out- he solution of our present difficulties is to be found in the thorough mental, religious and industrial education of both in the Sout It is an encouraging fact to note that of the hundreds of colored men who have been icated in the higher institutions of the South, not one has been guilty of the crime of assaulting a woman. e o e » not mind ARDEIN HE] ?™1ODGED IN A COMMAN CELL. placed under arr Her steward, V. that threater but while M attention Ric and cleverly disarmed wise was arrested. ' to be unloaded The hedge wa Lady Broome was th seated cart belonging t accompanied by Walker and two oth i cart, took the lady to the city jail, where she was locked up in a comm 1 where the walls were covered names of crimi Here number of hou lowed to go into was asked if she wished bail, but she refused to She said that she had def erty and that the men there. She stoutly avers that she one cent in fine At the prelimi charged with res discharge of his dut the attention of the P will not pay al occup e Court and hal the town during the entire day The a gray ta a bunch of rose: With T - liams, president of of the Bald Loco- motive works of Philadelphia; Barker Eddy of this city and one or two E: friends. City Marshal Martin testified that he had been ordered to remove a hedge where the Broome property extended teen feet into the public str it Lady Broome had mad attack on his force of men, riking the Marshal and two other men. A heavy mattock with which Lady Broome made the attack was s ating a sensation. It was an v large and heavy one. Lady Broome would have no attornev and refused to make any defen of her coachman, who was imp She was held to answer nd w under a nominal bond of Eddy signed. The case goes to where she may be either 1 or prisoned, or both. Those who are in confidence say that in the higher co she will make no defense. The that she stubbornly announces t Wwill go to jail before paying even a nomi- nal fine, the Superi The weapon Y