Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — THE CONDEMNED REDS. [ARTICLE]

THE CONDEMNED REDS.

Justice Harian Fays the Cases Would Have Precedence ou the Supreme Court Docket. friends of the Convicted Man Gutside the Jail Disgusted with Their Actions. The Amnesty Association. [Chicago special.] The work of the Amnesty Association is largely directed to agitation among organized labor. There was a plan to appoint committees to go to all the meetings of the trades-unions and Knights of Labor assemblies and urge the adoption of resolutions denouncing the decision of the Supreme Court against the anarchists. But as most of the members of the Amnesty Association are members of labor organizations that plan was abandoned and an undei standing prevails that each member should work in his organization for the passage of such resolutions, and stir up his friends to do likewise in other bodies. As a result, resolutions of that character are submitted at almost every labor meeting, and in many cases the resolutions are adopted. Bakers’ Union, No. 49, and Furniture-Workers’ Union, No. 1, are the last that have adopted resolutions,, tne last-named organization simply indorsing a set of resolutions adopted by the Custom Tailors’ Union last Saturday. “It is enough to make anybody sick and disgusted,” said one of the most prominent friends of the anarchists yesterday, “to see those fellows in jail behaving this way. Here we are spending our time and money and energy, and taking without a murmur all the odium cast upon us by a hostile press, in order to rescue them from the gallows, and in the meantime Parsons, Lingg, and Engel come out in public letters denouncing everybody, rejecting our efforts to get them a fair hearing before the Supreme Court, and abusing the men who try to get up a petition for their pardon. It’s the silliest thing that could be done at the present time, and if it were not for the sake of justice I would drop the matter at once. It’s no fun to do all this work and swallow all the abuse, and if our friends in whose behalf it is done discourage us in this way it makes it twice as hard. I can understand how some of their friends who are not in danger themselves can be imprudent enough to indulge in wild talk. But those men themselves ought to have more sense.” Justice Harlan’s Views. [Washington telegram.] Justice Harlan’s attention was called to the recent interview with Justice Miller io Chicago, in which the latter said that any writ of error in the cases of the anarchists would ordinarily be made to Justice Harlan, Illinois being in the latter’s circuit. Justice Harlan said he had no information that any application would be made. Hewas asked under what circumstances criminal cases could reach the Supreme Court of the United States from the State courts. He said, in reply, that he supposed any application for a writ of error to whatever Justice it should be made would be under Section 709 R. S., which provides among other things that “a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a Stale in which a decision in the suit could be had, where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the Constitution or any statute of the. United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or immunity specially set up or claimed by either party under such Constitution, may be reexamined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a writ of error.” He also referred to section 710, which provides that cases on writ, of error to revise the judgment of the State courts in any criminal case shall have precedence on the docket of all cases to which the Government is a party, except only cases which the court may, in its discretion, declare to be of public importance. He declined to say anything further on the subject. Denouncing the Sentence. [Buffalo special.] The Socialistic Congress, which has just concluded its sessions here, adopted the following: The Congress of the Socialistic Labor party, assembled in Buffalo, although neither agreeing with the tactics nor with the principles of the anarchists, nevertheless declares the confirmation of the judgment against the eight Chicago anarchists to be unjust, to be dictated by prejudice and class hatred, and to be an act of class injustice. It is generally admitted that none of the condemned men threw the bomb, and our conception of right and justice is not so developed as that we could find any connection between tho teachings of one individual and the acts of au unknown person; for it is a fact that even to-day nobody knows who threw the bomb We cannot understand how it was possible to know the motive of an unknown person. The meeting at which the bomb was thrown was, according to the evidence, peaceable and would in allprobability have euded peaceably if the police had not illegally interfered for the purpose of disturbing the meeting. .We therefore declare that the decision is an attack upon free speech and the right of the people to freely assemble, and that its execution, would be judicial murder. [Elizabeth (N. J.) dispatch ] About seven hundred German socialists met in Turn Hall to protest against thehanging of the Chicago anarchists. On th© stage was a red flag bordered with black, and in the center were portraits of the doomed men. Resolutions declaring the sentence an attack upon labor and demanding a new trial were adopted. [Cleveland dispatch.] About two hundred and fifty anarchists met at a down-town hall and protested against the execution of the seven condemned Chicago anarchists. They spoke in German and were in favor of blood if everything else failed. I Cincinnati dispatch.! The socialists requested the Central Executive Committee of the Union Labor party to intercede in behalf of the Chicago anarchists. A vote was taken by wards and the request was refused by a’ large majority. There was a shower of stones near Delores, in the volcanic region of the Argentine Republic, a few weeks ago, that lasted for more than a minute. The stones fell as thick as hail, and varied in size from a pebble to a veryrespectable bowlder. Great damage was done to trees, while barns and outhouses were demolished, many domestic animals killed, and large numbers of wild geese and hawks on the wing..