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ABBEVILLE, S.C.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1916.
"WHY MR. TAFT."
The Greenwood Journal is usually
right. It is sometimes wrong, as we
see things. We think it takes too
nnrrmv a view of the matter of ap
pointing a man to the Supreme Court
of the United States in its editorial
under the above title. The Journal
says:
"A good deal has been said about
President Wilson appointing Mr.
Taft to fill the vacancy on the Supreme
Court, and even after it has
been filled there are murmurings
of discontent over the appointment.
We know nothing whatever about
the qualifications of the man chosen
by President Wilson, but we wish to
ask the question, Why should Mr.
Taft receive the appointment? Is
this not a Democratic administration,
and are there not men who are
members of the party who are capable
of filling this or any other position
that needs to be filled?
It will be time enough to let down
the gap when the Kepublicans get in
the field. A mighty good way to let
them in is to ignore Democrats in
making appointments. If we are not
mistaken this was one of the
blunders that Grover Cleveland
made."
In the first place we would suggest
that while this is a Democratic administration,
there is as much difference
beWeen a New England Democrat
ant a Southern Democrat as
there is -oetween the latter and a
WesterF Republican. We have an
abiding belief that the trials and burdens
o_ -he people of this section are j
more appreciated by the people of
the West, regardless of parties, than
by the people of New England. We
know that Mr. Taft, as President of
the United States was more than
kind to the people of the South, re
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specweu uieir ui picjuuiwco,
as a New Englander would say.
But a Justice of the Supreme
Court should be neither a Democrat
nor a Republican. He should be a
big American citizen first, and a lawyer
of undoubted ability and good
judgment in the second place.
We do not say that a Judge should
not have opinions on political issues,
but we do say that he should keep
them to himself. His business is to
construe and declare the law for all
the people of the land, to construe
the constitution and laws of the
country. His opinions will command
little respect if they are tinctured
with politics, and if the appointment
of the judges is to be governed by
the election returns.
Mr. Taft was the Republican nominee
for President, and he was elected
President by that party. He
failed of re-election because he refused
to be a partisan. He endeavored
to be the President of the
whole United States on his own account,
and as a consequence he was
defeated. In his appointments to
office, especially of Judges, he forgot
party lines, and sought the right man.
To say nothing of his appointment
of a Democrat as Chief Justice of
the highest court in the land, and
of his appointment of Justice Lamar,
and to come nearer home, we would
remind the Journal that he passed by
as good a man and lawyer as B. A.
Hagood, a Republican, and as good
a man and lawyer as Ernest F. Cochran,
a Republican, and appointed a
lawyer, who happened to be a Democrat,
as Judge of the District Court
of the Eastern District, because he
believed the appointee was the best
man in the state for the position.
His appointments to the Bench
were non-partisan, as they should
have been, for after all the Bench is
the last bulwark of the rich man
against confiscation, and the only
guarantee of freedom to the poor.!
When his full measure shall have
been taken, in the light of his ap-1
pointments of men to the Bench, he
will be recognized as a man too big
to be President of the United States,
but fitted to be the head of the ,
Court to which he appointed the best I
man in his opinion, though the ap- J
nniritpp hnnnenerf to he a former i
Confederate soldier and a former!
Democrat.
And for these reasons we believe '
that the appointment of Mr. Taft as
a justice of the Supreme Court, a
position which he would not likely
have accepted, would have given
satisfaction to the lawyers of the
United States, who practice LAW
and who are not politicians, and to
people of the country at large who
have no axe to grind, and nothing to
seek at the hands of the court except
a true and correct interpreta
tion of the laws of the country as
they are written.
If the appointees of Woodrow Wilson
to the Bench shall measure up
to the high standard of those appointed
by his predecessor, Mr. Wilson
will prove to be less of a politician
than the country gives him
credit for being.
Because he was the most worthy
man in the United States for the
appointment?that is "Why Mr.
Taft."
THE BURDEN OF THE BANKS.
"At the annual meeting of the
stock-holders of the Central National
Bank of Spartanburg the other day
President John A. Law stated that
one-third of the total expense of operating
the bank now goes for taxes
?federal, State, county and city
taxes.
"This is a startling statement.. If
it is true?and of course Mr. Law
| would not make such a statement if
it were not true?it shows that there
is something wrong. Banks nor any
other kind of business can stand such
taxation.
"There would be ruin if one-third
of the expense of operating a farm,
or a store, or a newspaper, went to
pay taxes. The people would rise
in a revolt by the side of which the
affair of 1876 would look like a pink
tea affair.
"The legislature would o well to
give attention to the condition of the
statement of Mr. Law."
The above is taken from the Anderson
Mail of Saturday last, and is
a startling statement, but unfortunately
it is true. The taxes
levied on corporations are not tending
to induce the investment of more
capital in South Carolina, and the
constant attacks on corporate interests
are discouraging. The City
National Bank of this city recently
paid out fifty thousand dollars of
its surplus as a dividend to its stockholders
because the total taxes paid
by the bank amounted to 4 1-2 per
cent, and money when necessary <
could be borrowed at a lower inter- i
est by the bank than the rate of
taxes demanded. One reason why I
interest charges have been higher in 1
the South than in more thickly settled
portions of this country, has ]
been because of the scarcity of banking
capital in the South; and yet
those in authority over us are
making it more and more difficult to (
secure the capital in our Southern ]
States that we really need and require.?Greenville
News. 1
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PEEPLES HOLDS IT UNLAW- ]
FUL TO WHIP PRISONERS *
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It is unlawful for prisoners in the i
State penitentiary or in the county t
chain gang camps to be whipped, i
That is the opinion of Attorney Gen- 1
eral Peeples in reply to a direct ques- c
tion from Mr. Albert Sidney John- I
stone, secretary of the State board of z
charities and corrections. Mr Peeples
says in his written opinion: s
"In reply thereto I will say that c
Article I, section 19, of the Consti- I
tution. provides that "excessive bail }
shall not be required nor excessive b
fine imposed, nor cruel and unusual \
nor cVinll anv r
puiuou Ultimo liuuvi/vv*) w t
witness be unreasonably detained. 1
Corporal punishment shall not be in- t
flicted. The power to punish for 'j
contempt shall not in any case extend I
to imprisonment in the State peni- t
tentiary.
"The prohibition against the infliction
of corporal punishment extends, i
in my opinion, not only to prohibiting
the courts from sentencing a convict
to corporal punishment, as was formerly
permitted years ago under
some of our laws, but in my opinion t
this prohibition extends also to con- ?
victs who are confined in the peni- I
tentiary or upon the chain gangs, I
and it is unlawful to inflict corporal \
punishment upon them. t
"It is clear to my mind that if a c
sentence of corporal punishment is
unconstitutional, as it is, certainly s
the infliction of such punishment, t
without sentence, would be unlaw- f
ful." I
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WAR DEPARTMENT NAMES !
CLEMSON'S COMMANDANT ?
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Washington, February 6.?Special: c
First Lieut. Ralph A. Jones, of the
20th infantry, has been detailed by
the war department as professor of
the military science and practice at
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L.ieriisun ngncuauuu vuucgc, viwuson,
S. C.
Lieut. Jones succeeds Lieut. J. M.
Cummins, who has been at Clemson
College several years and who has
been ordered to his regiment at
Douglas, Ariz.
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STATE TEACHERS TO I
MEET IN COLUMBIA Of
Spartanburg, Feb. 8.?Dr. H. N. ffi
Snyder, president of the State Teach- jj|
ers' Association, has received a UJ
letter from R. T. Hallum, president S
of the County Superintendents' As- "Jl
sociation, announcing that that asso- IX|
ciation will not hold a meeting dur- j fJ
ing the state teachers meeting in 31
Columbia, March 16-18. This will IE
leave the superintendents free to at- ??
tend all of the sessions of the State >71
Teachers' Association. The county lf|
superintendents pledged themselves, |pj
says Mr. Hallum to ser.d out litera- -H
ture to all teachcrs under their jurisdiction
concerning the meeting in |JJJ
March. R. T. Hallum of Pickens,
is president of the county superintendents
and R. A. Rouse, of Ches- LC
terfield, secretary. gjj
The program for the department ifl
of superintendents of the State Ttea- UJ
chers' Assocition, has been an- 9
nounced by the president, Prof. Wil- 31
liam C. Bynum, of Georgetown. LC
This department will hold its meet- rti
ings on Thursday afternoon at four 31
o'clock and Friday morning at 9:30 LK
o'clock, and Friday afternoon at |fj
4:30 o'clock during the days the Sfl
State Teachers' Association is in ses- Jj|
sion in Columbia, March 16, 17, and mp
18 3
TVi a ny/^o-ram -fr?r tVi p <5nr>pHnf.f?n
dent? department meetings follows: ,Qf
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 4 P. M. rij
President's address, W. C. Bynum. "fi
The Attitude of the School Toward "-*1*
Home . Study, J. C. Daniel. UZ
The Backward Pupil and What to rtS
Do With Him, D. R. Riser. .In
General Discussion. U?
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 9 A. M. 'BJ
Open discussion on the following 211
subjects: Status of the High School
principal and his relationship to the |f"
superintendent of schools, introduced jQ
by E. W. Hall; 2, The teaching of
English in the primary grades, intro- |f"
duced by Miss Trix Barber; 3, The 3
superintendent's part in his teachers "ft
meetings, introduced by R. B. UJ
Cheatham. nl
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 3:30. !"*j
The Teaching of Science in Our IE
Schools, George Harris Webber. S?J
The Superintendent's Responsibility III
for a Teacher's Efficiency, S. H. Ed- US
munds. nj
What can we do to make the stan- !J]
dards in the teaching of English and lg|
literature definite and uniform in ||"
the public schools of South Carolina'.' py
R. S. Bailey. iJK
General Discussion. 'Qj
The officers of the department of
superintendents are: William C. By- "fi
num, of Georgetown, president; R. UZ
A. Gentry, of Ridgeway, vice presi- S
dent; W. E. Black of Lexington, Sfi
Treasurer; L. M. Bouknight of Lat- UC
ta, Secretary. jSJ
HENRY FORD SAYS HE HAS S
A BRAND NEW PEACE PLAN jfi
Chicago, February 6.?Henry Ford
jf Detroit, who sent a peace ship to
Europe, has a new peace plan.
"I would like to tell you about the
lew plan, but I must wait until my
party has returned from Europe,"
said Mr. Ford to-day. He said he
vas perfectly satisfied with the results
of his peace expedition.
Mr. Ford came here to attend a CUE
janquet given last night by the Mich- 31
gen Society, of Chicago. He said |?
ihat his new effort to bring the strife ffl
n EuroDc to an end would be on a Si
arger scale than the Oscar II Expe- UZ
lition, and that his recruits would S
>e "personalities rather than person- Zh
iges." UEJ
"The new venture is along the ?
;ame lines as the first one," continu- 31
id Mr. Ford, "but on a larger scale. LC
! shall include some of the people I rt?
lad on the Oscar II. The people
icross the water were astonished W
vhen they saw the personnel of that j?jarty.
They expected to see a lot or
lighbrows and were surprised to find "J|
hat they were just every-day people. Q?
rhey would hardly believe me when 3
told them I could have brought jjfl
housands more of the same." jUC
>IAZ STATES HE WILL NOT ?
START NEW REVOLUTION 31
New Orleans, February 6.?"I am jjj
trough with revolutions," was the ^
tnswer given to-day by Gen. Felix "j|
Diaz, reputed head of the Cientifico UJ
inrt.v in Mexico, to a Question asked SJ
lim relative to the truth of a rumor JJf|
hat he intended to participate in an- |C
>ther revolution. I
"We are through with revolutions" ?n
itated Gen. Diaz. "We do not intend IE
;o try to enter Mexico until we can
ro.back in peace. I did not come tojifj
^Jew Orleans for any other purpose lUC
;han to bo with my wife and my |i?
'riends, and reports that Gen. Blanjuet
r.nd myself are planning to lead "f|
i force of Mexicans across the south- U?
?rn border of Guatemala into Mexi:o
are untrue."
S
ENGLAND GIVES WARNING. |j]
London, February 6.?The board
)f trade has officially warned ship-1LE
nvncrs and merchants of the possijility
of "foul play on British and 31
leutral ships through the machina- Ifj
Jons of enemy agents.it.who in num- |??
irous instances are delcared to have Sp
caused fires and explosions. The
.varnir.g says great ingenuity has'||"
)een displayed in endeavoring to 31
lamape vessels. In one case it was Jj|
found that the wood used for packing UP
purposes had been so treated that
t would burst into flames under "fl
- ?
Slight friction. amp-owners aie x c- u.
guested to satisfy themselves that no ?
irm havinpr enemy interests shall 31
lave anything to do with handling of UC
i ship or cargo in which they are in- |jb
:erested. -p
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