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LEROY F. YOUMANS ATTORNEY GENERAL GOV. HEYWARD HAS ANNOUN CED APPOINTMENT. Assistant Duncan C. Ray-Mr. You mans is a Lawyer of Distin guished Career and Was Attor ney General Under Hamp ton. The Staie. eltdI (, 1. M. ('01, aj OW, Ltit. t aIm I X. sistant attoiney genenil since last October. when he was appointed to succeed Mr. W. H1. Townsend. resign ed. Mr. Younians had also aeted at times during the absence of Mr. (Iun ter and Mr. Townsend and therefore is quite familiar with the routine of the office and its correspondence. The duties of the offie have in creased since Mr. Youmans first was attorney general. One of the cases to be fought out is the suit to estab lish or to annul the merger of certain alleged competing lines under the management of the Southern railway eompany. The condition of the dis ,ensary will also require alert atten tion from the office of attorney gen eral as problems are multiplying and the state may at any moment be in 'olved in lawsuit. Mr. Youmans is well known to all lawyers in South arolina. For a generation he has been conspicuous in his ability as a lawyer and orator and his appointment will give entire sat isfaction to the members of his pro fession. Mr. Youmans has been hon ored in recent years by being called upon to preside over special terms of court and other such recognition has been visited upon him. It is therefore with a great deal of pride that he accepts this new re sponsibility and his friends feel sure that he will measure up to every ex pectation. Governor Heyward has al ways believed in civil service and he has never failed to promote a man in his own department when opportunity for promotion was offered. Sketch of Mr. Youmans. When Mr. W. H. Townsend last September resigned the position of assistant attorney general, Mr. Gun ter selected Mr. Youmans to fill the vacancy. Mr. Youmans' return to public life was perhaps very largely influenced by his successful manage ment of the case of R. W. McDaniel~ two years ago. This man had actual ly begun to serve sentence for having killed a man in Lexington county, when Mr. Youmans was called into the case. Mr. Youmans secured a new trial after a noteworthy fight and se enred McDaniel 's aequittal. Mr. LeRoy F. Youman' first pub lie service was as a delegate from St. Luke 's parish to the South Carolina; democraticeconvention in May, 1860.! This convention sent delegates to the democratic convention at Richmond, Va., whose nominee for president of the United States was John C. Breck enridge, afterwards a Confederate soldier and statesman. Mr. Youmans was the last repre sentative from St. Luke's parish in the lower house of the general assem bly, having been elected twice with out opposition-once in 1862 and once in 1864. In the war he was first lieutenant of the "Beaufort District Guerillas" a company of mounted riflemen, at tached to the Ninth regiment, South Carolina volunteers, Col. Win. C. Eeyward, and afterwards a company of Martin 's mounted regiment. After this company of state troops was disbanded, and while still a mem ber of the legislature, he vias in the Third South Carolina cavalry, first a private, then a sergeant in A corn pany, afterwards a lieutenant in Company F of that regiment. In 1861 Mr. Youmans was one of a committee of three, consisting of the late Hion. William Elliott. Hon. Ed mond Rhett and himself, appointed by the citizens of Beaufort district to confer with Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose headquarters were at Coosa-, whatchie, on grave matters of concern affecting that district after the fall of the Confederate ports at Bay Point and Hilton Head. He still has Gen. Lee 's written reply. Mr. Youmans was the sole delegate from St. Luke 's parish to the state eonvention of 1865, called by the pro 'visional governor, B. F. Perry. When by that convention the four former election districts, consisting of St. Luke, St. Peter, St. Helena and Prince William parishes, were made one election district, Beaufort dis ?rict, he was elected at the head of the ticket oft four to the ho(use~ of rep reletaives. the otherl eing F.1lt5.1 Stephe lliot . t iln. F to inIdit A hfeM beametin o o tilt i ne b. PiT. b .. ;! I 1 1l11i. ft wards .jud, e. Succeeded Gen. Conner. ()i the ;signatiotn .1f the i W fi cir at t'riley genral by (elleral ('un'ir I 877, Mr . Yoi umanis wa. el ed Iv to till the vavanev, -u sub .seq:uently Wa elected attOine eneral by the peo ple in 1878 and in 1880. The yovernors duin Ils tefmis 'llee as atto rney :.1eera werei( 118au ton nps n.JvIt.r :nl ll a d I fe tatives~ as a Jinberh'i fr'! !~Ribhu'i vounlty in 1884, and while serviln1 as such he was in 1S85 appointed by Mr. Clevelaind United States attorney for the district of South11 Carllinla, a1d served as such until his succes 11 was app()iinted under the republi ean adlminist rat in of. PresidentI Har -Ison. In 177. befron he wis attorney .-ene'al1, le was (ne f thie i ouhse- for the defens.e inl the Elleitti lses 1ried inl Charleston in tile Inited States court piresided over by Chief Justice Waite. While attorney veneral uln der special appointment of Gov..Ila gCood for the state electin lieers. i,e Was one of coulsel in the Actoi and Mayesville election eases tried in Charleston in the United States court, presided over by Cireuit Judge Bond. Among his most known arguments as attorney general are those in the Bond debt cases before the court of three consisting of Judges Thompson. Aldrich and Hutson and subsequent ly before the supreme court of the state. The decision resulted in de claring fraudulent a mass of the Re construction bond debt of the state. He twice argued before the su preme court of the United States against the receivability of the bills of the bank of the state in payment of taxes due the state. His opponents on two of the occasions were Daniel H. Chamberlain and Roscoe Conkling. The supreme court was equally di vided, and the decision of the supreme ourt of the state for which Mr. Youmans contended remained of force. In the MclDaniel ease referred to, Mr. Youmans was called in after the accused had been convicted. Failing to secure a new trial on the ground! of after-discovered evidence, Mr.' Youmans asked for a rehearing on thirteen separate counts. On one of these, merely one, he secured a new trial, resulting in the acquittal of his client. This was regarded at the time, 1904, as an achievement. Mr. Yonmans' Assistant. Mr. Youmans announced the ap pointment of Mr. D. C. Ray of Co lumbia as assistant attorney general. Until a short time ago Mr. Ray was a member of the firm of Barron & Ray, having been associated with Mr. J. T. Barron in the practice of aw for 18 yea-s. Mr. Ray is a native; f Richland county, has been promi ient in local political affairs for sev eral years and is well know~n as a awyer. He graduated from the South Carolina college in 1884 and read law n the offiee of Mr. Barron. Mr. Youmans stated yesterday that he feels very much relieved to share the ork and responsibility of the office with a trained lawyer and a man of ature judgmnent. Trying to get into .heaven on the ~trengt.h of a tombstone testimonial is risky business. We have t know tne bes and have pic them. THE CI versible Disc THE CREIGHTON CASE DELAY ED. On Account of Illness of the Steno grapher for the Court There Was No Session. - wd~. (are \\.. Th. .it. ere wen e1 le '1si$i i 0i' I v ir i'arin. ille presid I - frlcer, ul(!n il un idn v ld thil t. 'nrt tIr t l 'r at to ov t] e' this llorliling buit ai ait'lliPrlenIl was b;1d in(n-IV1ielv )(aSe of the ill I - . tih - a I - . i w i abandoned. The (ourt wil r-esuime to-ItlT w Ml% (Crei.din1 .; ta Is iat the as serio tht bjetinlo Ihe Presec-eCC o his st enrapher vost .erday was - waived is icrre4t. Ie states that she remained because fe defied \n one t1 i)llt 1)V (ut. a d ilidt'n tall paid a hligh tr-iite 11;e loill Iess <il f m e or .iss 1>avi,. who w:* v1Jpl)y,ed by him ma1 who re aniled dtisji te the pl ilitti e'111lrks that she was nlot eititflod to rema1n1. Mr. creight'n was very emphat in lie stated that when Ite nresidin Aficer ruled that the avcsed would niot he allowed counsel 1141 a ste 01raplher. he insisted that if he was to be deprived ol ihat he h41c allowed to have a sten1(g'apher0, (IT otherwise lie would be utterly unable to take a note. having" to cond1.Uct his cS0 filslI', anld t1lat lie m11Us liave a record. To the ruling that the stenographer must retire he object ed, and challenged any man present to make her retire. He stated that when his determined position was realized an adjournment was proposed, and that he immediately said he would consent, that he would not re main without his stenographer. The Court. proceeded. The charges as stated by the ac eused, are that he alleges that there is a ring in the South Carolina Con ference to "'control things,'' that the presidinlg elders are abusing the 'percent'" basis of salary. that the presiding elders "chop off the head(s' of such district -stewar'ds as oppose the "per cent basis,'' the arrange menCt by wvhich the presiding elder's salary is a certain per cent of sal aries of all preachers in his district. The charges have been made in Mir. Creighton 's paper. the Christiani Ap peal, from time to time for the past two years, and he states that he sees at the bottom a tight on his paper', ant effort to silence it. The following is a correct list of the presiding elders who are here as witnesses against the accused: The Revs. A. J. Stokes, R. HI. Jones, J. W. Kilgo, H. B. Browne, W. P. Meadows, 4J. Marion Dargan and .1. 5. Beasley. The hearing will be resumed to morrow if the stenographier of the Court is well enough to be present. 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