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jl^^^bwpwjnpw111 1 The Fort Mill Times. DEMOCRATIC. Published Thursday Mornings. B. W. A W. R. Bradford Publobherr W. R. Bradford. ? .Editor B. W. Bradford Manager CWSSSSB The Times invites contributions on live subjects, but does not ajrree to publish more than 200 words on any subject. The ritrht is reserved to edit ] every communication submitted for publicat'on. \ Telephone, local and Ions distance. No. 112. Subscription Rates: One Year.. $1.25 Six Months .65 FORT MILL. S. C.. JUNE 23. 1910. Work of the Conscienceless Juror. The Charlotte newspapers have not had many kind words for the jury which acquitted thfe two white men who were tried for murder in the Mecklenburg court last week. From the evidence, it seems that the killing of the man Simpson by the Hartises was a cold-blooded! affair and without excuse. It1 was expected, therefore, that a verdict would be returned against | the defendants and that they; would at least be punished by a ' term in the penitentiary, But1 there is no way of telling what I a petit jury will do. This partic- ; ular petit jury had a precedent for acquitting the Hartises in the verdict which was returned in fVin U A/\rl *n 11 n?* nnon lnof 1 nit iiuvvi uiuiu^i taot loot year. Then, as in the more! recent trial, the State made out 1 a strong case against the ac- 1 cused, but in both instances the 1 law has been ravished and men have been loosed upon society ( who, perhaps, only await another ' favorable opportunity to precipi- : tate into eternity additional vie- 1 tims. There is something wrong with J the administration of justice in ' the Old North State. Red-handed murderers stalk abroad up there and no man's life is safe. But ' the same deplorable condition of 1 affairs exists in South Carolina and the citizens of this State are not in position to decry the spirit of lawlessness among our neighbors to the north. Population considered, South Carolina probably has more murders than North Carolina, though it can be said in truth that in recent years there have been frequent evi-: dences in this Commonwealth of jurors holding to stricter account the wanton destroyers of human life. The fault, as we see it, does not lie in the jury laws. It is in the lack of conscience of the average juror. When we devise a mode to rehabilitate the con science of the mediocre juror, | then we may expect more justice in the determination of murder cases in which white men are the defendants. Governor Folk's Handicap. There has been received at The Times office a letter from the Missouri Democratic league soliciting the aid of this paper in working up sentiment for the nomination of ex-Governor Jos. W. Folk, of Missouri, as the Democratic candidate for president two years hence. The letter points out the claims which the distinguished Missourian has to the leadership of the party, stating, in part, that he, "more than any one else, originated the present reform idea through his efforts as circuit attorney and afterwards as governor of Missouri." There is no gainsaying that Governor Folk has done much to quicken the conscience of the people with respect to the many abuses which have grown up under Republican administration. i? ^ ? nar> utrcii in Lilt; lTOIlL railK Ol those who have uncovered the hypocrisy and pretense of the Republicans. He has rendered service to both the Democracy and the people which is worthy of distinguished consideration, and this paper would be delighted to see him elected president. It is confident that he would make an acceptable executive to all save those who have been or hope to be the . beneficiaries of the special privileges fostered by the buccaneers who have had control of the government since Grover Cleveland's day. But it is a long, tortuous road to the presidency and we fear that Governor Folk will find a lion in his path that he cannot destroy. Unfortunately for the governor, so far as reaching the ; White House is concerned, there is a handicap to success in the fact that he is by birth a kA/UtllCl Iltl, a ICIIUCddCC&ll* 1 1115 I circumstance of Governor Folk's birth is almost certain to defeat him for the nomination, and if not for the nomination, then in the election. Wellnigh half a century has passed since the close of the war between the North and the South, but time does not dim the recollection of the early '60s in the minds of those who are ever ready to profit in a political way by waving the bloody shirt, and without whose aid?more's the pity?no Democrat can be elected to the presidency. Killing Newspaper Men. "I never heard of anybody being convicted for killing a newspaper man; they ought to be killed." Such was the remark made some years ago by a juror as an extenuating reason for agreeing to a verdict of acquittal in a celebrated South Carolina case in which the defendant was tried for the cold-1 blooded murder of an editor. Right-thinking men abhorred the sentiment and were not slow to express the opinion that it was worthy of a barbarian. But this South Carolinian is one of a numerous company. The news dispatches of the daily press tell from time to time of the killing of some newspaper editor, not infrequently for a trivial offense, or alleged affense, given the slayer. Then in the course of a few months or a year or two. the man who did the killing is tried. The irial usually results in acquittal, regardless of the evidence of guilt because the victim was a newspaper man. We have indeed fallen upon an evil day if it is possible for anyone with either a real or imaginary grievance against the newspaper man to take the law in his own hands and do to death the "offender" with the almost certain sense of security from punishment. These thoughts are suggested by the recent acquittal in Virginia of a school teacher who killed a newspaper man on the streets of Warrenton a year and more ago. Unless the press dispatches sent out the day of the killing were highly colored against the school teacher, his neck should have been cracked. 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