The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 09, 1914, Page 6, Image 6
SIMS DISBARRED BY COURT.
Former Spartanburg Lawyer Indefinitely
Suspended.
Columbia. April 2.?C. P. Sims,
the former Spartanburg attorney,
was to-day disbarred by the Supreme
court. The suspension is indefinite,
but there is a qualifying clause that
Mr. Sims may come before the court
in two years, and if he has reformed
and can furnish satisfactory proof
he will be readmitted to practice
in the courts of this State.
The charges sustained in a general
way were the one relating to soliciting
business, the Baxter Thomas pardon
case and the general allegation
in the petition that Mr. Sims's character
and reputation as an attorney
were bad.
Opinion by Gary.
The opinion disbarring Mr. Sims
is by Chief Justice Gary, and is made
a unanimous decision or tne nignesi
court of this State by the concurrence
of the four Associate Justices,
Hydrick, Watts, Fraser and Gage.
The court did not pass specifically
upon all the fifteen- counts, or
charges, contained in the petition of
-S. G. Finley, member of the Spartanburg
bar, in whose name proceedings
to disbar Mr. Sims were
brought, holding that this would
"subserve no useful purpose."
It has been charged that Mr. Sims
deceived the Supreme Court in the
John Shelton case, and Finley also,
asked to have statements as to himself
investigated, but the court ruled
that the matter be confined to the
charges against Sims.
Solicited Business.
"C. P. Sims is unquestionably
guilty of the charge of soliciting
business," writes Chief Justice Gary
in the opinion to-day, "as an attorney
in a manner in violation of the profoodnnai
pthics. It is only necessary
to refer to the testimony taken upon
L _ the trial of this case (which, of
course, will be filed with the clerk
of the Supreme Court) to show that
this finding is fully sustained."
The court finds that the charge
contained in "f" of the petition is.
sustained. This is the charge relating
to the Baxter Thomas pardon
case. Itj was charged that Mrs. ?1.
E. Thomas had employed Sims to secure
a pardon for her son, and that
he had "aoublecrossed" her by telling
the governor not to pardon
her son.
Sustained by Testimony.
The court says this charge is sustained
by the testimony of John F.
Floyd, who testified that he told Mrs
) Thomas not to let Sims look after
the case. Mr. Floyd testified he
would cal Ion the governor when
1? ? ot-?A -fKo-f V)o I
lie came lu wuiuuiuta, auu uiui u>u
so, asking the governor what he was
going to do about the Baxter Thomas
case. The governor ran his hand
through his hair, Mr. Floyd testified,
and said: "I got a letter from
, . Sims saying not to pardon Baxter,
ilV and he is a sort of a bad case." Mr.
o
Floyd further stated that he saw a
letter to the governor advising
the governor not to pardon Baxter
Thomas. Floyd said he went back
to Spartanburg and told Mrs. Thomas
that Sims was doublecrossing her,
and after explaining the term she
had stated: "I am going to take a
stick and whale him out of his office,"
referring to Sims, and Floyd
said: "That would be a pretiv good
way to treat him."
On question of Justice HydricK,
Floyd said he knew Sims's handwritK
:
ing, and that the latter telling the
governor not to pardon Thomas
was in Sims's own handwriting.
Quoting this testimony, the court
sustains the charge as to the paruon
case.
Sims's Character.
Section "n" of the petition, had
to do with the charge that Sims's
character and reputation were bad
and that he was unworthy to be a
member of the bar. This' allegation,
subscribed by pprominent members
of the bar at Spartanburg, was
sustained by the cpurt with this explanation:
"We feel, however, that the conduct
of the respondent was due in a
large measure to his misconception as
to the nature of the legal profession
and of his duties to the court, to his
brother lawyers and to his clients,
as will be seen from the testimony
of Robert T. Gantt, Esq."
Gantt had testified that Sims was
a man of decided character, that his
friends were very loyal and his enemies
very bitter toward him; that
Sims had come to the Spartanburg
bar after attaining manhood and
didn't have the advantage of a legal
education, and his ideas of judicial
ethics were crude; that he regarded,
it seemed, the practice of law as a
trade rather than a profession, and
that this was Sims's defect through
the practice.
Unfit to Practice.
Concluding, the Supreme Court
says: "The foregoing findings of fact
show that C. P. Sims. Esq., is unfit
to practice law as an attorney. The
court, however, is of the opinion that
the respondent should be allowed the
TORREOX CAPTURED.
Fall of Stronghold Officially An- ]
nounced by Rebel Chief.
Juarez. April 2.?Torreon fell
completely into the hands of the (
rebels at 10.30 o'clock to-night, ac- \
cording to announcement made here ]
to-night by Gen. Yenustinao Car- j
ranza. j
The news first was announced to j
the world when the bugler in front 6
of Carranza's residence blew the ]
staccato notes of victory. The nean.
Carranza said, was sounded here
even before it was heard in Torreon.
Villa delaying out of compliment to ^
his chief. ,
The meagre bulletins excitedly an- ^
nouncing victory after the bloodiest 1
series of battles known to modern
Mexico said that Villa captured a
large number of prisoners and that
the fleeing Federal remnant was be- j
ing pursued.
Whether Velasco, the Federal com- ,
mander, was captured was not stat- J
ed. There was heavy fighting today,
it is understood, and the end ,
came when, after capturing the three
remaining barracks held in the city .
by the Federals, the rebels stormed ,
the trenches and barbed-wire entanglements
of Canyon De Guarache.
The prisoners captured are believ- .
ed to have been the defenders of the
barracks, while the troops in the
canyon, which forms an egress from <
the hillgirte'd city, were able to *
escape. ' .
Moved With Rapidity. f
The rebel commander moved with ?
a rapidity hitherto unknown to Mexican
warfare. He worked his men in (
shifts, and as one shift became ex- ?
hausted he sent fresh hosts against t
the enemy. The number of small T
towns of lesser importance in a mili- j
tary sense fell first, Mapiami and (
Sacramento, where a bloody battle f
was fought. This opened a path for j
the main attack. j
T J -J ? TDrtlr.
isext came i^eruo anu viume^. jraia.- c
cio, populus suburbs of Torreon, and
all three connected by a belt street
car line. Lerdo was -not defended, but
it took three main assaults, in which
the rebels lost heavily, to take
Gomez Palacio. )
In the final attack on the city
troops were withdrawn from Lerdo,
whereupon the Federals occupied it
and another sanguinary conflict was
necessary to retake it.
REBELS HOLD AMERICANS.
Consular Agent Charged With Passing
Counterfeit Money. c
]
Chihuahua, April 2.?Edward A. t
Powers, United States consular agent e
at Parral, was arrested to-day on a c
charge of passing counterfeits of the \
rebel fiat money. Mr. Powers tele- t
graphed to Marion Letcher, American
consul here, of his plight, and (
Letcher said he would demand the c
immediate release of Powers. \
E. E. Johnson, cashier, and F. A. t
Hawkins, assistant manager of the i
Alvarado Mining and Milling Com- t
pany, both Americans, were arrested j
on similar charges yesterday, and i
Consul Letcher is looking after their t
interests. It is asserted that the.< i
men are not guilty. The fiat cur- i
rency was cheaply printed and soon i
a large number of counterfeits ap- (
peared. For a time even officials f
could not tell the genuine from the f
spurious. \
The Americans who are arrested, j
it is said, bought the money in good c
faith for the purpose of paying employees,
and Mr. Letcher expects lit- t
tie difficulty in straightening out the c
trouble. i
opportunity to reform and be rein- *
stated upon proof that he has be- ^
come duly qualified in every respect
to practice law as an attorney.
(
"It. is. therefore, the judgment of ,
this court that C. P. Sims, Esq., be
indefinitely suspended and forbidden
to exercise the rights and duties of
an attorney in the courts of this
State with the privilege, however,
to move before this court for re-instatement
after the expiration of two
years, upon satisfactory proof that
he has reformed and at that time is
duly qualified in every respect to
practice as an attorney at Jaw."
Mr. Sims is now in Atlanta, it is
understood, and is engaged in the
practice of law there.
Third to Be Disbarred.
He is the third lawyer of this State
to be disbarred in the last few years,
but prior to the John T. Duncan case,
within the memory of old lawyers it
had^ been many a year since such a
nm/ioaHino- mtiio in flip Snnrpmp
Court of this State. The Sims dis- 1
barment is different from the other ?
two of recent years. .Mr. Duncan c
was disbarred. .Mr. Barnard B.
B. Evans was disbarred with the f
privilege of showing that for two i
years he had moved in the path t
pointed out by the court and upon t
satisfactory proof he can come before j
the court to seek reinstatement. Re- t
cently Mr. Duncan filed papers mak- t
ing an unsuccessful attempt to be re- j
instated as a member of the bar of i
South Carolina. <
MONEY, CORN, HAY AND HOGS.
Vote of Prosperity Sounded by Marlboro
County Farmer.
Columbia, April 1.?C. P. Hodges,
)f the Brownville section of Marlboro
county, in a letter to the PeeDee
Daily, of Bennettsville, gives an
nsight into just how prosperous the
nodern agriculturist in South Caroina
is to-day. Mr. Hodges is a very
successful farmer and here is what
le tells his fellow farmers:
"1 have had a fine trade this week
uid I am feeling 'bully' over it, and
nust tell my fellow farmers about it.
rell all the good things you know and
ceep the mean things you know to
yourself and you will feel better. Try
t. I have sold one man 4 00 bush
?ls of corn, and another one car-ioaa
if hay and stover, and another five
:ons stover, and another five tons
lay, and another $31 worth of pork,
md I have not started to sell yet.
\Tow, boys, you had better get ready
ror the boll weevil, and if it never
jomes the South, as we all admit,
las gone craxy on the subject of cotion
and most of us are now producng
it without a legitimate profit,
md everything that man and beast
jats is high and going higher, with
he promise of a magnificent profit in
n it and a nice job. I am preparing
o plant 500 acres in corn this year
md am going to make a dive for
10,000 bushels. I have 250 acres
ilanted in oats. I am working for
L0,000 bushels, and I am working
or 300 tons of hay and 300 tons of
itover.
"You Marlboro farmers get hold
if one corner of this proposition
md let us pull the old ship back in
he channel. We can do it and we
nust do it, and now is the time to
legin. Boys, I have felt the pulse
)f this corn, hay and hog money beore,
and I tell you it beats fine. Try
t and it will electrify you. Don't
orget that every dollar's worth of
iuch truck sold at home means that
nuch money kept at home and helps
o make good business, prosperous
imes and good 'feelings."
The "hog and hominy" program of
dr. Hodges will be of much interest
o the farmers at this season of the
(
ear just on the eve of planting time,
dr. Hodges believes in raising his
>wn bread and meat and having the
:otton for a surplus crop. This propaganda
needs spreading through
rnt South.Carolina.
Authority on Clover.
\
Turning from the rich Pee-Dee
county of Marlboro to the prosperous
Piedmont county of York,
he following advice on clover is tak;n
from a letter to the Yorkville Enluirer,
written by Mr. J. Frank Ashe,
vhom the Enquirer says is an auhority:
"While reading your article on
>imson clover in last issue of En[uirer,
I thought that a word of adrice
just now might be of some help
o beginners. I have had some experence
with all the clover and hav goten
all the information I could from
)eople who have had success in raisng
clover, and they tell me that if
he stand is not good it is best to
lurse what you have in order to get
nnoculation in the land which will
nsure success next year. Quite a lot
)f clover was sown too late last
all and has been thinned out by the
reezes; but now as the weather gets
varmer, it will show up better than
rou think possible from the present
>utlook.
"I would like for more farmers
o experiment with burr clover. It
>nly has to be seeded once and then
t is there forever; but you can only
lave it where you expect to plant
}orn, planting the corn after the
;lover is ripe. Then when the corn
s laid by the clover comes up and
covers the land, making a cover crop
'or fall and winter. It attains a
vigorous growth in early spring and
ipens about the middle of May. The
>nly trouble about making a crop of
?orn is to get a furrow open through
he rank growth of clover in order
;o get a stand. Then by the time the
;orn needs to be cultivated the clovjr
is so decayed as not to be in the
_ ?. > li
ivay ai an.
"I was talking to Mr. J. W. Bledsoe,
of Saluda county, last fall, and
ie told me that his first experience
vith burr clover was a patch he sowid
in his peach orchard. He planted
;he orchard in corn after the clover
md his land got so rich that the
reaches rotted. I have seen a vine
)f burr clover 12 feet long.
"Now. .Mr. Editor, this article is
onger than I thought to make it.
jut my excuse is that I believe that
;he clovers are to be our salvation
igriculturally, and the sooner we get
lown to business the better for us."
The advice of Mr. Ashe is being
?ollowed in many counties among
'armers. as can readily be seen by
;aking a trip into the farming secIons.
Both his experience and the
idvice of Mr. Hodges go to show
;hat South Carolina farmers are alive
o the need of diversified and intensified
farming and are fast getting
iway from the idea of growing only
:otton.
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