The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-10-27
SOUTH CAR0LlNAS WRONGS vlNDl.
GATED BY AN HONEST REPUBLl.
CAN.

OF Democrat or Ropubllcan, Dul quob-
ton of reiormer or robbcr, This case
is aptly illustrated in the case Of Mr..
Mackey, tho Republican Chief Justice
Of that State, elected by u Republican
Legislature. lie il indignant at the
means by which Grant intends to carry |
the State for Chamberlain, and ut the
October term of the court Of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for York |
county delivered very lorciblc, impair
tial, fair and manly charge TO the grand
jury. His honor stated that lac had
heard but had no facts warrunting the
imputation, that armed organizations
existed in the county, having for their
object the intimidation of voters for the
purpose Of controlling the approaching
election. While nothing of this kind
had occurred in York county for the
past five years, and while the citizens
were never more peaccobly inclined, IT
Is the duty Of the court TO instruct the
grand jury TO inquire If such organiH-
tions do exist, and if they find they do,
10 report the same to the court while If
they do not exist, likewise to report
the fact, The court announced It's read
iness to move at all times to secure an
inviolable ballot and TO maintain the
law supreme, without tho guidance Of
an executive officer at Washington.
His honor then stated that his attention
had been called TO the recent order OF
Attorney General Taft, which ne char
ncterized as the most formidable AID
audacious act Of political intimida-
ton nj present within the knowledge
of the court, and said that the
judge of q court who would permit the
provisions Of that order TO be enforced
in his circuit would DO false to his duty,
He said il is the duty Of the courts
and of every citizen of tho state to aid
thoritics when such mid is required but
the law fixes limit to the authority of
an executive officer, and when he tran
scends that limit he himself becomes
amenable. The circular Of Attorney
General Taft, continued his honor in
effect expunges tho law and its duly
constituted tribunals, and substitutes
the will of subordinate United States
officer therefor. The law is ample to
check intimidation of voters and to
punish those guilty Of intimidation
and the rights Of no voter shall be
trampled upon, no matter what his po'
iteal sentiments or rncc or color may
be- United States marshnls and deputy
marshals, said his honor, will not be
permitted, ON this judicial circuit, to
carry out the provisions of the order of
tho Attorney General TO the extent of
disregarding the duly issued process of
the State Courts; and should they offer
resistance to judicial authority, ade-
quate force would be invoked to
maintain that authority and the
court would assume the rcspon-
sibility. He who acts upon the
provisions OF that circular will
do so at his peril il he violates the
constitutional or legal rights of the
humblest citizen. The circular of the
Attorney General, in directing United
States marshnls to disregard the State
officers ia the execution of their in
structions, virtually proposes that every
marshal and deputy marshal shall be
constituted supreme tribunal, whose
acts, however ilagrantly violativc Of the
constitution and laws of the State,
shall not be subject to review by the
courts of the State, Tho President of
the United States even cannot suspend
the writ of habeas corpus for II single
hour in the time of peace, unless spcti.
ally authorized thereto by the Congress
of the United States. Yet the Attorney
General assumes to empower u deputy
marshal not only to suspend this great
safeguard OF personal liberty nj will,
but to nnnul, for the time being, the
whole body of criminal statutes of the
State enacted pursuant to the constitu.
ton and laws of the United States for
tho d 40 protection of the life, liberty
and property of tho citizen, His honor
also instructed the grand jury that il
constitutes intimidation for an EN-
ployer to threaten to discharge his en-
ployes unless thay vote certain way,
and that il is likewise intimidation if
laborer refuses to work unless his EN-.
ployer votes certain way
Nothing could better demonstrate
how clearly the lines are drawn in "the
PROSTATE State" as well as in every
other section of the Union. Here is
the highest judicial officer of the STATE,
pominally member of the same party
to whose very rottennoss the name of
Chamberlain is an insult, but really an
honest, fearless, patriotic man, boldly
condemning the measures by which
this infamous Executive seeks TO secure
his own reelection.
The result is clearly ioreseen, Cham.
berlain, with ell the hayonets of the
Federal governmental his back with
all his boldness, with all his shameless
disregard of decency, to say nothing of
honor, and with all his intimidation of
white and colored Democratic electors,
will fail, His name will soon dissolve
In oblivion, but until then will live the