The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-25

A MONsTRoUs TnEORY.-Some remarkable
campaign material is being used just now
We have n letter from an intelligent man in
The country who says, commenting on Col.
Orr Orr s n speech asEs,s3 qRs haSys bette,
OF petty sp te against ihc governor
Now we have no doubt this man believes
what he says. He does not know all the
facts ard believes what somebody has told
him. The impression he has is o natural
result of the attack made upon the Judge by
the governors message. 1t is strong
illustration of tho danger we are in. The
confidence of the people in their judges is
being destroyed. The next natural step will
be TO replace the present judiciary with one
more agreeable to the regning powers.
Our correspondent did not stop to think
how absurdly impossible it is that a man
who has lived beyond middle agc without a
stain upon his name; who as solder and
leader of the people, has risked his life in
the States service thousand times: who
from one end of The State to the other, and
among frieuds and foes is known for his
purity, courage, nobility of character and
dignity, should deliberately perjure himself
and drag his spotless erlnine in the dirt to
crafty ''petty spite" Aside from that,
he did not reflect that If Judge Wallace
could be influenced in his judicial acts by
personal or selfish motives he would .nafu-
rally have tried to please the governor, who
to the time of the Cantwell decision was
known to favor Judge Wallace for elevation
to the supreme court bench
The truth is, we think, that Judge Wallace
decided that case against his own interest s
aud knew that he was doing so, il he con-
sidered that meter at all; aud that he was
punished bec'use he did his duty as a wise.
upright and fearless judge drsenpikie Nevs.
To our mind, the only petty spitefulness
that we have discovered in the Cantwell case
was in the undigufcd and spiteful manner
in which Gov. Tillman singled out Judge
Wallace as a target to shoot al in his Message
to the Legislature. In that Gov. Tillman
pointedly disclosed bis auto cratic dicta torial
nature, which, has been so prominent and
TO our mind, SO injurious to the best interests
of the State, throughout his administration.
With scarcely single exception, Judge
Wallace's decision in the. Cantwell case was
sustained BY. the, Circuit -Judgss ss-throughout
the State, and the Supreme Court decided
that Cantwell wa, entitled TO his salary up
TO the time the Senate acted upon his remov-
AZ, which plainly said he had not been legal
y removed by the Governor,
The law regulating the appointment and
removal of Supervisors of Registraliu is 80
vorded as TO prevent the removal and
nppointment of those officers just before an
election, for individual aad partisan purpo-
seq. @
The case of Cantwell shows the wisdom of
he Jaw in that respect. A political faction
in Charleston clamored for his removal from
The office of Supervisor Of Registration, max
ng no charges against him, but that be did
not belong TO that faction. The Governor
was called on to remove him, which he
attempted to do; and We have no doubt he
hought the law gave him the power to re-
move; but when the law was subjected 10 an
IMPARTIAL aud able legal test,.it was found
hat it did not give such authority.