The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-09-12
A SCATHING DENUNCIATION.
Governor Tillman Makes Serious
Charges Against Judge Simonton
He Likens the Judge to the Infa-

Governor Tillman Makes Serious
Charges Against Judge Simonton
He Likens the Judge to the Infa-
nous j Jefferies.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 7.-Governor
I1llman this afternoon made reply to
the decree OF United States Circuit
Judge Simonton imprisoning his con-
stable, Swan, for seizing a barrel of
whiskey at the South Carolina railroad
depot at Charleston. The Governor
says the decree Is intended to bring
the administration of the dispensary
law into disrepute and to paralyze the
State constables in their efforts to
prevent the importation of contraband
liquors into the State. He say it is 80
illogical, prejudiced and tyrannical
that he feels constrained against his
will to reply to it. He says: SIT may
be unwise in me to do this when other
cases are pending before this same
tribunal. but experience has shown
that the present administration has
nothing to expect from this Judge but
adverse decisions without regard to
the merits of any case presented. 1
and call things by their Names"
The Governor says that he ordered
Swan to seize the stuff.
Swans crime, len, was that he
obeyed the Governor of the State
whose appointee he was. Under the
dispensary law he seized liquor which
had no certificate on it as required un-
der the law, and it was in quantity
showing that it was for sale"
The Governor claims that there was
no Federal question therein giving the
United States judge jurisdiction that
Swan did not "search" the depot,
"only going in when the doors were
open and using his eyes to look about
and in doing 80 he certainly broke no
law"
Replying to Judge Simonton's state
ment that Swan should have got out q
warrant the Governor says he could
not have gotten warrant against q
barrel because it is thing, and that
he could not have gotten it against the
receiver of the road, because that
| officer had done nothing 81 issued
| the order to Swan" says the Governor.
Swan is q simple public official OF
South Carolina, duly authorized to act
under the dispensary law, and it is in
| famous to claim that he is in contempt
| of court under these circumstances
Deep down in the heart of the Anglo
Saxon race is burning contempt for the
| judge who lends himself to acts of ty.
ranny or allows himself to be the tool
of saloon keepers and corporations
| There may be no reckoning with this
| Judge; for he is fortified against every
thing except public opinion. Judge
| Simonton has not shown in his decree
wherein the contempt consisted and we
are given to understand that whiskey
in the hands of railroads run by re
ceivers can not be seized without {
| warrant. Z sO IL will he vpnntempt nj
this South Carolina Jefferies. The
law Is paralyzed to this extent and the
temperance people and the law abiding
| citizens of the commonwealth viii
know at whose door to lay the blame
We will carry the case to Washington
on habeas corpus and ask the United
States supreme court to right thi
wrong. We may fail, as we did in tn,
case of the sheriffs, but in contendine
for right and justice, will never con
slider either the cost or the result"