The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-17
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
Must be Modified or Abolished-Which!-
Here Is q Good Bit of Humor.

, Must be Modified or Abolished-Which?-
Here Is Good Bit of Humor.
Aiken Journal and Review
It is evident that the Supreme Court
of the United States will have either to
be utterly abolished or radically re-
modelled. Of the two, we should take
it that abolishmeBazsould be the thing.
Reconstruction of the methods or even
of the personnel of the highest court IN
the greatest country of the universe
wouldn't keep it from grinding out
Justice in finality among slxty-nVe
millions of Americans. Somehow, under
any sort of modification, force of long
habit might tend to make its decisions
impartial and conclusive; and that IS
not desired or required in this sweet
period of progress in which the wagon
is in front of the mule. Down with
the Supreme Court! That's your racket
Clear the court room, lock up the con-
Germ, plug the keyhole with a putty
wad and then hang the nine hoary
Justices in efigy on the outside!
Serves 'em right if they can't take a
Joke! We won't consent in this day to
be ruled by the edicts of a Court that
does Justice to a "rotten corporation"
like a railroad. After while cotton
mills, and foundries, and banks, and
newspapers, and colleges and churches,
and lots of other "rotten" affairs may,
if things are allowed to go on as usual,
develop the monumental gall, in case
of litigation, to look for justice from
this same United States Supreme
Court. It must not be. The idea!
And, by the way, DR.. Sampson Pope
of Newberry appears to be in absolute
touch with US on this point. DR.. Pope
is not the same who electrified Congress
man Johnstone's district with appeals
for Cleveland and Democracy last fall,
but he is the same who was said at the
national capital to resemble both Napo-
leon Bonaparte and Governor McKin-
lev of Ohio-in personal appearance.
The marked difference, at the same
time, between DR.. Sampson Pope and
the other worthless was noted to be that
neither Bonaparte nor Mckinley,
equally eligible, had ever applied for
Office under President Cleveland, and
that DR.. Sampson Pope had. He was
in Washington, an applicant for the
post of United States Marshal and look
ing after his fences.
For some days the dispatches from
Washington pulsed with confident pre-
dictions of the Doctors appointment;
then they didn't pulse so high;then they
didn't pulse at all. Still good many
contended thai he had secured the lus-
clous grapes and was hiding them IN
his boots just for fun, when 10! the ap-
plicant suddenly reappeared at New
berry, where lie is alleged to have
publicly declared, as the outcome OF
his mission, that he "had no chance
whatever"
It is now reported'thst DR.. Sampson
Pope says that as soon as the Circuit
Court handed down its ruling in favor
of the railroads he wrote to admonish
President Cleveland not to appoint him
United States Marshal, because he
would not serve under court favor
able to ''rotten corporations" AS the
United States Supreme Court has since
sustained the lower courts finding in
favor of ''rotten corporations" and as
all American citizens, in every capacity,
of necessity "serve' under Supreme
Court adjudications even as to minutest
concerns, it would seem that DR.. Pope's
written declaration to Mr.. Cleveland,
if he wrote it, in legal effect withdraws
the writer's allegiance from the United
States.
But why should Mr.. Cleveland be
cautioned not to appoint DR.. Pope a
y. S. Marshal? Why didn't the Doctor
insist on not being appointed a foreign
minister? For the President had ex-
actly as much purpose to send DR.:
Sampson Pope abroad as envoy extra
ordinary or to make him anadmirai IN
the navy as he ever entertained OF
appointing him to any place at all.
From the beginning he "had no chance
whatever" but he is not alone.
We cannot guess all Mr.. Cleveland's
reasons for not appearing to take fond
" to the Newberry statesman, but we
know some OF them. For instance, we
don't think the President ever forgave
the Doctor for his sleight of hand at
the August primary, when be thrust
his Governorship ballot into the
"Temperance" voting box. Such an
sbsent-minded person, if vested with
federal honors under Democratic
administration, might himself have
Gotten into "the wrong box"
Excluding the Chinese.
PORTLAND, Org, May 1.-The stea-
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