The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02


For these reasons, a trade was made
Inv the Governor and others if Norwood
woui,. write his resignation, and put
il i'm the hands of the chairman OF the.
Judiciary committee, to be presented the
Iirst time he got drunk, the lmpeach-
ment proceedings would not be pressed.
The Judge kept sober some time, but
few months ago he looked too much on
the wine when il was red, he fell, the
Governor accepted his resignation writ
ten to escape impeachment, and appoint
ed his successor Never before in the
history of the State did such a thing or
cur. l @
. At the Spring term Of Wayne SUI
perior court Judge RObinsons condnct
showed his partisanship in such bold re-
lief, as TO make good citizens indignant.
In his charge to the grand.jury he laid
special stress on the subject of selling
Intoxicating liquors and cigarettes To
minors. 1t so happened that fodr in
dictments We're found against one hiram
j. CHM. two for selling liquor to minors
and two for selling liquor on Sunday.
CHM insisted on trial and the jury rem
dered a verdict of guilty in less than five
minutes in one case. CHM Immediately
plead guilty in the other three cases. AL
these offenses were committed on sun
day within a stones throw of Il Presby
terrain church on the outskirts of Colds
boro. where there is no police protection.
When the judge heard the evidence and
the verdict was rendered, he showed
: great indignation and pointing his finger
with theatrical air at CHM, said: Il
will not trust myself to sentence You
now, sir, for / don't know what / would
/. do If were to meet Il man in the road
that had sold one, of my boys liquor.
especially on Sunday. | will pass sen
tence on You later" All of which sound
O.. very fine and the temperance people
felt to commend such righteous indigna-
ton In considering how much punish
ment to nflict. Judge Robinson learned
that CHM was tusionist and worked
TO put his gang in power. That settled
IL Judgment was suspended. There
was another case which showed that
the politics of the defendant determined
the judges action. A man by the name
Of Hatch the leading Republican of
Wayne county outside Of Goldsboro. ard
who was made Mayor of Dudley by the
Legislature of 1897. owns and runs II
public gin. :, true bill was found against
!. him for false retense. in substituting
sand for lint cotton in the cotton of Il
3 customer and he plead guilty in open
court. Judge Robinson directed the clerk
! OF the court TO strike ont the submission
and enter a plea of nolo contendere anu
y suspended Judgment on payment of costs
That's the way he sentences law-break-
ers who helped to put him in office and
II disgrace the State. How was it when
emocrats were before him for violating
s. lawg A young white man. Il Democrat
and the only son of a widowed mother.
was found guilty of knocking A man
down with Il beer bottle. He was SEN
fenced by Judge Robinson 10 four
months imprisonment in the county jail.
II the young man deserved this sell
tencr, and il pay not have been ex
cessiye, the two Fusionists deserved tel
fold more punishment. A man. who i'll
the heat of passion strikes his fellows
man. may be a man OF integrity. but
there is no place outside of the reniten-
tiary for the fellow who nuts sand in tho
cotton he is ginning if he had his ae-
serts.. 1t is Il mockery Of justice r.
send a man to jail for an ARRAY and
turn loose on the community one who
sells liquor to minors. eren the sanctity
OF the holy Sabbath being desecrated to
such an unholy and illegal trade.
g. At the August term of Columbus Su-
parior court Judge Adams. Republl-
can Judge who had not practised law be
fore his election to the bench made .
new precedent i'm making the first po'i.
tical charge to- a grand inry ever heard
= in the State. 1t was also the most in.
famous The Whitevi'le News thu
gives the facts of his crime against de.
eeney:
s.He reached the climax. however.
when he came TO discuss formation
and adultery. He said that nine
times out of ten if you will chase
down the fellows wlo are going
about trying TO stir up race prejudice
Won will find them sleeping with a
negro woman When we consider
that numbers of as good people as
there are in the State are going
about stirring up race prejudice. as
he w0nld doubtless call it. his state
ment becomes a most sweeping yillifi-
cation and one which cannot be prop
erly characterized in temperate Ian
gnage. And he said this with a
kind OF a remember theAIaine' ex7
preston on his counfanance which
seemed to indicate his regret that
there was not a law by which
Democratic speakers and papers
could be stopped from telling the
people of the foothold which negro
!. supremacy had obtained under the
present administration.
And this was not all. Proceeding
10 the question of rape, he argued to
the jury that it was a lesser 6ffense
than seduction because the only diff
ference was, he said. that one was
committed by force and the other by
fraud. 1t required some courage for
the former. He illustrated his posi-
80 ton by saying he had rather his
purse was stolen by highwayman
Than by deception. We may not be
surprised that assaults upon white
women by brutes-the lowest crime
in the eyes of the law ms well as OF
men to which if is possible for human
deprayity to descend-are so alarm
jng,y on the increase when Judge
on the bench attempts to minimize
its Nervousness and argues to grand
Jury that it is less crime than one
for which the most extreme penalty
is term in the penitentiary.
IL not the conduct of these three Ike
nvIlican iudoas ennugh to disgust TIT