The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-07-10
THE SOUTH CAROLINA JUDGE
DIR. Carlisle Talks About the Judi-
ciary in This State in Other
Days

DayS
The Spar:anburg correspondent of
The News aud Courier makes the follow
ing report of an address of DIR. Jas. II.
Carlisle before the teachccs of the
State
DR.. Carlisle made most interesting
and suggestive talk to the teachers
Saturday evening, his subject being
the South Carolina Judge. 1t did not
seem very attractive subject for
teachers, three-fourths of them being
women and no path blaZed out from
the teachers desk to the bench. But
he was especially interesting in holding
up and illustrating the dignity, the in
tegrity aud the incorrup,iblity of the
South CaroliUa Judge.
He said that in May, 1912, body of
students might have been seen walk
ing Main street in Columbia, and turn
ing III at the Court House, where the
Court of Appeals was sitting
1T must be remembered that the
Court Of Appeals was made UP of the
Circuit Judges sitting together twice a
year. In 1912 those students saw the
following Jud. es with their gowns on
sitting in the Court of Appeals: Rich.
ardson, O Ncall, Evans, Earle, Butler
and Wardlaw.
The Chancellors at that time were
David Johnson, John Johnson, Dunkin
and Harper. These names and the
memories y this distinguished body of
men are preserved only in O'Ncalrs
, Bench ani Bar" the " Sketches by
Governor Perry" and in Il few memo.
rial pamphlets. But it is not the men
/ that are TO be considered, but the div
nifty, the influence, the conservative
/ power of the Office that Iiscs above
/ the individual. These are some Of the
characteristics of the old judicial sys-
! TEN.
The Judges were chosen by the gen
cral assembly and their Office was fol
life or good behavior. This made them
, independents. While their salaries wcr,
not large, they afforded Il competency
for Ordinary wants. The law was thai
salaries could not be changed durlne
the tenure of Office. So il, perhaps
happened that one of the Judges woul,
receive 81 800 and some Of the othcr
$1,000. If II law was pas scd ralsin.
salaries it did not apply to those il
office.
The only way out of that was for
nation ,yb;rh ,.,>nrl ~ ,i'. 49, '''' ,o''o
crn,oL and ,ho, ~, u,,l pI",'p"S @,
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, rcslrninr IN nr,,nn u,n, w., ,.i,, ~ 'I"S
! 9 Iorrnr s,l,rv rhnt ,na Wv '"'Su' W., ~
= ger, In mo- r,s, whoro =, IrI,,o an,, i,
in his ,,,iynn,inn I ;" ',I I,I ~, nui' ra Sru IL
> clcc,Inn In =. rnw ,no,,rna. ' tho w. .a -,
l. considerable nnno.;t;nn
When D,ninl II,,', s, 49, J.,
p, settled down cons;Inrnd h;s ,,,rn''
: in ir. bn con,o ,n ,,,o ,.,'.,,i,, o',I, ,I,'
nnly twn ronh' '''" |"',D'u;io' ,: VI, =,
), muS, oi,Lor lonI,Io r;fn nr
= s;udv law Un chn.n,I,o ,a,i,,,I,,. p,''''v,
was clrc,r1 Iudrn onL Irm;,nl r',,'
- senator ~ ''>>' ''''''
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McI.our;n rnr ho ,os,,,,aI ti'n
shin and ,hon hoin,t -, ,,Ln,,,
= man bo rns;un,J1i. sn,,,n ,,a Ir,;,,
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: election.
The Judyos borro,yod ,ho ,. r.o
y Euyland f0,. Sou,h C,r,,Ii,, ,.ii,D
y to tbr mn,bnr cnnn,r,, ,ha' ,,,,, nrVI' lr :,
u States R,rh man wnuII snHa ~,
y sons back lomc IN hn ndncn,nd
. that association ,he Gown onl -
sheriff with cockod h,I and sunnl -
= cor,ir,, ,Ln Ill " y
Court IIouso hncon,o crstn,,s hana -
J One hundred yo,rs or, I,vynrs NO.
y gowns. Ihihc old d,ys thc roo,n
y Difference was n,,L Tndyos ~" r.
- ternal feeling me snirii nf no hnd
!, was marked Thn InL,roS ,nn, i, ~
- lumbio twicc . ycor TInv honrnaI
;. the same housc moi ot , bo,nI hn,
', private house and thot hrnuali nho,
y close relationship. .mdoc 0,Noa
J novor urnln i, ,,n;,,!, No'
u JUDGE Richardson or,nv n,hnr I,h,,
:, but It was g nv broihc, Rn,Inr
" Wardlaw
In lSi5 ortcr an .ornoo, doJ,,,o
= law was passcd lim,tinr tho tnrn, ~
. Judoe So th,, when he r,n,.ha, ,
u wears the oOic. wouId hr vacn,o,
While that law was eian,d ~, -
:, speaker of the House and nresidn9, :,
~ the Senate. il never brcamr nne,ntiv
:, But after that am effort WINS madn
- get Judge Richardson on, nf oninn -,
account of weakening and foiIin,, mo,