The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-09-07
rdAr JURY REVISION.

that 1t would not champion the cause
of any particular faction in the local
political situation in the county or
the city.
How well we nave lived up to the
principle then ennunciated, is best
evidenced by reference to the files OF
the paper; we have had no enemies to
punish in the first year of our exis-
tence; no political friends to pander
TO, or reward in the present. Indeed
the lessons OF the past nave made it
manifest to us that the newspaper
that expenses or condemns any and all
measures because of the party locally
of courseJ that fathers them, will
sooner or later be lost In the quag
mire of ignominious failure.
However, in the cause Of right we
are now called upon to condemn UNI
equiyocally the work of portion Of
the body polite of the present county
administration We refer to the re-
rent work OF the jury commissioners
OF the county of Glynn in revising the
jury lists. BY a careful perusal OF
them we find that men of unquestion-
able character. intelligence and abil-
ity, who are tax payers and in every
way qualified for jury duty. have been
cut from both the grand and petit
jury boxes OF the county and that
too. with an exactness as to past poll.
teal amliation that he WAC runs may
read
New names have peen substituted,
and those thus placed on the nsts are
in no wise the better citizen than
those who have been deprived OF the
constitutional right of passing upon
the lives and liberties of their peers
and participating in the matters that
mostly effect the public veal.
Again 1t is passing strange that
with one single exception chat one be
ing out of the city for months) ali the
other members of the commission
were placed in the jury box.
| Was not that htue queer?
We know of number of gentle
men in the city, who are large prop
erty owners and at the mead of bust.
ness CONCERNS of great magnitude,
who have been dropped from the jury
boxes.
{ny was TINS done?
After once being placed in tde box,
| what should be necessary to disfran-
cnise or disQualify a juror?
The law provides that two ffths of
he tax payers shall constitute the
jury list Following this law to its
logical conclusion. it would not have
been necessary to drop the names
OF any jurors save those disqualified
for caIse simple addition to the
list OF those who have removed here
during the last two years, and in that
time had become qualified jurors, in
the matter OF taxes would nave met
the demands of the law.
1t appears however that the jury
commissioners took the matter in
their own hands and deprived citizens
of a right, who were even more en-
titled to recognition, than some OF the
gentlemen who compose toe board.
1t seems to us that some narrow
mindedness has been injected into
tails work which should nave been
done without regard to- individual
enmity or small petty eersonaisms.
Al later day we shall throw some
more light on this subject and we
promise certain gentlemen that the
rays win not be altogether ethereal
ones.
In conclusion. it should be remem-
bered that tae jury box is the most
sacred function of the people, it is
our greatest safeguard, involving the
rights, liberties and the lives of the
masses ani this is no place to vent
malices and fight cut personal diff.
lerences.
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