The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-06-15
THE SEEDoF HONEST JURIEs.

so that the name Of every good citi.
zen could be put in the jury box.
Not until late have we ever seen
one line in the News and Observer
az TO the need Of honest juries.
Haven't we needed them for the
past eight years just as much as We
do now? Why didn't the News and
Observer favor honest juries in
1898 and 1900? Was 1t afraid that
if all the juries were honest that
some of it's party henchmen would
now be safe behind prison bare?
OF course it is better late than
never, but again we ask why hasn't
the News and Observer been in ia
vor Of honest juries for the past
eight years. There must be a reason.
The following on this subject
from Justice in the last issue of the
Union Republican strikes the key
note:
"Bro. Josephus Daniels and have
gotten together at last, or nearly so
on at least one subject, and that is
honest juries. l have been wanting
them all the time. l wanted them
when we had that travesty upon
Justice. the league and Boyor trial.
/ wanted them when I helped to
pass the law in 1897 to revise the
ljury list. / wanted them when the
Ku Klux amnesty act was passed.
l wanted them when Sec. 1890 was
repealed to save election thieves. 1
wanted them when the election
cases from this county were mol
pressed. I wanted them to investi-
gate and try the Wilmington MUIR
der cases. / wanted them to inves-
tigate and punish the assault on
Seawell, when he was assaulted and
driven from Laurinburg. I wanted
them to try all outrages from ballot
box-stuffing to murder, that have
cursed our State since the war, but
up to this time while I was want
ing honest juries for the above pur-
poses, the News and Observer and
other Democratic papers were up.
holding and applauding criminals
and helping to pass laws to protect
them, such as statutes of Limitation.
amnesty acts or the repeal J Of cri~iis;
Bro. Daniels has seen a new light or
something has gotten right or wrong
in him as will moro fully appear
from the following taken from his
editorial of June Ord:
The name of a bad man is out of
place in jury box. His interest is
to protect crime, to let fraud 20 un-
restrained, to let down the bars;
take off the lid, have a wide open
county, every man looking out for
himself, Satan taking the hindmost.
The man who runs blind tiger or
blockade still ought not to be on
the jury list. The vagrant, bum or
loafer, who has no visible means of
support and relies upon his wife and
children to support him, has no bus
mess being on the jury. Neither
TIE man who gives nor the man who
receives brides or graft has place
In the jury box. Men who encourage
violation of the laws they don't like
are not good and lawful men and
ought not to be in the jury box
AS 1 said in the beginning we are
getting pretty close together on this
subject, but would add to his list
a few more classes whose names
should be left out Of the jury box.
1 would say leave out the name of
every man who ever bought or sold
a vote directly or Indirectly; the
name Of every man who cast or pro-
cured the casting of an illegal ballot,
or who kept legal vote out of the
box; the name of every man who
filled out and certified to false
election return, and as the receiver
is as guilty as the thief, the name
of every official who held an Office
procured by such fraud; the names
of every editor, owner, or CORES.
pondent of newspaper that con-
doned, upheld or encouraged frauds
and crime of any character; the
names of every man who ever wore
red-shirt or broke up political
meeting; the name of every man
who took the Ku Klux oath, or who
appeared as witnesses to prove all |
bis for Ku Klux, or to put the mat
ter, or any idea of the matter, in a
few words, leave the name of every
man out of the jury box who has
failed to keep his oath in the past,
whether it be witness, a juror, or
a citizen, in which is included his
oath to support the constitution and
the laws of the State Of North Car
olina and of the United States.
which gives TO every man equality
before the law in everything"