The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-03

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GOSSIP
Simplicity Surrounding tI,e8 sinpsScI,.
Inshts \ Trial ssfS Jadae sWayne.
SiA'.sHINGTo N ID, rsb.
Those persons no have bean great
sy8 distressed recent because of car
;radual approach to limp tialiAza,
md our aband DONNIE Of Tho resals-
lean simplicity ice our sfathSrs weuia
earn n valuable lesson Il they coald
ae92 in the United states SENATE scnls
lay during the present imp achmeat
proceedings agalnat Judge swayne.
y Florida, and could compare siis
conditions Of today sWith those Of
.hout 100 years ago. when iii. Justice
Samuel Chase, OF Maryland appeared
~; the bar OF the: senate under articles
I9f$impe parchment Mr. Chase, then san
associate Justice of TIE Supreme
Court $of the United States. HAD do.
bounced 9the sencroac hmentS Of nea
nocracy In d stump speech tnade
from the bench of the Supreme
court .At least TINT was the reason
Judge Randolph and the friends OF
President q 81 / etferson6h Ind him impeach.
ed. " n
Most elaborate IN ere the surround
!ngs of tho impe achment. Washing,
ton was then little bett Sthan i des.
crit The Capitol was not hair tinisis:
ed Thomas Jefferson was IND aapos.
Ito the civil life me eyaagclist OF
republican simplicity % hnye
looked into 4 the Senate chamber
when Justice Chase appeared al the
bar one would have though of she
H6use$of5 Commons and Warren Has.
tings: The Senators sat On benches
with crimson velvet hans ings d tenn
porary semiclrcnlar Gal ety drapesl
front and seats Iii green had been
hastily! built Two triblnes pphoi.
stored inS blue velvet were provided,
lone for the manage EZRA on the mart or
the House and the other for Justice
Chase and his council Nothing more
gorgeous had ever iScen seen before
or since In the Capitol, W.
To-day nothing Isl more common
place than the proceea ings in Judge
swayne9s IS case. Senator Plat pre-
Sides lnS a short coat. and scarcely q
half dozen Of senat tors sitting as the
court are m black There ii not the
slightest attempt at pomp and cere;
monyss md everyone seems 10 feei ia
advance that Judge swayne, after
tiresomc trial wilI MD acquitted.
Justice Chase. VINO has the distinc.
ton q being The iirst man ever I'm.
peached$ I'M the United States. appears
to 1--we been the original apostle or
the strenuous life. His father was Il
Clergyman, but young Chase from bis.
boyhood seems To have been an
gressiyes fighter hIasylander; born
In Somerset county lie became the
leader; OF the friends Of liberty m
that State, and he was one OF the
4 Ave delegates from Maryland 70 the
Continental Congress 81 MI He
took q very prominent part iii the
stirring days that ollowed, and ais he
grew older he appears constantly TO
have grown more; aggressive, In
4 1924 heSwas chief justice Of lhe Gem
e Ell Court sfs Mary iand There had
been a riot I'm altinpre, and GhIef
4 Justice Chase had ora ered the arrest
Of two Sof the ring leaders. The sher.
In was afraid to arrest them, and
sd Sd reported toS Chief Justice Chase
Summons e posse ordered MI.
4 Chase.
Sir replied The sheriff no one
will serve: Y
II
Then SUNNI ns me ordered the
4 Chief Justice. q viii lie your posse.
The sheriff sWores AZ the Chief Jns-
4 tice and thereupon Chief IuatIco
1, Chase marched With Me sheriff 70 the;
two men whose arrest he hid order
ed, and taking each one of them by
! the cuff of the NEE hauled them
bodily to- the jail.
year or two before Istratton
sold his famous Inde dependence gold
mine to q British indicate for si1
4 0oo,ooo2l went through the fsine with
4 StrattonS and his supe tendent !.
said Senator Teller, 81 Colorado a
4 few avs IA 20 S het,s .,ys i,nd finish.