The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-02
!. RAJ
COURT in
SESSION

ficiais II attendance Among
there are United States District At
torney Reese Blizzard, First Assist
ant +. NJ. ShowaIter, Clerk Dellick-
or ana Moore. United States
Marshal c. d. Elliott, Deputies G..
N. Shrewsbury and E ID. Hupp
and others.
The grand jury was organized as
follows:
Z. G. Young, foreman; c. NJ.
Whitescarver, L. Z. Stout, *. b.
Crawford, :. s. Faris. b. B. Stout,
Taylor Ward, John S. Stout, viii
f. Cupp. w. II. Glover, Page Nc
Crum, Fl. II. Lewis. Charles s.
Smiley, J. d. Holsberry, r. b. Rex
road, Moses Sinclair. Edgar NJ. Poe,
". A. Sheets and David Davidson.
Judge Dayton then delivered an
elaborate, careful and particular
charge 10 the grand jury. character
istic Of his pronounced views of the
subjects dealt with and at times
quite eloquent in the emphasis of
more important features. A large
and Interested crowd listened at
tentively to every word the Judge
uttered
The charge dealt with the grand
jury. its powers and duties, the
national laws. whose endorsements
are with the federal courts, such as
the monetary system, the postal sys-
tenn. interstate commerce and the
internal revenue laws. Judge
Dayton thought in this age of
mighty progress and development it
was right that men should pause a
moment and think. Men should
realize that these prosperous condi-
tions depend on few, great funda-
mental principles of the Reprblic,
and that men honest with them
selves, when they compare these
with the conditions of other conn
tries. will thank God they live in
this country. Judge Dayton de-
clared there was nothing equal to it.
No other country is so supreme IN
intelligence and civilization,
and it all depends on the foundation
of government, namely, obedience to
law, respect for the courts, etc.
Judge Dayton asserted that law
is the very guiding star for the pro-
lection Of property, The star that
means the protection of life and the
FORMULATION of peace ana hapPi-
ness. He here showed by illustra-
ton how in our slumbers the thin
pane Of glass protects from the
murderer, the robber. the thief in
the night time. by the law with all
its powers and penalties standing
strongly by. That law with all its
power, force and penalties says thou
shalt not steal, kill or rob the man
there sleeping.
But behind the law must stand
public sentiment,
He then impressed on the jurors
minds that law will be no stronger
than the public sentiment. All
who enforce the law come from the
common citizenship, all who make it
come from the same source and the
courts themselves are from that
source, too, and no court can adj
minister a law that is not upheld
by public sentiment.
Judge Dayton here vey severely
condemned lynching and deplored
the fact that in some places public
sentiment was so low as to forget
that the laws punish for even the
worst of all crimes. 1t is the duty
in instances of this kind to uphold
the law and not to forget it as pub
lie sentiment so often does.
Next Judge Dayton pointed out
to them where they as the grand
iurv was the most independent body
in the nation as well as the most
powerful. The President may be
impeached. the high mp in Office
turned out, judges driven from the
bench, but there is no power by
which any one can force or compel
the grand jury or prevent it from
indicting persons shown to he reas-
onabIy guilty of violations Of the
law. The acts of judges can be re-
viewed and revised by higher courts
but the grand jury is free from all
such restriction and Limitation. sub
ject indeed, 10 nobody and NO
power. The origin and history Of
the grand jury system was here in
terestingly reviewed, and it was
shown that the principles upon tho
system was founded go back to the
Mosaic law,
Judge Dayton expressed detesta'
ton for anarchy and all those pecul'
lar beliefs and motives that lead tc
it. And has just as much hatred
toward those who just n step re
moved want to deny citizens Of The