The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-10-01
NOW AND THEN

The Raleigh News and Observer Of
recent late in speaking of the railway
rate case, said:
When Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, cir
| cult judge, etc, of the United States
| court, spent good money Of the gov
eminent to travel via the Southern
| railway from Asheville to Raleigh and
return for the purpose of issuing a
writ Of habeas corpus for Tom
Green's release and concluded that he
had better return to Asheville without
issuing it, was the general impression
that the Judge was d gentleman of
discretion.
terday, where Mr.. Jake Long Of
Alamance county and others were
cited to p and show cause why
they should not be enjoined from pro-
ceeding against the North Carolina
railway for a penalty denounced by the
legislature for violation of a state law,
the o appearance of the respon-
dents should have warned Judge
Pritchard as strongly as the fact hat
Judge Long was h custodian of Tom
Green seemed to give him pause.
In reply to this the Asheville Ga
zette-News said that circuit court
judges are allowed only expense money
when they attend the sessions of
the circuit court Of appeals at Rich
mOnd and hat when going to Raleigh
in the railroad case Judge Pritchard
incurred considerable expense, which
came out of his own pocket-a journey
that was made simply in the hope of
being able to check a further defiance
of the law. That paper further says
that lin fact when Judge Pritchard
went to Raleigh to keep Josephus
Daniels out of Jail he incurred the
same personal expense. We do not
hear anything these days from The
News and Observer about that trip
of Judge Pritchard 1t does not crit
him for spending good money
of the government" on that trip to
he capital though that trip was of less
to the general public than
was the one he made later in order
% try to prevent a conflict between the
state and federal courts. In the former
Ease his visit was in aid of a single
individuality keep a certain ipdivid-
lal from being sent to Jail, whose i'm
would have meant nothing
anybody in the state except himself
his immediate family. We do
suppose a half dozen people in the
state would have cared whether Mr
Daniels went to Jail for thirty days
IT whether he was given his discharge !
" Judge Pritchard. He tried to make
t appear at the time that a great {
was involved but we do not ,
hink many people were fooled by his {
against Judge Purnell. At
my rate there was no talk in his s
paper ABBOTT expenditure of good {
government money" by Judge Pritch- l
I'd when he came all the way from r
Asheville to Raleigh to keep Mr.. s
Daniels from taking a seat behind the f
'ars for thirty days. That federal
Judge was a big man in the eyes of :
he News and Observer editor in those S
avs. He was a man who knew the p
aw and who was honest enough 20 c
nforce it as he knew it to be. How f
lfferent it is now. According to that I
he has not an honest bone in his =
1hole body; he is simply a hireling
I the railroads, to make legal decis- J
MS at their command. Brother Dan b
els had better be more careful. He k
light be hauled up again for contempt p
court and Mr.. Pritchard might not I
e willing to keep him from going to t
fact he might think it would "
e for the good of the state for that II
entleman to spend thirty or sixty fl
avs in involuntary retirement. n