Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-08-26
JUDGES SHOULD Be ATTENTIVE
Evils Of Legal Argument Based Upon
Miseoneeption Of Testimony Depre-
Gated by Justice Carpenter, Who
Says Courts Should Encourages
Counsel to Make Fair Statements
(By Associated Press,

LIE lhOll, MILL, aug. 1o.-l DC
evils of legal argument based on mis-
of testimony we're touched
upon In the address tonight of JUS
tice William L. Carpenter, of Michi-
gan. on Courts of last appeal" be-
fore the American Bar Association
now In annual convention in this city.
AS remedy Justice Carpenter urged
judges to assume q more attentive at
titude in court and encourage lawyers
TO make fair statements.
The address OF Governor Augustine
Wilson. OF Kentucky. on the People
and their laws" was the leading
feature Of the days program.
Governor Wilson. in choosing as
his text the opinion of the United
States Supreme Court in the case OF
Crowley against Christensen, that
liberty is not unrestricted license TO
act according to ones own WILL" en-
tered into an exposition OF the Ken
lucky character and the causes which
led up to the recent might riders
troubles in that state and in Ten
nessee.
kiu-klux and Toll Gate War. .
Reviewing the hold which the Kiu-
Klux and toll gate wars had on Ken
tuckians, he led up to the tobacco war,
which produced night riding and
this he reviewed at length. He
sketched the raids of the tobacco law
breakers on Hopkinsvill.e Princeton
and Russellville. KY, and read the
chief Justices admonition to the peo-
pie you had better burn every bard
in the commonwealth than with up
lifting hand in the jury box profane
your duties and render an unjust YER
diet in the name of the law"
The governor told how. this chief
Justice, at a conference which MT.
Wilson, had called of the tobacco
growers and buyers had deprecated
the use Of soldiers in the might nd
ing troubles. declaring that you
cannot push an idea through aa
Anglo-Saxon's head with bayonet
Governor Wilson told of the raids
which followed this meeting, the barn
burnings and of the one Kentucky
night riding murder, that Of Hiram
Hedges, a farmer. who was killed one
night before his door in Sfcho9
county. He gave the wording OF the
od-curdling night rider oath ana
read from some OF the appeals which
he said had come to him frS<right-
ened Kcntuckians.
Militia Poweriess.
fIns
had been limited to furnishing known
offenders
In all OF the time OF the tobacco
war. in only a few cases mad Juries
been found that would return incict-
ments against their neigbbcrs who
had done the night riding. He said
that no; more than 900 miiitiamen had
tried to hold back 10.eoo organized
night riders during the entire trou-
Bile.
MY promise to the people that
they would need no lawyers II they
hurt any one IN defense OF their
home was kept said the governor.
~and there viii be no pardons for the
crimes Of piIiagc, plants Graphing.
burning and organized murder but
now the people are coming into their
own. and I look for trials ahd corslc-
tons. 4 rare thing ND TO this time Inc
politician who parieys with crime n
straight American state like kentuc-
XIV. viii be rebukcd instantly, and woe.
viii come to him.
viii Re Punished IN Time
L believe that there can be no -
ncwai Of the trouble The night
riders are stil UNPUBLISHED. but no
statute q limitations protect f6em-
The nurderers Of Hirsm Hedges are
sin at large. but the peoples ia0 VIA
punish the criminals In time.
meeting q the committee On
patents. trade marks. and copynEn.
Law was held this afternoon X vas
recommended that the BIZ Tor The e.
tabIishncns u United states court
Of patcnf appeals. and for other pur-
toscs. nov awaiting enactment -
Congress. received the fuli stteDtioa
a shc committee and scfive support
Tor is passaec.
The BIN has been pending about