Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-16
CORDIAL WELCOME
WATTS FOR STIMS0N
Henry |. Stimson Will As
sumo Portfolio of War
Vacated by Dickinson


NEWARK. n. j.. May 13.-President
Taft, here as a guest at the 150th an
niversary banquet of ST Johns lodge
of Masons. had a chat with the new
member of his official family, Henry L.
stimson. in a reception, before the ban
quet tonight Mr.. Stimson. whose APP
pointment as secretary of war was an
nounced yesterday, was in a line of
guests at an informal function held in
the home of former Gov. Franklin Muir
ray. of New Jersey.
Welcome to the cabinet family"
said the president. as he shook hands.
"rn give you your first assignment
now" he continued. GAS the baby mem
Der of the cabinet, it win be your duty
to speak before the Intercolonial club in
Boston on May "a on the subject of
Canadian Reciprocity"
Mr.. Stimson told the president he
would be in Washington on Monday to
take the oath of Office.
Masonry" said the president in a
short speech, ''aims at rne promotion
of morality and higher living by Guilt
walton of the social side Of man. the
rousing in him of the instincts of char
ity and the love of his kind 1t rests
on the foundation of brotherhood Of
man and the fatherhood of God"
Representative Mccall, of Massachus-
etts, who spoke at the banquet, came
out flatfooted against the recall of
judges. He said the referendum and re-
call raised the issue between direct
government and representative govern
ment. Experiment in direct democratic
government, he said. has been tried UNI
der favorable conditions and among the
most intelligent peoples that ever ex-
listed.
SUCH a government, he said, has re-
Elected the popular passion rather than
the settled public opinion, and general
ly has shown itself tickle and unstable.
AGAINST JUDICIARY RECALL.
NEW YORK, May 1s.-President
Taft came out publicly tonight in most
pronounced fashion against the recan
of the judiciary. In his speech at the
hotel Astor before the conference on
reform of criminal law and procedure
the president made his attitude plain
Most of his speech had been devoted to
comparison, highly unfavorable to
this country, of the judicial systems
of Great Britain and the United States.
He lamented the tendency manifested
even in England. but more particularly
in this country, to put limitations on
the power of the judge.
"And now" he said, mot content
with reducing the position of the judge
to one something like that of the mod
orator in a religious assembly or the
presiding officer in a political conven-
ton. the Judge is to be made still less
Important and to be put still more on
trial and to assume stiIl more the char
acter of a defendant by a provision or
law. under which, If his rulings and
conduct in court do not suit a small
percentage OF the electors of his dis
trict, he may be compelled to submit
the question Of his continuance on the
bench during the term for which he
was elected to an election for recall in
which the reason for his recall is TO be
included in 200 words and his defense
there to be equally brief
"The statistics which show the
crimes that go unpublished in this
country as compared with those in Eng
land. said Mr.. Taft, ARE starting
and humiliating to any son OF America
who has pride in his fellow country
men as a law abiding and law enforc-
ing people.
''Wherein is the great difference
then between the effectiveness OF the
two systemsg j believe it to exist in
the character. experience and learning
of the pudges, in the power which
they maintain and exercise in
the course of the trial for the saving
of time and the simplifcation OF. the
issues"