The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1912-03-21
Dinner to Judge Jones.

room of the boys hall of the Car
Isle Fitting School last Friday even
ing, Immediately after Mr.. Jones had
delivered a lecture at the school au-
ditorium to the students, the dinner
being rendered this distinguished
visitor by the business men of the
city, who were anxious to do honor
to this able and just judge and to
hear him speak.
The dinner was magnificent one,
and there has never been served a
better one here. The menu was most
| tempting, and it was most elegantly
prepared and we'll served. The ar
rangements for the dinner were un-
der the supervision of Mrs. jose
phine Beach, the popular matron at
the boys hall, and all of us felt that
we would not mind but would rather
be glad to be school boys again if
we could attend a school where the
welfare of the boys was looked af-
! ter so well.
| After the dinner had been taken
ir," as Toastmaster Guilds so aptly
expressed it, short addresses were
made by B. D. Carter, Esq, and DR..
| Geo. F. Hair. The remarks Of DR..
Hair in regard to the benefit the
school was to the town and the ne
cessity for larger and improved quar-
ters for the students were especially
| timely, and it is hoped that some
thing definite will come of his sug-
gestions later on. For some time
the board of trustees have felt the
pressing need of a new brick dormi-
tory, and it is their intention to COM
mence such a campaign this fall if
nothing prevents.
Judge Jones was then introduced
by Toastmaster Guilds as the
Statesman without a job" and he
was told that he was turned loose"
and could talk just as long as he
wanted to and on whatever subject
he pleased. After few pleasant re-
marks and some rich anecdotes, the
Judge took up the subject of law and
order and discussed three points:
the appointive power of the COVER
nor, the power of veto, and the par
doning power. He made one of the
strongest presentations Of the duties
and responsibilities of public SER
want that we have ever listened to.
His arraignment of the administra-
tion of the present governor was
unkind, yet he did not use an
unkind word or make single per-
sonal reference to the present chief
executive. Those partisans who think
that the coming campaign is going
to- be bitter personal one should
have heard Judge Jones. If there is
to be personalities in the campaign
they will not come from him.
Even one not in favor of the can
didacy. of Judge Jones could not help
but be impressed with his true patri-
otism and love for his State, as well
as his sacred regard for the duties
and responsibilities of public posi-
ton. He said that no doubt some of
the pardons issued by the governor
were deserved, but pleaded for JUS
tice for the bereft woman and the
children in the home made desolate
by the murderer's bullet. Who hears
their bitter cries for the husband
and father so foully done to death?
He said the governor posed as an
economist and had publicly stated
that any negro who laid his hand on
a white woman should be put under
the sod and the quicker the better,yet
he had vetoed an appropriation for
S41.85 to pay a special judge who
had tried a negro rapist in Columbia,
the crime being a most heart-rending
and shocking one, and on the other
hand had stated that he would ap-
prove a bill appropriating 100000
for improvements to the present
State house. The speaker said he
would veto bill calling for such an
amount for these improvements, for
it would entail too huge debt upon
the taxpayers for something which
he did not consider absolutely neces-
sary. He believed in efficiency of
government and favored such appro-
priations as would make for real ef-
ficiency and economy in the conduct
of the peoples business but not in ex-
travagant appropriations for luxuries
Judge Jones had the sympathy and
support of his audience, composed of
about seventy of the most prominent
citizens of the town, as was shown
by the hearty applause which greet
ed his utterances during the course
of his speech and at it's close