The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-26
PARKER OPPOSES
 RECALL OF JUDGES Takes Exception to RoOse- yelt's Criticisms of Bench ACCUSATION UNJUST
Says More Combinations to Restrict Trade Came Into Existence Dur ing Roosevelt's Administra-
 ton Than Ever Before

Columbia, S C.. January 25.-Judge Alton B. Parker of New York, who once contested the presidential election with Theodore Roosevelt, delivered an ad- dress in this city tonight before the South Carolina Bar association in which he expressed himself as opposed to the recall of the judiciary, and took eXcep- ton to some of the criticisms of the bench made In the past by MT. Roose- welt
 He said fin part;
 If put into practice and carried to it's inevitable conclusion, recall of Judges is the substitution of popular opinion for legal procedure-it Is jus tiee or injustice meted out. not accord ing to the law of the iand. but accord ing to supposed public sentiment. Re- call of judges spells in the ultimate re- suit, recall of the judicial system and the substitution or a vigilance com mittee.
 Never before, 1 think. in the history of civilization has any blind leader of the blind advocated as progressive d return to the chaotic conditions inner ent in administration of justice by caprice rather than by the rules Of law.
 First Step Only
 "The recall of judges, however, is but the first step toward the cherished goal of the leaders of the movement against the judiciary. Their ultimate aim is the recall of the power of the courts 10 declare void such legislative acts as are forbidden by the constitutions, state and federal.
 What has happened of late to lead so many to favor stripping the members of the judiciary of their independence and shearing them of the power to en- force the constitution? Surely the ju dicial standard has not been lowered of late. The cause of the change in pub lie sentiment then is not to be found in the lowering of judicial standards. It had It's beginning during the ineum bency of the last President. More com pima tions 10 restrict trade and prevent competition came into existence during his incumbency Of the office than in Iall our previous history.
 1ousASs sosse,elt
 ~ ban fhe protess of lhe people nss asg tiie rising tis of higher prices beesn to be heard, lie sought with his laeoastomed political shrewdness to shift responsibility from the shoulders of his party. To that end he inveighed against the impotency of the law and the well meaning but fossilized of mind judges, laying the responsibility of our evil state to the law and it's ministers.
 Was ever accusation more unjust? From whence came the special privi- leges against which protest is raised? /? From the courts? No, not in single instance They came by statutes passed by legislative bodies and in most in- stances approved by chief executives
 The reports which came 10 him of the effect of his campaign against the Judiciary enabled him to go out of of fee fully approaching that through his skill Nhis administration and his party has escaped, for time at least, the responsibility which was Justly theirs. What his present motive may be we need not conjecture
 His Grievance
 His grievance is that the decisions are in such fragrant and direct contra diction to the spirit and needs of the times II means to his multitude of readers that courts should decide, not as the people have commanded in their