The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-26
PARKER BITTERLY
SCORES ROOSEVELT
DECLARES Ex-PRESlDENT SHIFT.
ED RESPONSIBILITY OF
EVILS TO COURTS

Columbia. $. G., Jan. 26.---Judgc AL
ton b. Parker, of New York, who once
contested the presidential election with
Theodore Roosevelt. delivered an ad :
dress i'm this city last night before the
South Carolina Bar Association, In
which he expressed himself as oppos-
ed to the recall of the judiciary, and
took exception tn some of the criti-
cisms of the bench made in the past
by Mr.. Roosevelt.
He said In part:
'If put into practice and carried to
Its inevitable conclusion, recall OF
Judges is the substitution Of popular
opinion for legal procedure-it is JUS
tice-or injustice mcted out not ac-
ccrding to the law of the land but
according TO supposed public senti-
ment Recall of judges spells i'm the
ultimate result a recall of the judi
cial system and the substitution of a
vigilance committee
Never before, think. in the his
tory of civilization. has any blind lead
G. of the blind advocated as progress
i've a return to the chaotic conditions
inherent i'm administration OF justice
by caprice rather than by the rules
of law.
"The, recall of judges, however Is
but the first step towards the cherish
ed goal Of the leaders of the movement
against the judiciary. Their ultimate
aim is the recall Of the power by the
courts to declare void such lcgisla-
tive acts as arc forbidden by the con-
stitutions. state and federal
Scores the Es-President.
what has hapuened of late To lead
so many to favor stripping the mem-
bers of the judiciary of their indepeni-
ence and shearing them of the power
10 enforce the constitution? Surely
the judicial standard has not been low
cred of late. The cause of the change
I'm nublic sentiment then is not to be
found I'm the lowering of the judicial
standard. IL had its beginning daring
the incumbency of the last president
More combinations To restrain trade
and prevent competition came into ex-
istence during his incumbency of the
Office than i'm all our previous history
when the protests of the people
against the rising tide of higher prices
beran To- be heard. he sought with ms
accustomed political shrewdness 10
shift the responsibility from the shout
doris of his party. To that end he In
,eipbeJ against one impotcncy OF the
a aw and the wcll-meaning but fossil
lied of mind Judges laying the re-
snonsibilitv of our evils to the law
and it's ministers.
..Iyas ever accusations moro unjust!
From whence came the special prlNl-
leecs against which protest is raised
From the courts? No. not In - single
instance They came by statutes pass
cd by legislative bodies and In most
instances. approved by chief execu-
tives.
"The reports which came to him OF
the effect of his campaign against the
judiciary enabled him to go out of OF
ace fully appreciating that through his
skill his administration and his party
had escaped. for a time at least the
responsibility which was justly theirs.
What his present motive may be we
need not conjecture.
peoeivine the uninformed.
"His grievance Is that the decisions
are in such fagrant and direct con-
tradiction 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 constitution but according TO the