The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-31
Jones CASTIGATES
Conner FOR SPEECH
Delivered as Baccalaureate
at Greensboro
TO VENT RABID HATE
Says Former Governor Seized Upon
Sacred 0ceasiOn tn Poison Minds
TO VENT RABID HATE
Says Former Governor Seized Upon
Sacred Occasion to Poison Minds
of Youth About the
Nations Courts

Montgomery, July S0.-(Speoial.) -United
States Judge Thomas G. Jones today Is
sued the following statement in pamphlet
form:
July 20. 1912.
Where God hath a temple, the devil
will have a chapel Thus saith the pro-
verb, and the Church Baccalureate at
Greensboro Commencement is another
example of its truth.
1.-THE university is a great contribution
of the Methodists Of Alabama to the
training of youth. 1t teaches the duty and
happiness of obedience to God and His
commands. reverence for the laws and
institutions of our county, devotion to
truth and justice, and love of our fell
low man. It is in truth temple of
God.
I'm the closing hours of one of the best
years of its work, youth rained in its
walls, about to leave them forever, met
to receive the parting counsel and blessing
of teachers, and the fluctuations of par
ents and neighbors and friends. The as
sembage told of the joys Of youth, the
high hopes and aims of ingenious, young
manhood and spirit of conservation to
the things which lift men along the path
way of life, closer to God and nearer their
fellow man. All hearts and minds were
filled with the beauty of the picture re-
Elected from the living canvas that day,
when the graduating class took it's place
for the closing exercises. The simple maj
esty of the scene put afar off from men $
souls all ignoble or bitter thought, and
bespoke peace on earth and good will to
man.
Splotched Canvas With Daubs
''Then, came an invited guest, with the
din of loud cries proclaiminS the coun-
sells of the Evil One. and destroyed the
sweetness of the hour, and splotched the
canvas with daubs of hate. Ignorant OF
reckless of the sacredness IF the day. he
seized the occasion to parade the audi
ence faculty and students as n mere bacl,
ground for the better setting of stage
from which to vent his rabid hates, and
pour out venom against the honor of a
court and the character of n judge, that
both might fall victims to the ignorant
passions he evoked. For the first time.
the counsels of Envy, hatred. malice and
all uncharitableness, entered the gates of
the university and polluted its precincts
ON commencement day.
Nothing escaped the scorn, the hiss
and the slime of the passions coled In
the baocalaureate. Its endeavor included
in its sweep every art and suggestion
which could appeal TO credulity, hate and
~ to
cept the truth OF the unthinkable asser-
tion that the nobless court on earth, pre-
sided over by Marshall, fancy and White.
to which we are indebted for complete
state autonomy and the preservation of
our very civilization, at a time when the
passions of the civil war demanded the
sacrifice of both. and we were helpless,
Is now debauched temple Of justice,
whose Judges minister at its altar as the
servants Of the special interests. 1t
sought to have the audience believe that
the President of the United States prosti-
tutes his high office and appoints judges,
at the behests of wealth and power, who
withhold justice from the poor and favor
the rich. 1t taught that the administers
ton of Justice by our state Judges was
such that they should be subject to recall
instead of Impeachment, when charged
with wrong doing, and invoked approval
for that plan 10 murder the fearlessness
and independence Of judges in the execu-
ton of the laws of the land II taught
the shameless doctrine thta u is the duty
of judges to decide cases so as to give
the people what they want. because they
want 1t. regardless of the checks and
limitations which the rule Il the people
itself has Embedded in their constitution
for the protection of the individual in the
the enjoyment Of life, liberty and prop
erty, and the solmen oaths the people
themselves have exacted of their judges
to maintain the fundamental law.
Condemned Motives of Judge
1T urged the youth OF the land to take
the Judgment seat and them pollute ii. by
condemning. in ignorance of the law and
facts of the case. the justice of a decree
and the motives Of a judge. IL hacked
with poisoned dagger at the character OF