The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-26
Former Presidential Candidate Tells
Lawyers Movemet is Bad for
Country
SAYS COLONEL IS RESPONSIBLE
Oyster Bay Resident Started Agita-
tion, Speaker Claims, TO Get
From Under

Columbia, S. c., Jan. 25.-Judge
Alton B. Parker, of New York, who
once contested the Presidential cleo
tion with Theodore Roosevelt, deliv-
cred an address In this city, tonight
before the South Carolina Bar AS
ISOLATION In which he expressed him
self, as opposed to the recall of the
judiciary, and took exception to
some OF the criticisms of the bench
made In the past, by Mr.. Roosevelt.
He said In part:
III put into practice and carried
to It's. inevitable conclusion, recall
OF Judges Is the substitution of popu-
lar opinion for legal procedure-it
is ifstice--or injustice meted out
not according TO the law of the land,
but according to supposed public
sentiment.
Would Substitute Vigilantes.
Recall Of judges spells in the ul-
innate result a recall of the judicial
system, and the substitution Of a
vigilance committee.
Never before. | think, in the his
tory of civilization, has blind lead
er of the blind advocated as progress
siye return to the chaotic condi-
tions Inherent in administration Of
Justice BY caprice, rather than by
the rules of law.
'The recall of Judges, however, Is
but the first step towards the cher
ished goal of the leaders of the
movement against the judiciary,
Their ultimate aim is the recall OF
the power of the courts to declare
void such legislative acts as are for
hidden 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 enforce the constitu-
tion. Surely the judiciary standard
has not been lowered of late.
Roosevelt is Responsible.
"The cause of the chcnge In pub
lie sentiment is then not to be found
In the lowering of the judicial
standard. 1t had its beginning dur
ing the incumbency of the last
president. More combinations to re-
strain trade and prevent competition
came into existence during his in
cumbency of the office than In all
of our previous history.
When the protests of the people
against the rising tide of higher
prices began to be heard, he sought
with his aeustomed political shrewd-
ness to shift the responsibility from
the shoulders Of his party. To that
end, he inveighed against the i'm
potency Of the law and the well
meaning but fossilzed- -of-mind
judges laying the responsibility Of
our evil state to the law and its
ministess.
Accusation is Unjust.
"Was ever accusation more un-
just? From whence came the spec
ial privileges against which protest
Is raised? From the courts? no, not
in single instance. They came by
statutes passed by legislative bodies
and in most instances, approved by
chief executives.
"The reports that came to him.
of the effects of his campaign
against the judiciary, enabled him
to go out of office, fully appreciating
that through his skill his admins
tration and his party had escaped,
for time, at least, the responsible
ity which was Justly theirs. What
his present motive may be we need
not conjecture.
Should Decide With People.
HIS grievance lis that Ithe de-
cisions are lin such fragrant and di-
rect contradiction to the spirit and
needs OF the times 1t means to his
multitude OF readers that courts
should decide not as the people have
commanded In their constitution,
but. according to the notion OF him