The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-04-01
And, in closing his address,

little verse which has seemed to me-
very appropriate as wreath SYM
bolicallt to lay upon the great mans
tomb-for in many respects he was
a great man:
mild and gentle, as he was brave,
When the sweetest love of his life he
gave
To simple things; where. the vioiets
grew
Pure as the eyes they were likened to,
The touches of his hands have strayed
AS reverently as his lips have prayed;
When the little brown thrush that
harshly chirred
Was dear to him as the mockingbird;
And he pitied as much as man in
pain
A writhing honeybee wet with rain.
Think of him still as the same, I say,
He is not dead-he is just-away.'
Usually defence like that Of Sen
ator Taylor is met with the statement
that the cries of the widow and or
phans of the victims of the defendant
are heedlessly disregarded, and that
the law lies PROSTATE, and calls for
vengeance. Of course there are those
who must have meted out to them, for
the protection Of society, tie severest
penalty of the law, and one, in order
to carry out the spirit of the Consti-
tuition, must TRULY see that "the laws
be executed faithfully in mercy" but
I will venture the belief that the par
don record of Governor Taylor did not
count against him on the day of final
judgment.
South Carolina has in times past
experienced extreme views by the
chief executive against use of the par
doning power. 1t might not be in bad
taste to compare the pictures. A for
mer governor of this State was APP
preached by a solicitor of one of the
circuits with the statement that a
negro had been wrongfully convicted
of manslaughter; that the negro had
pleaded guilty on the advice Of the
gentlemen he was working for, with
the consent of the solicitor, and in in
vestigating the matter afterwards the
solicitor learned that the deceased did
not die from the blow inflicted but
died from tuberculosis. The solicitor
stated that the negro was guilty Of
assault and battery but said he felt
the negro had already served suf11-
cient time for that offense, and he
asked that this former governor par
don the negro. That governor re-
fused, and the negro served out his
time, l suppose did not hear of the
case afterwards.
All this has nothing to do with
Solicitor Cooper in the Marshall case,
but this train of thought was suggest
ed by the criticism of the solicitors
course in that case, which criticism
have felt to be unjust to the solicitor.
The whole matter is in somewhat edi-
torial vein, and may not be permissi-
Bile under the strict rules of news
paperdom, but is given for what it is
worth, and may be taken in the same
way.
Columbia is a pretty city in the
spring. There are some beautiful shade
trees on the streets here, and they
show off Columbia to advantage at
this season of the year.
There is always street work going
on here, however, and it never seems
to be finished in any part of the city.
A Job is started somewhere and LETT
and another job started somewhere
else, and the streets are continually
torn up and in mess.
The Hon. Otto Klettner, of Newber-
ry, has been appointed by Governor
Blease one of five delegates from
South Carolina to the Southern Con-
ference on Woman and Child Labor,
In be held at Meridian, Miss, on Mon
day and Tuesday, April 1928. The