The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-30
MADE Him JUDGE
PICKS JUSTICE WOODS FOB FED.
ERAL BENCH
ADMIRABLY Qualified

appointment Gives General Satisfac
tion-Was Endorsed by Both Sena
D tors and All the Members Of Con
ress From South Carolina-Grad
uate Of WofEord College.
The Washington correspondent o:
The State says when President viii.
SON sent the nomination of Charles A
Woods OF Marion, associate justice o!
,the South Carolina supreme court, tc
the senate Thursday afternoon fol
confirmation as to the successor tc
Nathan Goff, Judge Of the Fourth
United States circuit court. there was
general satisfaction expressed there
not only by South CaroGnians who
knew Justice Woods, but by others
who know Of his high standing and
legal attainments.
OF the members OF the South Caro-
Hna delegation in congress who have
spoken for Justice Woods there was
but one opinion-that the president
could not possibly have made better
or more satisfactory appointment.
They have worked for him from the
start and never ceased to believe that
he would receiveethe Endorsement Of
President Wilson, as the matter ter
minated Thursday, when his nomina-
ton was made public.
Senators Smith and Tillman said
yss little to make public re-
garding the matter, since Justice
Woods was 50 well and favorably
known that anything they might add
would be unnecessary. It is agreed
z that the president has made an e1-
ce1ient appointment.
Charles Albert Woods was born at
Springfield, Darlington county, July
81, 1852. His father was Samuel
Alexander Woods and his mother
Mrs. Martha Jane DuBose Woods.
Justice Woods childhood was
spent in Darlington. In the fall Of
1858 he entered Wotord college,
from which institution he was gradu-
5 ated in 1872. Having decided upon
: the law las profession, Justice
Woods began to prepare himself for
the bar while teaching school at Wes-
ley Chapel school house, near Oar
slinston. AT the end of June OF that
year (1s73J he entered the law@of1ce
OF Warley & Dargan, where he pros
ecaHed his legal studies. In Septem-
Z Der, 1873, he was admitted to the.bar.
He then took up his residencefat Oar
Hngton for the practice Of law. In
1875 he formed partnership with
Capt. McIver, later chief justice Of
the supreme court Of South Carolina,
to practice at Marion. From the
time of Justice McIver's elevation to
the bench in 1877 until February,
1908, Justice Woods practiced law at
Marion. He attained distinction In
his profession and built up a large
and remunerative practice.
In 1903 Justice Woods was elect
ed to.fin the unexpired term Of Asso-
cia&e Justice 7. ]. Pope, who was
elected chief justice. He was re-
elected in 1904 for the full term OF
3 eight years and again reelected In
1912 for the full term Of 10 years,
the tenure Of Office having been ex-
tended by the legislature.
Justice Woods was married IN
December, 1884, to Miss Salley J.
Wannamaker of Orangeburg County.
Through ali his life a busy man
and greatly engrossed with the prac-
tiee OF law, Justice Woods has never
theless found time for the cultiva-
ton Of the humanites. He has al
waxs tesS.-a a 6roa0 Il csi EST in educa-
rional affairs and for a number OF
years served as trustee Of Winthrop
. college. He is now trustee OF Wo1-
ford college, his alma mater.
In 1902 he was unanimously chos-
en- president Of the University OF
South Carolina, then the South Caro-
lima college. This honor he declined
saving with characteristic modesty
that his training had not been such
az, to qualify him for such response
BILE position.
Justice Woods was president OF
the South Carolina Bar association IN
1902. The degree Of LII. D. has been
conferred upon Justice Woods 0y
both Wofo.i and the University OF
sonth Carolina. Justice Woods has
freouently been requested to make
addresses upon occasions OF public
interest. BY special invitation ne DE-
liyered an address at the university
or Wisconsin in April, 1911.
OF his qualifications for Office Gen
n r. Brooks, clerk Of the supreme
court, who has had the opportunity Of
observing many lawyers and judges
saws in his South Carolina Bench anc
Bar:
"Justice Woods combines many at
tributes of the great judge. Hill
knowledge of legal principles IS ootf
accurate and profound, his sense o
iustice acute and refined, and his ad
ninistration of the law fearless an'
impartial. Every case that comes u
him is examined with most painstak
ing care. so conscientious is he, ant
such his conception Of his high ofhce
but when his mind is once made VI
he marches straight to the goal, seek
ing to establish his conclusions ooti
by reason and by authority. In pre-
pairing his opinions he takes noshln'
for granted but leaves no stone un
turned in, his endeaVor to supper
reason by authority and precedent
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