The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-12-07
THE DECEMBER TERM OF
COURT CONVENED MONDAY
Judges Boyd and DOub Presid-
ing-Grand Jury Charge.

With Chief Judge A. Hunter Boyd
and Associate Judge Doub presiding
the December Term of the Circuit
Court for Garrett county convened at
the Court House in Oakland Monday
morning at ten o'clock.
Mr.. Chauncey E. Ellithorp, who had
been selected as foreman of the grand
jury when that body was drawn by
the Court some time ago, subscribed
to the oath administered by Clerk
Tower The other members of that
body were then sworn and Judge
Doub charged the jury as to their du-
ties, saying in part:
Gentlemen Of the Grand jury
you have been selected by the
Court for jury service for the reason
that the Court has every confidence
in your ability. You have all taken
the same oath to perform your duty
as grand jurors. If any member of
your body discIoses anything that
may come before you in your official
capacity and thus retard justice sari-
Gus difficulty may result. You have
been selected from nearly every part
Of the county and it is your duty as
grand Jurors to inform your fellow
members of your body Of any and all
violations Of the law coming under
your observation. fortunately, this
county, by report Of the States At
torney, is remarkably free of crime Of
the serious kind. The Court is graft
fed to know that in the industrial up
heaval which has been general in all
the land, that this county is free from
that source Of evil. The people have
been law-abiding and are to be con-
graduated.
"The Court asks your indulgence
while We read a portion Of charge
recently given a grand jury Of this
Circuit:
"It is now our duty to emphasize
this necessity Of maintaining the law
and its supremacy, because no Grand
Jury that has been called together in
recent years in this county has been
charged with more responsible duties
than those that now devolve upon you.
We have recently been passing
through an industrial struggle in
which resort has been had to different
forms of lawIessness and violence. 1t
is notorious that in our county CAL
legany) innocent men have been as
saulted; some have been shot, others
have been bruised, beaten and intimi-
dated, and many threatened with
death or bodily injury, and it is only
by good fortune that the rioting that
has taken place has not been attend,
ed by actual murder. We need not re-
mind you that the criminal laws are
not suspended merely because a group
Of men have for a time withdrawn
from the discharge of their industrial
duties.
1t is not for the Court or for you
to pass judgment upon the issue in
volved in the controversy between the
laborers and their employers, but we
are deeply interested in the mainte-
nance of law and order in this county
and the punishment of any and all
who have been guilty Of violating the
law. Only ceaseless vigilance on the
part of the officers of the law can
maintain peace and order, when the
passions of a part of the community
have become inflamed by the threats,
demands, hopes, needs and fears of
The contending forces at such a per
iod as this, and it will be your duty
to discover what offenses have been
committed and who committed them
and to indict any parties against
whom you have sufficient evidence.
No man and no group of men
have the right at any time, under any
circumstances, to lay their hands in
violence upon another except in de-
tense of person or property, and any
offender along this line is guilty of
assault in some form or other. No
group of men have the legal right to
collect together in numbers, and by
threats, intimidation or rioting, to de-
ter others from pursuing their limo.
cent occupations, and offenders along
this line, present, aiding or abetting
are guilty of a violation of the law.
"'It is the destiny of most men to
live by the labor of their hands or Of
their brains, and no aggregation Of
men have the right to intimidate them
IN their employment. Tragic results
have followed and are sure to follow
when men act upon the false assump.
ton that majority of group of en-.
ployes have the right, against the
wish OF the minority to determine
whether all shall work or all shall not
work. The criminal law does not re
spect persons, or classes Of persons
1t knowns no difference between EN-.
n1ovar and n,oplOve and thora ic M