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VALDOSTA, UA. t TUKSDa'V,
THE VALDOSTA TIMES.
A PHIL 23, 1011,
4 The Unwritten Law Unmasked. 4
4 “I will here add that to the 4
4 thoughtful* citizen one of tho 4
4 moA danserouB ovli 8 menacing ^4*
^ our Institutions is lawlessness 4
4 The mob executing In wild dia- 4
4 order its- victim and the intflvid- 4
4 ual wreaking his own revenge 4
4 for wrongs real or imaginary, 4
4 the man or interest
* Duty Stands Above Sympathy. 4
4 "I have profound sympathy 4
4 for the family of the unfortu- 4
,4 nate man who is the subject 4
|4 of tills decision -there Is in 4
4 their condition and In his a 4
4 pathos which awes the heart 4
4 and stills tho tongue—and I 4
4 hold in high respect the impuls- 4
4 es of many valued friends who 4
4 have appealed for a pardon In 4
4 the case under review; but sym- 4
4 pathy and personal friendship 4
4 have not the right to supplant an 4
m. oath-hound duty to execute tho 4
^ tfPiat of 04orgia. 1 c* 111101 sac_ *
4 rifice nty'obligation to the laws 4
4. upon the altar of emotionalism. 4
4 By the test of such cases, there- 4
4 fore, we must say whether the 4
4 Constitution is of force or 4
4 whether It and the statutes are 4’
4 meaningless."—Gov. Brown, in 4
4 the Stripling case. 4
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Farmers Free List Strikes
Duty Off of .One Hundred
Important Articles.
One of Atlanta’s Oldest
Members May be Sent to
Prison for Drunkenness.
Governor Brown Refuses to
be Governed by Sentiment
in Enforcing Laws.
A Bill Will be iajjgfehiced to
Change thwMethod of
Trying Lunacy Cases.
treating 4 j
with contempt tho laws of the 4
land an dtruutisg to gold or 4
“ifcfuence" for safety are strik 4
ing manifestations of this spirit 4
of lawlessness. 4
"That which is peaaed to robe 4”
itsel(f in the euphemism,*' tho 4
unwritten law," when unmasked 4
presents the hideous features of 4
anarchy/’—Gov. Brown, in the 4
Stripling case. 4
Washington, April 24.—The big
tariff battle began this afternoon
when the house took up tho farm
ers free list bill, striking the duty
off of more than one hundred arti
cles.
The' debate is expected to last one
hundred days or more- j
The Canadian reciprocity bill was
received In the Senate today and
was referred to the finance commit-
teen which has not yet concurred,
owing to the .troublo between the
stand-patters and j>rogreB8ive re
publicans.
The meaayjre will likely not bo
reported ijljUnSuSiBPQP for two 7,r
three weeks, or more.^'*—*-
Credentials to Senator Bryan, of
Flor*da; end Kenyon of Iowa, were
presented, they taking their oath.
Atlanta/ Hk'n, Cfrjynjyr
Jos. M. Brown has declined
prove the recommendation of the
prison commission for a pardon for
Thomas Edgar Stripling.
With almost merciless logic he tore
to tatters every bit of tenable
ground upon which the lawyers ana
frienda of Stripling had builded the
plea for executive clemency.
That Governor Brown arrived at
hia conclusion only after most ex
haustive, the most thoro ugft e
most searching Investigation and
study is amply evidenced. Weeks
ago h© spent aeveral nights reading
and digesting the testimony and re
cords of the trial i n!897 It is to bo
doubted if anyone of tho attorneys
engaged in the caso gave it more
profound and painstaking study.
Following the hearing before tho
prison commission Governor Brown
spent a part of ten evenings read
ing every shred of matter submitted,
which was* an herculean task, for
the material would' have almost Ail
ed a hamper basket. I
Then, after the lawyers had again
threshed out (ho case before him
last Monday he hag given a week of
profound thought to a complete re
view of tho entire case. It is prob
able that no governor ever gave any
case.more exhaustive study That he
arrived .it his conclusions after tre-
hufndoUs mental strain Is evidenced
by the exhaustive manner in which
he has gone Into reasons for declin
ing Stripling a pardon.
This document will stand as a
classic in Governor Brown’s^ state
papers, because of Its cogent reason
ing its clear analysis of the case, Its
high conception of duty, and for
murage In ruling against such an
overwhelming mass of sentiment
^.—Protesting
ftgalnst tfcf Georgia system of trying
supposedly insane peoplo by Jury, a
bill amending the presentt law on the
subject will be Introduced in the leg-
isature this summer.
Georgia Is one of only seven
states in the union which still retains
tho system of Jury trial for lnsano
people. The amendment will also
seek to do away with the present
system of confining 'iwane people in
county jails' for as longSs ten <1a**
after they have been declared in
sane, before sending them to tho
state sanitarium.
The bill provides that tho ordinnry
of the county In which the alleged
Insane person lives shall appoint a
commission of two or three regular.,
licensed physicians to fill out a fore
mutated blank, convey th|« blank to
the ordinary under signature and
oath, and that the ordinary shall
then pass upon tho same, and If
| justified commit tho alleged Insane
| person at. once.
A trial by Jury, however, Is re-
Iserved if the alleged Insane person,
his relatives or his friends demand it.
lanta send one ot her city council-
men to'So chaingang for hfbltual
drunkenness*; Tho question has
been put up to tho city government In
a way It can't dodge, by a peculiar
series of (Jrc'umstanees.
Dr. S. D, Warnock, a highly re
spected physician and for years a
member of the council from tho 4th'
ward, waa arrested about three
months ago on ancggrirmt0U»rharg<i
of drunkenness. It appeared thaf
President Gompers Says Fed
eration Will see That Ach
cused get Fair Trial.
Valuable Books From the
Library of the Late Robert
Hoe are put on Sale.
MINISTERS ARE NOMINATED
President Taft Sends Names of Now
.Ministers to Senate.
■Washington, April 24.—President
Taft sent to the senate today tho
Boutell, of i
New York, April 24.—The sale of
tho great library collected by the
late Robert Hoe, to which book col
lectors and dealers throughout the
world have 'been looking forwartl
with eager Interest, was commenced
today at the rooms of the Anderson
Auction Company In this city.
The library comprises 16,000
ihooks and manuscripts and It Is ex
pected the sale will bring tho high
est aggregate totals of any collection
ever sold at auction, not only- In
America, but in the world. The
most notable work In the collection
Is tho celebrated Qutenberg Bible,
the first book printed from movable
type, and probably the last vellum
copy that will ever ibo offered for
sale.
It Is In two volumes ln'-contempo-
rary oak boards, covered with pig
skin. This famous work was sold
In London fourteen years ago for
920,000, and those familiar with
such books place Its valuation today
at no less than 940,000.
nomination of Henry
Illinois, as Minister to Switzerland;
Edwin Morgan, of New York, Min
ister’to Portugal; and L. V. Swen
son, of Minnesota, os Minister to
Norway. )
Old Atlanta Phyalelnn Then Marriott
a Girl of Seventeen.
Atlanta, Ga„ April 24.—With one
wife only six week* In her grave. Dr.
Thoa. H. Cqx,a well known prartb--
iljig pKi^lclanfo! this county »i.u t
'between 60 and 60 years of ar\ line
! Just been married by a justice of
tho peace to Miss Tolbert, a pretty
soventeon-year-old country girl, tho
daughter of a neighboring family.
Tho romantic wedding was a sur
prise to the friends of both rontracl-
lng parties. It wob performed at
the Fulton county court hou'ss, im-
Cumberland, Md„ April 24.—Ten mediately after the license had been
en wore ontombol by a dust ex- procured, by Justloe Edgar H. Orr,
oslon In the coal mine near Elk whose office la In the 'basement of
irden, W. Vn., today. It Is feared that building. Dr. Cox and his bride
at all havo porishod. will continue to reside here.
'&k n Xff* nn ' r * Q g°. and
InT Wnrihock, wjth a petition
'Icon -. netting forth that
■ r v chan been "perpetually
since the tlmo of that trial,
time he has
ON CHARGE OR PERJURY.
lnnoci
to Havo Perjured Herself. ,
Atlanta, April 24.—A one armed
white woman, Mrs.' Eva Warren,
will be tried -for perjury in the
criminal court today, as the result
of evidence sho gavo In a recent
blind tiger case, before the re
corder.
She gave’testimony that would
have sufficed to send ten men to the
cbalngang, but It wa« proven, appa
rently, that what she said was tm-
true. Tho solicitor general hopes
to secure a straight conviction and
send her to the penitentiary,
and that during the
treated her With cruelty,
(Mrs. Warnock declares that her
husband baB become more and moro
enthralled by alcohol, and has
let bis once splendid practice slip
from jh1» grasp until now practically
nothing of It Is left.
10 ENTOMBED IN A MINE.
I Turps Market Today,
rannab,' Oa„ April 24.—Turpen-
Is Arm at 71c, rosin 7.85 to
iso under review; but sympathy
ad personal friendship have not the
ght to supplant an oath-bound duty
> execute the laws of Georgia, I
innot sarlcAce my obligation to the
ws upon the altar of emotionalism.”
Governor Brown says that 8,000
■onle signed the petition for Strlp-
ig'e pardon but had 1t been 100
meg 8,000 It would not served him
om bis conception of bis duty In
a case. . v
"One of the most dangerous evils
snaring our Institutions 1s lawless-
88,'■ declares the governor. "The
lb executing in wild disorder Its
■n revenge .for wrongs, . real or
aginary, the man or lnterect treat-
; with contempt the laws of the
id and trusting to gold or ”ln-
ence" for safety, are striking
nlfeatatlons of this spirit of law-
sness.”
‘Above tho rolling tide, and ob-
ring fog of sympathetic pleas
I emotions we cannot fall to see
rock of th6 record which shows
t Thomas Edgar Stripling, by a
y of his peers. w*e convicted of
murder of a fellow man” con
ics the governor, “that ho after-
•ds violated a second law of
■rgla by breaking Jail and fleeing
another state, and that, someth
in the complications of his crime,
own brother-in-law, Terrell Huff,
cent to the penitentiary, within
eh he was confined at hard labor
I. through doubts as to his guilt, <
was set free n recommendation
he prison commission, I greatly ]
et, therefore, that under the eon- i
ins- I do not feel Justified in la- I
Arrest of McNamara and
Others has Changed Feel
ing, Says the Detectives.
McManigal’s Confession has
Been Flashed to all Sec
tions of the Country.
ritoner on Way to Los
Angeles Predicts Train Will
be Blown up on Way.
Tiffin, 0„ April
Burns,
John
-Detective
the arrest of
and James McNamara, Orto
and two others, declared today that
the reign of terror under which
Chicago, April 24.—While copies
ot the astounding confession, which
la said to have been made by
McManlgal while he waa held as
a prisoner with McNamara, la closely
guarded enough Information was
flashed to the police of large
cities, where dynamiting has occur
red, to give valuable aid for new
arrest! which are expected.
McManlgal la. reported to have
confessed that one hundred and
twelve deaths have occurred and
Kansas City, April 24.—Absolute
secrecy os to all of the movements
ot McNamara and other prisoners
passing through'here this morning
was preserved.
The prisoners were being carried
through here to Los Angelo#-where
they are being taken to answer the
charge of blowing up The Times
building some months ago.
The prisoners were locked la state
rooms and tho curtains were drawn.
Absolutely'no communication with
them was allowwd.
(The detectives aboard the train
•ay that McNamara declared; "The
officers will never get us to Loe
Angeles I wtll die a martyr to
unionism."
McNamara Is said to have added:
"This train will either be wrecked
or blown up before we reach Loe
IS Y0U&
MEDICINE
CASE WELL
5 SUPPLIED ?
The country will be startled
when the story becomes public,- said
Detective Burns. No false moves
will be made.
It Is alleged that stupendous plots
have been revealed.
Are You Ready for
Emergencies?
If one of your famly should be severely burned do you know what to
dot Are you prepared for sprains, bruises, cuts, and the thousand and
oat every day accidents that seem so trivial and yet may nut he la the
long run.
We will be glad to help yon select a few "emergency aids." tell
yon how to nse them, and the cost Is so small compared to their Importance.
It’s 1 hardly worth. mentioning. Sooner or later the time Is sure to come
whoa you will be thsnkfnl you took our advice.
law. Is fined once for opprobrious
language (profanity) and once for
violence, toward yet other men. But
this Is Stripling's record since be
killed Cornett. I do not say that he
was not within the scopo of his du
ties In each ot the tragic Incidents
marking bis career since he fled from
the etate; but I submit that they
Impair the power to claim that his
life In. Vrglnla Is above suspicion
and per se entitles him to a pardon
in Georgia."
Three American Soldiers Were
Among Those who Perished.
Manila, April 24.—Fifteen per
sons, Including three American sol
diers. were drowned'when a steam
launch was foundered
No Tract Derisions Today.
Washington, April 24.—No trust
decisions were handed down by tbe
superior court this morning though
several Important derisions are look
ed for at any time.
Ingram Drug Company
Cor. Hill Ave and Patterson St.B
off Cavite,
Government tugs are searching for
the bodice.
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