Johnson County Review. (Cleburne, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1901 Page: 1 of 4
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JOHNSON COUNTY REVIEW. CLEW
$olnw. Review.
h. d. McMaster,
City Editor.
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JUNE 7, 1901.
to be seen.
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The governor of South
Carolin:
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
b\ F3. BAILaIaIO, Prop.
Entered at the postoffiee Cleburne
Texas, as second class matter.
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Within the past forty years the
population of the United States has
grown from 35,000,000 to 80,000,-
000. And we are still growing at
the same old ratio.
Andrew Carnegie donated the
sum of $10,000,000 to the Scotch
for educational purposes: and if they
do not want it Cleburne will take it
and will be very, very thankful for
it besides.
A Chicago negro wants to raise
$12,000,000 from the negroes to
build a monument to former gov-
ernor Tanner of Illinois, because he
authorized the raising of a negro reg-
iment to be officered by negroes for
the late war with Spain. It will be
all right if the fact is also chiselled
on the marble that Tanner refused to
let negroes come into Illinois a few
years ago in search of work in the
mines.
j Jefferson was even willing
j war to get.
sion does what it started
There
gubernatorial
bees in Texas
From some criticisms of the recent
decisions of the Supreme Court in
the Porto Rican cases, there is no
longer any doubt on the part of even
the most rabid anti-expansionist that
“we have already expanded.”
The South will not become repub- j the publishers,
lican in a hurry. In-the first place,
the negro is not eliminated from
politics by any means; in the second,
he may return: and in the third, the
South prefers to remain democratic
anyway.—El Campo Eagle.
Judging from the number of men
surrendering in the Phiilipine Is-
lands, the insurrectos must have had
a very large army or else the Filli-
pinos are foolishly fond of playing
at the fascinating game of surren-
der.
JUDGE BURKE DEAD.
A Judge R, E. Burke, representative
in Congress, from this district, died
his home in Dallas, Tuesday, as
the result of a stroke of paralysis.
In his death this district loses one of
the very best, most tireless and con-
scientious representativesitever had.
partial immunity from the
who are so anxious on the slightest
provocation to avail themselves of
law • long ago
are to be photograph-
security to the
when one of
a great
stand
and
of Senators Tillman and McLauri:
but Tillman insists that the governor
has no right to refuse to accept his
resignation and that he will not with-
If he will only persist in
c state of South Carolina
will be entitled to the congratulations
The United Presbyterian church
has voted that no member of a se-
cret society can be a member of that
church. That will prove tougher on
that chucrh than on the members of
the secret societies.
Advertising rates made known on
application.
Bank clerks :
ed as an additional
public. Hereafter,
them absconds, it will be
pleasure to the depositor to
in front of the picture frame
make a few remarks.—Globe Demo-
crat.
of, but have never possessed. Let I,ication was by no
us compare for a a moment the limi- to heaIthy public
■ tations on each.
Lord Cockburn said: “Comments cIa88 an^ perhaps should^
on government, on ministers, and of-
ficers of state, on members of Parlia-
ment, on judges and other public
functionaries, are now made every
day, which half a century ago would
have been the subject of actions or
ex-officio informations, and would
have brought down fine and impris-
onment upon publishersand authors.
' et who can doubt that the public
are gainers by the change, and that,
(though injustice may often be done,
The Cubans are reported of the
opinion that the acceptance of the
Platt Amencfmeht by the Cuban
Constitutional Conyention indicates
the annexation of the" Island by the
worse f^f WMUj
fully and fairly all public and quasi
public meetings. When this is done
along stride will be taken in the
right direction and corruption and
corrupt men will not brazen their
way in our public places.
been treated so harshly, but^B
remains that in all essentiW
press of monarchical Britain is^B
today than the press of republB
America, ^®
Let us hope that it will not alwa®
be so,butthat we may get after awhil^
to where England now is in the matter i
of libel legislation and that in the
interest of the public good the press
of the United States, of Texas at the
very least, will be given greater lib- i
and though public men may often ert^ tban novv eDj°ys, and at least I
fellows (
It is given out by the United
States that Cuba shall adopt the
Platt amendment without any quali.
iications or reservations.
THE MOTE AND THE BEAM.
We can nearly always see the mote
in our neighbors’s eye much better
than we can see the beam in our own
eye. Some of the tail twisters of the
British Lion have uncorked the vials
of their wrath on account of the re-
Subscriptiou, Per Year, Si In Advance, ported confiscation a few days ago
of the entire issue of an Irish paper
which was said to be loaded with
scurrilous attacks on the King and
the Government of Great Britain.
That is all right as far as it goes,
though it is now said that the King
has disowned and repudiated the
acts of the Cro vn’s officers. But the
British publisher and the British
press enjoy a measure of freedom
the American publisher and the
American press may have dreamed
of, but have never possessed. .
A \\ icked fellow suggests that
the people of South Carolina are giv-
en the choice of choosing between a
Populist and a Republican in the
candidacy of Tillman and McLaurin.
Being Democrats the people of South
Carolina should retire both and elect
men who are sure enough Demo-
crats.
of any matter of public ®
whether the admission the^H
general or restricted, is pi®
unless it be proved that such®
or publication was made mal®
ly.” ®
Only a few years ago, a certaB
per in the UuitedStates.and whicM
circulated in Texas, was supprJ
by being refused admission tol
mails and by a prohibitory tax lev!
bn its sale by a number of; cities t
states; and it was apapertihat sha
have been suppressed. Several j
er publications have been®
as suppressed by being c®
mission to the mails on o®
or another, or by
levied, and yet no
been indulged in, ,
me a®
mora^H
the Irish paper did not cc®|
The St. Louis Republic says: “Al-
though our Constitution was not
made to fit a colonizing era, a Dera
ocratic national victory would extend
its American aspect.”
J. Hamilton Lewis, custodian of
the splenetic eyed gorgon of imper-
ialism, is playing solo in affection-
ately nursing the Hill-Johnson pres-
idential boom.
sense
criti- |
the provisions of a law-long
discarded by monarchical England to
capitalize a portion of their charac-
ter. Of course the politician, whose
| character is spotted, and whose con-
duct is reprehensible, does not want
his record ventilated and so would
muzzle the press. But the public is
entitled to know what their servants
are both saying and doing; and thus,
in the interest of public welfare, the
press should be privileged to report
There will be no “nigger” in the
political woodpile of Alabama if her
contitutional convention now in ses-
out to do.
was never such a swarm of
and congressional
as at this good hour.
How many of them will hive,remains
have to smart under the keen
of wrong inflicted by hostile
cism, the nation profits by public
opinion being thus freely brought to
bear on the discharge of public du-
ties.’"
The English courts decided some
years ago in fayor of the right to
publish parliamentary debates, even
though the reports might contain li-
belous and defamatory matter, on
the ground that the advantage there-
from to the public outweighed bv
several times the occasional hardship
to the individual. Fair reports of
judicial proceedings are privileged in
England, the court holding that “not
because the controversies of one citi-
zen with another are of public con-
cern, hut because it is of the highest
moment that those who administer
justice shall always act under the
sense of public responsibility.” “And
for this purpose no distinction can be
made between a magistrate with dust
on his shoes and the House of Lords
sitting at a court of justice. It
would thus appear that the English
press has reached a condition of free-
dom not perhaps enjoyed by the
press of any other nation on earth.
Now for the American side:
Only a few weeks ago a district
judge in one of our Northern states
denied to the press the right to pub-
lish the proceedings of his court in a
a criminal trial, and the Supreme
Court of that same State refused to
granta writ of mandamus applied for
The courts evi-
dently did not consider the proceed-
ings of courts privileged matter.
Our courts in their ruling in cases
of libel have always refused privilege
to reports of public meetings, of any
nature whatsoever, and the publisher
who reports the proceedings of a
city council, of a political meeting,
or of any other kind of public meet-
ing, does so at his peril, if the reports
repeat any libelous or defamatory
expressions on the part of the actors TT ■> a
in said meetings. The fact that the ! 01 6 . tates" A.
reports are fair, honest, and correct/ L e beautlful IslaH
will not avail in defense, though it'
might mitigate the damages. For
the claim is, that by publishing the
statements of the speakers the news- has ref:sedT;aee7pt^«:8i~’
paper makes them its own and most of Sen£tors Ti|lai^ ,nd
answer therefor as though it had . • ...... Laurin,
originated the libelous or defamatory
matter.
The English law on this latter draw it. I
point is that “any meeting bona fide this the the
and lawfully held for a lawful pur- i ”
pose foi the furtheranceor discussion of everybody
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McMaster, H. D. Johnson County Review. (Cleburne, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1901, newspaper, June 7, 1901; Cleburne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1223534/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Johnson County Historical Commission.