Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1905 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

An Accused Judge. Judge Charles Swayne, judge of the United States court for the northern district of Florida, whom the house of representatives has voted to impeach, must be tried by the senate, before which body the case will be presented by a .committee from the house. Judge Swayne was accused of improper conduct in a number of cases, but the house committee selected for presentation the charge that he falsified his expense accounts. The impeachment of a federal judge is most unusual, but four having been tried since the founding of the republic. In 1803 Judge Pickering of New Hampshire was removed for being drunk and using profane language on the bench. In 1804 Judge Chase of Pennsylvania was tried upon semipo-

lltical charges, but uot removed. Judge Peck of Missouri in IS3O was charged with arbitrary and illegal conduct, but not convicted. In 1801 Judge Humphreys of Tennessee was removed for repudiating bis allegiance and accepting a Confederate commission. Judge Swayne, who is a native of Delaware, studied law in Pennsylvania and was admitted to the bar. He went to Sanford, Fla., in 1885, where he practiced law until appointed to the bench in 1889, his appointment being confirmed the following year. Judge Swayne is sixty-two years old.

Ade’a First Fable. George Ade has in bis possession a number of school exercises that he wrote in his childhood. “One of these exercises,” he said the other day, “was about a river near the school. The teacher told us to incorporate in a composition three pieces of information about this river. I wrote’’— And Mr. Ade took out a pencil and scratched on the back of an envelope: “The river. I have lived near it 1 have Baled over it. I have fell into it. Packs!”—New York Tribune.

Collector of Charleston. Dr. William Demos Crum, who has been thrice appointed collector of the port of Charleston by President Roosevelt, is a well known colored man in South Carolina and a close personal friend of Booker T. Washington. Mr. Crum was first appointed in January, 1903; but, the senate failing to confirm him as collector, the president renewed the appointment during the recess of congress. Mr. Crum was a student in the junior class at the University of South

Carolina when the state passed into control of the Democratic party In 1876. He was forced to leave, as were all the colored students, and Crum matriculated at Howard university, Washington, and began the study of medicine. He graduated in 1880 and returned to Charleston to practice his profession. His wife is a daughter of Ellen Croft, the octoroon slave of Alabama whose escape from her owners, with her black husband, excited much interest in this country during the civil war. Mr. Crum’s grandfather is said to have been a German, and his family has been free for several generations. He Is about forty-five years old.

JUDGE CHARLES SWAYNE.

DR. W. D. CRUM.