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SOUTH BOUGHT, JURIST
STATES IN HIS CHARGE
Judge Johnson of South Carolina, Reveals Views From the Bench

WALTERBORO, S. C., June 14. (Special)—"If I had been in the national Democratic convention in Philadelphia in 1936, I would have walked out with some others," said Judge J. Henry Johnson, of Allendale, yesterday morning during his charge to the grand jury at the opening of the court of general sessions for Colleton county.

He referred to the fact that a negro had been asked to lead in prayer. He said that so far as he could learn the Republican convention was never opened with prayer by a negro.

Two things Judge Johnson said he believed in and about which he is a crank—state's rights and white supremacy. He said he feared the national Democratic party is trying to destroy these in the South.

He said the wage and hour bill in a few years will lead the South into bondage.

The anti-lynching bill is not an anti-lynching bill, he asserted, but an anti-southern bill designed to catch the vote of the negro up North. He contended that there is ample room in the country for both races, each operating in his proper sphere.

He charged that the southern Democrat had saved the party after the war, but that now there is danger that the Democratic party of the North will destroy it. He said that in these plain remarks he was trying to throw out some red flags to warn the people. The people of the South have been bought with a price, unfortunately too small, he charged. This is the first time the national government has done anything for the South, but even now the differential in favor of the North is out of all reason.

After making these statements, Judge Johnson said that he realized it might prove costly to him to be making them, and that he had no apologies to make for having spoken thus.

"If it be treason, make the most of it," he concluded.