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NUMBER ‘IHIMY
NASH BROYLES—TEARLESS RECORDER
Heroic 'Record of Usefulness to the Credit of Stallvart Young Jurist Whose Unique Ability and Fidelity Habe Won
For Him a National Reputation.
TLANTA numbers among her celebrities
one of the most unique and heroic city
recorders on the American continent.
We call his name, not because it is nec
essary, (for he is almost as famous as
Atlanta herself), but because it stiffens
the backbone and gives to the heart
what the maiden-in-love called a “thrilly
sensation” just to mention the name
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of Judge Nash Broyles. Atlanta’s heroic Recorder
comes from sturdy stock. His father, Col. T. N.
Broyles, was a clear-headed lawyer of the “Old
School” —a man of marble integrity and royal heart,
while his good old mother, refined in nature and con
secrated in heart, believed in her boys and taught
them that she would rather they would “be right
than be President.”
The editor of The Golden Age remembers how these
devoted parents used to come to old Crew Street
School on opening and closing days to give their en
couragement to their sons and their blessing to the
teachers of Arnold and Nash Broyles.
It was not too much to expect that such devotion
to such boys would find its reward in seeing Arnold
Broyles quit legislative halls to become such a popu
lar clerk of the court that nobody has even opposed
him, while Nash Broyles lias made such a spotless
and inspiring record in Atlanta’s civic and judicial
life that we frankly believe nobody ought to oppose
him for a dozen years to come.
Nash Broyles Has the “Know How.”
An old darkey said he didn’t charge a dollar and a
half for killing the calf —he “charged fifty cents for
the work and a dollar for the “know how”.
Nash Broyles has the “know how” when it comes
to being City Recorder. He can dispatch more busi
ness and do it better, we verily believe, than any
other mortal who ever sat on a city Recorder’s bench
since Columbus discovered America.. And the wis
dom and efficiency of his work is not marred, but
rather heightened, by the unfailing good humor,
quaint verbage and picturesque mannerisms that at
tend the rendering of his decisions.
Whether the smirking darkey from Darktown knows
him as “Jedge Briles”, or the sinning son of wealth
feels the weight of the Law as it falls in becoming
dignity from the lips of Judge Nash R. Broyles, the
audience never knows a dull time while “Justice is
with Mercy blent” and the majesty of the Law is
gloriously sustained.
There is within his bosom such great kindness of
heart that when he must impose a severe fine for the
sake of the public good he seems akin to Judge Jona
than Haralson, of Alabama, who, it is said, used to
sentence a man to be hung in such gentleness of
tone and manner that the condemned man felt that
the Judge was conferring a favor upon him.
The Scotch Bard said of his father that “e’en his
failings leaned to virtue’s side,” and while it may be
said of Atlanta’s Recorder that “his failings lean to
ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 15, 1910.
Mercy’s side” the “hand of oak in the glove of velvet”
is felt by the offender whenever the good of society
demands it. The truth is, Atlanta would hardly seem
like Atlanta without Judge Broyles and his “Police
Matinee.”
Broyles For Governor.
Seaborn Wright, the eloquent Roman, recently said
before a wildly cheering audience in Atlanta, that the
grateful people of Georgia would yet “rise up and
make that great young man Governor, because of
what he has done, and is doing for the wholesome
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enforcement of law.” But of course such a fearless
stand against wanton wickedness has made him ene
mies until the real heart of Atlanta can say of Nash
Broyles as was said of Grover Cleveland: “We love
him for the enemies he has made.” Judge Broyles,
being the friend of all law, stands valiently, of course,
for the enforcement of the prohibition law.
The recent change in Atlanta’s way of choosing
all city officers, making the Recorder’s office elective,
gives Judge Broyles his first contest before
the people.
Naturally, several ambitious young lawyers have
taken advantage of this opportunity, and the battle
is on.
This story is not political, and Nash Broyles, in his
modest, open spirit, does not dream that it is being
written, but we are frank to say that for Atlanta s
sake at home and abroad all-comers (present and
prospective) would do a patriotic duty and render
themselves immortal if they would resign in Nash
Broyles’ favor and give the best people of Atlanta
their real opportunity to unanimously indorse at the
polls the brave and fruitful record which Nash
Broyles has made as the friend of humanity and the
friend of law and order.
Nash Broyles to the People.
His announcement for public indorsement is such a
characteristic and patriotic pronuncimento that we
give it to our readers in full, believing that the battle
of Atlanta’s famous Recorder will hold interest for the
friends of law and order far and near:
To the Citizens of Atlanta:
T hereby announce my candidacy for recorder in
the primary of October 20, and my platform can be
stated in five words:
The enforcement of the law.
That this is not a platform to catch votes with
merely, like platforms often are, I point to the rec
ord I have made on the recorder’s bench. I have
tried, on the average, something like 1,200 cases a
month —sometimes over 200 cases in a single day
and, with but a very limited time to give to each case.
I have doubtless made some mistakes. No human
man could try so many cases and not make some
errors; but I have conscientiously striven in every
case to sift the wheat from the chaff, and to give to
every man, woman and child who appeared before
me a square deal.
1 have always given the accused the benefit of any
doubt, and I have never imposed a fine on any per
son unless I was convinced that under the law and
the evidence he was guilty. And 1 can say another
thing: When, under the law and the evidence, I be
lieved a man guilty, no matter how rich or influen
tial he might be, he got the punishment that he de
served as quickly and as certainly as though he was
a man without a friend or a dollar. In police court
the guilty “all look alike to me”. Nobody has had a
“pull” with me. All have taken their medicine out
of the same bottle and the same spoon. While this is
true, I have used a proper discretion in my judg
ments, and in deserving cases have “tempered jus
tice with mercy,” as the records will show. Indis
criminate and wholesale mercy, however, will destroy
justice and paralyze the strong arm of the law, which
is the only protection society has against murder and
disorders of all kinds. The greatest menace today to
our American civilization, as all thoughtful men real
ize, is the inadequate and feeble enforcement of the
law. There are more crimes committed in one year
in Georgia, or any other one American state, than in
all England in five years, and the reason is that in
England the law is enforced and in our country it is
not.
I can say with justifiable pride that so far as my
feeble efforts have gone I have done my small part to
ward improving this unfortunate condition of affairs.
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