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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1910)
More Goods for Same Money Same Goods for Less Money The Jackson Mercantile Cos. Proprietors of “THE STAR STORE,” Jackson, Georgia SILK WAISTS and SUITS We have on hand about —-48 Beautiful Silk Waists In the following colors—Gray, Gun Metal, White, Rose, Pink, Navy, Light Blue and Black. This season’s goods and sold for $5.00, for the next few days will sell for $3.75 ——2s Silk Dresses In the newest shades, priced from $12.50 to $20.00 we offer these dresses at a discount of 25 pep cent. Come and see them. REMEMBER JACKSON’S GREAT CHAUTAUQUA iiTERESTING FACTS ON THE JUDGE’S PRESENT RACE Spalding County has Fur nished 7 of the Judges of Superior Court. Monroe 3, Upson 2, Butts 1, Hen ry 1, and Pike None Now ihat Pike county has a candidate tor Judge, of the Su sperior courts of the Flint Circuit, ,t will prove interesting to study the record of the past showing what counties have furnished ;he Judges, and for what length * f time. The circut was organized in 3824. Pike county has been in iie Circuits all this time, 86 /ears, and has never furnished a • fudge nor a Solicitor-General. Every other county of those; now composing the Circuit, ex cept Fayette, has furnished r Judge, and some of them have had several: besides, nearly all •of them have also furnished a Solicitor General. It will be borne in mind that Fayette county has "been in the Circuit only about ten years, and she now has the -Solicitor-General. All the other six counties have been in the Gircut since its cr .ganization, and during this en *tire period Spalding county has had 7of the Judges, who held the office for 26 years; Monroe ■has had 3, who held the office for 12 years; Upson has had 2, who 3*eld the office for 5 years; Butts ■has had 1, who held the office 4 years; and Henry has had 1, who held the office 12 years. Since the Democrats recovered -control of the State from the Re publicans, on January 1, 1873, BUTTS COUNTY PROGRESS, JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1910. the Circuit has had the following Judges: lion. John I. Hall, whose term began January 1, 1873; he lived at Thomaston about one year and then moved to Griffin. He continued in the office nearly i five years longer and resigned. Hon. A. M. Speer, of Griffin;, ! was then appointed. He re mained in the office about two years, and was elected Justice of the Supreme Court. Hon. John D. Stewart, of Griffin, was then appointed. He served a little over five years and was elected to Congress. {lon. Jas. S. Boynton, of Grif fin. was then appointed. He served a little over seven years and resigned. Hon. J. J. Hunt, of Griffin, was then appointed. He served nearly two years. Hon. W. M. Beck, of Butts county, was then elected, and served nearly four years and re signed. N The present incumbent, lion. E. J. Reagan, of Henry, was then appointed, and at the end of his term, January 1911, will have served a little over twelve years. Thus it will be seen that Spald ing county, during the past 37 years, has had 5 Judges, who held the office nearly 21 years of the time, while the other 6 coun ties combined have had only two Judges, who held the office only sixteen years. Besides this, during the same 37 vears, Spald ing has had 2 Solicitor-Generals, Monroe has had two, Butts coun ty has had one, Henry has had one. Fayette has had one, while Pike has had neither Judge nor Solicitor-General. During said period of 37 years, Spalding has had more than Does it appear unreasonable that Pike should now claim something? About 86 years' waiting and helping all the other counties to get offices, ought not the others help her now to get a little slice? Fair-minded m'H all over the Circuit will recognize her claims. Could any claim be stronger? Even our go.od neighbor, Spalding, after having had so many of the Judges and Solici tors- General, and for so long a time, must recognize the strength of our claim, and in all fairness, should support our candidate in stead of urging one of her own sons for the place. Ought she not rest for a little while and let old Pike have just one little nibble? Of course it may be said that the rotation rule does not apply to the Judges. This is true, and still. where the county has never had a Judge and all the others have had from one to seven, fair-minded men every where will look with favor upon the candidacy of the man pre sented by the lone county. Assuredly such candidate should be a man of character and ability and fitted for the place. As to this point no person will raise any objection, for every man in he Circuit who knows Judge Dupree, the candidate presented by Pike county, will admit that he is in every 'way well qualified for the place. Amo‘ng those who know him no man is more popular. All acknowledge his fine character, judicial temperament, kind na ture, impartiality, firmness, and unyielding resistance to wrong twice as many Judges as all the other counties combined, and has had the office for nearly 21 years, over half the entire time, and obedience to truth and right. His long experience as County and City Court Judge has given him much valuable experience in trying and decid all kinds of cases, and the fact that the people of Pike county, almost to a man, are his friends, demonstrates the fact that he has decided those cases in an I able and impartial manner, and | indicates the way in which he ; would fill the more important office to which he now aspires. Without disparaging m the least the character or ability of H! 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We present him to the voters of the Circuit with the assurance that, were he as well known to the voters of the other counties as he is those of this county, his election would be practically unanimous. -- Pike County Journal.
