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~ LOCAL NEWS.
‘Mr. Jack Mitchell was in town Monday.
Judge C. B. Avery wasin town Wednes
day. e £
Mr. I. Cook, is visiting Macon this
week, 4
Cptinty Commissioner Cocke was in
town Monday.
County Treasurer, Hall visited Arme
nia Wednesday. ;
Dr. Logan Thomas, of Armenia, was
in town last Saturday. '
Commissioners court was in session
here last Tuesday. -
Mr. B. F. McKenney was here from
Smithville Monday.
Mr. Lon Powell of Albany visited re
lations here last Sunday.
County jCommissioner, F. M. Mims
wasin the city Wednesday,
Mr. Nesbet, one of our prominent na
val store men was in town Monday.
Ordinary Edwards held his regular
monthly term of court Jast Monday.
* Mr. and Mrs. Rowe Price, visited Mr,
Julian Price near here last Sunday.
¥- : :
.qMr. J. S. Jenkins, superintendant of
e i Lamar farm was in town Monday.
fres
:I‘;‘. C. A- Rhodes, of Smithville, was
atten‘in\jxlg to business here last Monday.
_Several emportant items were unavoid
ably left ‘\th this week for want of space.
\
Mr. C. C, King, proprietor of the Mc-
Afee House at Smithville, was in the city
Wednesday., \ :
The board of reg?strors met last Wed
nesday aind prepared a list of the regis
tered voters. T eemm
Mr. D. Mims was in town Tues_da); and
while here placed his name on our sub
scription iist. '
Mr. W. T. Deraso was shaking hands
with friends here Tuesday. His name is
now on our subscription list,
Mrs. B. E. Powell who has been vis
iting her son in Thomasville for several
days, returned home last Wednesday.,
The editor of this paper is not running
politics to the extent of advocating any
one nian's cause, so far. as local affairs
are concerned, but will publish any comi
munication that is paid for.
Judge R. B. Russell, candidate for
chief justice was in town one day last
weak. While here he paid us a pleasant
call. Judge Russell is a first class gen
tleman and well qualified to fill the office
he now seeks.s
Mr, James Mofgau, Clerk of the Snpe
rior Court, has received a large mortgage
to be placed on record here, from the
Seabord Air Line Ry. Co., to the Conti
nental Tfust Co. and William V. Keytes.
This mortgage was given to secure a loan
of twenty million dollars, and covers 69
pages in pamphlet form.
In this lssue appears the annouince
ment of Mr. A. W. Godwin for tax re
ceiver. Mr. Godwin isa clever young
man and if elected will fill the office to
the best interest of the people. He has
many friends who will give him their
hearty support.
e ————
For Taxßeceiver.
To the Democratic voters of Lee coun
ty. I respectfully announce inyself a
candidate for tax receiver of Lee county
subject to the Democratic primary,
Your vote will be highly appreciated.
A. W, Godwin.
ABLE LETTER FROM
Answers Criticisms Of Those
Who Oppose Him.
PRESENTS CANDIDACY PLAINLY
Offers Best Years of His Life To His
State and Gives. Good Reasons for
His Candidacy for Chief Justice of
Georgia’s Supreme Court.
To the Voters of Georgia: fee
- Having complied with the rules and
requirements of the Democratic Statd
Bxecutive Committee, and the short
time intervening until the Primary,
rendering it impossible for me to meet
all of the people in persom, I Dereby
‘ formally announce to you my candi
dacy for Chief Justice of the Supreme
- Court. '
- The principal criticism of my pro
posed candidacy seems to have been
directed to the fact that I would be a
candidate in the primary for Chief Jus
tice, instead of Associate Justice,
and that such candidacy was In
the first place, contrary to precedent,
and in the second place that no Chiel
Justice should be opposed. These ob:
Jections have been pressed by numenr
ous lawyers and a few newspapers; as
to whether my honorable opponent en
dorses these criticisms I am not i
formed, and in the absence of this in
formation, what I shall say will be in
answer to these.
‘While in making legal decisions the
doeirine of stare deseisis should ge»
erally prevail, still I boldly avow my
the people (and not any special class,
calling or profession, of assumed supe
‘riority) shall elect the Chief Justice
‘and five associate justices of the Su
‘l premea Court.
[ With that provision lam in full ae
.gord. Nor have I any sympathy with
the doctrine, proclaimed by many
members of.the bar, that the incum
bent of the office of Chief Justice
should never be opposed. Such a fal
acy is in dircct confliet with the whole
theory of Democratic governinent..and
any attempt on the part of any dis
tinctive profession or segment of the
Democratic party to prejudge the
claims of fellow democrats in advance
of the election, and in a methed con
trary to party usage, is subversive of
party unity, and omnly promotive of
~class distinction,
| In a republic there is no office with
in the gift of the people that is above
or beyond their conscieantious judge
'ment, no title can be obtained that
is not conferred by their grace.
Developments cinee my candidacy
was first mentioned leave me the only
advocate of this doctrine now before
the people, and with the utmost confi:
dence I place myself unfiinchingly ud
on it Whaatcver thz result of my
candidacy, I will hold up bcifore the
youths of this £tate the lamp of hopa
to inspirs and guide their honest and
honoral:le ambitions yeers after my
body i 3 mouldering in the dust.
} The doctrine of some cf my oppo
nents would prevent any yocung man
from aspiring to the cffice of Chiet
Justice. My belief is that no office
‘ that in the selection of officers
people are, and justly should be,
muca less concerned with the question
of “precedent” than with the determi
nation of what is the best interest of
the State. It is known to every law:
yer that there is no authority or com
pensation appertalning to the office
Chief Justice which differs in any re
spect irom the duties of an associate
justice, save the preservation ot ordet
and the calling of the docket. As to whe
should first enter the Court Room, o 1
who should first bow, or first be seat
ed, are such minor questions of decor:
um that to offer them to the intelligent
voters of wrfigmwmgal rea
sons, 18 like unto a man heedlessly
throwing away his wheat and zealous-'
Iy preserving the ehaff. I
When the people of Georgia revoked
the agency they had conferred upon
the legislature to select the Suprema
Court, and resumed their sovereign
power in the premises, they declared
in emphatic terms their belief in the
reeponsibility of every member of -that
court to their will that there was
no precedence and that no greater de
gree of respect attached to that Court,
as servants of the people, than that
which might be due, (and which would
ever be accorded) to the incumbent
in proportion to his deserts. Every
judge should be independent, but there
is no independence so absolutely bold
and fearless as the consciousness that
every cuty, personal and official, has
been performed for the best inter
est of the people without any fear,
save fear of God.
1 do not know with what grace one
who does not believe in the Constitu
tion, or in any special part of it, can
swear to support and uphold it. The
Constitution now distinctly says that
is above the hopes and Lonorable ag
pirations of even cur humblest youth.
As to precedent; the President of
this union has theught it proper to
place as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States young men
fresh from the people, who had nevet
gserved a day as associate justices.
Georgia has har at least the first Chlet
Justice Lumpkin, Chief Justice Brown
and Chief Justice Bleckley, who were
appointed from private life; and while
I am aware that I am not worthy to
‘be compared to these great men, yet
these bits of history completely an
swer the argument that my election
would be unprecedented.
It is one of the unwritten principles
of Democracy that there shall be no
life tenure of office, that more than
one (of the De:mocratic family) in 8
life time may Lope to serve the State
in even the highest positions. This
principle is recognized in the constl
tuticnal provicion which restricts a
Governcr to two terms, and in the un
written law, which kas made it im
pessible for any man to serve more
than eight years as President.
It was endorsed by the voluntary
retircizent of Chicf Justices Warner
and Bleckley, as well as a number of
our zssociate justices. .
After eichtecn years of practice 2s
a lawyer, tollowed by necrly six years
upon the bench, I offer to your ser
vice the best vears of my life—the
prime and vizor of my manhood, men
tal and phvsicel. lam not unaware
of the lotty cuties devolving ‘upon
the incumbent of this office. lam
not in the slightest degree inconsid
erate of its weighty responsibilities. |
esteem it the highest office within the
gift of the pecpie of Georgia. But
I am thankful that I have the right
to ask, and that the Constitution o!
the State confers upcn the people the
power to give it; and I am embold:
ened (not only by a modest pride in
my record in the past, but by untco
licited testimenials from some of the
most distinguished men in the State,
who, for various . reasons, are now
properly supporting my venerable op
pouent), to believe that 1 have the
quality and capacity to discharge the
high trust I seck, not only with lasting
honor to myself, but to the best inter
est of the pecple of Georgia.
To those of my critics, who have
spoken about dragging the judiciary
in the mire of politics, I would say
that even a perscnal canvass can be
meade on a plain so high as not to de
base the candidate, degrade the officé
or debauch the people. A presentation
of one’s claims can be made to the in
tellect and not to the avarice or appe
tite of the voter. And while not deem
ing it improper to make a personal
eanvasg or to write any citizen (asg
suggested by my venerable opponent
in his announcement), I have nof
and shall not either make any mire o 1
throw any mud. iy ¢ S
The kindness of the people has glv
en me whatever little success I have
hitherto achieved. If my official con
duct has endorsed and justified their
confidence, I may be permitted to ask
them for this honorable promotion, i
I have not sustained their action in
honoring me, they have the right tc
deny my application.
Convinced that the voters of Geor
gia will act in the same manner in 4 °
employment of a public officer as ti
would in the private business wi !
utmost confidence I submit to you v
candidacy. Whatever your decisic?
I shall acquiesce most cheecfully.
elected, 1 shall enter upon the di::
charge of my dulles as your servan..
owing o allegiance except to tkL:
State, fettered by no pledge, except
my oath of office, actuated by no mo
tive save a conscientious desire to de
gerve your approval.
Yours respectfully,
v RICHARD B. RUSSELL.
Application For Charter.
GEORGIA— LeE County
To the Superior Court of said county.
The petition of S, B, Brown, F. M. Mims
J. P. Calaway and E. B. Martin shows the
following:
Ist, That they desire for themselves, their
succeisors, assccial zs and assigns o be incor
porated under the name and style of “lhe
Leesburg Ginning Company.” ¢
and, ‘Theterm for which petitioners de
sire to oe incorpotated is twenty years, with
privilege cf renewal at the end of that time,
3rd, The capital stock of the proposed ccr
poration is thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500)
three thousand of which has been actually paid
in, said stock is divide : into thirty shures, each
at a par value of one-hundred dollars, Pe
titioners ask that they have the power and
privilege to increase said capital stock from
time to time to any amount not exceeding
thirty-five thousand doll rs ($35,000.)
4th, The ohject of the proposed corpora
tion is for the private pecuniary gain and emol
ument of its stock-hoiders. They proprose to
carry on a cotton ginning. <otton pressing and
baling business; to tuy aud :ell cotton, lint
and cotton seed. at a proper and sufficient gain:
to rent,sell, lease, or buy and hold such real
or personal property, make any and all such
centracts, for labor, ~f agency, or otherwise
as are reasonably necessary to conduct the
afor<said business profiiably; to c¢lect officers
for said corperation, and tu Jesignate how and
by whom said corporation may contract; to
make rules and by-liws fo- the government
and regulation of the aftatrs of said corpora
tior, To exercise all other powers and do all
other acis as are vsual and i.cccssary in carry
ing on the aforesaid lusiness, :
§th, The vlace of business of the proposed
corporation will be in the toyn” of Leesburg,
[.ee county, Georgia,
Wherefore petitioners pray that they be
made a body corporate under under the name
and style afuresaid, éntitled to all the rights,
privileges and powers prayed for, and all other
rights, immunities, and liabilines as are fixed
by law,
Ware G, Martin
Pet tionei’s Attorney
Filed in office April 7, 1904
James Morgan,
Clerk, Lee Superior Court.
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REGISTRAT CT YCTI(F,
I will be at the following places ramed
below for the purpose of Regicterirg 1l e
voters of Lee County Ga, for the coming
Primary.
Smithville, Saturdas. March 12th, 1901.
Chokee, . . Saturday, Mar®h 26th
Peloit, . Wednesday March 3oth *?
Tock’s Store, . . Fridav, April Ist *
All other days not conflicting with the
above dates, I ean "e tound at Tono's
Drug Store. Peole clnee April sth, 1904
T e KNy
T ee County Ga,