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SUNDAY. JULY 26.
Peebles Flays Hammond at Millen
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the rule work both ways. If you are go
ing to quote part of a short thing like
g letter—why didn’t you give all the
letter? Why did he quote only the parts
which suited hifcn. He complains »h • 1
said to Mr. Danie's: “I have 'ntended
for sometime to see you in ref-n*Mi'*3 to
the approaching race for the Judgeship
of the Augusta circuit. In the beginning,
let me say I am glad you arc in this
circuit, in order to help us bea* Judge
Hammond, if you can consis enily do
so.” WhywTot publish that vhoh: let
ter? \Vhy%t show that I was anxious
for Mr. Daniels to help me get some
man like Judge Davis or Judge Brinson
to run against Judge Hammond. I infant
just what 1 said. There is not a thing
In that letter 1 am willing to talto hack,
because, my fellow-citizens, I *la r ted
this campaign, not with any per
sonal ill-feeling for Judge Hamiiin.nl—l
bear no malice towards any man. I
went into this campaign for the simple
reason that I. as an American cbit'-m,
did not like Judge Hammond as . judge.
I am not here to assail Judge Flam
mond’s personal character, and as I said
just now, I defy any man to say any
thing I. said about him tha; I wouldn't
say to his face! He is a public official.
He is your servant, and he is my s rv
ant.
Here is one of the main jbjeu r ions
which I have to Judge H imm md, and
I say it to his face, as I will say It
everywhere else. There are people who
are good pitchers at baseba 1, win don’t
make good umpires. A man can bo an
excel’ent lawyer. He can be a fine prac
titioner, and yet not have the judical
temperament to sit upon a bench . nd
not show his feelings. I don’t inean
that Judge Hammond would try to pur
posely run away with the jury, hut 1
do say that my experience, and :he im
pression among the lawyers—now, this is
the opinion among a great nu:no?r of
the lawyers, that when Judge Hamm md
tries a case—l don’t know what impres
sion you have In Jenkins county, hut
our impression is, that when he fc rles a
case, he cannot help from showing his
feelings, one way or the other, or that
one side should prevail over the other.
He talks about charging a jury ir. a
clear-cut sort of manner. Why If you
present the contentions of the nlaint'ff.
clear-cut, and then the contentions of
the defendant, clear-cut. and succinctly,
and without any change in tone of voice,
or atry intimation as which side you
want to prevail, why, that is a thing
greatly to be desired in any trial judge.
But you cannot charge a jury, as I
have seen Judge Hammond charge a
jury. “Gentlemen of the Jury, so on and
so on.” but “on the other hand, “Gen
tlemen of the Jury, the defendant con
tends so on and etc.,” with an emphasis
On the contentions of one side, an em
phasis of voice and manner, which leads
the jury to the conclusion that the
judge wants a particular side to prevail.
Whether Judge Hammond intends that
>r not or whether he gets so wrought
tip he doesn’t know it. is an objection
upon which I as an American citizen
have a right to pass upon.
Mr. Pierce, is that your construction?
Mr. Pierce —Yes, sir.
Mr Purdy, is that your construction?
Mr. Purdy—Yes, sir.
Mr. Harrison, is that your construc
tion?
Mr. Harrison —It is.
Mr. Pierce —I think I excepted to
him on that ground in one case.
Judge Hammond—You had better lead
that decision in the Brown case and see
what the supreme Qourt says.
Question from the audience —Is Mr.
Henry Cohen on Judge Hamond's list of
lawyers
Yes, I think he Is. Yes, Mr. R. S.
and C. Henry are both on here.
My fellow-citizens. Section 4843 of the
Civil Code provides in substance: that
a judge should not express any opinion
as to what has or has not been proven;
that the jury is the sole and exclusive
judge of the facts; that to them has
been assigned the particular function of
determining which side of the case snail
prevail, and that the Judge shall s't upon
the bench, hew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may, pass on legal ques
tions, the admissibility of evidence,
charge the jury the abstract principles
of law, and let them pass upon the
case! As the Court of Appeals said
in the Sharpton case, when Judge Ham
mond was reversed on that same ques
tion, there are quite a number of jurors,
as every judge knows, who anxiously
The Oasis in the Desert of Activities!
Those who habitually go to church like to go the year
round-they ask for no vacation-they go because they like it.
Those who are not, habituallly, church goers, might take
a summer vacation by attending some place of worship.
The church service offers rest and refreshment-mental
and physical comfort-and is an oasis in the desert of life.
There is plenty of hurly-burly in the life of today-plen
ty of activity, plenty of worries and perplexities.
The great desideratum is freedom from worries; a sur
cease from toiling, and struggling.
The logical, reasonable, desirable rest and refreshment
of church-going is recommended for ailments of mind, soul,
and body.
To the person of limited means it appeals, because the
greatest amount of refreshment is possible for a small invest
ment of time and thought.
To the person of large means it is desirable because of
the opportunity to help-an investment of energy with a large
return of satisfaction in the results of the work.
To the busy man it is desirable because it offers a possi
bility of getting efficiency value out of the days rest, stimula
tion, mentally, from the sermon, and a renewal of spiritual
strength.
watch for an expression, some indication
from the judge as to which -lde he
thinks ought ;o prevai . I believe that
a lawyer ought to be able to 2xne into
he court, after having studied tho taw
and evidence, and have some idea of
the way the case is gonig, without hav
ing to study the judge's face, as to
which side he (the judge) thinks «*• ght
to win
Now in conclusion, there is just one
thing more that 1 overlooked in con
nection with the Catholic proposition.
After I had made this explanation to
those people around Hearing, after I had
gotten back down to Augusta, in a lit
tle while, I found in the Atlanta < on
stitution, an article written 1 under
stand by Mr. Jno. Hammond, a Ca~holio
and the representative of the Constitu
tion in Augusta, as follows:
“The Augusta Circuit Judgesnip. In
he race for the Augusta Circuit Judge-
Ship, there is some mighty active cam
paigning going on to decide whether
Henry Hammond is going to rem dn on
the bench, or whether Ike Peebles is go
ing to beat him. Both contenders feel
confident, but they are both mistaken
in their confidence. It is either man’s
race right now. Hammond is gung to
have a run for the job, and his friends
are giving him strong and active rap
port. Peebles is doing a great vlea’ of
his own campaigning. He is getting just
as active support. On the basis of the
ins having the advantage, he may not
win the fight, but lie is going to run
Henry Hammond a pretty close race. He
is getting some pretty effective purely
factional political support through the
country and wherever prejudice can be
made to play its part, the Play isn't be
ing lost.”
I don't think any man can read that
article, with the occurrence at Dealing,
and draw any other conclusion, but -cat
the Hammond forces or that someone
has represented to Mr. Hammond »>f 'he
Constitution that I was out there in
jecting religion into this race. I had a
conversation with Mr. Hammond iioout
it and when I explained the matter to
him. he said: “That is the way it is,
is it? It was injected in the other
way and not by you?”
Whenever Hammond and his forces,
the men backing Hajnn ond. attempt to
come out in the country and say “that
the Catholics are backing me,’ trying
to prejudice them against me, a genuine
Georgia Cracker, and then go hick i to
town and say I am injecting religion into
the campaign in order to inflame iho
Catholics against me, I propose to meet
their each and every issue! 1 d n’t
propose to do anything that I am
ashamed of! I don't propose to do
anything that I am not man enough to
stand up for. and to face every is* no
that is submitted to the people! “Truth
crushed to eartli will rise again.”
Here is something in connection
with the Judge’s stationery. When he
gets out a letter, to the Laboring man
in Augusta, he is very jAreful to have
the union label on it. notice this
one, the first one he sent out. It had
the union label, but when he gets out
bis announcement that he is going to
make a speech down among you farm
ers, why he leaves It off. I wonder
if Joe Brown’s article on labor unions
had anything to do with the Judge
leaving that Union Label off when he
made his announcement around among
the farmers.
My fellow-citizens, I don’t propose
to take up any more of your time. It
is necessary however, for me to refer
to one statement that I understand
that he had been informed that I
have been going around the city of
Augusta saying that my father was
worth $150,000, and that if necessarry,
he would sell his farm and turn over
to me my part and let me use it in
this campaign. In the first place, fel
low-citizens, you gentlemen who have
access to Dunn’s and Bradstreet’s
i Commercial agencies, if you look at
I my father’s rating, who Is a merchant
and farmer at Gibson, you will find
he is rated somewhere between $15,-
000 and $20,000.
When my father was nineteen years
old, he came to the tow n of Gibson in
an ox cart with $25.00. He opened
a shop and then he put a few sardines
and crackers and things around on the
shelves and would sell them. After
“Thou Hast Loved Righteousness, and Hated Iniquity! Therefore
God, Even Thy God, Hath Annointed Thee with the Oil of Gladness."
a while he had a little more, more and
more, until now, he is in what you
might call a substantial sort of condi
tion.
But when I was a boy, my father
told me that I had to work and that
if I got to be a man, I had to work
and that he wanted me to know how
to do it; or if I was going to have
anybody else to do it, he wanted me to
Know a day’s work. He kept me in
school and working around the store
and farm until I was 14. I made a
crop that year—went out with the ne
groes- and then he kept me in tho
store until I was 18. 1 kept insisting
that I wanted to go to school; that
there was no use for me to start life
and work my life out and not get any
where! He said: "Young man, if
you want an education, you go ahead
and get it. I will give you the time.”
I went to Thomson School In the
spring and worked in the summer and
fall I went back to Thomson In the
spring and worked in the summer and
the fall. 1 went to high school over
at Monroe. They talk about my quali
fications. The judge wants to know
what my qualifications would be for
this important position. I am not an
egotistical fellow; I can't throw oirt
tny chest and say: “Look upon me
and see what a grand, splendid speci
men of manhood I am!” It is just not
in me. When I was a small boy 1
heard the expression: "Self praise is
half scandal.” It was bred in me as
a little boy: “Don’t kver brag on your
self.” But the ’question has been
brought up here by him and I will tell
you. I went to the town of Monroe
to go to school at my own expense.
The principal, Prof. John Gibson, said:
“You are not in a position to enter the
ninth grade. You had better go into
the eighth. The class is reading Cae
sar. You that and you
don’t know Algebra. T will try you
in the ninth grade.” T went to work
and when the commencement came, I
was awarded a medal for having made
the highest mark in Johnston Institute
that year. (Applause.)
I was not prepared to enter the
Georgia University Freshman Class;
but I entered that class at the Uni
versity of Georgia where there was
something like SO or 00 young men
from all over the state of Georgia. If
you look up my record you will find
I made such a record as a student in
the Freshman class that the Class
Historian referred to me in the Col
lege Annual as to my class record, I
had to drop out of the class at the
end of the year and get to work. I
taught school and wrote insurance
and was sort of a jack-of-all-trades,
trying to get through school. I kept
up my work. I studied Sophomore
while I was out of the college and
went back and entered tho Junior
class. On completion of Junior year
I had to get out and get to work. I
worked that summer and fall and en
tered the University law school on
the Ist of January in the class that
started about the 10th of September.
In that class was a first honor man of
Emory college and the second honor
man from the University of Georgia,
and some of the best young men of
Georgia.
I went to work and made an average
of 90, and something on the Junior
work for that spring term. That sum
mer when I had been home about two
weeks, my father’s home burned and
1 came out with nothing but what I
had on my back.
I borrowed money and went to col
lege that fall. At the following com
mencement I had done two years work
in a year and a half with the highest
class average, and was awarded the
1 Van Epps Prize for the best legal es
say. I don’t mention these things in
any spirit of braggadocio. It wasn’t
so much smarter than anybody else,
but I knew I had to get down to work,
and I did it.
When I started practicing law in the
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
little town of Gibson, 1 hail an ordi
nary pine table and about six or
eight law books. Then 1 w ent to Au
gusta. a raw country boy. with $109.00
in the bank, and over $480.00 in debt
on my education. I went there and
started to work alone. I didn't know
in the city of Augusta more than 25
people.
Two years ago I was in the race for
solicitor-general, and 1 carried McDuf
fie county
Voice from the audience—You will
carry it two to one this time.
Speaker—l carried Burke county by
62 votes. Columbia by i7S. and McDuf
fie by IX4, but I was defeated in the
city of Augusta, .because I had prac
tically every politician in town lined
up against me. In fact, 1 was fight
ing practically both factions.
they couldn't carry my home ward
as Judge Hammond says ne is going
to do. Go to Richmond county where
tile fifth ward checks up 600 majority
for Ike Peebles, and the fourth ward
Iron) 400 to 500 majority. 1 will car
ry the first ward also. lam not go
ing to carry the second ward. lam
the Cracker candidate That Is a
Catholic ward, and there is where
Judge Hammond lives.
I will carry the country part of
Richmond, and carry McDuffie and
t olumbia counties, and I am going to
beat him in Burke and Jenkins.
I.et us keep thiß campaign on a
high plane. Let us not do or say any
thing not in keeping with the dignity
of a judge. I would not for the sake
of the office, get down into the mire,
sling mud, wilfully misrepresent, or
charge an opponent with something
that I havo not the documentary proof
to establish! And 1 resent with all
the force of my nature the malicious
charge of having misrepresented you'
(Shaking his finger at Hammond.)-
If I was Judge of the superior court,
I would not willfully and maliciously
misrepresent a young man who lias
had the struggles I have undergone in
securing an education and establishing
himself at the bar, in order to save
my own hide on the 19th day of Au
gust! (Continued applause.)
The Look Towards
The Child
What is the Instinct that loads us
all to care for little children? It Is u
eeliug of vicarious fatherhood or
motherhood, a feeling that we are at
our unselfish beßt when we address
ourselves not only to this problem of
the protection and guidance of tho
child, but to all of our soctal#prob
lemH, in terms of spiritual parent
hood ?
Is it the sensu of regret for the
heaven of simplicity and idealism
that “lies about us in our Infancy''
and the desire to recover it In some
measure by associating with the adult
Intelligence the child spirit?
Is It an Impulse of compassion for
the little one who is to pass, as we
havo passed, through the ways of
custom and convention into a too soon
experienced routine, leading, again
too soon, Into ineptitude and old age?
Is it this sense or anticlpative regret,
for the innocent child's unsuspected
future during the mere moment that
makes up human life, and tile desire
to protect, those who follow us, so far
as we can. from experiencing our
own mistakes and sorrows?
Is it the romantic adventure that
lends such writers as Blake, and
Wordsworth, and Baric and Maeter
linck, to preoccupy themselves often
with tlie child consciousness, in the
hope that consciousness has some
thing to say to ours, and that the
child is not merely an adult in min
iature. but a being having its own
processes and fidelities, its own in
sight, its own set of values, mayhap
truer than our own?
Or, is It the plain old fashioned in
stinct of sympathy that the human
creature must have, in general, for its
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own kind, especially its more help
less, dependent young?
Whatever It be, there Is something
divine in us that responds quickly and
eagerly to the need of little children,
when sick, or orphaned, or wronged,
or frightened, or lost. We know It
in ourselves; we see it In tho count
less e forts, public and private, the
world over, that are being made for
child-betterment; we read It in such
moving poems as Mrs, Browning's
“The Cry of the Children," and Ten
nyson's “In the Children's Hospital.'
The WUhenford Children's Hospital
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sion of our community of this love of
the human family for Its little young
ones. During Its brief existence it
base come to apical very rtrongly to
nil who know of its work, so quietly
but finely efficient does it prove it
self in both practical resource ulness
ami ready sympathy. A ministry o(
tliis sort Is to lie singled out in this
day of possible over-organization, ns
one of whose worth there can he no
doubt, as one directly entitled to our
active and loyal support.
Broadway M. E. Church
Corner Broad and Mills streets. Rev.
C. M. Verdel, pastor. Services at 11
o'clock a. rn. Tho evening aervloe has
been called In until further notice,
Sunday school at 9:80 a. m„ Wilfred
C. Lyeth, superintendent. Prayer ser-
Chruch-going is logical because it is a good habit and the
average person has so many bad habits a good one ought to be
encouraged.
Thinking and planning for Sunday amusement *is a
waste of energy, since church services are provided for the
needed rest of those who have struggled during the week
and who need rest, on the Sabbath.
Sunday amusement wears and exhausts; church services
stimulate, refresh and upbuild.
The Sabbath Day is the day of greatest value to the one
who has to earn a living; because it fits him for the work of the
week to come, giving mental poise and an attitude of effi
ciency.
No one is so big as to be above church services-no one is
so small as to be free from the needs of the church!
Every element of human life is reached by the modem
church to one brought within its doors. Help the church make
life worth while.
Those who respond to theinvitation are welcomed, their
attendance is appreciated; their interest is of value.
Those who help in effective church work are doing good
to those about them! What is your attitude?
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