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W ANNOUNCEMENT
By William Ji. Fish toThe Demo
cratic Voters of Georgia.
GINGER FOR THE JUDICIARY PRIMARY.
Judge Fish Exposes Some of Judge Gober’s
Questionable Methods.
Atlanta, Ga., June 13 ’B9.
To ths Democracy of Georgia:
On Thursday, the 23rd day of
this month, you will be called
upon to express your choice for
' three members of the Supreme
Court, viz : a Chief Justice, an
Associate Justice for a full term
of six years, and an .Associate
Justice for an unexpired term of
two years. J am a candidate to
succeed myself and am offering
for the full term.
As almost my entire time has
been, and is now being, devoted)
to the discharge of my official
duties, I adopt this means of
presenting some of the reasons
upon which I ask your support,
and I request each of you to
carefully read this communica
tion and give it an impartial
consideration.
After an honorable contest in
which I did nothing unfair or
unbecoming, I was nominated
for the office I hold and subse
quently elected without opposi
tion. Justices Little, Cobb and
myself were chosen on a joint
ticket, without distinction as to
the length of our terms; but in
drawing for them, as the law
required, the shortterm, by
mere chance, fell to me.
It has been the unbroken
usage of the Democratic party to
accord a re-election to every of
ficial, even after serving a full
term, if he has been faithful to
his trust. I have earnestly en
deavored to be faithful to mine,
and therefore feel that I ought
not to be displaced after serving
only one-third of a regular term.
I respectful 1 submit that the
candidacy of Judge Gober was
not begun, and has not been
conducted, in a fair and legiti
mate manner. There are, as sta
ted above, three distinct places
to be filled.
This was fully understood
from the beginning, for the
Chairman of the Demociatic Ex
ecutive Committee of the state
plainly sojj announced, and at
the same time prescribed the
form of the ballot to be used.
Judge Gober well knew this,
and yet did not announce tor
any particular term, but gener
ally for “one of the places.” I
charge that he pursued this
course deliberately and inten
tionally for the purpose of tak
ing his chances against all three
of the present incumbents now
seeking re-election.
Finally, when compelled to
unequivocally declare his posi
tion, it appears that he is run
ning against myself; but before
saying so in plain English, he
has carried on an active caayass
by which he sought to gun all
the advantages possible from a
general candidacy without ap
pearing to oppose any one. The
unfairness of this course is plain,
and the various ways in which
it could be worked, and has been
worked, against me are ob
vious.
I do not believe that such a
of seeking this high o'-
fice should be encouraged or en
dorsed. It is unjust, not only to
myself, but to the people, to
whom Judge Gober owed the
duty of saying promptly and
candidly which justice of this
court be desired to supplant, so
that they could understandingly
express their choice.
What occurred in some of
those counties which, in the re
cent primary, voted for the
nomination of Supreme Court
Justices, forcibly illustrates
what is said above. Tickets con
taining the names of the four
candidates, but not specifying
the particular term for which
any one of them was running,
were prepared by Judge Gober
or his friends, and used to con
ceal the fact that he had at last
decidedto run against me, the
design, of course, being to pro
cure votes for himself by telling
voters to strike any one name
they pleased, so long as they left
his on the ticket.
No candid man can or will as
sert that this was dealing fairly,
either with me or with the vo
ters, the more especially when
this plan was practiced in coun
ties in which I had no notice at
all that an election as to the jus
tices would be held on that day.
J n Fayette county tickets were
used upon which the following
appeared : “For Chief Justice,
Thomas J. Simmons. For Asso
ciate Justice (full term,) GEO.
F. GOBER. For Associate Jus
tice (unexpired term, two years)
11. x. Lewis, W. 11. Fish.”
The purpose could have
been nothing else but to mia’ead
voters into the belief that
there was a contest for the SHORT
term between Justice Lewis and
myself and thus leave an open
IL Id for Judge Gcber for the
FULL term, whereas, the persons
who prepared this d. vice knew
perfectly well that there was no
opposition between Judge Lewis
and rayself, but that 1 was a can
didate to succeed myself tor the
FULL t-rra. It would be difficult
to conceive anything more palpa
bly unfair I than this
I have a letter from a reliable
geittLinan in which, speaking
with reference to Walker county,
he says: “There was no election
held in this county on last Mon
day, theft.h instant for Supreme
Court Judges.”
“The executive’Committee met
Tuesday, the 7th. just to consol
idate the vote cast for Governor
and State House officers and con
gressmen, and, after consolidating
the vote, then selected delegates
t) attend the convention to nomi
nate Supreme Court Judges ami
s lected delegates favorable to
Judge Gober. The people did not
vote on it.” This requires no
comment.
Judge Gober has sent out nu ner
: ous letters and circulars, many
of which are full of cheap “< lap
trap” to catch votes. For in
stance, in a number of them ad
dressed to farmers, he poses as an
agriculturist, and to some he sent
photograpps representing himself
superintending the packing ol
p’acres’ for shipment to maraeu
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Salt Rheum,
a torment to the flesh, a dis
liguremeut to the body, and a
drain on the system, also due
to vitiated blood.
Pimples,
which so disfigure the skin, and
make the human face divine
anything but a thing of beauty,
but which are Nature’s adver
tisement of foul blood.
Catarrh,
which very often comes from a
chronic affection of the circula
tion, is a constant offense t<
cue’s self and all his friends.
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Surely such methods are not to be
commended.
Everybody k owe thatjwe want
for judges men who have a knowl
edge of the law. and that farmers,
however honoiable their calling,
have not the training for such
offices. This sort of electioneering
is a direct reflection upon the in-,
telligence of our farmers, but I
do not believe they are so densely
ignorant as to approve of Judge
Gober's absurd suggestion that
they put him on the supreme
bench because, forsooth, he is a
“farmer,”
But the Judge, in some of his
circulars, —and in at least one
newspaper article signed by him
self, —is doing something even
less worthy of public approbation.
He is attacking the efficiency and
insinuating agains: the uprignt
ness of the members of the present
bench.
Four o' them (Justices Lumpkin
Little, Ccbb and myself) hob!
their present commissions directly
from the people under a unani
mous election. Ihe Chief Justice
gas. been repeatedly elected by
the legislature without opposition,
and Justice Lewis is now holding
under an executive appointment.
I do not b lieve that the peo
ple will receive patiently or
view favorably attacks of this
kind upon their highest court;
and, in my judgement, they will
hesitate to place on this bench
a man whose ambition is so in
ordinate that he does not scruple
to chaige that this court is per
verting the law and that he
should be put upon the supreme
bench in the role of a “reform
er.” This method of campaign
ing ought, in my opinion, to be
rebuked at the polls.
Ina published communica
tion Judge Gober states, in ef
fect, that he cares very little
personally for a seat upon the
sppreme bench, and that his
candidacy arose from the fact
that he was put forward by those
to whom it seemed that reforms
in the administration of the law
wore needed.
This statement accords but ill
with the fact that he has sent
out. by the thousands circulars
seeking support, and is not con
sistent with his otherwise indus
trious cundidacy, nor with the
fact that he is resorting to the
above and other like means for
the purpose of securing a nomi
nation. The call for Cincinnatus
from the plow did not evoke
from him such remarkable evi
dence of the fact that it had been
heard, nor such an unseemly
exhibition of personal eagerness
to respond to it.
The Judge has been making a
button-hole canvass of the state,
going about from one place to
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another and making personal
appeals for support. This is not
only unfair to an opponent who
is remaining at his post o' duty,
but is not, I submit, becoming
in a race for this exalted office.
In placing the election of
the judges with the people, it
was never contemplated that
this sort es tactics would prevail
or be countenanced. If it should
be rewarded with mccess, I pie
dict that the time is not distan t
when the judiciary will be drag
ged into the mire of general pol
itics—an evil which every good
citizen will deplore.
In some of his circulars Judge
Gober states that he was defeat
ed in the convention which
nominated me by a “combina
tion.” In making this charge,
he must have been oblivous of
the means be employed prior to
the meeting of that honventicn,
and during its session, in ad
vancing his own caixlidacy be
fore it; and he must lave entire
ly forgotten how he began and
has perpetuated his career as an
office holder. There aip in Geor
gia scores of men v hoie memory
in this respect will lie found
I more accurate.
; In conclusion, I beg to say that
though I have used some very
plain languagej every word 1
have sail has been carefully
weighed and is the truth. And
while I regret the necessiti
which has been forcee upon m»
of publishing this communica
tion, I can not in justice to my
self remain silent and allow the
means which have been and are
now being employed to defeat
me, to pass unnoticed and unan
swered.
This is the only way in which
I can get before those who are
to pass upon my stewardship
the facts upon which their judg
ment should be based. I am sim
ply seeking at the hands of my
countrymen a fair showing, of
which I feel extraordinary and
unwarranted efforts have been
made to deprive me, aid tc
which the humblest citizen is
entitled.
Your obedient servant,
William H. Fisn.
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