The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-08
OUR CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE
Good Words for c. b. Graves.

LIE Roy Reporter.
MIR. Graves is emphatically a lawyer
and a law student. He is more fitted by
nature for judge than any one we know
of, while his correct habits of living,
his irreproachablc character and close
application to his profession eminently fit
him to fill the Office for which the people
of the district have seen fit to nominate
him. We believe no better nomination
could have been made. Charley has a
superior mind, is sober, deliberate, q
close student and correct reasoner, a
man who never acts hastily nor allows
prejudice to bias judgment, and with all,
$50 far as known his character is above
reproach in every particular. This We
venture to predict, when Judge G. B.
Graves leaves the bench of this district
it will only be to fill a more exalted pO-
sition in the judicial department of this
country.
Wilson County Citizen.
Chas. B. Graves, of Burlington, was
last week nominated for Judge of the
fifth judicial district, by the Republicans.
Emporia has had the judgship of that
| district for twenty Years-ever since
Kansas has been a state-and she might
have held it four years longer at least,
had she agreed upon a man acceptable
to the balance of the district. Mr..
Graves is lawyer of ability and a man
| of excellent character. OF course he
will be elected.
Hon. John r. Goodin in Humboldt
Interstate Oemocratic) says:
&C. B. Graves, of Burlington, has re-
ceived the Republican nomination for
judge of the Fifth judicial district. We
have known Charley ever since he start
| ed in the legal profession at NeOsho
Falls, and have watched his success with
| interest. The honor conferred by the
| nomination to so important an Office is,
in Charley's case, most worthily bestow
ed, and we hope to record the fact of his
election to the position"
Burlington Patriot
| Hon. G. B. GRAvEs.-The Fifth judi
cial district has no reason to be ashamed
of its nominee for judicial honors, grac-
ed as it has been in the past by such
prominent lawyers as Judges Peyton,
Ruggles and Gilmore. Few attorneys in
the state have built up better law prac-
tice in so short period, and as u pleader
at the bar, no man in the district has
been more successful. He is q native of
Wayne county. Indiana, thirty.
nine years old, and came from
Illinois to Kansas in 1859. In 1851 he
enlisted in the army and saw honorable
service on the tented field as a common
soldier, participating in many of the
string battles of the rebellion. He was
mustered out in 1865 and read law al
Burlington with Judge Fl. N Bent, adj
mitted to practice in 1862 before Judge
Watson and commenced the practice oil
law at once in WOodson county; remov
ed to Burlington in 1875, and at once as
sumed an influential position at the bar
was elected county attorney in 1876, and
performed the duties of that Office with
signal ability. He comes of good stock
his father, Judge Pussy Graves, being
an old-line Garrison abolitionist eleven
in active politics in Indiana, and he can
vassed that state for James G. Bierney
and was the abolition candidate for con
gress on the same ticket.
Mr.. Graves was brought up on a farm
previous to studying law, and he be
longs to that class of self-made men thai
have literally hewn their way to public
favor. He is stalwart among stalwartS
pronounced temperance man with a gen
ial, sunny temperament, always looking
on the bright side of things. and will make
one of the most popular district judges
in Kansas