The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-22
OUR CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE

lie Roy Reporter.

MIR. Graves is COMPATIBILITY IA lawyer
and Il law student. lie is more fitted by
nature tor IA judge than any one we know
of, while his correct habits of living,
his irrepruachablc character and close
application 10 his profession eminently fit
him to nj 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 n
superior mind, is sober, deliberate, u
close student and correct reasoner, a
man who never acts hastily nor allows
prejudice To bias Judgment, and with all,
so far Us known his character is above
reproach In every particular. This We
venture 10 predict, when Judge G. Il.
Graves leaves the bench of this district
it will only be To ill a more exalted po-
sition in the judicial department of this
country,
Wilson County Citizen.
Chas. ID. 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 Ycars-ever since
Kansas has been a state-and she might
have held il four years longer at least,
had she agreed upon n man acceptable
to the balance of the district. Mr..
Graves is II lawyer Of ability and man
of excellent character. OF course he
will be elected.
Hon. John X. Goodin in Humboldt
Interstate (Democratic) says:
&C. Ii. Graves, OF Burlington, has re-
ceivcd 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. c. Il. GRAvEs.-The Fifth judi
cial district has no reason TO be ashamed
of its nominee for judicial honors, grac
ed as il has been in the past by such
prominent lawyers as Judges Feyton
Ruggles and Gilmore. Few attorneys in
the state have built up a better law prac-
tice in so short a period, and as u pleadeI
mt the bar, no man in the district has
been more successful. He is native OF
Wayne county, Indiana, thirty
nine years old, and came from
Illinois to Kansas in 1889. In 1861 he
enlisted in the army and saw honorable
service on the tented field as 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 II. n. Bent, ad
mitted to practice in 1860, before Judg'
Watson and commenced the practice d
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, ant
performed the duties of that office witt
signal ability. He comes of good stock
his father, Judge Pussy Graves, being
an old-line Garrison abolitiOnist clever
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 sell-made men tina
have literally hewn their way to publi
favor. He is a slalwart among stalwart
pronounced temperance man with ger
ial, sunny temperament, always lookin
on the bright side of things, and will max
one of the most popular district judge
in Kansas