The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-10-29
TWO YOUNG ApoLLos TO CONGRESS

The vacated seat Of ALEXANDER ii.
STEPHENS was tempting prize to the am
bilious men Of the Sth, the Augusta, GeOr.
ga district. II is part of the whig terri
tory represented by Mr.. STEPHENS when
first the general ticket system was abol
ished and the members chosen by districts
about 1915, But in the main, the old
whig district OF ROBERT TooNBs, who then
was, and yet is, the ardent and bosom
friend to Mr.. STEPHENS. This position was
sought by the gifted ]. G. @. BLACK, of
Augusta, JUDGE PoTTLE, of Warren, and
SEABoGS REESE, of Sparta, son of Hon,
AuGuSrus REESE, of Madison, one o.
the best and most personally pop
ular among the old panel
Of Georgia lawyers. The withdrawal of
JUICE TwGGGs, nephew OF MAJoR-G ENERAL
DAVID Il. TwIGGs, of the old United State
army, gifted and personally popular ca
Judge, as an independent, after an unsuc
cessiul effort to arouse opposition, left Mr..
REESE the undisputed prize as the demo
cratic nominee. The third Georgia district
is across the southwest, below Columbus
and Macon, OF which AmelcuS, in the old
slave belt, and a cotton emporium, is the
central city, and the home of GENERAL
Pm Cook He was at the front in the.war,
except when absent from wounds, when
they conscripted him Cor the legislature.
And he was chosen to congress with the del
egation that was not seated, because We
were hence to be out of the Union.
The district mainly as then composed, con.
tlnued to nominate and elect him until the
late convention displaced him and took
from the bench CnAREs i. CRISP, Of the
same city. The withdrawal of DAVID b.
Howell, cX judge, as an Independent, after
can assing the district in the vain attempt,
to aggregate force in which there could be
hope Of success, left JUDGE CRISP without
opposition. REESE inherited his fathers
honor, integrity, fidelity and personal
goodness and cleverness; has spent his
brief professional life among the people
who sent him to the legislature and have
now chosen him to congress, In these
qualities there will be no rank above
him at Washington. And he
will have but few equals in physical
symmetry and manhood. In any country
or age he will serve as a sGulptor's model.
JUDGE CRISP is the son of the celebrated
tragedian, WILLIAM II. CRISP, who inner
tied his fathers talents, but seems to cult
waite Il disrelish for the vocation that dis
tinguished him, and does not, like most
ambitious men, boast of blood, or season
conversation by patcrnal illusions. But
he is u mark man in the immediate future
OF that state Pure in his private. as in
his public character; urbane and dgniied
in manner; cool and selreiant
in all his mental operations;
bold and defiant in moral composition;
has large active, and well balanced brain,
and is a laborious student. He began at
the foot of the profession, in an interior
country village oil the railroad after the
war, when mere boy in age. lie distn-
guiShcd himself as a prosecuting district
attorney; was made judge by GoyERNoR
CoLQUIrT on the death of JUICE JAMES NJ.
CLARK; was afterwards elected by the leg
stature without opposition and vacatcs
the bench TO eater congress- without Il
cloud on his past life or apparent obstruc.
ton to his rapid rise and distinction. And
if handsome is word we can apply to
men, no cultivated taste for the Grccian
type of manhood will be offended when it
awarded TO CHARLES +. CRlsP.