Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-05-14
Twenty-Seventh judicial Cireurt.

Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.
Unionville, Mo-, May S, The
Twenty-seventh Judicial District
is comprised of Macon, Adair,
Schuyler, and Putnam Counties,
and has Republican majority Of
over eighthundred votes. Judge
Andrew Ellison, the present in
cumbent, has had the Office for ten
years, and has announced as an
independent candidate for re-elec-
ton. The Republicans have, de-
termined to elect his successor,
and Will hold a nominating con-
vention some time in June.
From the tone of the Republi-
can papers in this circuit, it seems
that Mr.. Edward Higbee, Of Lam
caster Mo-, will be the nominee.
He hasresidedin Schuyler County
since 1867, and, it is generally
conceded, will receive the vote Of
his county, although it has a
Democratic majority of about two
hundred. The people of this
county, regardless of politics. think
ten years is long enough for one
man, and believe in rotation in
flee.
Asto Mr.. Higbee's qualifications
for the Office the Lancaster Excel
sior, the Democratic organ of this
county, in its issue of February
9th said. is..u
As an attorney. llr. Higbee's superior can
not be found in the state. He Is our friend
andneighbor, and when We say he is gentle
man of fine social qualities, a good citizen, an
honest man and an honor to his chosen pro-
fession, We only voice the sediment of the
community in which he lives and is best and
most favorably Known. We are satisfied he
would make an able upright Judge, who
would honor the bsnch rs be has the bar.
Jefferson Davis has made
speech of which the last will not
soon be heard 1t will be likely
to cut figure in politics far be-
yond its merits. The trouble is
that it will not be accepted in dis
tant states as the expression of an
individual, but as that of a repre-
sentative of tie millions of people
south of'that imaginary line which
the whole country processes to be
trying to Grace from current poll
tics. twenty-five years ago GER
tain expressions in the South
evoked certain feelings in the
North. There is no matter for
wonder, when survivor of the
actors of that period standing on
the same spot makes similar ex-
pressions, that the opposite section
should be moved as by the original
utterance. If John Brown and
"Parson" Brownlow were to arise
from their graves to-day and ex-
press the sentiments which made
them prominent in 1861, the only
feeling that could result would be
akin to that which existed in the
South in that year. But Mr.. Davis
does not represent the people who
have grown up about hlm-or who
have changed the current of their
lives, adopted new ideas and new
occupations while he has re-
manned at a standstill, brooding
over the evil fortunes of the cause
which he held. Any merchant
who failed in 1861, and who has
spent all the succeeding years in
mourning his loss, while his
neighbors in business revived
after every disaster and turned
their hands to new schemes, would
as properly be held to represent
the commercial interests OF the
| city to-day as jefferson Davis can
be held to exemplify existing
lSouthern interests, thought OF
sentiment, beyond what pertains
] to the memories of the war :Au
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