The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-02
THE DISTRICT JDDGESHIP.

THE DISTRICT JDDGESHIF'
Now that Travis county has settled
the question as to how its vote Will bt
cast in the State Democratic conVen
ton for governor, the people may
turn aside to consider the candidates
for the important local offices. The
Democratic primaries will be held on
the 18th of June to select delegates tc
county convention to take action
about local offices. Among the most
important offices is the office of dis
trict Judge, and The STATESMAN
now invites the consideration by the
nublic of the candidates for the office
of district Judge of the twenty-sixth
judicial district. Mr.. Frank u. Nor
ris and Mr.. N. A. Rector are opposing
candidates for this office from Travis
county, subject to the action OF the
Democratic convention, and demo-
Gratis may as we'll commence consider
ing which of these two candidates for
Judge they will support. The STATES
MAN, while not generally taking part
as between candidates for Demo-
cratic nominations for local offices,
is disposed to support Mr..
Morris. THE STATESMAN be-
lieves that in SO doing it will voice the
sentiments of a large part of the citi-
zens of Austin and Travis county. Our
support of Mr.. Morris is not based on
objections to Mr.. Rector, but on rea-
sons which we think should lead to
the support of Mr.. Morris on his own
merits. In the first place, it is known
that Mr. Morris is ripe and able
lawyer who is well calculated to make
q good district judge. He grew into
manhood in Austin, commenced his
professional life here, and has prac-
ticed law in this city nearly fourteen
years, during which time he has
worked his way to the front rank OF
Austin's able bar. Mr.. Rector may
be as good lawyer as Mr.. Morris, but
he is not SO well known to be good
lawyer, as he has only practiced law
in Austin about three years, though
he lived in this county when boy.
But if it be conceded that either of
them would make an acceptablejudge,
THE STATESMAN believes that the
scales should re turned in favor of
Mr.. Morris because of the great pub
lie service which he has gratuitously
rendered in his devotion to the sup
port of Austin's interests and of
public enterprises, which will benefit
not only Austin, but all of Travis
county. Since the question of build
ing Austin's great dam came up he
has laboriously and unselfi' hly fol-
lowed the subject up, and whether as
chairman of q charter committee seek
ing to obtain new city charter to
carry out this enterprise, member of
the council framing ordinances to
carry on the project or investigating
legal questions to avoid legal pitfalls,
his time and ability were freely and
earnestly given to the public service,
and it seems that the work has been
done with such care and ability that
all law suits against the carrying on of
this work come to naught. This
and other public services rendered by
Mr.. Morris are we'll understood by the
people, and need only to be mentioned
to be appreciated. We repeat that
the long acquaintance which the peo-
pie have had with Mr.. Morris as a
lawyer, his we'll known ability and
good qualifications for the office and
valuable public services entitle him to
the support of Travis county.