The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-04-26

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delivered at the Baptist church
just before he was married. 1t
was a 8 O'Clock prayer meeting,
Quite a number of ladies were
present, but only a half dozen
men. Mr.. Tumlin was pastor
then, and had made most beau
tlful talk upon the Christian du-
ty in the home, having family
prayer, etc. At the conclusion
of his remarks, he asked all who
had family prayer to stand up.
No one got up. After a slight
pause, this "fuent speaker" arose,
and IN his loud voice said :
Brother Tumlin, 1 have no fam
lily, now, but l promise you just
as soon as / do have l will have
family prayers.
The good ladies all had imme-
date use for their handkerchiefs.
and soon as the minister could
control his voice, he announced
the next hymn. Doubtless there
are many good ladies present then
who remember this speech as we'll
as. myself.
Whether not he has kept his
promise / have hot been informed.
Then he tells us he would "ad-
minister the law impartially." I
charge that a man cannot admin
lster law at all that knows as lit
tie as he does, and that he couldn t
spell impartially. Can he be so
oigotted as to suppose the intelli-
gent, Woodworking lawyers, who
practice regularly at the bar of
the Blue Ridge Circuit, want such
as he to decide their cases! A
man who has never had q dozen
cases before Judge and jury in
his whole life? A man who has
so little modesty as to openly lay
claim to every accomplishment
known to man ? If his secretary
or editors writing these newspa-
per articles, which have been sent
out over his signature, had said
he commanded the battle at Wa
terloo and wrote Shakespeare s
plays he would have stood up like
a little man and swallowed the
whole lot without even glass of
water to wash it down.
He wakes eloquent and says he
is fine financier. Did he make
his money making fluent speeches
before a jury? Ask him and see.
His chief qualifications for the
judgeship then must be his physi-
cal beauty and his clean political
record of which he tells us. He
struts forth like a proud young
turkey cock, parts his hair in the
middle and with a conceited smile
on his lips, sits for his "picture. :"
In one hand he holds a gold-headed
cane, and in the other silk hat.
Truly, solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like unto him.
either in apparel or wisdom.
| am told he has had printed
many thousand of these pictures
and sent them everywhere.
Then We have his clean record,
politically. First, he rushes into
the newspapers, nine of them, tell
ing of himself, and then accuses
and attacks everything and every
body connected with his opponent.
Can it be possible that he calls
himself clean ?
Now last but not least ne tells
us he has multiplied himself by
four, May the good Lord pity us
his people,
in conclusion, I would like to
touch upon his attack on the Jury
Commissioners, but words fail me.
He should have consulted some
lawyer of liability" and been told
that If he sat on the Judicial
bench fourteen thousand years,
he could have nothing to do with
the Commissioners business
The Commissioners, themselves,
need no defense from me. | have
only to name them; Hon. Geo.
M. McElreath, Mr. John D CAN'T,
Capt 4 t Terrell, Mr. f P Do5bs,
Mr. Orlando Awtrey, and Col Sea-
born Crowley.
DEMOCRAT.