The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1900-05-03


was paid over to the owners it was
found that the Brigadier had made a
mistake of one thousand dollars against
his clients causing them to lose this
amount and also the costs of a suit, he
having vainly attempted to compel the
purchaser to make good his mistake.
A rather expensive attorney for his
clients, was he not I? And what would
he do as Judge, where he would be re-
quired to decide the most intricate
questions of law and where mistakes
mean new trials with heavy costs to
parties and hundreds and thousands of
dollars useless expense to the tax pay
ers of the county. An able an expert
enced judge deciding the law of case
properly settles it finally, but with a
bungler on the bench, two and three
and four new trials would be in order.
1t costs about two hundred dollars per
day to run Cobb Superior Court, many
cases consume several days each and If
the Brigadier on the bench should keep
up his record of errors as an attorney,
he would cost the litigants and county
from two to four times as much as does
Judge Gober. fear the Brigadier and
his little Ratchet would prove to be an
expensive luxury for the good people of
the circuit. Think of this, voters, and
remember that every ballot cast for
Brigadier Sessions is a ballot for in
creased taxation, increased costs for
litigants and delayed justice in the
form of long and tedious trials. When
it is remembered that this ambitious
young man has never been deep stu
dent of the law, that his practice has
always been small precluding him from
the possibility of acquiring knowledge
in the broader sphere of practice, that
he has not pretended to practice at all
for several years past, being engaged in
other business, one cannot forbear won
dering at his assurance in offering for
this responsible position. Remember,
that law is a science almost as intricate,
and requiring as deep study as medi-
cine, to understand and apply its prin-
ciples properly. Would any man of
common sense, in a matter involving
life and death, think of intrusting the
case to an inexperienced Hedging just
from college instead of to the old and
experienced physician? If you have
a case in court involving thousands of
dollars would you give it to the young
attorney just admitted to the bar, or
to the old practitioner of twenty-five
years standing?
Let US now examine some of the charg
es against Judge Gober. 1t is asserted
that the jury commissioners. influenced
by Judge Gober, have withdrawn from
the jury box and failed to place therein
the names of certain individuals alleg-
ed to be distasteful to that official and
that others, whose names are therein,
have never been drawn; and it is said
that the Brigadier promises every man
who votes for him that his name shall
be placed in the jury box if this candi
date is elected If this improbable
contingency should happen and the
Judge should proceed to carry out his
promise by placing in the jury box, say
the whole of the $500 white voters of
the county, he would violate the law
and render himself liable to impeach-
ment. The law casts the duty upon
the jury commissioners, whose sphere
it is to see that grand jurors are 'expe-
rienced, intelligent and upright" men,
and that traverse jurors are intelligent
and upright" men. Even the Brigadier
must admit that there are some men in
! Cobb county who have not all or any OF
these qualifications, fact to be ascer-
tanned by the jury commissioners by
patient Investigations. What proof
does he offer that the names withdrawn
from the jury boxes, or not drawn to
serve, are results of Judge Gober's in
stigations? None whatever. Why lay
all the blame (if there is any on the
Judge? Are not the commissioners
and other officers human? Have they
not their likes and dislikes? Are they
not acting strictly within the snhere of
their duties? If Judge Gobe Yshould
interfere, would he not act wfcnout his
province? Is it not the presumption
that all of the officials act within the
lines of their duty?
In point of fact believe all these
complaints to be greatly exaggerated
There are now 31e and ST names in the
grand and traverse jury boxes, respec-
lively, of this county, making total
of 1888 names, which is a very large
proportion Of the total white vote OF
the county to be therein at one time
But if any white voter considers himself
Inexperienced intelligent and up
right" whose name is not in either
Jury box and who desires it to be ir