The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-08
SOLICITOR TATE HAS
 MADE SPLENDID RECORD
Deserves Endorsement of the People by Re- election to Solicitorship of the Fifteenth
 Judicial Circuit.

tHe pehest of the Solicitor of a cfcult' Cases go off the dockets, and true bills are not found on account of the Soiicl- tor. Mean and malicious prosecutions may be instituted and indictments there
 on found if the solicitor does but wink at it.
 Suppose a weak man should be elected solicitor. He would be a terror, a veri-
 table bosom of destruction in the hands of irresponsible men who put him in, or
 else he would let the scales Of justice become cankered and crime would stalk abroad unchecked, If 1t suited the men
 who put him in
 When Tammany elects mayor of New
 York, who rules New York?-Tammany. So 1t is with your solicitor-Mr. Loyd
 Tate is a strong man. He Is not much of
 politician. he Is too much of man to be a politician.
 He doesn't know the meaning of the word boss
 He never had one He never will have one. He is the man for solicitor and the people will elect him on April 11th. He Is a self-made man. He grew upon a farm and loves nature
 and out of doors. He was a ploughboy
 down in Russell until old enough to go
 to college.
 After he had been in college two years,
 his father was unable to pay his expenses any longer and he came back home
 an> went to work on the farm. He
 worked hard for two years. keeping up his studies after crops were laid by as best he could. He saved enough out of his work on the farm in two years to pay a part of his expenses and he returned to college. hA kvy@ 1n ~h college, he had grown to he a man, but
 he was not ashamed to go back to school, because he was ambitious and determin- ed to succeed
 His money gave out before the two years necessary to complete his educa- tion had passed. but he was determined to succeed, and would not give up So
 he did odd jobs around the house where
 he boarded in Auburn-milked the cows and worked generally around the place And he succeeded in completing his education. Such men as Lloyd Tate
 always succeed You cannot keep such
 men down. Adversity only spurs them on.
 He not only graduated al Auburn. but President Thach of that great institution will tell you, that Auburn probably
 never turned out a man more thoroughly equipped MT. Tate was selected by Auburn to represent that college at the intercollegiate debate in 1896 at Talladega where all the great colleges of Alabama sent representatives. MT. Tate won the
 medal for oratory at this debate and was selected by all the colleges to represent
 Alabama at Monteagle Tenn. where the Southern States sent representatives, At
 this debate a man from Georgia won first
 place and Mir. Tate second.
 After leaving school MT. Tate taught for several years, studying law mean while during vacation and spending one summer at the University of Virginia on money he saved. He came to We tumpka and finished his studies there. He was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of Alabama and began at Wetumpka trying his first case there. He made a good record as a lawyer at once.
 When he was made solicitor less than five months ago. he gave up his general law practice and devoted himself to his duties as solicitor.
 He has held the ofice less than five months. What reason on earth is there for putting him out.
 There isn't any.
 He is strong and intelligent, competent and upright. f1e mas HlBn dpprecldtlOn or the once he holds and his conscience is his only
 boss"
 No insidious influence will ever affect
 the course of justice in the Fifteenth
 Circuit while he is solicitor because he
 Is in the fullest sense man.
 MT. Tate is a member of the Methodist
 Church: has just filled the chair of Noble Grand of the Odd Fellows Lodge
 in Wetumpka and is Knight of Pythias. Everybody likes him who knows him and the people are going to elect him Solicitor on April 11th for full term.-1t