The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-01-25
JUDGE WATKINS OF ATHENS
Has Been Suggested as q Candi.
date for Attorney General.
From beaumont Journal.

|
From out the depths of the piney
woods and the plains of East Texas
there is arising a feeling that in
| that section of the state lives the
man who shall be the next attorney
! general Of the great state of Texas;
and this feeling has been intensified
with each passing day as the trend
OF events keeps on calling for man
to fill that high exalted position; a
man that shall have the courage of
| his convictions, that shall be honor
| able with himself, his God, and the
people, and not allow the position
to play politics with his actions in
order that the future may have in
/ store for him more exalted posi-
ton in the service of the people.
This cry from the woods and the
plains of East Texas has been heard
! by some of the foremost men of
Texas, and these men, realizing that
East Texas had within its domain
such a man, have planted their ban
ners in the band wagon of success
and have declared that the next at
| torney general of the empire state of
! Texas must and shall be Hon. A. b.
Watkins of Athens. The Journal
must not be construed in saying
that it is behind the movement to
bring forth Mr.. Watkins as the next
attorney general or that it is pledged
to him or any other candidate for
the office. 1t simply has its ears to
| the ground and cannot fail to take
| heed to the tremOr that comes from
| East Texas at the mention Of his
name. The Journal does, however,
predict that the forces that are at
work and the strong character and
the winning personality of the man
will make him the choice of the peo
pie at the next state election for the
office of attorney general. In recog-
milton of this the Journal takes the
| honor of being the first great daily
in Texas to take up the demands of
the people and the country press Of
East Texas and present his name to
the voters of Texas as the strongest
man before the people today.
Judge Watkins is a man about IS
years of age and a physical giant as
well as a mental one. He is the
kind of man that will find his fol-
lowers in the forks Of the creeks as
we'll as in the business world, for all
men who know him know that he is
a man that can be trus ted 40 matter
how serious the problem that he
man who can act as the attorney
general for corporation and at the
same time feel that the said corpor-
alton has no special claim upon him
because OF the same. In other
words, he is a man who can serve |
the people and deal out evenhanded !
Justice to all. Master of his Cwn |
thoughts and his own actions, with |
a record that he can feel proud of, |
and a record that the people of East !
Texas prize as highly as they do the |
great Elberta peach, II is to be won
dered at that he has not been pro- |
posed for states attorney before. |
This can be explained, however, by |
saying that he is not an office seek |
er, bat a plain citizen. He has not
that put-yourseif-forward character /
istic that is so blatant in the aver
age great man of the day, and on |
this account ne has not been heard |
OF in politics outside OF his own iu-
dicial district.
In picking Hon. A. b. Watkins
as the next attorney general of the
state of Texas, the Journal knows
whereof it speaks, as it is acquainted
with the forces that are at work to
make him such, and the fact that
these forces are willing and anxious
to get his name before the public
and then take off their coats and
sound his praises into every nook
aud corner of the Lone Star state,
not for recompense or the hope of
such, but because they believe 1t to
be due tho state that ii be served,
in u capacity as the above,
by men of sterling character, iateg- II.
rity and ability, men who will ever
strive to do that which will bring
to the greatest number
and at the same time serve the ends
Of justice honestly and above board.
Such man is Hon. Il. 3. Watkins
Of Athens.
HEST LINZ MENT ON EARTH
Henry ID. Baldwin, superintendent
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