The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1905-02-03

for his rights in these courts.
The men who might be so unfor.
tunate as to be indicted in this
Obion court would probably find the
same burden, as he could hardly ex.
pect to get his attorney to shut up
his office and go to Obion and stay
there day or two TO try his case at
the same cost that he could get off
with if the case was in the home
court of his lawyer, OF course this
would not apply to the clients of
the two gentlemen now at Obion,
but the greater portion of the bar
are located at the county seat ma
turally, where the records of the
county are kept, and where, under
the constitution and the general
policy of the State, it is to be ex-
pected that the legal business of the
county and the people of the county
will be transacted.
Again, if Obion County estab-
fishes these courts, or rather if the
Legislature does so, it will be very
hard to ever undo it, and the natur-
al effect and tendency of such di-
vision of the county into two iuris-
dictions is to engender factions and
rivalry and spirit of jealousy be-
tween the two sections. 1t destroys
the harmony Pad unity of interests
of the county, and tends to pull
down and retard the prosperity and
materia interests of the whole
county. The people ought to have
one common central point of gener-
al interest to all; one seat Of justice;
one place for all public business.
Such is the rule in the State gener.
ally such was the intention of the
law. There are just as strong rea-
sons for dividing the County Court
into sections, and for dividing the
courts of nearly all the other coun-
ties of the State into two or three
different courts and holding them
about over the counties at such out
lying towns as may be most con-
venient to the people of the part1c-
ular sections, as there is in Obion
County.
While some people may live re-
mote from the county seat, that is
true in all the counties, and even if
these courts were esta blished at
Obion it would still be true of other
sections of the county. 1t is inn
practicable to carry the courts from |
the courthouse at the county seat |
to all the outlying remote sections
for the accommodation of the peo-
pie in each section. Have Obion or
her good people any better or high
er right in this regard than the
other remote sections? Perhaps
the difference lies in her ambition,
and the persistence and "uever-let-
up" qualities of her founder.
He is not to be blamed, nor is
Obion, but will the people OF the
merely to accommodate him,
or his town, make the great mistake
IF voting to rend asunder the coun-
"; destroy her unity of interest,
enter on policy which means be-
ng and interminable factional
strife, the probably effort to still1
urther separate our interests by
.reating a new county, very heavy
ncrease of the burdens of taxation,
ind all the other resulting evils
ind burdens and inconveniences to
he people of the county. This is
he step which will retard the
trowth. and wealth and prosperity
# Obion County.
The county now enjoys a most
position as one of the best
nd most prosperous counties in
Tennessee. Divide it into two /
with the resulting
ntagonisms and factions and then q
he will be largely shorn of her
'lory and her power. I
Those are not AIN but some of '
be reasons which suggest them ).
elves to the writer why it is best :
Or Obion County as county and !
Or her people, that the Obion Court
hould not be established. And in '
! may add that no
eason on earth has or can be given d