The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-05-02
ADVERTIS EMENT.
A. L. Rives Compares WOrrill and
RaineS.


From the Cuthbert Leader
In last weeks article this writer
gave the qualifications for judge of
our superior court. In this | shall en-
deavor to give some history of the two
aspirants for the position and some of
the methods that are being employed
in this campaign. Being personally
on the best of terms with both, and
having known both from their boy
hood, have exceptional qualifications
for dealing with them, and shall do so
in the fear of God and for the good of
the people of the Pataula circuit.
w. G.. WOrrill was trained by his
father, lawyer, for the law. He has
a high sense of honor, a judicial tenn
permanent that enables him to weigh
evidence, and the command of terSe
English that enables him in short,
clear sentences to embOdy what he
teaches. He has had the best training,
educationally, that our State Univer-
sity can give. He is a democrat, has
always endeavored to keep himself
posted on pending issues, but has new
er been a partisan in the sense of GO
ing on the hustingS and helping to
carry or defeat any man, save once
when he thought public interest need
ed it. He can honor the bench and
benefit the people.
Now his opponent, Mason Raines,
of Dawson, Ca, is Worrill's opposite
in every respect. He was born on
| farm, as WOrrill was, this being all
| they have in common. He has only
an academic education. He is a born
partisan; could no more stand neutral
and weigh evidence than he could fly.
He first tried farming, then medicine,
, then politics, then law, then mixed
law and politics He was a pOpulist
at the inception of the pOpulist party;
remained with this party until he was
defeated for the legislature from Quit
man county; afterwards removed to
Terrell; engaged in farming, having
received some property by his wife,
who is daughter OF William Gay of
Cuthbert. After moving to Terrell he
Joined himself to o. B. Stevens, and
followed Stevens back into the demo-
cratic ranks. and through Stevens in
, tiuence was given the position he now
holds, judge of the city court of Daw-
son, his law partner and Stevens SON
in-law, HeOmanS, the tIn-hOrn chair
man of the state democratic executive
committee, being his solicitor. Raines
mistakes bluster for candor and bra
vadO for tirmness, and his whole
training and trend of thought unfit
him for judge of one of the imDor-
tant courts in our state-a court that
requires probity, learning and an I'M
compromising determination to know
neither friend nor foe, which, from his
very nature, Raines could not do.
Now as to the campaign methods.
Solicitor General Laing is uncle-in-
law to YeomanS. YeOmanS is O. B.
Stevens son-in-law and Raines' solic-
itor. O. 3. Stevens, as commissioner
of agriculture, over year since, APP
pointed two inspectors of fertilizers
from Quitman county. One of them is
Raines' cousin, the other is this cous-
ms brother-in-law and member of the
democratic executive committee of
Quitman county. the rotten business
which one family is said to control.
Randolph, with about three times the
area and population, manages to get
along without any Inspector
LIE; the people wake up and rebuke
in the primary this high-handed plot
that is aimed to subvert the nearest
and most sacred rights they possess.
Yours for the triumph of the right,
ANDREW p. RIVES.
Springvale, Ga March 81, 1906.