The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-06-06
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always 20 give value for fayors re
been unsuccessful Nearly all Law
yeys Who love their profession. az
some period IF their careers. cherish |
an ambition 10 wear the judicial
ermins. and the time has come with
me when | desire to reap some OF
the honors Of my profession. and !
am asking the citizenship OF the 4oth
judicial district to hesiow upon me
the honor of presiding over their dis
trict courts Whether or not | am
worthy of This honor is for the PEG
pie to decide. and upon this issue !
tender the record have made "a q
man and as a LAWYER
There also appears before YOU AZ
this time q young gentleman who is
| a native of your county. born and
| reared at your county seat. who also
seeks the position al your hands
| This gentleman. Judge f. l.. Haw-
kins, now your county Judge. in his
| published announcements and in a
| letter which he has sent into other
counties of the district. tells the PEG
pie that he Is a graduate OF the Law
| department of our State University
of the class of 1889. thar he has had
seventeen years active practice at
| Waxahachie and feels well qualified
| by training and experience for the
| important position he is seeking at
the hands of the people. He further,
as evidence of the esteem in which he
| is held by the people among whom he
was born, and has been raised, men
| tons that he has been honored by the
! people of Ellis county with the office
of county attorney for four years, and
| that he is now serving his fourth
year as county judge. Some of these
statements were news to me, and ]
think they will be to you. The judges
! letter was written about the 9th of
this month and to make his seventeen
years he would have had to begin
practice about six weeks before he
graduated, and he has to include the
time he has been serving on your
county bench. | presume that he
began trying to practice his profess
sion soon after he graduated but if
he stepped into an active practice at
the beginning he was more fortunate
than most young lawyers. However
active that practice may have been
it is fact that in 1892, as now
remember. about three years after
he began, he was willing to accept,
and did accept the subordinate po-
sition of assistant county attorney,
which fact he fails to mention in his
published literature. Why? He
says it was because this was an hon
or conferred upon him by Mr.. Fears,
and not by the people. He held the
position for about two years Just the
: same, and then went out, and wa
Il out two years. a reasonable portion
/ of which time he devoted TO securing
;, for himself the office of county at
: torney, which office he did secure il
, 1896, and held for -four years. II
g then went out of office again. an,
; was ont for two years, part o
Z. which intermission he devoted 10 Sc
curing the office of county judge, ID
= which he was elected i'm 1902. am
which he still holds This is mi
% record for the whole period of thos
seventeen years. Our of -sveutee
~ years Of professional lie Dee has ha
- ten years of actual official tenure. de-
es voting six years of 20 TO the dufis
four Years no the duties of count