The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-09-13
THANKS DUE TO
THE PRESIDENT
appointment Of W. B. Sheppard
Universally Approved.

President Roosevelt on Thursday last
appointed Hon. w. B. Sheppard, of
Pensacola, to be United States District
Judge for the Northern District of
Florida.
Mr.. Sheppard was born in Bristol,
Liberty county, on October 4, 1860, and
for a long time practiced law in Apa-
lachicola. He received his education at
Mountain Home, Ala, on the Tennes-
see river; al Emory College, Oxford
Ca, and in the University Of North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill where he was
graduated with distinction. While a
student at Chapel Hill he read law also,
and later further pursued his profess
sional studies with the firm Of Fleming
and Daniel, in Jacksonville. He was
admitted to the bar at Bristol in 1891
and removed 90 Apalachicola, where he
began his practice. In 1894 he was adj
mitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the State and the various Fed
eral courts. He is a successful lawyer
and promineM in political life as well.
President Harrison appointed him col
lectoHpf e,.stoms Of the port Of Apa-
lachicoR on October 81, 1889, and he
served Tour years under that admins
ed to the important position by Presi-
dent Mckinley. He was district attor-
ney for the Northern district at the
the time of Judge Swayne's. death,
which position he was still filling when
appointed co the judgeship
The appointment appears to have
met with universal approval through
out the district, and this sentiment is
so happily voiced by the following edi
torial comment in the Pensacola Daily
News of hast Friday that we gladly
make use Of it with unqualified indorse-
rnent;
1.-THE people Of Middle and West
Florida have cause TO feel good today.
We say the people Of MiGd.e and West
Florida becatse they are the ones most
directly interested, but the people of
other sections of the State and in other
States will rejoice to know that in APP
pointing a successor to the late Federal
Judge Swayne, of the Northern district
Of Florida, President Roosevelt has not
only rewarded faithful public servant
but has placed the judicial ermine upon
the shoulders of a man who is in every
way pre- enlinently qualified for the re-
sponsible trust.
"While little doubt has existed in
able outcome OF the judgeship appoint
ment, the long delay of the President
In settling the matter led some to be-
lieve that he would not appoint the dis
trict attorney.
Judge Sheppard has just cause 10
feel proud of the Endorsement he re-
ceived from the hands of the people
with whom he has lived Though OF
the opposlt, political faith with the
great majoI ity Of the people in this
State vet so clean had been his life
that even his Republican politics could
not drive from him in the critical hour
of his political career the friends he
had made in the ranks of the Demo
cratic party And they stood Loyalty
by him to the last, demanding of the
President that the wishes of the people
over whom the judge would preside
should be consulted. The Governor, the
Secretary of state and nearly ali the
other State House officers at Tallahas-
see, together with the leading Demo
cratic attorneys and business men
throughout the district, gave the Presi-
dent TO understand that the people of
the Northern judicial district of Flor
IDA wanted Sheppard for judge. And
1t is also a fact not TO be overlooked
NAtAN NhC WV NeRitl iiNWoBdJtlo III VuukG
Sheppard's district both favored and
urged his appointment
THE Evening News congratulates
Judge Sheppard, and it congratulates
the people of the Northern district of
Florida that once moro they are to have
such man to preside over their court |
Born and reared among the PLAN, com
mon people, rising in life by degrees
from the humblest station TO the exalt- |
ed position which h occupies TO-DAY, h IL /
can feel and understand the conditions |
surrounding the people who appear be- |
fore the bar of his court, and the expe- |
rience which he has had will tend 70 I
make him a greater, purer and a more /
impartial Judge-a judge Of human ma I
ture as well as of the law
Again we congratulate you, Judge
Sheppard, and may your career upon I
the bench be as illUstrious as your life /
in the past has been pure. The judi
cial ermine Of a Federal judge carries
with II almost unlimited power, but the 1
people of Florida are not afraid to trust
il in the hands OF a wan like William
b. Sheppard. ee
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