Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-07-30
,nteered in the 10Th Virginia Regi-

| Ell as county CLERK, served elllel
with that regiment or as a scout in
the operations around Petersburg
He was once captured within the
Federal lines, but escaped. He has
been for many years the Comman-
der of the Pickett-Stuart Camp of
Confederate Veterans at Nottoway,
the members of which Camp in re-
spouse to an attack made upon him
during the present gubernatori al
campaign, endorsed him in ringing
resolutions, concluding as follows:
knowing Judge Mann as we do,
we take pleasure in declaringto the
people of this Commonwealth, that
as a soldier, q judge, a senator, a
neighbor, a friend, and Christian
gentleman, he has measured up to
the full standard of all that we
would have required of him; that
his private and public life have
been clean and pure; and that he
enjoys the full confidence. affection
and esteem of his neighbors, his
countrymen, and all who knew him
best.
Called to the bar soon after the
war, Judge Mann soon took front
rank in his pofession aed upon the
establishment Of the county court
system in 1870, although but 81
years of age, he was elected the
first county judge of Nottoway:
He was three times reelected and
in 1892 declined reelection. Up
on his retirement from the bench +,
the people of Nottoway gatheredin
mass meeting, passed resolutions OF
most commendatory nature and
presented him with a handsome
gold-headed cane as an evidence OF
their affection and esteem.
For the past ten years, Judge
Mann has been a member OF the
State Senate, and has perhaps &C
complished more legislation of
general nature tending to the pub
lie good than any member of that
body since the war. Among the
most important measures he has in
troduced and passed have been the
Mann Liquor Law, which closed
eight hundred country saloons and
on accaunt of which the liquor peo-
pie are bitterly opposing him to-day,
and the Mann High School Law,
under which 251 high schools have
been established in the rural dis
tricts in the past three years. When
he entered the Senate, he was at
once made Chairman of the Demo-
cratic Senate Caucus, an honornev
er before perhaps conferred upon a.
new member. He is now Chair
man of the Committee for Courts
of Justice, and a member of the FL
nance Committee and the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections, the
three most important committees
of the Senate. He was also Chair
man of the very important Joint
Committee which adapted the stat
ute law of the State to thenew con-
stitution.
Early in life, Judge Mann con-
nected himself with the Presbyter-
ian church, in which he has been
for many years an elder, and has
always been especially active in
church work. 1t it interesting to
note that every minister of the Cos
pei, every lawyer, every county Of
fetal and every newspaper in his
home county of Nottoway is giving
him active and cordial support in
this campaign. This together with
the resolutions passed by his old
comrades show what his home peo-
Pile think a out him; while the hon
ors bestowd upon him by his Dem
ocratic brot Ar Senators show how
he is regard2 i'm public life.
For a grea pany years he was a
of II Democratic State
Executive Com Aittee. In 1889, he
placed the mann of Phil Mckinney
before the Democratic Convention
which nominated him for Governor.
1t has been said of Judge Mann
that he has perhaps made more
Democratic speeches than any man
in Virginia, with the possible ex-
ception of Major Daniel.
This sketch cannot perhaps be
better concluded than by quoting
The following pen pictures of Judge
mann, which appeared editorially in
The Norfolk Dispatch during his
canvass for the gebernatorial nomi-
latson in 1905, when, although he
lad the support of neither of the
;o-called factions which then exist
ID in the Democratic party, he re-
,eived second to the largest vote in
he three-cornered race:
"In all the opposition that has
,een aroused by his gubernatorial
'andidacy, no one has questioned f
,ut that he is man of fine intelli- l
,ence, splendid ability and uncom-
integrity. He is a man
# great strength of character, Wig 7
rous, energetic, hard worker and t
gifted speaker; a man of ease of r
banner, distinguished personal ap-
'earance, and representative Vir- l