Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1909-09-24
SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE
OF Mr.. Adrian Posey of the Judgeship
Nomination, Delivered by Him at
LeOnardtown on the 3Ist
Day of August Last.

published by Requestl.
M. Chairman and Gentlemen Of
the Contention
/ nave received through your com
mittee your notification and message
and am here in response thereto.
Standing here in this temple of
Justice under existing circumstances
is something Of a memory.
In 1880, twenty-nine years ago,
in the temple of justice of this County
within the shadow of where | now
stand, amid a cluster Of the most dis
tinguished citizenship of this County
the lost and lamented Judge Rob
ert Ford, his lovable son-the late
J. Frank Ford, the late James II.
Wilson, the late Joseph II Morgan !;
that living disciple of all that is hon
orable and noble in manhood and
sweet in nature-the Hon. Robert @.
Coombs, and your present affable and
courteous CLERK of the Circuit Court
Of this County, and who will be the
next Clerk thereof, and for whose
election l shall labor with untiring
zeal and industry, together with the
latter, we stood side by side and took
the oath as members Of the legal pro-
fession Of this State.
After that telling occasion in the
history of my life it is a singular CO.
incidence that after so many years
have passed and gone should return
here to accept at the ungrudging
hands Of my party, whose principles
| admire and whose battles in an
humble way | have fought these
many years, the highest honor, in
line, that could be conferred on
member of my profession
| was happy them am happier
now.
Having qualified in the profession
of my choice and armed with the
license of the Circuit Court for this
County, with the blushing hue of
youth upon my cheeks and in the full
vigor of young manhood, | began the
race of life among you, my people of
Southern Maryland.
1t was not my good fortune to
dwell upon the soil of this historical
County, nor to enjoy exclusively the
charming society of its people. nor 20
ssax ~p-.unus.sirne direcrf5
under their observing eye, but /
know many of you and many of you
know me.
My life thus far has been spent in
the centre County of this Judicial
Circuit, where rest in repose the
bones of my ancestry and where ex-
lists the sweetest charm of my life
my homeland there undisguised
my whole life is an open book.
Some of you know something of
it and others do not. To those who
may desire to know more and to those
who know nothing and should be in
formed, ere they cast their ballots for
two candidates for the two Judge
ships to be filed in November next,
l bid you go among the people of
my County and scan every paragraph
and read every line thereof.
After so doing, if you are satisfied
that my moral character is above re-
proach, that | am qualified in legal
attainments to fill the high office once
SO honorahly and ably filed by your
late and loved Judge Robert Ford !;
later and longer by your distinguish
ed Judge J. Parran Crane, yet living
to bless the good society and citizen
ship of this County with his presence,
and still later by another promising
son, one of our present Judges, Judge
b. Harris CamaIier, l shall appreciate
your votes, otherwise not.
The nomination so kindly accord
ed me comes without the asking and
/ therefore appreciate it all the more,
and from the depths of grateful
soul, and, | say to you that if the
other and greater honor is to come
to me | want it with all the honor
that is in it.
In considering for whom to vote |
want you to see me as | am and
measure me accordingly.
am but human with all the frail-
ties, shortcomings and misgivings of
human nature, the plain ordinary
man. / possess no brighter gifts than
any other, but in honesty of purpose
and courage of action | yield to no
man.
Therefore, | say to you that should
you in your judgment decide that |
shall be one Of your judges, l prom
ise you here and now by a vow that
God grant may be registered in
Heaven that you shall never regret
your action.
In the performance of duty no
man shall know me off the bench
the same frank and open hand in fell
lowship and friendship that has greet
ed my people in the past will he ever
open and extended in kindness TO the
humblest citizen desiring to clasp it.
When | snail shoulder the respon-
sibilities of the Judicial office, if elect
ed, all feelings of personal likes and
dislikes, political proclivities and sec
tartan inelinations shall get behind
me. No unhappy wretch shall 60
from the Court over which | shall
preside with an aching heart and
weeping over injustice done him, but
the rich and the poor, the high and
the lowly, the black and the white
shall have justice administered to her