The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-04-06
DAVID ]. COWAN
For CIRCUIT JUDGE,
David J. Cowan Announces For Cir
cult Jud1c, Subject to Primary
On Anril 13th-Do You Be-
lieVe in a Square Deal.


70 the Republican Voters of A'eXan.
der County
I desire 10 call YOU attention to my
candidacy for Circuit Judge of your
circuit subject to the Republican pri-
mary on the 18th inst. You have the
right ANA it is your duty to nominate
three candidates. There are four of
us running. You can support your
home candidate and two o her men.
am running in the interest Of no
ether candidate. As You are the iuryI
in the case | invite you to read my
plea, consider my case and then rem
der fair ANA impartial verdict AS
am not personally acquainted with
many of you / desire to mod estly
state my case to You and tell YOU who
am. ! was reared on a farm in
johnson Co; began teaching school
and attending tn. Southern Illinois
Normal, at Carbondale ILL.,, where II
graduated in 1887; taught school in
California, was admitted to practice
law in San Francisco, Cal, in 1898
and also in Oklahoma in the same
year and was admitted to practice law
In Illinois in 1895 and began the prac-
tice of law az Vienna Ill.,; was elect
ed City Attorney of Vienna in 1897
and reelected in 1899 and was elect
ed States Attorney or Johnson County
in 1900 and reelected in 1904.
| am running a. my own merits,
and have no combination. 1t seems
to be generally understood that a
combination has been formed. If so
is il fair? invite you to inquire
AMI decide for yourself. The authors
of our constitution and laws intended
| that our judges should be selected
upon their merits and because of
| their fitness and qualification as a
| lawyer and Judge and not upon his
ability to lead political forces. Would
| it not be fair that each of the appi-
cants for this office should receive a
vote proportional to his real fitness
| Don't you think We should run on
orr own individual merits? Does any
one of us have the moral right 10
! pledge the vote of our county to an
other candidate for the vote of his
county? Has any candidate the
right to pledge your vote to any
other candidate without your con
sent? If this has been done should
you deliver? | realize that this n
political game. yet it should be fair
/ H. +In
prestage of office and are good men.
We are all Republicans seeking your
| support We should he selected on
| account of orr fitness have no
right to ask you to vote for any other
candidate and neither OF them has
any moral right to control your vote
! against me. The primary law was
passed in the interest of the people
and it will take several thousand dol.
lars to hold this primary and it is
done that YOU may break up political
combinations AMI make the nomina-
tions. It is expected that every
man shall have a fair and square
| deal. / think that the judge in ad-
| diticn tn having legal learning should
he a fair and square man and stand
a all times for square and fair deal.
even when his own interests are AT
issue. IL he is not a fair and a
| square man even when his own in
forest is at issue he is wanting in one
of the higher qualities that should be
the distinguishing qualification of a
good judge. believe our cour
SHOULD be conducted on business prin-
oiples and that the Judge shuold
look after your business with the
same diligence that the prudent and