The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-09-10
JUDGE F. W. MOORE
Candidate for the Court of Civil
Appeals.

Judge Felix W. Moore, of this city
candidate for the Court of Civil Ap.
peals from West Tennessee was ap-
pointed as member of the Court last
January, and has therefore been a
member of the Court only short time.
Judge Moore has been a lifelong Dem
ocrat, voting the Democratic ticket
since he was q years, with the single
exception of vote cast for j.. H. Fus-
sell in 1882, who was the "Sky-blue"
candidate for Governor on the State
debt question. He has been a delegate
to and attended almost every State
Democratic convention since 1876, and
since then has been a member of every
county Democratic convention held in
Obion County and every Floterial, Sen
atorial and Congressional convention
since that time.
Mr.. Moore was honored by the Ninth
Congressional District as a delegate to
the National Democratic Convention
which met in St. Louis in 1888, and
which nominated Mr.. Cleveland the sec
ond time for the Presidency.
Mr.. Moore has always been an active
working Democrat. He has never voted
the Republican ticket and never for
Republican candidate, and his loyalty
to the Democratic party has never been
questioned.
Mr.. Moore has never before held pub
lie office except when he was elected by
a very complimentary majority as May
or of Union City. He served two terms
with distinction, being elected by popu-
lar maiorities in 1876 and 1873.
Mr.. Moore has practiced law in Union
City since 1875, his practice being in all
the courts of the State and in the Fed
eral Courts. Last fall Mr.. Moore was
appointed by Governor Patterson as as
sistant counsel to aid the Attorney Gen
eral of the district in the prosecution of
the Nightriders indicted for the murder
of Capt. Rankin, and, like many other
important suits conductedgin this court.
his services have been marked with ex-
ability and distinction. In
the prosecution Mr.. Moore sought only
to do his duty, for which he has been
highly approved. His services on the
bench during the brief term have also
been of notable and remarkable char
lcter. His record marks him as a peer
If the great Tennessee jurists.
Following is statement made over
Mr., Moore's own signature:
| am not candidate OF any faction
If the party, but am Democratic can
lidate, seeking a Democratic nominal
ion, at the hands of the party which |
laye so long served. 1t is customary
or the party to indorse, by nomina-
ion, an officer who has faithfully dis
harged the duties of the office for part
# term or for one term, and if nv
york on the bench for the time | have
een a member of this court has been
to the lawyers and to the
tigants having business before it, |
hould be glad to have this work in
orsed by nomination to the office for
full term. l only want the office one
Ill term and at the end thereof be CON
mt to retire therefrom to private life.
If my record as a Democrat, togeth-
, with my loyalty and service to the
arty, and my work as a member of the
curt of Civil Appeals, commend me to
lie Democrats of the State, l shall be
ad to have the nomination which
elk, and should that honor fall to me
promise the people of this State