The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-08-27
JUDGE SAM HOLDING
AND GENERAL GARNER
DECLINE REELECTION
WILL RETIRE FROM OFFICE ON
EXPIRATION OF PRES
EMIT TERMS.
and FORM LAW PARTNERSHIP
Have Served With Splendid Ability
and Many Friends Urge Them to
Ask Another Term-5usines Reas-
ons Assigned.

Judge Sam Holding and Attorney
General Job Garner. who for a num-
Iber of years have held the respective
Offices Of circuit judge and prosecut-
ing attorney of the Eleventh Judi
cial Circuit, Thursday announced that
they would not stand for reelection.
Judge Holding and General Garner
have formed a law partnership and
will be associated together in the
practice of that profession, at the ex-
piration of their terms in September,
1910.
The announcement that the two dis
tinguished officials will not stand for
reelection will come as bomb from
clear sky to those who have not
shared their confidence for the past
few months. However, intimate
friends have known for some time
that the announcement was pending,
and to them it will not be surprise.
In declining to stand for reelection
Judge Holding and General Garner
have run counter to the wishes of
their friends, and especially the mem
bers of the various bars of the circuit
Both have been importuned to again
assume the burden of Office, and hun
dreds have personally assured them
of their support Had they made the
race it is practically certain that both |
would have been again honored by the |
people.
Judge Holding was elected August |
1898 to- fill out the unexpired term of |
Judge E. D. Patterson, and four years
later was reelected judge of this cir
cult by the votes of the people. He
has served with splendid ability, and
has made reputation second to none.
He is recognized throughout the state
as one of the ablest jurists upon the
bench and his knowledge Of law is
broad and comprehensive. During
the recent trial of Col. Duncan Cooper
and Robin Cooper for the assasslna-
ion of Senator Carmack he was asso-
,iated with counsel for the prosecu-
ion in an advisory capacity, and his
of the criminal statutes I
Itraightened out many difficult legal
narIs At the conclusion of his term /
Judge Holding will have been twelve {
ears upon the bench.
General Garner was elected to sue
eed Hon. Frank Boyd and at the ex- G
iration of his term will. have serv- @
d eight years as Encouragement. t
)uring that time he has made state t
tide reputation as a brilliant and v
earless prosecuting attorney, his c
rosecutiOn of the Coopers being the
rowning work of his splendid ca n
Ger. Since his election to office Gen
raj Garner has won more reputation
ian any attorney general in the W
outh
In declining to stand for re-elec- g,
on both General Garner and Judge "
gliding assign the same reason-that n,
lie practice of their profession is far Of
ore lucrative than the holding of
Iblic Office, and that their personal NJ
terests demand that they retire
ON the public service. They will h.
obably open an Office at Columbia, h,
General Garner has recently re- he
rned from Texas, where he spent ii,
e summer with his family, consult
g with them as to his future plans. -
. spent Wednesday in Columbia and ID
t Wednesday night for Lawrence
re-. When called up there today by
le Herald he authorized the follow
: statement. you can say that I