The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-05-05
A LETTER TO THE VOTERS OF THE
SECOND SUPREME COURT DISTRICT
FROM JUDGE ALFRED D. LAND.


FROM JUDGE ALFRED D. LAND.
beg leave to inform you that am
candidate to succeed myself in the office OF
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court OF
Louisiana, subject to the action OF the
Democratic party. I respectfully solicit
your vote and support.
AS many of you may not know me per-
sonally, deem it proper to submit brief
sketch of my life as citizen and public
servant.
was born in 1912 on farm in Holmes
County, Miss. In 1847 my family moved
to Shreveport, La, which has ever since
been my home.
The first school l ever attended was
public school in Shreveport. l was edu-
Gated partly at Centenary College, Jackson,
La, and finished my academic course at
the University of Virginia. In May, 1861,
received my diploma from the law de-
partment of the University of Louisiana.
served in the Confederate Army from
June, 1861, to July, 1865; first in Hays
Seventh Louisiana Infantry in Virginia,
and then in Stark's Twenty eight Missis-
sippi Cavalry and Harvey's Mississippi
Scouts until discharged in 1854 on account
of wounds received in battle. After my
discharge l served the last year of the war
as clerk in the Adjutant Generals office
at Shreveport, where was paroled in July,
1865.
was admitted to the bar in November,
1865, and after practicing law in New Or
leans about eighteen months, settled down
in Shreveport, where practiced my pro-
fession for many years.
have never been politician, nor have
l ever sought political office. Ihave, how
ever, been consistent Democrat, and have
always stood shoulder to shoulder with the
white people of this State in their struggles
against political misrule and for good gov.
eminent.
In 1893, was appoined by Gov. Foster
as member of committee on Constitu.
tional Amendments, and had the honor o.
being elected chairman. The recon
mendations of that committee on suffrage
and other questions were in the main en-
, bodied in the Constitution of 1898.
In 1894 was elected Judge of the Dis
trict Court for the Parish of Caddo, ant
was twice reelected to the same Office
without opposition.
In October, 1908, while serving my thirt
term as District Judge, was appointed b!
Gov. Heard, on the Recommendation of
: very large majority of the lawyers Of tn
, Stete, to the Supreme Bench to fill the un
expired term of Justice N. G. Blanchard
resigned, to run for Governor.
I. For more than six years l have givel
4 my undivided time and attention to tn
/ discharge of the responsible duties of m,
! high office. This experience has made m
r more fit for the Office than was when ap
t pointed in 1903. My friends think that
: have made a good record on the Suprem
n Bench, and that as the holder of an unex
e pired term should be renominated in &C
cordance with the time-honored custom il
such cases. To the accusation that ar
an old man, plead guilty, but submit tina
v because have grown wrinkled and gra
n in the public service is no just reason VIII
should be displaced so long as I ar
n physically and mentally able to discharg
: the duties of the office.
Yours truly,
A. A. D. LAND.