The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1912-07-26
WILL MAKE THE RACE
.J,doe / K. Watkins Announces as Can.
didate for Supreme Court Judgship

Judge L. K. Watkins of this
place has at last yielded to the
urgent solicitation of his friends
from practically every parish If
the district and this week for
mally announces his candidacy
for the position on the Supreme
Court bench which Judge Hal
vacated when he became gov:
ernor. Judge Watkins has hac
the matter of offering for this
position under consideration fol
some time. He was not unmlnd'
full of the high honor that the
elevation to such an Office would
carry with it, nor did he lack
every possible encouragement on
the part of his friends to become
a candidate. But he is very
much attached to his home town
and it's people his neighbors and
his friends; he has lived in Min
den all his life and his father
lived here before him and but
few men hold the ties of home
and friends more sacred than
Judge Watkins. For these rea-
sons he has hesitated for some
time to make the race.
However, a laudable ambition
to sit on the Supreme Court bench
and the insistant urging of his
friends has finally outweighed
these considerations and he is
now actively in the race.
No man in North Louisiana
stands higher in the estimation
of the people, both as a lawyer
and as a citizen, than Judge
Watkins. He is we'll and favor
ably known as a Woodworking,
conscientious jurist, whose legal
opinions are sound and we'll con-
sidered. He is in the prime of
life, 81 years old, in splendid
health and has a record of twen-
ty-eight years as a successful
practitioner of law. He has hand
led with marked ability and
great success many difficult law
suits and has an enviable record
Is a successful pleader.
JUDGE WATKINS RECORD
"Mr. Watkins is a high type
Of the Christian citizen, devoted
to his wife and children and ever
jealous for the right Of those
whose interests are confded to
his care. He is a public spirited
man, liberal in his aid of worthy
and charitable enterprise and a
life-lond Democrat, but never a
violent partisan. He performed
good services for the State as a
member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1898 and served
four years as appellate Judge
from this circuit, after defeating
the Hon. r. B. Dawkins, a popu-
lar and learned district Judge, by
a decisive majority. On the ap,
pellate bench Judge Watkins
decisions were characterized by
soundness and a clearvisioned
view of the legal principals in
volved. He was universally
praised as a tireless, able and
jurist.
Judge Watkins has a high
sense Of appreciation Of the
honor, dignity and responsibility
of a Supreme Court justiceship
and no one who knows him can
doubt that he will fail to meet
the hight expectations of his
friends, should he be honored
with this high Office. The many
complex problems of life, liberty
and the protection and of prop.
erty rights before the Supreme
Court for final disposition rende,
It imperative that a man of Judge
Watkins vigorous physical con,
.dition and splendid legal ability
be selected. Judge Watkins viii
be able not only to serve out thu
full term Of twelve years, but hi
will be occupying the bench at :
time when his ripe experience
and splendid ability is at it.
height. !"
There is no doubt that Judge
Watkins will at once become
very formidable candidate fol
this position. He enters tn,
race under the most favorabl,
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