The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-04-13
JUDGE eu|On A CANDIDATE.
States Efficient and Popular Attor-
nev-GeneraI Seeks Promotion to
Supreme Court Bench-sketch of
His Career.

nev-GeneraI Seeks Promotion K
| Supreme Court Bench-Sketch O
His Career.
! Under the proper heading in to
| gay issue of The Chief will be
louhd the announcement of Attorney
| 1elleraI Walter Guion as a, candidate
| tor the office of associate Justice OF
| the supreme court of Louisiana. from
the fourth supreme court district. tc
succeed Chief Justice Joseph NJ
bfeauS, whose term expires in 1914
Judge Guion was born in the par
lsh OF Lafourche, near the town of
| lhlbodaux, and received his early
educatlon at the common schools of
ehat parish and at a private school
llear Opelousas, until the latter in
atltutlon was broken up by the ad-
vance of the Union army through
that section in 1863. Subsequently
ne attended Jefferson College, in St.
James parish, where he remained I'M
III the end of the civil war, and then
at the age of fifteen, he was com
pelled TO go to work for a living.
He secured employment in Thibo-
aaux as copyist in the office of
capt. j. K. Gourdain, a gallant Con-
tederate soldier, who was afterward
Killed in the memorable battle in
the streets of New Orleans on the
l4th OF September, 1874. Remaining
with Capt. Gourdain only a short
while, young Guion later went to
assumption parish, where he was
employed in the office of the then
clerk OF court, Hon. Alfred Tete. I'M
I'll that gentleman was compelled to
abandon his office by reason Of the
reconstruction legislation and the
adoption of the constitution of 1868,
dlsfranchising a large number of
white citizens of the state.
At the age of about eighteen years
Mr.. Guion began the study of law.
himself in the meantime
IS collector, and he was formally
to the bar at the age of |
,Wenty-one. About a year later he
entered upon the practice of law in |
Assumption parish, and formed q
partnership with the late Hon. De-
ire Leblanc. He practiced his pro-
esslon~ in Assumption and adioin-
ng parishes until his election in
1888 as judge of the district then
Composed of the parishes of Assump-
ion and Lafourche, which office he
Leld until 1892, when-the district
-aVlng been changed-he was elect
ID judge of the district composed,
$ now, of the parishes of Ascension,
assumption and st. James.
He was reelected to this office in
896 and held it until 1900, when he
Tas nominated, at the Democratic
held in Baton Rouge, to
ne office Of attorney-genera1, in
'hich capacity he is presently sery-
1g, having been again nominated
nd elected in 1904 and in 1908.
During Judge Guion's term Of Of
ce many important sEits have
cen decided, among them being the
oundary suit between the states of {
and Mississippi, and re !
entity the important suit before
lie Interstate Commerce Commission c
the right of a Texas rail |
lad to carry interstate freight at
higher rate than interstate freight t
Texas. Ii
As a practicing lawyer, as district
dge, and as attorney-general, Mr.. t
uion has given evidence of the pos
'ssion of qualifications which make o
N eminently fitted to hold the a
ghly responsible office for which p
: is an aspirant, and as he is we'll s
loWn throughout the length and r.
eadth of the fourth district and
IS a large number of Influential Il
lends, it may be taken for granted p
at his candidacy will receive strong p
,cking. ID
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