The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-26
| Some Citizens We Greet

On Tuesday of last week Cornell
ius Comegys and wife, of Scranton,
were in Honesdale in attendance at
the funeral of the late Hon. G. G.
Jadwin. Mr.. and Mrs. Comegys
came into Honesdale over the Erie
road by the way of Hawley. So re-
firing and becomingly modest is Mr..
Comegys that he had come and gone
before Honesdale people realized
that prominent non-partisan candi-
date for Judge of the Superior
court had actually been in our
midst.
One of the first, we are not sure
but that he was the very first, to sign
his name to nomination papers for
Mr.. Comegys in Wayne county, was
the late Mr.. Jadwin. AS a matter
of fact, as we'll as of local interest,
Mr.. Jadwin and Mr.. Comegys bore
the same name, and both were nam
ed after the same man. The mans
name was Cornelius Comegys, the
grandfather of the man who may be
Superior Court Judge in the near
future. Mr.. Comegys's grandfather
was a first cousin to the father of the
late Cornelius Comegys Jadwin,
That is why they bore the same
name, and that is one reason, no
doubt, why Mr.. Jadwin signed the
nomination papers of Mr.. Comegys
for Judge of the Superior Court; but
it is not the only reason, for Mr.. Jad-
win, doubtless, knew his relative
as we'll, if not better, than the writer
hereof, who knows him to be one
of the kindest as well as one of the
most capable of men. He has a
grace and courtesy of manner that
belong to his nature, for it could not
be acquired by cultivation. He is
away and beyond the narrow limits
of party lines, and can truly be
classed as man and not as a polite
ian.
In this connection the writer begs
the privilege of inserting here what
E. j. Lynett, the editor of the Scran-
ton Times, says of Mr.. Comegys, and
Mr.. Lynett's knowledge of Mr.. Com
eggs is of the first-hand quality, for
he has known the man, as has the
writer hereof, from the time he came
to Scranton fresh from the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. Mr.. Lynett
says:
" Yesterday, in Harrisburg, a
number Of petitions, signed by good
people of Pennsylvania, were filed
with the secretary of the common
wealth, asking that the name of
Cornelius Comegys, of Lackawanna
county, be submitted to the electors
of the state, on the non-partisan bal
| lot, as a candidate for the office of
Judge of. the Superior court. The
primary election, at which the ini-
tial ballot is to be fought, will occur
on September 16; and, as the terri
tory to be covered is large, and the
population to be reached is great
too large and too great, indeed, to be
covered and reached by the efforts
I of a few, however active and in
fluential they may be, it behooves
all the public-spirited citizens of
Lackawanna county to get industri-
ously busy in this matter. The Su-
perior court sits here; it's records are
kept here, for the convenience of
lawyers and others, as we'll as for
the honor of the third city of the
commonwealth, one of it's judges
should reside here. To every citizen
of this town and county it might,
with perfect propriety, be said his
election is up to you.
" For fifteen years at least, an ac-
tive and prominent member of the
Scranton Board of Trade, giving his
time and his talent freely and with
out price for the public interest and
the advancement of the citys pros
perity, to the membership of this
justly influential body, composed as
| it is of what is best in our civic life,
it might be especially said: Get busy,
here and everywhere; his election is
up to you.
For thirty years a lawyer, and
now full ripe for judicial place-a
lawyer whose character is beyond re-
proach and whose ability is beyond
question: lawyer whose every
hour of living and working now re-
fleets honor upon the profession
which his well-deserved position
adorns-to his brother lawyers, here
and elsewhere in the states-it may
also be emphatically said: Get busy;
his election is up to you.
And finally, to the men of news
paperdom, who gather the facts of
the passing day to spread them for
the enlightenment and direction of
the popular mind-to such men in
Scranton, particularly who personal
ly know the character and worth of
this man, his present manner of life,
and something of those professional
attainments that make him fit to ad-
minister Justice and equity to
them it may also be specially urged;
Get busy; his election is up to you!"
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION