The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1914-08-05

EHIoFCcTleHE OF Laws DIS CnSy are WIFI
ten in the statute books"
FACTS ABOUT Mr.. STEPHENS.
Has practiced law seventeen years.
Law writer for law magazines.
Graduate University of Georgia.
Took law course at Harvard.
Forty years of age.
Raised in Wilkes and TaIiaferro
Counties.
Athens Herald: Mr.. Stephens
has received the warm en-
dorsement of many members of the
bar all over Georgia, not only in his
home city, but in the cities and nall
er communities as well. No organi-
cation seeking to control judicial af-
fairs in Georgia is behind his can
didacy and If elected he will go to
the bench free and not trammelled by
any hampering influences.
The Savannah Press says: Alexander
w. Stephens is nephew Of Alexander
II. Stephens, also nephew of Judge Lin
ton Stephens of the supreme court of
Georgia. His father was John Alex.
Stephens, a prominent attorney of
Charlottesville, and a law partner of
Alex. H. Stephens, and at one time
was adjutant general of Georgia. In
MIR. Stephens library are the law and
political books of Alexander H. Ste
phens. On his mothers side he is the
grandson of the late William Wingfieid
Simpson of Hancock county. He is de-
scended from the WingfieId family OF
which there are numbers of descend
ants in Georgia.
Opponent Is Police Recorder.
While Mr.. Stephens has been in the
active practice of law for the past II
years, his opponent has been out of
the practice for the last Is years, act
ing as recorder, or police judge, of
the city of Atlanta, position which
affords no legal experience whatsoever,
it not being q court of law where
law cases are tried. The only duties
of said recorder are the trial of petty
offenders against the city ordinances,
such as DRINKS and disorderIy cases,
and to bind over crap shooters, chick
en- thieves and other offenders to the
state courts.
Newspaper Comment on MIR. Stephens
Candidacy.
Montgomery Monitor: Mr.. Stephens
is a lawyer of recognized ability.
Waynesboro True Citizen: Mr.. Ste
phens is making the race for the court
of appeals and is most popular can
didate. His race is being conducted
in a most clean manner, and he is
winning friends wherever he goes.
Athens Banner: Mr.. Stephens is an
able lawyer and we'll known through
out the state.
Macon Telegraph: Mr.. Stephens is
considered a lawyer of ability and
character, and with the judicial tenn
permanent. His friends say that he
would make an ideal judge, able,
strong and fearless. He is an author
ity ON law, and every one who knows
him is confident that as far as ability
is concerned, there is no one in Geor-
gia better qualified to fill the high
office to which he aspires.
TEcHNlcALITIES
Extract from Copy of an Article En-
titled reform In the judicial Admin
istration of Justice" by Alexander w.
Stephens, Appearing in the Central
Law Journal of August 10, 1912.
Much is said against the so-called
"technicalities' of the law. While some
of the discussion is instructive and in
telligent, most of 1t consists of mere
generalities and demagogic assertions
However this may be, no one can intel
lgently defend any rule of procedure or
"technicality" which does not aid the
court in arriving at speedy and proper
determination of the case before it. The
technicalities of the law, as Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, used to say, are
mere instruments to be used only for the
purpose of bringing about Justice; and
in so far as they fail of that purpose.
it may be added, they have no place in
a well-ordered system of Jurisprudence.