Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-29
Judge T. C. RimbrOueh.


Feeling that the voters of Noxubee
county are entitled to know something
of the life of Judge 7. G. Kimbrougb,
who is now asking their support in the
judicial district, and realizing that the
voters of this section are in full har-
mony with the countrywide effort to
make the judiciary directly responsible
to the people for individual views and
acts, as evidenced by the recall and
elective system, adopted by many states
and contended for in all, the writer Of
fers the following short synopsis of
Judge KimbrOugh's career in order that
the independent voter may form some
opinion. of him as a man and citizen, as
possibly many have not and will not
have the opportunity Of meeting him
before election,
Permit me to say no unkind fling or
ill-will prompts the writer, whatever
the language, towards his opponent,
Judge Carroll, hence no invidious or
unworthy differences should be drawn,
as the purpose shall only be to set forth
the claims of Judge K~imbrough on you
as a democrat, c%onversant with and
conforming to democratic principles.
T. A. Kimbrough, the father of Judge
T. &c. Kimbrough, of Carroll county,
Miss. was a member Of the Carroll
County Rifes' 18th Miss. regiment dur
ing the Civil war, participating in all
Of the battles of that hardest fought
army of the Confederacy, the Army Of
Northern Virginia. He Ct. A. Kim
brought kept military step with, the
steady tramp of the "Noxubee Rifles"
in that memorable charge at Gettysburg
and now wears the honorable insignia
of that historical event in the form Of
two scars, having twice been wounded
in that battle.
Judge T. c. Kimbrough was reared
on the farm of his father in Carroll
county, experiencing all Of the physical
WEAKNESS incident to toll that comes to
the man with the hoe. Still with such
handicaps, ambition forced its further
test of the youth of rigid economy and
strenuous individual effort that he might
attend the University of Mississippi,
which institution gave him her unquali-
fed approval and the long-fought-for
prize his diploma in the class of 1895.
He chose as his profession the law,
stood the bar examination in the chan
Gerry court, was admitted to practice at
West Point, Miss , in 1893; was taken
as a partner by that prominent firm of
Critz & Beckett and has been ever since
vigorously pursuing the duties of his
profession continuously.
Judge Carroll was appointed by Gov.
Noel. who displaced all Of the judicial
appointees of Gov. Vardaman, which
was alright and fair, as has been the
custom If this state under tbe. appoint
i've plan for years for a man to hold Of
flee only four years. This has been
democratic practice and custom, to
which by no universal protest we have
tacitly agreed. Judge Carroll went in
under the appointee method and has
served his full four years, and no
doubt but for the elective system pro-
vided for by the legislature, would
gracefully recognize the common GUS
tom and give place to his successor
and not seek endorsement of his official
acts by asking for a second term. In
these appointive offices democrats have
observed the fairness f rotation with
single terms.
Judge K. comes to you endorsed by
those who know him as a citizen of
clean, high, moral..character. worthy OF
the ~bestowment of honor he seeks al
your hands, asking no violation Of
former democratic precedents; hence
to refuse his appeal, consigns him te
the unique distinction of occupying
class by himself, in that you refuse hin
the right of the established doctrine Of
one term. which a has made rus.
tom, hence democratic law.
Good man? Yes, all admit But mus
be consigned to a political sheol with
out the usual trial, although his char
ter privilege as a democrat entities hin
to that, and amid the common consola'
ton of the doomed, that of company
since Tor have passed that way before
him, and possibly no case like his will
ever arise again for adjudication.
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