Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-07-16
IN ENDORSEMENT OF
JUDGE WILLIAMS
To the Sequacbee News:

From week to week read the let
ters from your various correspondents
with great pleasure and interest and ]
admire generally the policy of your
paper. You are always fair, just and
conservative in your editorial utteran-
ces. congratulate you on the splen-
did work which your paper has done
in the valley and l especially congrat-
ulate the people of your immediate vi
cinity on the excellent spirit of civic
| pride and righteousness due largely to
the influence of your paper. l hope
for your paper continued success as
the years come and go. You have al
ways displayed great independence in
your advocacy of principles and in
your support of candidates for Office,
and for this you are also to be COM
mended.
Because you are always disposed to
be, and generally are on the right side
of public questions, l am taking this
method of calling to your attention
and to the attention of your readers,
Judge Sam G. Williams, candidate
for the Supreme Court. l am enclos-
ing You copy of an address which he
has issued to the people of the State
setting forth the reasons for his csndi-
dacy and ask that you publish this
along with my letter.
Judge Williams is native of Ten
nessee, born and raised in the middle
district. When a young man Judge
Williams came to East Tennessee and
settled in the First Congressional Dis
trict and for more than twenty five
years has practiced law in the upper
division of the State with great sue
cess. Soon after coming to the bar he
won for himself notable distinction as
lawyer and is now regarded, and
justly so, as one of the leading law
yers of the State. Judge Williams is
democrat and. infer, of the old
school, but he is indepen dent in his
thought and ideas. In the campaign
of 1910 when the people of the State
rose up against the Patterson machine
and elected an independent Supreme
Court ticket, Judge Willims.supported
that movement and this was very
much to his credit. When Judge
Shields was elected United States SEN
ator it became necessary that Govern
or Hooper should appoint his successor
to serve until this coming August
election. Governor Hooper did not
appoint Republican, but in other
words he was not playing politics in
the appointment of Judge Shields sue
cessoi. but in looking over the East
ern Division of the State selected
Judge Sam G. Williams as the man
most capable among the lawyers of
East Tennessee to discharge the i'm
portant duties of that position and SO
he appointed him to the Supreme
Bench. Judge Williams has served in
that capacity for nearly eighteen
months and that he has discharged the
duties of that position with great
credit to himself, with fairness and
impartiality and great ability, no
lawyer and no citizen of Tennessee
will gainsay. He is a lawyer of great
ability. He has displayed splendid
ability as a Judge and now asks for an
endorsement at the hands of the peo-
Pile and reelection.
When the Independent Democratic
Convention met at Nashville in May it
nominated Judge Williams. The Re-
publican State Convention which af-
forwards met endorsed this nomina
ton. When the regular Democratic
Convention met it nominated Judge
Burrow, of East Tennessee to oppose
Judge Williams.
The Convention which nominated
Judge Burrow, as 1t will be recalled.
was held the day before the conven-
ton which nominated the Democratic
candidate for Governor. If it had been
held the day after Judge Burrow
would not have been nominated. AS
it was, Judge Brr-.w was the only
candidate whose name was presented
at the regular convention and was, in
the anomalous position of being in
danger of being defeated for the nomi-
nation although nobody opposed him.
am supporting Judge Williams,
not because he is democrat. am
supporting him because believe him
to be an honest man, and capable
and honest Judge. He has already
proven himself by his eighteen months
service on the bench to be a good
Judge prefer to vote for man fol
this high position who, by his con-
duct on the bench, has shown his
ability to discharge the duties Of the
Office rather than for new man who
has not been tried. l therefore appeal
to you and appeal to your numerous
readers who are voters, to consider the
question, what is best for the State,
to vote for a man who has alrea dy
been tried and proven himself worthy,
or to vote for another man who has
not been tried.
Sincerely your friend,
FOSTER v. BROWN.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
10 THE PEoRI-E OF TENNESSEE:
II IN now apparent that the Jackson
term Of the Supreme Court for the West