The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-08-14
NHOLCOMB VOTER"
INTERESTED IN TEAT.
Says Other Two Men Goat Tail Can.
didates. Praises Teat's Record
for Expediating Business.
Editor Sentinel:

tQlLOT OCuIiICi.
Will you allow me space to write a
few words about the speeches made in
Grenada July 27? 1t is the first time
in the history of this county that the the
neople ever had before them men seek
ng the office of Circuit Judge. Not.
outstanding the fact that the appoint
ment of judges was legacy left us by
the Republicans, yet believe that it ia
better than electing judges by popular
vote Just at this time when everything
in the state is in political stir. When
a mans life, liberty or property are
issues before a court we don't want
political pledges aud partisan bias de-
ciding the case, but if political factions
are to name the judges then it will be
physical impossibility to keep the same
sort of thing from in some measure
controlling the court. 1t is well known
that criticism, slang and the false plea
Of persecution" have given honors to
men in this state that deserved no hon
ors. The speeches of two of the candi-
dates for circuit judge showed that
these two men were sitting in the
shadow of another man and alleging
because something had been done to
him that they should be made circuit
Judge. They spoke little of their own
record as law practitioners, the one had
been lawyer for 10 years and the
other one some 80 years, but rather
contented themselves with scrambling
hard to see which could get the further
est on BilbO's coat tail. One of their
chief recommendations was criticism
of Judge Teat for going to Jackson and
presiding in the Bilbo trial, thing he
had no choice about unless he resigned.
Judge Teat had no more choice about
that matter than a citizen has about
answering summons from a court
Under section 1896 he was summoned BY
another Judge. | liked Judge Teat's
idea On the subject. He talked in a
manly way about it. Somebody had to
preside at the trial and he would have
been a moral and official coward had he
resigned rather than do so. Just be-
fore he went there to try Bilbo, the
latter in his paper, the Issue, praised
Judge Teat very highly. Judge Teat is
not only being criticised by his two. op-
ponents but from South Mississippi
comes one, yea even from Poplarvile
comes one dictator and tells the people
to vote against Teat. But the intelli-
gence and the good old common sense
of the people of the Fifth Judicial Dis
trict are laughing at his coming fo-
they see his end. He shall be cut down
and wther awas as his like has ever
done before.
Every man who has ever been around
court knows that Judge Teat dis
patches busines more rapidly than any
circuit Judge they have known in a long
while. He demands the same thing of
the lawyer that he does of witnesses
and litigants. No lawyer runs his
court. So we say he should be hon
ored with a reelection or rather by
eecting him to fill out his term and by
so doing the people will show their ap-
probation of an able, honest and up
right public official.
By the way, that grand jury ballot
shows that Reilly has some friends ir
Grenada county, he got l3 and Bilbo 4.
So it appears that by Reily's sword he
shall fall. Daylight is coming. The
people want that which is honest, best
and right. A Holcomb Voter.
Hocomb. Miss, Aug s. 1914.