The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-08-07

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 Taliaferro
Counties.
Athens Herald: Mr. Stepbans
has received the warm on.
dorsement of many members Of the
bar all over Georgia, not onlv in bio
home city, but in the cities and small.
er communities as well. No orgapi
cation seeking to control judicial AZ
fairs in Georgia is behind his can.
dldacy and if elected he will go to
the bench free and not trammeled nv
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 law partner Of
Alex. H. Stephens, and at one time
was adjutant general of Georgia. Ia
Mr.. Stephens library are the law and
political books of Alexander II. Ste
phens. On his mothers side he is the
grandson Of the late William Winqfed
Simpson Of Hancock county. He is de-
scended from the Wingfied family ct
which there are numbers of descend
ants in Georgia.
Opponent Is Police Recorder
Az ~
active practice of law for the past "
years, his opponent has been out Of
the practice for the last Is years, act
ing as recorder, or police judge, ot
the city Of Atlanta, position which
affords no legal experience whatsoever
1t not being 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 dsorderly 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. Sc
phens is making the race for the court
of appeals and is a most popular csa-
didate. His race is being conducted
in most clean manner, and he Isl
winning friends wherever he goes. |
Athens Banner: Mr. Stephens is AL
able lawyer and well known through
out the state.
Macon Telesraph: Mr. Stephens 81
considered lawyer of ability aad
character, and with the judicial TEN
permanent His friends say that heE
would make an ideal judge, abel
strong and fearless. He is an author1
ity on law, and every one who kncwSl
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.
TECHNICALITIES.
Extract from a Copy of an Article "a
titled "Reforn In the judicial Admin |
istration of Justice" by Alexander W.
Stephens, Appearing in the Central
Law Journal of August 16, 1912.
Much is said against the so-cai "a
"technicaities'' of the law. While somo
OF the discussion is instructive and %
teiiigent. most of it consists of mere
generalities and demagogic asSertio'a
However this may be, no one can intet
ligently defend any rule of procedure o."
Technically" which does not aid toa
court III arriving at a speedy and propar
determination Of the case before it. ruo
technicalities Of the law, as Robert
ToombS, of Georgia, used to say, 'lH
mere instruments to be used only for '1t
purpose of bringing about justice: sli
in so far as they fail of that purpose.
it may be added they have no place -
well ordered system of jurisp1Hden !.