Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-08-11
HON. GEORGE II. ETHRIDGE,
Whose Learning, Experience, Honesty and Character So
Ably Qualify Him For The Supreme Bench, is I'm
animously Endorsed By His Home People.

by no impulse save to fear God and
do his duty.
We endorse him without mental re-
servation.
W. F. Brown, L. P. Spinks, L. &C.
Sutton, J. H. DAVIS, D. P. Davis, T. c.
Carroll, Treasurer; ]. D. Thomas, JUS
tice of the Peace; T. w. Aust, Presi-
dent Board of Supervisors; l. R. Cal
vert, Circuit Clerk; J. L. Harbour,
Chancery Clerk; Daw w. Jackson,
Superintendent of Education; N. G.
Briggs, Sheriff; G. J. Rencher, Dis
trlct Attorney; John A. Clark, Sena-
tor; J. H. Holmes, Assessor; ]. J.
Daniel, Representative; W. B. Gum.
Deputy Chancery Clerk; Walter w.
Jones, Justice Of the Peace; R. L.
Thomas, Justice of the Peace; J. F.
breckenridge, Justice of the Peace.
every lawyer endorses him and
practically every person in Kemper
County is for him.
Newspaper Comments.
1T must be said of him General
George H. Ethridge) by all men that
if he is elected Judge of the Supreme
Court, as the Leader predicts he will
be, the State of Mississippi may have a
pardonable pride in having in him an
able, honest and impartial jurist whose
decisions will be fitting masterpieces
OF the law and at all times rejecting the
character of The man who cannot be
swerved from the path of righteous
justice by power, pelf, prejudice or
passlon."-Jackson Monday Morning
Leader.
"Mr. Ethridge has practiced law for
twenty-one years and ranks among
the best lawyers of the East Missis-
sippl bar. He has been Assistant At
torney General for three wears. and
his briefs. and opinions have acquired
great prestige. Mr.. Ethridge is we'll
versed in constitutional law and bv
experience and temperament is well
htted for the Supreme Court bench"
-Vlcksburg Times-D Democrat.
General Ethridge was born in
hemper County forty-hve years ago.
and it was here that he grew up and
hrst attained his eminence as a LAWYER
which has afterwards commanded
Statewide recognition. To us who
know him so well his name stands
as a synonym OF courageous manhood
and the highest moral and intellectual
accomplishments, and it is unneces.
sary Tor us to enumerate at length his
many qualifications for this important
once We feel confident that
WIN the election of Hon. George H.
tthridge at the August primary this
honorable tribunal will have added to
1t a member whose name will add
lustre to its best acts and traditions
ana stamp the future Jurisprudence
OF the State with the impress of his
integrity and learning.'-Kemper
From his boyhood start on the
hemper farm, he has accepted the
dihlcuitles confronting him as a school
wherein he has learned independence.
honesty, sturdiness-in fact. all the
qualities which now form the basis of
his success and mark him as a STATES
man and able constitutional LAWYER.
me love OF Justice and fair play and
that respect for law and order. which
must underlie every nation that would
endure long, are deeply imbedded in
ms nature. He is plain and unosten-
: latious IN manners, and not a poli-
tician, but a great big man. He is NOT
small in any thing. Truly it can he
SAID, If he should be elected Heaven
is above all yet; and there sits a
Judge that no king can corrupt"
; Newton Record.
Judge Ethridge is a polished
scholarly man, and a vote cast in he
interest will be for a good and - suit,
ape mar for the place."-Yazoo Civ
I'VE like the Judges looks. There
IS little OF the professional politician
4pout him, and he inspires confidence
!, he impresses us as capable of dis.
= penslng even-handed justice if elected
10 the highest tribunal in the StateS
Deer Creek Pilot (Sharkey County,
i Ethridge Campaign Committee
Jackson, Miss.