The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-06
For The Records Sakell

peared as Solicitor General
Of the Southern circuit, and
the same name continued to ap
pear in connection with the same Office
in that calendar annually until that
for 1909 and 1910, after which IT dis
appeared.
In the court calendar for Georgia
for 1910 and 1911 the same name az.
pcared as Judge of the Southern cir
cult, and the same person las been
continuously since and is now. hold
ing that office. This makes a continu-
Gus service OF that individual in a
salaried office of say eighteen years.
There are four circuits including the
Southern which touch the FLORIDA line
and within that time tina circait has
known such judges as a H. Hansell
and II. G. Mitchell and the other three
have been presided over by some rec
ognized able judges, yet none of them
have been called upon to give the
state the benefit of their talents by
presiding in numerous courts between
that border line and the Tennessee
and North Carolina lines.
II does not appear that up TO the
passage OF the prohibition act Of 1907
the present judge of the Southern cir
cult had taken any pronounced stand
upon the moral and public questions
materially affecting the welfare of the
people Of Georgia but that as Solicitor
General he was apparently content to
transact the duties Of his office and
collect the compensation therefor, and
had an eye-single to that end.
When the prohibition law went inc
effect in 1908 and he became Judge of
that circuit, nothing of particular note
occurred. but as the public sentiment
began to grow in favor of that law,
and it seemed that it might become
popular, the Judge saw the light and
gradually became specialist and his
performances in the enforcement of
the two or three special laws engaging
his attention were noted and industri.
ously proclaimed throughout the cir
cult. and in due time his name began
to be suggested for one office or an
other. and particularly for governor.
The time passed, the Judge was in
demand. and although the Southern is
one of the largest circuits, and cal
culated to require a good deal of a
judges time he was able to preside in
a number of other distant circuits. 1t
can easily be found that of the twenty
eight judges in Gtorgia, he for the
past very few years, has been the
greatest traveller.
Whether this demand for his service
was due to his pre-eminent ability, or
whether it was inspired or calculated
to promote the judges ambition,
whether judicial or political. matters
not, though II could have had that eff
feet, II is singular though, that of the
twenty-eight judges this travelling de.
| volyed more largely in the past few
years upon the Southern circuit than
upon any other!
Within the recent past the papers of
the state frequently referred to the
fact that the Judges friends We're
pressing him to run for governor. and
| IL looked for sometime as IL that would
be his next venture, but that began
60 be less heard of as ii appeared that
/ Harris and Hardman had caught the
prohibition horse, and lefr no foot
hold or room for the Judge, and the
| statement began to appear here and
there that he might become caadi-
/ date for congress from the Ele zenith
district, but although this rumor be
gan to be persistent in the papers of
the district no word came from the
Judge. He had MADE no public poll
teal utterances; his views Ion public
questions were unknown, and II was
impossible TO obtain any declaration OF
them from him or otherwise.
Some months ago ii became known
that the Judge was moving over the
Eleventh district evidently feeling the
pulse OF the people, and ascertainine
il may he what particular matters
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