Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-03-17
ANDREW j. COBB FOR JUDGE.

ANDREW j. COBB FOR JUDGE.
The name of Andrew ]. Cobb of Athens is promin-
emily before the connection with the appointment
to the United States udgeshp the Northern district of
Georgia to fill the vacancy by the approaching
tirement of Judge W. T. Newman. Judge Cobb is al
brother of Captain John Cobb of Americas and known
and loved from one end Georgia the other He has
turned sixty years is the only objection urged
against him by anyone In reply to this it has been
pointed twenty years the junior OF Captain
Cobb past eighty is active of clear intellect and
performs efficiently the duties of ordinary Of Sumter coun
ty as we'll serving in other public capacities which
necessitate his frequent travelling about so
Judge Andrew Cobbs regard him good for many
years the bench.
The following card by Rev Ashby Jones, of thu
souh greatest preachers is indication of how Judge
Cobb is regarded;
THE approaching retirement of that great jurist and
noble Christian gentleman, Judge VIM. T. Newman, docs
more than leave vacant judicial office OF supreme
porance 1t challenges the ability Of this commonwealth
furnish man tall enough and broad enough 10 the
vacancy Democracy meets its supreme test in the per-
sonnet of its judges OR liberty which supremely
sacred possession only find full fair expression
under the guidance of an honest and intelligent nterpre
aton of law Back of the popular assembly the press
the ballot box and the legislature stands the the
last bulwark of the rights of the people Here weakness
lack Of wisdom is fatal
Therefore as private citizen of this old common
wealth. without any political alliances or any partisan
association propose the people of Georgia that
drew ]. Cobb of Athens to succeed Judge w t Newman
Judge Cobbs matchess record as a lawyer and as a
judge both upon the bench in the trial court
than fufils the ideal suggested His life in public
and private has wrought out such definition of grace
integrity and wisdom that we might well seize this op
portuniy to to the world Here definition of an
ideal Georgian knd it is most fitting that this hour
when rejoicing our splendid victory for
ocracy that should honor the whose clarion
during the year challenged the heroism of peo
pie to follow in loyalty the leadership of our great
President Could we 90 more wonderfully intelligent
or beautifully gracious thing than unanimously Mr.
Wilson to appoint Andrew j. Cobb to be judge of the
Northern United States district of Georgia?
"(Rev) NJ AsHBY JONES'"
Atlanta, March A."
Inc IOlOWlng from the AtnenS Banner, Judge CObbS
home paper:
During the past few years there has probably been
no single Georgian who has spoken mind peo-
pie so fearlessly and clearly did Judge Andrew
Cobb in his Fourth of July speech Athens in 1917 and
in his subsequent uerances during following eighteen
months. Judge Cobbs call to Georgians to stand by
Woodrow Wilson in days of flashed Georgia
and stirred the people of this state as nothing else has
done in Occupying he does post of response
bility and trust and having back of spotless
cord jurist and Christian gentleman Judge Cobbs
denuncaton Of certain Georgans their tactics
strucon at struck responsive chord in the heart
of every redblooded in the state Georgians know
Andrew j. Cobb and they recognized in his call appeal
TO the best impulses of people For this fearless
Lewing to the line, regardless of where the chips fell
Ceorgians Judge Cobb debt of gratitude To him
than to any other in the state is due to the
RELOCATION of the obstructonist to the political scrap
heap
Is it time that Georgans expressed to Judge Cobb
appreciation of what did? Can we do this in any
finer or appropriate way than by calling on our
splendid President to honor him the judicial ermine?