The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-08-18

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- Magi dars il"nce the polls Will
~ "e.n,d -. tn election OF Associate
IT,. @, he supreme Court Al
l-g,I !, 30 tate. On that day it
v. +. ,ne au1y Of every qualified yot-
- 20 to Tie polls aud cast a vote
l., the candidate who in their belief
y 0ea. qualified, to fill this high Of
Ice.
N Judging the qualifications of the
various candidates prejudice and per
soma friendship should be put aside,
and any T." past records Of the candl-
dates aiken as a basis for selecting
the candidate.
The clean manner in which the race
for Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court has been contacted is indeed no.
ticab!e, AMI tEe contestants iii this race
are 70 be cGnpI.rIented upon this fact.
Aside from letter sent out by Hucy
p. Long in when he sought to dis
credit other contestants in the race
and promote the cause of Judge Land
nothing has come to the notice Of the
writer that would be considered dis
respectful or misleading.
III Mr.. Longs communication he as
summed and presumed-he assumed
the place Of dictator and presumed the
voters would seriously consider some
Of the statements made by him. How
ever, we have the assurance that Meth
er is true, and especially so in refer
ence to Bienville's candidate, Judge
J. +. Reynolds. Mr.. Long stated
that at a certain age, 70 years we be-
lieve a supreme judge would be retir-
ed on a pension and insinuated that
one or two candidates Judge Rey-
nolds for One) were in reaching dis
lance of this age, and if elected would
soon be put on the pension list. This
Is al uncalled for statement with facts
left out. A supreme judge must serve
for a period Of 20 years before he is
entitled to such a pension, and in this
case the youngest man in the race
would be much more likely to be put
on the payroll Of the retired justices
than the oldest. Mr.. Long further re.
ferred to Judge Reynolds as being the
Standard Oil Co.'S candidate, stating
also that he was the choice of other
large corporations. While we don't
think that the communication carried
withtit any weight, because the cam.
paign has been conducted on a plane
higher than Mr.. Longs thoughts seen
to reach, We wish to dicredit this er.
roneous statement. People who arc
intimately acquainted with Judge Rey.
nolds and have been associated with
him during the several years Of his
1udgeship, know that he Is a man not
influenced b friendly ties when jus.
tice Is At stake His greatest desire
as a Judge being to correctly interpret
the law and render JUST decisions in
the cases tried before him. His SUE
cess in this respect is showli by the
record on cases. appealed from his
court where we find that more than
W per cent Of bis decisions were af.
flrmed by the supreme court, while
the record Of other candidates runs rs
low Tin one case) as 30 or 50 per cent.
Judge Reynolds is a good man, d
good citizen, a competent judge and
we say this with all due respect to
MS opponents, but having been his
nfighbor and associated with him in
business as we'll as civil affairs, we
90 not hesitate to say that anyone will
not make 9 mistake in casting their
vote for him for, the high office to
which he aspires.