The Lexington advertiser., 1930-06-26
Hon. Dick McCooI
Asks Reelection AS
Chancery Judge

| "Se ~. ~ McCool, chancellor of the
Eleventh Chancery Court District, an
nounees his candidacy for chancery
Judge, subject to the action of the
voters IN the coming Democratic pri-
mares and has the following to say
relative to his candidacy. He is at
present serving as chancellor in this
district and is offering for reelection
IN the coming August primaries. His
letter follows:
10 the People of Holmes County:
This will announce to you my candi-
dacy to succeed myself as Chancery
Judge of the 18th Chancery Court Dis
trlct; to which office l was appointed
on May 18th, 1880. My present term
will expire January 1st, 1881.
In view of the fact that | have been
appointed to fill the short term of less
than eigth months, and have been per-
forming the duties of Chancellor to the
satisfaction of the people, | believe your
sense of fairness and justice will dictate
that | shall be elected for the full term
OF four years beginning January 1st,
1881, when the terms of office of all
Judges begin.
With your very kind permission, l
shall give you something of my personal
history; not for your edification but
simply as information which you may
desire to have
L was born in Kosciusko February
10Th, 1888, and am now At years of age
My parents moved to Kirkwood in Madi-
son County, near the Leake County
! line, where | lived about 16 years; then
went to Pickens in Holmes County
spending about five years there and
afterwards locating in Canton where /
have been for 27 years
| received my education at Mississippi
College at Clinton, and the University
of Mississippi at Oxford; and began the
practice of law in 1904 with Judge J.
B. Christman at Canton.
l am the nephew of Judge James F.
McCool, deceased, who was for many
years your Chancellor.
hope that the honor and pleasure
may also be mine to serve you for manv
years.
am not mindful of the great re-
sponsibility that this trust has BROUGHT
TO me- | am sensible of the fact that
a commission, almost sacred. has been
placed in my hands; and that | have
solemn duties to perform; and | am
almost overwhelmed when I consider
now great is my opportunity to render
service to my fellow man.
do not enter upon the discharge of
any OF the duties that go with this high
office with lightness of heart, elation
OF spirit, or with any sense of feeling
that l have been placed on any pedestal
above my fellow man; but with that
humbleness of heart and spirit possess
ed by the average man acquainted with
ms own frailties; with great yearn-
ing and longing to know what is RIGHT;
TO render unto every man that which
is his due; and do equity and Justice
and to have an ear open to the crv of
the abused and distressed
"A Chancery Judge should not onlv
know his people, but he should also
De very close to them; so close in fact
that his ear may be attuned to the
throb OF every honest heart; that every
worthy pulsation, every desire based on
justice, equity and right, may strike a
responsive chord in his own breast.
Such Chancellor must be innatelv
sympathetic; he must be able to under-
stand the ideals of his people; their
problems, difficulties, and the fiftv
Thousand worries and vexations that do
peset and assail them in the race of
lie. In other words, the should be one
OF the people; ready to throw the strono
arm of the law about them. The dis
tressed may lean upon him; the down |
trodden may grasp his outstretched |
hand and those who have been buffeted |
over life's tempestuous seas of trouble
VIII surely find in the true Chancellor
a safe harbor.
Due to the fact that my duties as
Judge in term time and in vacation
1me require much of nv time. and
further that the August primary is 50
1ear, it will be impossible for me to see
Zach OF you in person. Therefore
through this medium, l make a verv
earnest appeal to you for your vote and
influence.
This will be a clean race. conducted
nope, upon plane so high that the
efm OF abuse and secretly asserted
aIsehoods cannot exist
II fail, in any respect, to conduct
lysell as gentleman, then | shall he
ntlrely unworthy of your support, and
INIT |