Georgia: Oglethorpe County: Newspaper: The Oglethorpe Echo, 2 February 1917, "Mass Meeting Called in Interest of Justice" ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Troy Colquitt telles@elberton.net ==================================================================== The Oglethorpe Echo Friday February 2, 1917 Mass Meeting Called In Interest Of Justice A Number of citizens Think Wrong Methods and Practices Prevail in Our Courts and Would Remedy Them In as much of a general way as spectificial the idea prevails generally over the county that certain methods and practices in our courts tend to the defeat of justice in many instances. That such methods and practice may be fully discussed and remedied if possible some leaders in a desire for surer justice in the courts have circulated a call for a mass meeting of citizens to be held next Tuesday first Tuesday in February, to take such action as may be determined upon. The call for meeting is as follows: In view of certain improper influences which we have been used in the courts of the county, especially in cases where much interest was manifested, which we believe have had a tendency to defeat justice, and in view of fact we further believe, during the court recently held, means, methods and practices were used and employed subversive to a fair and impartial administration of the law, we deem it wise and to the best interest of the people of the entire county to call together her citizenry that they may in a cool, calm and dispassionate way discuss ways and means by which it will be impossible for such methods and practices, if used and employed, from ever occuring again. With the hope then of formulating and adapting some way or means to prevent what we believe to be a miscarriage of justice in the courts, and with the further hope of doing what can be done for the betterment of conditions that we believe have existed, we hereby issue a call to all the good and law abiding citizens of the county of Oglethorpe to meet at the court house in Lexington, Georgia, at ten o'clock A. M., on the first Tuesday in February, 1917. Respectfully Ben T. Comer W. D. Smith Pat Pace W. E. Wall Sr. G. A. Howard P.M. English J. S. Culbreth E. Kay S. C. Bray E. L. Bray J. W. Moore D. W. Goodwin H. T. O'Neal E. H. Faust Gray Roland Wm. Brooks A. B. Gunnin W. P. Lumpkin Jim Bradberry W. H. Wise John C.Lahay W. W. Ward W. F. Smith J. A. Bray Elbert L. Bray J. L. Bray E. P. Burt W. C. Bond J. N. Bond F. C. England J. T. Carithers M. J. England W. E. Moore J. G. Chandler E. M. Stokely H. O. Bridges P. T. Sorrow J. W. Hawkins J. N. Stokely W. G. Pittard Henry Harris John G. Durden Jr. J. E. Huff O. J. Sims J. A. Roland J. M. Colquitt J. L. Stokely H. H. Little J. W. Colquitt M. S. Weaver Reese Mathews Earl Reynolds M. G. Johnson John W. Jarrell J. R. Appling W. R. Harrison J. H. Appling Jr. J. T. Harrison A. J. Little G. F. Mathews R. E. Rice S. B. Kent F. E. Gunter B. W. Maxwell T. D. Johnson L. D. Rothell J. S. Reynolds Dr. F. C. Reed H. T. Callaway Geo. L. Rice H. F. Colquitt M. C. Colquitt Luther Harrison Geo. B. Tiller O. O. Noell A. D. Mathews W. T. Arnold E. C. Maxwell W. A. Colquitt W. R. Bray J. M. Berry T. R. Edwards Hoyt Holmes T. W. Bray S. R. Bray G. W. Edwards R. M. England J. H. Hall John J. Collins J. A. F. Gunnin Jack Crowley M. A. King W. J. Henson Robert Brombalaw T. T. Herndan T. L. Kelly S. C. Faust W. T. Freeman T. C. Stevens Dr. Chas. C. Echols W. N. Burt J. R. Burt Stephen E. Stokely E. V. Arnold C.B. Hargrove W. T. Bruce J. W. Thompson L. W. Sparks W. P. Broach H. O. English W. E. Wall Jr. R. S. McMahan S. H. Stokely J. Y. Bowen L. L. Whitley M. D. W. C. Lay J. G. Stokley C. C. Daniel P. H. Durden R. A. Collins M. Blanchard Geo. L. Rice Jr. M. R. Edwards W. T. Sorrow A. F. Mapp C. R. Colquitt John A. Jewell W. T. Bush M. L. Rains J. L. Welch A. G. Rice Carl Appling G. Wash. Brooks W. A. Shackelford P. M. Marchman E. L. Berry M. J. Micholson M. D. E. K. Davis Ralph W. Rice J. Ed. Howard W. B. Campbell Geo. D. Bennett Wm. T. Howard B.B. Esco J. P. Chapin E. Cabaniss Geo. P. Bell J. L. Colclough J. F. Bugg J. F. Mayo E. L. Arnold John F. Wilson S. R. Finley J. R. Nicholson W. H. Young C. E. Sherrer J. F. M. Alexand E. H. Roberts P. A. Bush H. W. Amason R. L. Perry H. A. Adams J. H. Thomas R. L. Harrison D. H. McCarty T. G. Tiller W. H. Maxwell Edgar J. Maxwell M. O. Bryant J. E. Rouse W. F. Parks T. H. Hawkins W. H. Smith O. C. Hansford S. W. Avera T. C. Burrell J. L. Harris C. D. Furcron J. E. Wright J. C. Steele M. T. Bridges S. O. Tiller H. V. Smith W. G. Smith Walter Glenn Curtis Burt W. T. Burt Milner Patton M. T. Bell L. L. Green Wm. L. Green J. C. Mathews W. S. McGaughey J. W. Morton R. B. Young Dr. L. D. Loughridge M. H. Crook W. E. Bray E. C. Berry W. B. Suddeth R. P. Arnold E. O. Veal B. H. Meadow O. L. Butts M. B. Rouse R. H. Drake J. L. Morgan T. S. Cunningham R. M. Hall W. F. Daniel C.A. Wright H. C. Whitehead W. E. Patman D. C. Wright J. T. Steele W. R. Kent J. W. Glenn J. C. Smith C. S. Smith G. A. Bell W. H. Perry T. J. Burt W. O. Kidd J. M. Turner G. T. Dye T. S. King W. A. Broach C. W. Jarrell