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Nessrs. c. Ksie, Wna. Arthur, w. EPpes.
C. c. Fhue, j. II. King, Allen Hal. 4.
A. Falcoaer, ID. ID. Jones, and p. Nos
By. ESqs.


GENTLEMEN:-I have seen your com
munication addressed, through the Holly
Springs Gazette" 10 myself and others,
candidates for Judge OF the Circuit court,
and proceed to reply thereto, so far as
feel that eau with pIopriety.


Yor desire to know "what construction
vii be placed by the successful candidate
upon the law cf 1914. organizing ihe Judi>
cial districts of the Siase."-and to know
the views of the candidates, "that the peo-
pie may vote understandingly.'


You will agree with me, that there would
be gross impropriety in candidate for Ju'
dicial station giving pledges before the e
lection. as to the construction he would
place upon any statute. or as to the deci
sion he would make upon any question of
! law, If elected. where the construction or
decision was to affect he rig hts and inter>
esjs of parties ltigant merely The object
of your inquiry, however, appears to be, to
Il ascertain fact that concerns the public at
large, to wit whether If elected [ shall 20
pen and hold term ofthe circuit court in
the county of Dcsoto on the 9th Monday af-
ter the 4th Monday in September mex; and
in Marshall on the fist Monday of Decem.
Der next"


From cursory examination of the que.-
ton, | am induced to believe that the legis-
lature did not intend to provide for the hold
ing of another term of the cour. ia the
bove named counties, within the present
year. And il believed thai term c
SAID courts could be legally ha!d, al the a
bove stated times, shou not deem it ex
pedient TO do so, for the reason, that the
presiding Judge, as am informed. has in
structed the clerks of said courts. TO issue all
process of The court returnable to the
Spring terms next year. | desire TO be
distinctly understood as giving no opinion
by which |, if elected, am TO be bound, or
influenced, IN determining questions ari,
sing under the statute, between parties lit
igant do not think that any one should
permit his understanding to be influenced
in casting his vote, by the determination IN
relation to this mater, which has or NAV
be expressed by any fthe candidates for
Judge oftne Circuit court.


Thei. opinions on this question can Ger,
: tainly afford no evidence of their relative
merits, qualifications. or fitness for the Of
fee; and these are, in my opinion, the on
lv considerations which should be permit
ted TO infiuence the electors in casting theil
votes. | am Gentlemen,


Respectfully.


Your obj sers't,
HUGH II. MILLER.