y of the American Legion, of course, favored the
election of one of their charter members.

Slowly sentiment began to shift in favor of Cornwall. Some of the
members of the Legion insisted that Colonel Saylor as a candidate was
using his connection with their organization too strongly. He made an
egregious blunder in an address to the Clear Creek miners and when his
speech was reported he lost many votes.

Some of the lawyers in the face of his almost certain election, knowing
that after his qualification, he would even scores with them, charged
that he was unfit for the place; and that the politicians of the State
would no longer permit a good lawyer to be elected Judge of that court.

Colonel Craddock, a retired lawyer of the local bar at Pineville, and
eighty-three years old, published a statement in opposition to Saylor's
candidacy. He said in part;

"Though an old man I am not a worshiper of ancientism. I think I can
give to present-day men credit where credit is due. But when you are old
and experience has taught you that no one is infallible and that every
one at times is weak and therefore you should judge your neighbor
compassionately, it has also given you the power to discriminate between
the false and the true and to see through the shams of life with
accurate insight.

"Exercising this faculty which comes with the loss of others, as the
sense of touch is developed in the blind, and guided by it, though a
Republican, I am forced to oppose the candidacy of J. C. Saylor as Judge
of the Court of Appeals and advocate that of his opponent John Cornwall,
a Democrat.

"In the election of a Judge, the standard of measurement of the
conscientious voter should be one of fitness only.

"Shall not the Judge do right? And how can he do right if he is a crook?

"Shall not the Judge interpret the law with wisdom and understanding?
And how can he do that if he is a fool?

"Shall not the Judge be free? And how can a coward or a tool, worn blunt
in crooked service, be free or cut straight and true?

"What an execration when a Judge is a Jeffries and what a benediction
when he is a Marshall or a White.

"A Judge's mind must be open to argument and he must have power to
discern between the false and the true.

"The Lord, the First and Last Judge, alone will be able to set some
judgments straight and straighten some judges. He in majesty and power
upholds the law, which is never broken. It is man who is broken by t