Show NEW CHAIRMAN tt 11 OF COMMITTEE James M Griggs or of Georgia Chosen to Manage anage Congressional F Campaign This fall CONFIDENCE OF HIS PARTY SHORT SKETCH OF THE CAREER OF THE JUDGE I to The H I March new I chairman Of the Democratic congressIonal committee confidence In those who know him that he will suc ed Ir hi putting his party in control ot of the th next house of representatives JUdge judge i a real title earned by service on the bench has ban the reputation of beIng born In more counties in Georgia than any other man within the confines ot of that state This enviable even it Impossible sible ibie distinction springs from the fact that his father died when he was quite SmaIl and he had to shift for tor himself In so doing he shifted in about a dozen counties much of the time beIng en in the delightful occupation of g a over the back ot of a aGeorgia aGeorgia Georgia mule in th cotton fields So that when lie he became famous it Was not str strange that the different local his historians hIstorIan torIan declared Jim Griggs was bon bonan nn an raised In our county Just now his hI home Is at Dawson in the famous cot cotton cotton ton raising Terrell conn b where he has several plantations His wife was wasa a 11 Miss Stewart of an old Georgia lam fam lly Ily Common school education rounded off with ith the benefits derived from winning a scholarship In the Peabody Normal ollege at Nashville led to the study and practice of law and finally to the bench for young Jim Griggs No Nobody Nobody body who knows him CLiS him any anything anything thing but Jim The step upward I from the bar when a vacancy occurred in the famOus old circuit was beset with difficulty Having made it his bis to hew to a fairly straight political line Une and keep good friends in his district as well as an under the dome hp he has been r turned returned every time his bis election He has attained ship on the committee on and and printing which is doing very ery well for a Democrat in these days of Republican rule I i E 4 i i F f 4 JAM ES Member of Congress from Georgia Chairman of the Democratic Can gressional CommIttee |