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Show v v i JUDGE MAUGHAN I t. After eight years on tho bench, and following whnt might be termed n career of official llfo .liidgu Maughn l stepped down to prlvnte llfo on Monday last. Tho change Is ono that Is a chango Indeed, for the present generation can hardly ro-member ro-member a tln-.c when Mr. Mnughan has not been a public clllcial. Throughout his career ho has held practically every ofllco In the county, and If ono were to sum up tho total salory paid him it woulii f-asily run Into tho bIx figure column. And the best i f It is ho has made a good official. It Is truo "somo peoplo don't llko him" but the Judge hn. gone on Just the same and performed the du-tips du-tips of his office to tho best of his nblllty. The last ten oi more years of his official life has been at tho hands of tho Republican party aB ho has been since statehood an ardent Republican. It Is charged charg-ed that during that time ho has been ndlcted to certain r.pnsmodlc attacks, and during thoso spells has been "out of politics," but generally he has been n tafe hot for tho success of tho Republican party. Never until the last campaign has the Judge failed to contrlbuto to tho Republican campaign fund, and this tlmo he did not do so, apparently for rcaiKm. of his own. Judgo Mnughan has earned n rott, and In his private- life his many1 friends ns well as tho Republican wish him success. May he be as prosperous In prlvato llfo as he has been as hfrvani of the people i |