COLEMAN, FREDERICK W...Judge 15th Circuit..... .Judge 14th Circuit.... Williamsburg. Judge Fredericksburg CIRCUIT JUSTICE, CIRCUIT JUDGES AND DISTRICT JUDGES FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT.......Circuit Justice........ Washington, D. C. CIRCUIT JUDGES. HON. EDMUND WADDILL, JR. . . .U. S. Circuit Judge. HON. JOHN J. PARKER. . . . . HON. ELLIOTT NORTHCOTT. Maryland: .U. S. Circuit Judge.... Charlotte, N. C. ...U. S. Circuit Judge.... Huntington, W. Va. DISTRICT JUDGES. HON. MORRIS A. SOPER. . . . . . U. S. District Judge.... Baltimore, Md. HON. WILLIAM C. COLEMAN.. U. S. District Judge... Baltimore, Md. Virginia (Eastern District): HON. D. LAWRENCE GRONER..U. S. District Judge........ Norfolk, Va. Virginia (Western District): HON. HENRY C. MCDOWELL..U. S. District Judge....Lynchburg, Va. West Virginia (Northern District): HON. WILLIAM E. BAKER.... .U. S. District Judge.... Elkins, W. Va. West Virginia (Southern District): HON. GEORGE W. MCCLINTIC..U. S. District Judge.... Charleston, W. Va. North Carolina (Eastern District): HON. ISAAC M. MEEKINS.....U. S. District Judge... Elizabeth City, N. C. North Carolina (Middle District): HON. JAMES E. BOYD..... U. S. District Judge... Greensboro, N. C. HON. JOHNSON J. HAYES. .U. S. District Judge... Greensboro, N. C. North Carolina (Western District): HON. E. Y. WEBB.... U. S. District Judge... Shelby, N. C. South Carolina (Eastern District): HON. ERNEST F. COCHRAN.... U. S. District Judge... Charleston, S. C. South Carolina (Western District): HON. H. H. WATĶINS.... U. S. District Judge... Anderson, S. C. Number Honorary Members. 79 APPENDIX I. 1927 ATTACKS ON POPULAR GOVERNMENT An Address Delivered by R. Gray Williams to the Virginia State Bar Association, August 3, 1927, at The Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach. In the Victorian era Edwin Lester Arnold, the son of Sir Edwin Arnold, wrote "The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician." Phra was a fictive favorite of my boyhood who thrilled me by his unusual ability to die out of one age and rise to life in another. He could accomplish this revitalization not only once, but in successive ages, the only unpleasant feature of his resurrection being the pains that tortured him as the blood of awakening life forced its way through his shrunken veins. He was an engaging individual, was Phra, possessing the advantage of carrying his history under his hat from one age to another and not being restricted to the record in books, where history has been denominated a mere lie agreed upon. He is the only gentleman I have known who would not offend the hearsay rule in testifying concerning the characteristics of vanished ages and the life of dead peoples. Thinking of Phra and his ability to awake from a long sleep, like Rip Van Winkle, I began to hope that Thomas Jefferson might rise from his tomb at Monticello and revive our failing faith in popular government. For Jefferson had a faith in the common man and his ability to govern himself that moved moun |