The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
CANDIDATES NOT LACKING.
No TROUBLE FINDING THEM TO run
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

4 Probability That the Two Factions
VIII select Candidates and the
Fight VIII BE Made Practically on
the same Old Lincs-Representn
tive ROckweII's Opponents Do Not
See How He Can Hold Two Offices.
lie May BE Disqualified as Repre-
sentative.
There viii be no trouble about finding
candidates enough to fill the vacancy in
the lower House Of the legislature from
Chatham county. caused by the death Of
Representative Doolan.
If everybody is a candidate who is be-
ing talked about. and few Of them have
taken the trouble 10 deny it, there will be
a lively race. 1t is hardly probable, how
ever, that there will be any such thing as
free for all fight. 1t is more than likely
that the two factions viii select candi-
dates. and the fight Will be made practi-
caliy on the same old line.
George W. owens, Esq, has been sug-
gested as a candidate, and several Of his
friends have urged him to make the race
Mr.. David Wells is also talked Of and
among others are Messrs. Patrick Gearon,
Walter c. Hartridge and ". W. Chisholm
The friends of G. B. Whatley are urging
him to be a candidate. It will be re-
mombered that Mr.. Whatley was a can
didate last year; but when the friends Of
Capt Tom Screvcn induced him 10 run,
Mr. Whatley Immediately acquiesced,
me- ofrf in, ri
drawing his name, in the interest of har-
mony and good will At the same election
however, Mr.. Whatleys name was placed
on the congressional delegation. At the
convention, which met in July afterward,
he was elected chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee Of the First
congressional district.
feature of the situation is being dis
cussed by the opponents of Representa-
tive Rockwell who recently received an
appointment from Secretary Hoke Smith
as special agent in the law branch of the
department of the interior The claim is
made that he cannot under the constittt-
ton of Georgia hold an appointment un-
der the federal government and at the
same time be a member of the general
assembly, and that he is now disquali-
fled as representa- tive.
The code of 1882, chapter VI, article /,
Eligibility TO Offices, paragraph 129, says.
The following persons are held and
deemed ineligible to hold any civil office
in this state and the existance of either
the following state of facts is a sufficient
reason for vacating any Office held by
such person, but the acts of such persons.
while holding a commission, are valid
as the acts Of an officer de facto. viz: Per-
sons holding any offices of profit or trust
under the government Of the United
States Other than that of postmaster OF
of either of the several states, or of any
foreign state.
The constitution Of the states, in section
4, par. $3.50 in the code of 50 says, regard
ing members of the general assembly: NO
person holding a military commission, or
other appointment or office, having any
cmolument or compensation annexed
thereto, under this state, or the United
States, or either of them, except justices
of the peace and officers Of the militia, nor
any defaulter for public money or for any
legal taxes required of him, shall haze
a seat in either house. nor shall any sena-
tor or representative, after his qualifca-
tion as such, be elected by the general as
sembly or appointed by the governor, eth
er with or without the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, to any office or appoint
ment having any cmolument annexed
thereto, during the term for which he shall
have been elected