Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-05-22
Continued from Page Four.
FAULKNER SARCASTIC ON
SEWING MACHINE AGENTS

To the Editor of The Journal:
Those sewing machine agents and other
constitutional authorities whom the peo-
pie have strangely neglected to elevate
to the supreme bench OF the state, and
who are attacking Hon. Joe Terrell for re-
ceiving the customary fees for services
performed outside Of his Jurisdiction, are
about the most amusing performers that
the Guerry vaudeville company has offer
ed u.s.
Think of Johnson and Earle setting up
as critics of the solemnly given legal opin->
ions of Logan E. Bleckley and James
Jackson!
1t is true that such men might err even
in questions of law, but is it likely that
Johnson and Earle would be employed by
anybody to catch them at it?
Suppose that those jurists did give opin-
ions-do not the mere ipse diXits of such
men weigh tons to the ounce of legal in
fallibility assumed by a gentleman whose
chief business is to explain bobbins. hem
mers and quilters? If not it is about time
for the general assembly to employ john
son and Earle to re-edit, correct and con-
stitutionalize the decisions that Bleckley
and Jackson have put into the Georgia
supreme court reports. Something of that
sort ought to be done right away to free
us from their plumbers in law. don't you
think?
Those critics of Clifford Anderson, Ely
Terrell, Bleckley, Jackson and a half doz-
en- governors and three state treasurers,
would have us understand that the idiots
who made our constition and the officials
who interpret and execute it should have
required our 5000 a year attorney gem
eral to rack all over creation to look after
Georgias legal business for that pitiful
sum. If the attorney general can be or
dered before the state courts anywhere
In the Union to prosecute extradiction
proceedings. or be sent to Mexico, Can
ada or England for the same purpose. and
to the supreme court in Washington to
wrestle with the giant lawyers defending
corporations against the rights of the
state-all for 5000 a year-then we can
understand why Mr.. Guerry has not Of
fered himself-to be elected attorney gen.
eral.
But the merest child ought to know that
the governor of Georgia has no authority
to order the attorney general, or any 9TH
er state officer, to perform any service be-
yond the confines Of the state. He can
not even order the commanders of our
troops to do any service outside the state.
The fact is when he himself gets outside
the state he ceases to be governor ex-
cept in name, and by courtesy. A pardon
granted by him in New York would not
be worth the paper 1t is written upon.
Constitutions and statutes are con-
sIructed IN harmony WIN certain eStdD-
lished principles and precedents, and 1t
is an unheard OF proposition that the at
torney general of Georgia, or any other
state, is elected to chase all over the earth
and prosecute the states business ''in
any court" in Christendom. If "any court
means any court in the United States 1t
also means any court in Europe. Asia,
Africa, or the Isles OF the sea-
Stuff and nonsense! The people OF
Ganrorio forum q falU cr1ld-
geons as to be caught on such bare sew
ing-machine needles! They know that
their officers in these transactions have
kept the law and not outraged it and they
will reward these malicious attacks upon
honorable officers, both the quick and the
dead, with Terrell victory Of mammoth
proportions on the 5th of June.
Very respectfully,
C. r. FAULKNER .
Bolton, Ga. r. sr-r a.