The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-30
SWORN IN AT HOME
JUDGE CANN WILL RECEIVE THE
OATH OF OFFICE TOMORROW.
TELEGRAM FROM GOVERNOR
AUTHORIZING JUDGE NORWOOD TO
ADMINISTER OATH.

Col. Cams ResignatiOn as County
Attorney Will Go to the Commits
siOners TO-dny-Six Said-tO-Be
Candidates In the Race for the
Coveted Omce-AppOintment viii
Probably Be Made at the Same
Meeting at Which Col. Cams
Resignation Is Received.
Col. George T. Cam will be sworn
in as judge of the Eastern Judicial Cir
cult tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
at his residence on CASTOR street.
This was finally decided yesterday
morning when a telegram was receiv-
ed from Gov. Terrell authorizing Judge
Norwood of the City Court to admin
lister the oath. Judge Norwood is out
of the city and will not return until
some time to-day.
Perhaps at no time in the history
of the state has Superior Court judge
taken the solemn oath of office at his
private residence, and in this Judge
Cam will establish a precedent. Sur
rounded by friends and those of his
immediate family the formal ceremony
of inducing the young jurist into Of
flee will be performed.
Col. Cam has not yet handed in
his resignation as county attorney,
though this will probably be done to-
day and a meeting of the County Com
missioners will be called to act upon
it and name a successor to Col. Cam
County AttOrneyship Race.
There are now six lawyers regarded
as being in the race for the county at
torneyship and members of the COM
missioners have been beseiged by
friends of each. Those mentioned for
the position are: Messrs. j. Ferris
Cam, F. NJ. Oliver, John Sullivan
Schley and Robert l.. Colding. Mr..
Walter P. LaRoche, who was at first
suggested as a candidate, has with
drawn his name.
AS matter of course none of the
commissioners have openly COM
not even been officially notified
that there is to be an APP
pointment The influence of politi-
cal factions will enter largely into the
appointment, and the history of poll
tics in this county points almost
Enthusiastically to the appointment of
Mr.. Colding.
More than usual interest centers in
the race. 1t means much in the COM
ing election. While differing factions
are not openly represented, it is I'M
derstood that the appointment of one
of the applicants, if not one of two,
might mean a split in the primary,
which will be held in the spring.
May Cast the Primary.
In the fight for speaker of the last
Legislature, of which Mai J. Ferris
Cam was a member, Solicitor General
Osborne supported Mr.. Fondren Mitch
ell, while Maj. Cam, who had been
sent to the Legislature by the admin
istration forces was in the ranks of the
supporters of Mr.. Newton Morris.
Mr.. Morris was elected and in some
! quarters the feeling towards Maj Cam
| has not been the same since. Mai Cam
and his brother, it appears, have not
been so close to the administration
since Maj. Cam was sent to the Legis-
lature and any opposition to the ad-
ministration that may develop in May
is looked for from this source, although
no announcements of Maj. Cams can
didacy for the Office of solicitor general
has ever been made
There will also be con-
sideration of the election for the
Superior Court judge, the primary for
which will be held in May. Judge Cam
opposed Judge Norwood, who was the
! administration candidate for the City
Court judgeship, and while there is no
actually organized anti-administration
faction the appointment of county at
torney may be the cause of it's de-
velopement and assuming shape. How
ever the race may be decided it is a
pretty one, and is being watched with
much interest.