The Lexington advertiser., 1907-12-06
Sell .CONTRADICTED SPEAKER
SHIP CLAIM.

will not continue 10 uidfsc q hSns
against Mr.. 4uin or any other candi'
date for the honored position, but al
low the speakership to be passed on by
those who have authority to select the
person they think will best serve them
and the state We have three branches
of government. 1t Is wisdom to keep
them independent of each other and
. the law SAYS it must be done as will be
found in the constitution. n.-SenatoDia
Democrat.
The claim, above made, that legislat-
ors and the governor, belonging to
different departments Of government
are each debarred by our constitution
from having voice in matters affecting
the other, cannot be made successfully
by Mr.. Quin and his supporters, who
have most hagrantly disregarded the
very doctrine they now invoke. II
such disregard ought to be condemned
and defeated, they are selt-condemned
and self defeated.
Mr.. II. NJ. Quin and those nearest
him, Immediately after he was chosen,
in the first primary legislator from
jackson, set out, openly and actively,
not only to elect him speaker but also
to defeat Mr.. Noel for governor. Then,
there seemed to them no constitution
al, nor any other, reason why chosen
legislator, running for the speakership,
should not attempt to his utmost, to
control the governorship, and il he
fail in that undertaking, then through
the speakership, if obtained, to large
ly undo the work of governor whom
they could not defeat. No gulf then
yawned between legislative and exc
cutive offices, preventing mutual ef'
forts at control.
Mr.. Noel and those nearest him pur.
sued an exactly opposite course, taxi
ing no part, while he was a candidate
in the choice of any officer and fight
ing, and being fought, by that faction
alism through which some officers
sought to control the naming OF 9th
er officers. The fight that Mr.. Quin
precipitated against Mr. Noel was OF
Mr.. Quin own seeking. because Mr..
Noel's political views, or opposition
to factionalism, caused preference
for his opponent. Thus Mr.. Noel's
friends, because they do not want
what the people elected him for, un
done or crippled by adverse organiza
ton If the house, and because of th'
natural instinct of self defense, voic
preference for any speaker who pur
sued different political policy fron
that of Mr.. Quin In all political di
visions, Mr.. Quin sided against Mr.
Noel, and Mr.. Quin stated that hi
opposition was not personal, but wa
political and that Mr.. Noel's politica
Friends were not those with whom b
usually sided. OF course it is but ma
tural that Mr.. Quin should continue
in the speakersnip, his former policy
and that Mr.. Noel's supporters, Will
not seeking to name the speaker, shoul
earnestly seek to prevent such an &C
verse organization of the house
would naturally follow the selectio
of MI. Quin. For Mr.. Noel's frien(
to sit quietly down and to see one WI
has fought him and who would prol
ably continue to fight. whenever ar
division arises, organize house OF r
presentatives adversely to the ne,
administration would be worse ths
folly.
If there has been any dominate
in connection with the governorsh
and speakeTship as between MIR, Gu
and Mr.. Noel, and their respecti
friends, the domination attempted b
been on the side of Mr.. Quin and
bis friends who sought, during b
candidacy for speaker to control al
name both speaker and governc
Pointing out this effort at dom inati
does not convict Mr.. Noel, nor /
friends, in the minds of fair Think
people of any wrong, but merely sho
they are seeking to effectuate WI
the people intended to accomplish
voting for what Mr. Noel's candida
represents, and to prevent its bel
undone by an adverse organization
the house of representatives.
If the Jackson Daily News rea
believes we erred in our last week
article on the attorney generals su
in the Vicksburg Compress Trust m
Ger, and the Retail Lumber Deale
Trust, it failed to point out the matt
of the error, except in such gene
and indefinite terms as amounts
nothing. We stand ready to corr
any error. The facts commented
by this paper we're given general p'
lication, and we have never seen
nial, not even from the News. Z
only mistake that we know of, nj
In that article was that by typogra
ical error we stated that the attorn