The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-19

THE DAW
ton. He said that the law governs
primaries, and defines what an ex-
ecutive committee of a party can do.
No primary elections except for
the nomination of candidates, he
declared, are recognized by any
law. The resolution under con
IstderatiOn did not call a demo-
cratic primary, but would admit
populists, republicans and negroes.
Never before had he heard of
the democratic party calling that
kind of an election. The author and
finisher of the city court he said.
IS the Georgia legislature, and no
other power on earth can touch it.
An election by a faction or party
would have no more effect on the
legislature than the wind which
blows through the trees.
Chairman Edwards said that when
he was appointed judge of the city
court Mr.. Irwin was an applicant for
the JOB, but was turned down by the
bar, and has since been fighting the
court. He charged that that gentle
mans antagOnism to the court was
personal, and that if he was sitting
as judge he would be one of IFS
warmest champions now.
Would 1t BE an Expression of the
People?
! Mr.. Edwards took the position that
II an election was called there was
no assurance that an EXPRESSION of
the people would be obtained as
there was no reason to believe that
anything like majority of them
| would vote on the question ps-
| peclally as it would not ACCOMPLISH
anything. He called attention to the
TACT that in the prohibition election
winch was one of the hottest ever
heId IN the county, One-third of the
voters, enough to have carried the
election either way, did not go to the
polls, but stayed at home. How they
would have voted nobody knows
I GU cannot force people to vote when
they don't want to, and especiallv
would that be true in an election
gotten up by those on one side of
question.
Why Not Vote on Other Thingso
Mr.. Edwards said that he had
noticed that some resolutions which
were introduced by Mr.. Irwin at
recent meeting proposed to abolish
Ine experimental station, and he sug-
gested that this also be submitted to
the people at the same election.
Mr.. Wilkinson Interrupted to saw
that Mr.. Irwin had run for the senate
on a platform that contained seven
planks, and he thought that if an
election was ordered on the city court
question all of them might be voted
on at the same time, especially the
one to abolish guano filters.
Mr.. Edwards concluded by saving
II the democratic committee. which |
was nothing but party organization.
called an election on this question if |
would stultify itself as near as !
committee ever did.
. He Wanted the 500 a Day.
When Mr.. Irwin arose to reply he
stated it was true that two years ago
he was candidate for the iudgeshin |
OF the city court. He saw that the
court was paying a salary of $1,000
Tor ten or fifteen days work during
the year, and he wanted the iob
Il would be dog-gone glad to have
II now, he said, and if | had if
| would very likely be like Mr. Ed
Wards-fghting to keep it,"
Mr.. Irwin disclaimed personal
animosity toward any officer of the
court, and said he was fighting tn
rld the people of it through a sense
OF duty The matter of the CITY
court he said, was not injected into
ms race for the senate, and never
came up, until the city court people
forced it on him. The legislature is
made up mostly Of lawyers, who ia
Vor courts of all kinds, and the peo-
pie OF Terrell county will never get
rid of this court until they fall
IN behind him and help him relieve
them of its burdensome expense.
Everything that is done will be iIIe-
gal and improper in the opinion of
those who want to keep the court
for the sake Of the money they make
out of it.
Mr.. Wilkinson tells YOU" he said
that you will stultify yourselves bv
calling this election. He is one of
those who is benefited by the court
as practicing lawyer, and he be-
lieyes that when you stop taking
money out Of your own pockets to
pay the expenses Of something that
puts money into his pocket you will
stultify yourselves"
Thought the People Should Vote.
Mr.. E. w. Aven, one of the COM
mltteemen from Parrot, said he was
a city court man, but believed the
people should vote on it and stop the
agitation. He suggested that the
matter might be settled by having
separate boxes for the ballots and
an extra set of managers on the day
of the state election.
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