Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-26
GAMBLER URGES
CARE IN PICKING
RECORDER
Declares Office Is Second in
Importance in City-Primary
Plan Is Blocked.

With councilmen besieged for votes
by candidates for recorder. John S
Gambler, acting mayor, today urged that
council go slow in naming a man to
succeed Nash r. Broyles.
1T is the most important Office in the
city government, with the exception of
mayor he said.
There is a class of helpless people
over whom the recorder has almost alb
solute power. There is class of bad
men and laWless men with influence
whom the. recorder must punish and
hold in check
We all know the story of Jean Val
jean. There have been more pitiful
cases of men and boys ruined by the
courts in Georgia than that.
Must Have Heart and Nerve.
The office demands a man Of judi
cial mien, with heart and with
nerve
From the viewpoint of the good of
the city, l don't think Recorder Broyles
has been promoted"
Calling on councilmen by telephone
and in person today for support were
Eugene Thomas. a young lawyer of the
firm of Thomas & King; Thomas H.
Goodwin. lawyer who has been a can
didate for mayor and for recorder, and
". H. Preston. who has been assistant
recorder for eight years.
Mr. Thomas claimed IS of the 30
members of council had already pledged
their support to him.
James Dodgen has announced for the
place. r. b. Ridley justice Of the
peace; George Johnson, police commits
sioner and a candidate for the office of
recorder against Nash Broyles, Malvern
Hill, a lawyer and candidate against
Judge Broyles. are expected to formally
announce for the place within the next
few days.
Primary Plan Blocked.
An amendment to the city charter,
granted at the last session of the legis-
lature gives council the authority to
fiji all uneXptred terms of city offices.
The recorder is regularly elected by the
people.
A movement to have the people eX-
press their preference at the city pri-
mary of October ? was blocked by the
early adjournment of the city Demo-
cratic executive committee today. Hen
ry Garrett a member of the commit
tee. had prepared a resolution to sub
NIT the matter to the people. But he
arrived Just after adjournment. on the
motion of Charles Allen. the committee
was adjourned few minutes after it
convened. October . was named as the
date of the primary, and Chairman ].
Y. Smith named a committee Of
ten, with r. c. Pool as chairman. to
conduct the primary. 1t was conceded
that J. 0. Cochran would be named sec
rotary of the sub committee, and he
will. therefore. have active charge of
the primary.
Hinges on Judgeship Race
Judge Broyles was candidate for
the uneXpired term in the court of APP
peals of Judge Arthur Powell. The seat
is now held by Judge Joseph Pottle, an
appointee of Governor-elect Slaton. If
Judge Broyles has been nominated. he
will take his seat Immediately follow
ing the general state election the first
Wednesday in October the date OF the
city primary.
All the plans to succeed him as city
police court judge are, of course, con-
tingent on his nomination for the court
Of appeals. The indications now are
that the convention will have to decide
whether he or Judge Joseph Pottle is
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