Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-09
PRICE 8 NAME On
BALLOT TWICE AS
SAT ECUARD
Candidate Will Be on Tickets
for Both the Full and the
Unexpired Terms.

William j. Harris. chairman Of the
state Democratic executive committee.
,ju send out an official ballot for use in
+he october election with the name of
Tones D. Price on it as a candidate for
ho+b the full and uneXpired terms as
commissioner of agriculture.
Mr. Harris will do this as measure
81 nrotection to the Democratic party
in Georgia and to safeguard the Office
oooinst the possible ambition of Bull
rooses or others.
The secretary of state, Philip Cook,
&c of the opinion that the next commits
slime, Of agriculture takes his Office
;r7n,adiatelv following the October cleo
,io, He saws the law authorizes the
governor to appoint, in the case of
,.,rsrcv. only until a successor to the
rnevpired term can be elected and
qualified.
He holds that such successor must be
elected and qualified in October, ana
that whoever is then elected will hold
o4i,o until the following June, when 1t
new and full term will begin
Ccnner's Opinion Differs.
r-nde- Mr. Cooks Interpretation Of
Tho law. Commissioner Conner, Gov
ernor Browns appointee to. the uneN-
,,rod term of Thomas G. Hudson. will
bo15 office only until his successor is
elected and qualified The secretary Of
.ta,4 saws such successor will be elect
cd in October. and that the governor
will then be authorized TO commission
him, He declares that ne can see the
law no other way.
Commissioner Conner. on the othrN
hand holds that his appointment by
the Governor Will not expire until the
legislature meets in June and qualities
his successor. and that, therefore, there
win he no uneXpired term to fill in the
October election.
Chairman Harris, of the state com
mjttee. feels that. however much law
,ers NAV differ as to when Commits
sioner Corners term does or does not
expire the Democracy will be making a
Great mistake to take chances on the
matter He says that If it should trans
plre that the secretary of state is right
and that the governor will be author
ICED to commission the man named in
the October election, then the Democ-
racv should see to it that its choice
which, logically Mr.. Harris conceives
Mr.. Price to be-is protected by regu-
larity in the manner of his election
and that it will be best to vote for him.
both for the full and the uneXpired
terms
The chairman, therefore, will have
Prices name put upon both tickets.
Fear Bull Moose Might Slip In.
On the official blanks already sent
out by the department Of state the
name of Price appears only as a candi-
date for the full term but there is
blank space wherein his name may be
written by the election managers in
making the official returns.
If the Democratic party had no can
didate in the October election and the
Bull Moses did, and the Bull Moose
candidate received any votes at ALL the
governor would be compelled, so the
secretary Of state thinks, to commission
such candidate for the unexpired term
i E.. from the date of the certification
Of his election to the secretary of state
and his commissioning by the governor,
until the following June, when a full
term unquestionably begins.
Chairman Harris feels that. in any
event, his direction of things can work
no possible harm, and if the law is as
Secretary Cook conceived it to be. it
uhquestionably will work much good
There is some difference Of opinion
0etween lawyers al to exactly what the
law Is, but the majority of them seem
to incline to Secretary Cooks view
Of it,