Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-28

| both pleas We're M ass -.
successful. Gov @
| ernor Joseph NJ. M
| Brown does not &
wish the impress
sion to become No. NC. %W
| deep seated in the IsN&kS1
public mind that rAAra 1rr>rr,I
| every old man
who walks 20 miles and every fourteen
year-old girl who calls at the executive
offices can put over stunts of similar
persuasion
The governor has much of the milk
of human kindness in his makeup,
and he believes in extending executive
clemency wherever it is indicated, but
a merely sympathetic plea, sob
story with nothing substantial behind
it, does not get anywhere particularly
in the Brown philosophy.
TIE governor let's it be understood,
gently but firmly, that executive elem
ency in his office arises out of merito-
rious cases only, and parties encOur-
aged by late events need not waste
either their time or the governors with
pleas for communication of sentence, un
less there is something very substan-
tial in the cases besides the sympathet-
ic end of it.
And there were entirely sufficient
reasons for clemency in the cases of
the old man and the young girl, re-
Gently successfully argued before the
governor.
Referring to statement made by the
executive department of the state of
Georgia TO the executive department of
the state of Oklahoma, to the effect
that the governor of Georgia is power
! less to remove or in any wise discipline
a sheriff in Georgia, and that the sher-
| if may be reached by way of trial by
! jury, and in no other way, The Sa-
vannah News comments vigorously as
follows:
The necessity for change In ex-
listing laws was impressed on the
| people of this state during a recent
| Georgia railroad strike, and in the
case of one or two lynchings and
at least one hanging. The Georgia
sheriff is responsible only to the
people who elect him, but when he:
shows a disposition to look more
carefully after his own reelection
than after the enforcement of the
law, it does seem as if there should
be some method of administering
discipline more speedy than the
slow moVing trial by jury.
1t is altogether likely that two new
laws will be proposed in the next legis-
lature vitality affecting the points raised
by The News
A statute will be proposed giving the
governor more direct power in the mat
| ter Of disciplining a sheriff dereIct in
his duty, and another will be proposed
providing for the execution of all GRIM
inals condemned to death at some cen
trail point within the state-either At
lanta or at the state farm, near Mill
| edgeville
Both of these acts will greatly aid.
SO many people think, in the sure and
orderly enforcement of the criminal
law.
Game Warden Jesse Mercer SAYS that
more hunters licenses are being issued
in Georgia this year than ever before,
and with little or no friction. r.
When the licenses We're first required
by the state there was considerable
Kicking from various quarters. and pro-
tests were registered frequently. This
year, however, the licenses are being
taken out and paid for cheerfully, as the
! 20 =
in way, to the fact that the game
laws are designed not only to protect
the game, but to protect the hunter and
the sports as well.
THE game laws of Georgia. said Mr.
Mercer, ARE working smoothly and
most satisfactorily. I do not antici-
pate any widespread violations Of the
statutes, moreover as the public seems
to realize that we have made up our
minds to enforce them rigidly. and
impartially, wherever a disposition to
violate or evade them is discovered" -
Chairman of the Interstate Com
merce Commission Judson J. Clements.
who formerly represented the Seventh
Georgia district in the national con-
gress, said in recent interview that
Increased speed is not the thing the
travelling public needs. or desires SO
much Is it is comfort and sanitation
in travel
The commissioner thinks that dir+v
Gingy cars, stuffy badly heated and
poorly ventilated, minus perfectly san.
itary arrangements for drinking and
toilet purposes-these, and poor depot
equipment and so forth. are much more
to be deplored than that 1t takes Ave
hours, rather than four and half tn
go from somewhere to somewhere else
So eXacting are the duties of the
commission in Washington that Mr.
! Clements seldom gets to Georgia now
adays' hut he came down to vote for
Wilson and Marshall on November 4
all right!
nice little gubernatoriaI ,o.o,,, e..