Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14

! bar would fdlnllldrlZe themselves WIZ
the rules governing the consideration
| Of clemency matters before the exec
utive department, they would save
! themselves, not TO mention to the
Governor and his secretaries, a lot OF
! useless and senseless annoyance and
| trouble.
| For instance, 1t is an ironclad rule
| Of the executive department that no
| petitions for clemenCy, save in the
| very gravest and most extraordir lry
| emergencies. will be heard by he
| Governor unless they previously have
| been heard by the Prison Commits
sion. Notwithstanding the fact that
! this rule long ago was established,
| lawyers continually appear before the
| Governor particularly in capital
| cases, asking for last minute clemen-
cy for criminals, after opportunity has
been passed to appear before the
! prison board
II the Governor stood for that sort
| of thing 1t would be comparatively an
easy matter to postpone. through res
pites, from time TO time, indefinitely
| sentences Of death.
Recently a lawyer came from South
! Georgia asking a last minute respite
for a client condemned to death, de-
spite the fact that the Prison Com
mission had been in session for al
most a solid week Immediately pre-
vious to the petition for respite be-
fore the Governor. The Governor re-
fused to hear the petition, but ii so
happened that the prison board man
aged to get together in time TO hear
it, at considerable inconvenience.
The Governor states that he will
adhere very closely to the rules laid
down for clemency hearings. Law
gers can easily secure a copy of these
rules by applying to the Prison Com
mission.
There is no matter that requires so
much of the Governors time and pa
'tel.2e as clemency hearings, and he
feels that it is as little as lawyers
can DO to cooperate with him and
lielp him all they can.
Unless he changes his mind In the
meantime the announcement of j.
Threat Moore, Of Jackson, for Sena-
tor from the Twenty sixth Senatorial
District. will be made this week
This announcement will be received
with wide interest by thousands of
friends of Mr.. Moore all over the
State, eli was elected to the House
from Butts County in 1910, refused to
run for reelection two years ago
and now is going to try for the Senate
from the district composed of Butts,
Fayette and Spalding Counties.
Threat Moore was a famous ath-
lete at the University of Georgia In
his day, and is well known as law
Yer and public man. He has had
much announcement 10 run.
Just who, IL anybody, will oppose
Mr. Moore is not known, though Rep
resentative j. ii. Mills has been men,
toned in that connection,
The following item of news appeay-
Ing in the Sunday issue of The Rome
Tribune Herald viii be read with in
terest not only in Atlanta but all
over Georgia:
Seaborn Wright, rumor says,
has been made a flattering offer
to take charge of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement" in
Atlanta. but arrangements have
not been perfected, and may not
be-
Former Representative Seaborn
Wright, who once ran rather a spec
tacular race for Governor, Is the
father of the present Statewide pro-
hibition law, man of great elo-
quence, and is abundantly equipped
to lead the fight suggested by The
Tribune Herald.
II the "arrangements"-w
they are-are perfected, and Mr..
Wright does come to Atlanta to shell
the woods" there is not much doubt
that the woods will be shelled some.
Judge Luther z. Rosser, Jr., of the
new Municipal Court of Atlanta, is
rapidly establishing a fine reputation
as a presiding magistrate.
Judge Rosser is showing a decided
tendency to expedite the business OF
his court, for one thing, and a marked
clear headedness OF methods besides
He Is one of the youngest judges in
the State, but the Atlanta bar already
seems agreed that he is going &c
make good" He is businessiike in
the extreme.
That Governor Slaton's prompt and
sensible handling of the recent tense
situation in Louisville. in which the
three negroes sentenced by Judge Der
Hill Monday to be hanged on Febru-
airy 6 were concerned, headed off most