Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
By JAMES 3. NEVlN.

Democracy Of Georgia which Wa
pulled Off Ia the senate chamber Of
the capitol Saturday was tiresome
Show
u was four hfths wIndjammtng
and unnecessary noise
The two hours and 80 minutes con
sumed in It's work might well have
been reduced two good hours and
nobody would have lost anything
whatever by the process.
It's actual work consisted i'm calling
one county unit primary, under a sci
Of resolutions drawn up somewhere
else. long before the meeting vas
called together
There were present however sew
raj well meaning and evidently fret
ful gentlemen. packed with much re
srye eloquenee and fussy dispositions,
taking themselves very seriously
and bent and determined upon talk
ing about something on other, and at
length. though the heavens fell in the
meantime,
Nobody in particular wanted to
Lear them but II was rather hard to
get away.
The chairman did undertake to
head off the avalanche Of CAB once or
twice. but there was little doing
Statesmen, real or near were there,
with something imposing and i'm
pressiye in their systems nd out
they would with it. regardless,
Why IS II that men sane and poised
on general occasions viii grow fool
ish and fun of heas on convention
days and at State committee meet
ngs2
Apparently, they can not help it,
Certainly Saturdays show in the
Capitol was a rank performance, and
hot at an worth the price Of admis-
sion
Thank heaven II was merely one
night stand so to speak,
70 have TO sit through another such
inconsequential and wordy Wrangle
would be cruel and inhuman punish
ment!
Treasurer william ! speer is one
OF the quietest but none the less one
Of the most effective, campaleners in
the political field for reelection this
year
lie spends a little OF his time every
day in the kimball House lobby
where sooner or later every visiting
statesman lands before he returns 10
his home, and there he buttonholes in
the most unostentatous manner i'm
aRlnable scores Of friends hither and
Won and generally he leaves them
strong for Speer. whether he found
them that way or no,
Mr. Speer's long term of service in
the Treasurers Office and the splendid
f.,
his friends think, insure his easy re-
election to his present position
Alex W stephens. well-known
lawyer or Atlanta. is considering the
matter OF running for the Court of
Appeals
Discussing his tentative candidacy
recently Mr. stephens said;
II regard a seat upon the Court OF
Appeals as a high ana distinguished |
honor one which should not be care |
lessly and without due consideration |
bestowed upon any aspirant. Only a |
lawyer of experience in the practice /
and student Of the law should be |
elevated to this position. II is not a !
political office, and political consider ,
atiOns should not enter into the selec
ton OF man to MI IT, No man /
should run for this Office upon any Of
the political economic or moral Ques-
lions however meritorious, that may
be agitating the public mind and that I
may be issues i'm other campaigns I
The candidate for Judge should run |
only upon his merits as a lawyer and .
as a man
His only platform should be his |
oath OF Office To support the Consti-
tuition and the laws and TO do equal I