Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
BY JAMES q. NEVIN.


The meeting Of the state Execs-
tive Committee for the unterrihed
/ Democracy Of Georgia which was
pulled off In the Senate chamber OF
the Capitol Saturday was tiresome
show
1t was four-ffths windjammng
and unnecessary noise
The two hours and 80 minutes con-
sumed in its work might well have
been reduced two good hours, and
nobody would have lost anything
whatever by the process
It's actual work consisted in calling
/ one county unit primary, under set
Of resolutions drawn up somewhere
/ else, long before he meeting was
called together
There were present however, sew
/ raj meaning and evidently fret
/ full gentlemen. packed with much re-
/ srve eloquence and fussy dispositions,
! taking themselves very seriously
and bent and determined upon talk
| ing about something or other and at
! length. though the heavens fell in the
meantime
/ Nobody in particular wanted TO
4 hear them but it was rather hard to
get away.
4 The chairman did undertake to
I 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
/ pressive in their systems and out
/ thew would with It, regardless.
Why is It that men, sane and poised
on general occasions. win grow fool
ish and fun of heas on convention
| days and at State committee meet
| ings?
Apparently. they can not help it,
/ Certainly Saturdays show In the
/ Capitol was a rank performance, and
not al all worth the price of admis-
sion!
Thank heaven, 1t was merely one
night stand-so to speak,
TO have to sit through another such
/ inconsequcntia and wordy wrangle
would be cruel and inhuman punish
ment!
Treasurer William ]. Speer is one
Of the quletest, but none the less one
of the most effective, Campaigners in
/ the political field for reelection this
year.
He spends a little OF his time every
/ day in the Kimball House lobby
4 where. sooner or later every visiting
/ statesman lands before he returns to
4 his home, and there he buttonhoies in
I the most transformations manner i'm
/ aginable scores Of friends hither and
4 yon--aud generally he leaves them
strong for Speer whether he found
/ them that way or no!
MIR. Speers long term Of service in
/ the Treasurer's office and the splendid
record he has made therein will, so
his friends think, insure his easy re-
election to his present position.
Alex w. stephens, well-known
| lawyer Of Atlanta. is considering the
matter of running for the Court of
I Appeals,
Discussing his tentative candidacy
4 recently. Mr. stephens said:
II regard a seat upon the Court OF
/ Appeals as a high and distinguished
/ honor-ope which should not be care
1 lessly and without due consideration
/ bestowed upon any aspirant Only a
/ lawyer Of experience In The practice
and a 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 a man to fill it, No man
/ should run for this office upon any Of
/ the political economic or moral Ques-
/ tons, however meritorjouS, that may
/ be aeitating the public mind and that
may he issues in other campaigns.
/ The candidate for judge should run