Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-06
BY JAMES 8. NEVIN.

/ tive Committee for the untorifed
/ Democracy Of Georgia which was
pulled of On the Senate chamber Of
the capitol Saturday was o tirescme
show
il was four-hfths windjammng
and unnecessary noise
The two hours and 30 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 I'm calling
one county-unit primary, under a set
Of resolutions drawn up somewhere
| else. long before the meeting was
called together
| There were present however sew
raj Well-meauing and evidently fret
/ full gentlemen packed with much re
! srve eloquence and fussy dispositions.
I taking &hemselves very seriously
and bent aud determined upon talk
! ing about something or other, and al
| length though the heavens fell in the
meantime,
Nobody in particular wanted toll
get away.
The chairman did undertake toll
head off the avalanche OF gah 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
they would with it, regardless.
Why is It that men sane and poised
on general occasions. win grow foot
ish and fun of heas on convention
days and at State committee meet
inesP
Apparently, they can not help It,
/ Certainly Saturdays show in the
Capitol was a rank performance, and
rot Mt all worth the price Of admis
sion
Thank heaven, II was merely one
night stand to speak
10 have to sit through another such
inconsequential and wordy wrangie
would be cruel ana inhuman punish
ment
Treasurer william j. Speer is one
Of the quietest, 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 i'm HE kimball House lobby
where, sooner or later every visiting
Statesman lands before he returns Go
his home, and there he buttonholes in
the most transformations manner I'M
/ aRinable scores of friends hither and
/ Nou-aud generally he leaves them
strong for Speer whether he found
! them that way or no.
! Mr. Speers long term Of service In
] ibfa Verua eprhr'p of F3fa and fbe cntpy4did
/ re1ord he has made therein Will, so
/ his friends think. insure his easy re
! election TO his present position.
Alex w. stephens, weH-kuown
/ lawyer of Atlanta. is considering the
matter OF running for the Court OF
/ Appeals
Discussing bis tentative candidacy
1 recently. Mt Stephens said.
/ 81 regard a seat upon the Court OF
| Appeals as a high and distinguished
| honor one which should not be care
/ lesslY and without due consideration
/ bestowed upon amy aspirant. Only
/ 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
/ auons should not enter lntoFhe selec-
/ ton Of man to MI H. No man
/ should run for this office upon any Of
! the political economic or moral Ques-
| tons however meritorious, that may
/ be agitating the public mind and that
/ may be Issues In 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
| Justice between the rich and the poor
( While a Judge should keep abreast of
the times. and should give due regard
and consideration 20 All social and
economic changes that may affect iu-
risprudeuCe and the administra zion
OF the law and while he should. In
his Judgments and decisions. bring to
bear "a breadth of view and a broad
mindedness. free from marrow dos
mas ne should bear i'm mind that
there is bu, one safe standard for his
guidance the law of the land CON
ard IT'S spirit construed with wisdom
rather than with Ianaticism. applied
with Justice rather than harshness.
and enforced with moderation. rather
th.p with oporessior~
Mir stephens has man, friends i'm
Georgia Who vim view Ills proposed
candidacy with Friendly ewes tr he
rims he lu,olv win have large fnl-
loving M 4 a ,lo.p s.i,dant IN the
iat and has estshtf.hsd An ,u,f,ble