Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-14
Rv LANES 3. NEvIN.

1t should be understood, however
for in some quarters it seems not to
! be so understood that the voter de-
| string TO have his name placed on the
| registration books permanently, still
| must register this year.
once on the books this year,
| voter remains on the books forever
! unless through failure to pay his
! taxes. or for some other legal cause
he permits himself to become dis
| qualified
The registration books for this
years elections-the general State
| elections-wll close on April T. They
| must close under the law six months
! in advance of the general election for
Governor and State h@use officers,
| which occurs on October T.
| Every voter registering between
| this date and April z, therefore, be-
| comes permanently registered, as
| hereinbefore stated.
There still are thousands of Geor-
| gians not registered for this year.
| The time is very short-less than q
| month remaining. Unless, in any
| event, registration is looked after for
| this year. the voter negleCting it will
be disqualified in October.
This year undoubtedly is going to
be mighty lively one in politics in
Georgia The voter who is now per-
hitting himself to think otherwise
has rude awakening coming to him
unless of course, it be a pleasant
awakening
Likely he will kick himself, good
and proper, later along, if he finds
that there are big and exciting things
going on in politics, and he isn't even
registered
IL is very uncomfortable feeling
to find, after the big show gets well
under way, that you are not qualified
20 take part therein!
Voters will do well to look after
the matter of registration within the
next few days-the sooner, the better.
Three weeks isn't much time, but it
Is all there is left in which to get
ones name on the registration books
Remember, the books close on April
and after that there will be no
way to qualify for voting!
Leslies Weekly, looking toward the
South for political developments and
observing the trend thereof. reaches
the conclusion. with Georgia very
much in mind, that the Solid South"
so long an impregna BILE stronghold Of
Democracy. eventually will be broken,
not through issues that so far have
uonal as through prohibition.
Leslie's says:
Prohibition, Ii Is announced
that at the Arizona primaries Eu-
gene W. Chafin, who ran for
President in 1912 on the Prohibi-
ton ticket, will be a candidate for
the United States Senate. Re-
Gently a movement was started
at Washington for national
prohibition movement on political
lines. 1t is among the probaili-
ties that this revival of the Pro-
hibition party will become for
midable. IT may do TO the DEM
Ocratic party in the South what
the Progressive movement has
done to the Republican party IN
the North. The solid South will
never he broken excepting by
some such issue which will out
weigh all party obligation. We
may be on the eve of a political
upheaval, natural result of the
prevailing unrest.
Many people have wondered long
and oft just exactly how, when,
wherefore and why the solid South"
was to be broken. Perhaps Lesie's
has made remarkabia discovery
and perhaps it hasn't!
Readers will judge that matter for
themselves, and after their own indi-
vidual ways of thinking.
Joseph e. Pottle the solicitor Gen
eral of the Ocmulgee Circuit, whose
friends. without his knowledge or con.
sent. recently started something of a
boom in his behalf for Attorney Gen
eral, has stated that he will not be a
candidate for that office
Solicitor Pottle is generally accept
ed to be the foremost prosecuting at
torney in the States service, but ap-
parently has no ambition for the At
torney Generalship. Indeed, so far as
the material considerations of the
matter go, he probably will be vastly
better off out of that office than in.
Like nearly all of the statehouse Of
fees, from Governor down, the Attor-
ney Generalship admittedly is very
much underpaid!
Mr.. Pottle was lin the race" a a
tentative candidate, however, long
enough for his boom to attract State
wide attention. Many papers took the
matter up. and. almost without eX
ception, they approved of the idea.
There isn't a stronger man in Gcor-
gia than Joe" Pottle-but he has fiat
tened out his own Attorney Gener1l-
ship BOOM all right!
The more intelligent patriotic and
interested observers of political
events in Georgia probably will agree
heartily with The Savannah News in
the following editorial opinion re-
Gently expressed.
Georgias next Legislature
should be one of the best in her
history 1t should be made up of
men who not only are high prin-
Cipled, but who are also wise,
level headed, and acquainted with
financial problems.
At no time in the last half cen
fury has Georgia needed higher
| class of men i'm the Legislature
J than she seems sure to need next
| year.
The demand for high-class Legisla-
tors and high-class legislation GER
! taiulN is growing in Georgia
The people apparently are DETER
mined that the Legislatures of the
| immediate future. at least, shall con-
Germ themselves less with petty
| squabbles and fanatical agitation and
more with genuine and statesmanlike
! Legislation and constructive work.
Fewer laws, and better''-the news
papers of Georgia clearly indicate
| that that is about what the people
are demanding nowadays