Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-07
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.

pulled off i'm the Senate chamber Of
the capitol Saturday was a tiresome
show
e was rour-Hnhs vndjamming
and uunccas sary noise
The two hours and 80 minutes con-
stunned IN its work might well have
been reduced two good hours, and
nobody would have lost any thing
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 the meeting was
| called together
There were present, however sew
ral well meaning and evidently fret
| ful gentlemen packed with much re-
! srvc cloquence 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 i'm particular wanted to
hear them, but it 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 inn
| pressiye in their systems and out
| they would with it, regardless.
Why is it that men, sane and poised
on general occasions, will grow fool
ish and fun of deas 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
rot at all worth the price of admis
SION
Thank heaven, it was merely one
night stand so to speak!
To have to sit through another such
inconsequential and wordy vrangle
would be cruel and inhuman punish
ment
Treasurer William J Speer is one
Of the quietest. but none the less one
Of the most effective, Campaieners in
the political field for reelection this
year
He spends a little OF his time every
day in The Kimball House lobby,
where, sooner or later. every visiting
statesman lands before he returns to
his home, and there he buttonholes in
the most transformations manner i'm
aginable scores OF friends hitner and
yon-and generally he leaves them
strong for Specr, whether he found
them that way or no,
Mr.. Speer's long term Of service in
the TrcasurcTs Office and the splendid
re ord ne 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
Appeals
Discussing his tentative candidacy
recently, Nh stephens said.
81 regard a seat upon the Court OF
Appeals as a high and DISTINGUISHED
honor one which should not he care
lessly and without due consideration
bestowed upon any aspirant. Only
lawyer of experience in the practice
and "a student OF the law should be
elevated to this position, Il is not
political office, ana political consider
atoms should not enter into the scleC-
ton Of q man to nil il. No man
should run for this Office upon any Of
the political economic or moral Ques-
tions, however meritorious, that may
he agitaung the public mind and that
may be issues i'm other campaigns.
The candidate for judge should run
only upon his merits as lawyer and
as man
His only platform should he his
oath Of Office To support the ConSti-
| tuition and the laws and to do equal
| Justice betU cen the rich and the poor.
| While a Judge should keep abreast OF
! the times. and should give due regard
| and consideration to an social and
| economic changes that may affect jul
| risprudenCe and the administration
/ OF the law. ana while he should i'm
! his Judgments aud decisions. bring to
! bear d breadth Of view and a broad
/ miudedness. free from narrow dog
1 mas he should bear i'm mind that
! there is but one safe standard for his
1 guidance the law of the land con-
strued I'm accordance with its letter
and it's spirit-construed with wisdom
Z rather than with fanauCism applied
with justice, rather than harshneSs
| and enforced With moderation. rather
than with oppression.
Mr. stephens has many friends in
| Georgia who viii view his proposed
| candidacy with friendly eyes II he
/ runs he likely Will have a large fol
/ lowing HE iS close student of the
| law, and has established am euNiable
reputation as writer on legal topics
in numerous LAW magazines and pub
/ LEGATIONS.
AdJutant General j. NanHolt Nash
/ has written letter to Captain F. w.
Beck. i'm charge Of the Spaldmc
GrayS Georgia military company
organized before the Civil War, com
pimentinS The splendid hoving OF
military boys during their recent
annual inspection
Although the company has suffered
considerable property loss during the
past twelve months and has had marv
dificulues &c overcome. Adjutaut
General Nash Judged the Inspection
10 be most Commendable and said the
average efficiency was OF a high or
der
Bob" Hardeman. of Jefferson. who
running a mighty fine race for
Judge ~ the Middle Circuit, was an
attendant upon the state convent.oH
Saturday
Mr.. Hardemsn wore the first straw
hat seen IN Atlanta this Year. and
apparently r. was OF last years vim
taee
Ben Blackburn. " Atlanta