Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-15

Mr.. Dorsey agreed with the Widow
helms, already broken-hearted and eX-
hausted IN finances, to represent the
case for her and for the state in the su-
preme court for a sum sufficient to
pay for his time and actual expenses.
Mr.. Dorsey rendered this service, but
when the fee was paid the small matter
of time and expenses" was enlarged
into $1,000. $500 in cash and a mort
gage on the widows property for 5000.
And this is the statement of Marshall
Nelms. the brother of the dead girls,
who was employed in the office of Mr..
Dorsey.
l deny that Mr.. Dorsey had legal
right to accept a cent from the an
guished widow. l know of no solicitor
general in the history Of the state who
ever accepted a fee under similar CIR
cumstances. But whether he had the
legal right or not, it was cold, mer-
cenary, calculating soul which could
have gotten it's consent to enlarge few
dollars time and expenses into fee
of $1,000. And it is an admitted fact
that, as the net result of his accept
ance of this fee from the widow Nelms,
the man whom he believed and whom
the widow helms believed and the peo-
pie in Atlanta generally believe, was
the author of the death or disappear
ance of the girls is punished by short
term in the penitentiary, whereas he
might have been given fifty years.
Seven indictments, procured by Mr..
Dorsey against Innes, after Dorsey had
accepted the fee of $1,000. were quashed
or thrown out by the court when the
attorneys for the defendant filed plea
of abatement setting out the fact that
Mr.. Dorsey had accepted a fee. This
resulted in Innes being tried on only one
fy,1 infV ant Thn Of
superior court establish this truth be-
yond doubt.
For these reasons I arra1gn Mr.. Dor
sey at the bar of public opinion of this
state.
Assuming superior virtue, he allies
himself with the would-be despoiler of
the states greatest property when it
was his sworn duty as solicitor general
to stand for and by the state.
Assuming to be the great and only
defender of southern womanhood he ac-
cepts from a gray-haired, stricken
widow, the little mite remaining to her.
l stand unalterably, for the full and
complete development OF our school sys-
tenn, from the common schools up. No
dollar spent in this great cause is mis-
spent. The common school system, its
extension and it's enlargement, is the
supreme interest of the state. I favor
it's development to the full limit of the
treasury within the constitution and the
law.
1 favor the enforcement of all the
law, all the time and everywhere. l
deny the right of any man or set of
men to select for themselves what laws
they will obey and what laws they will
disobey, or the times, places or circum-
stances under which they will obey the
law
] insist on furnishing every man who
violates the law, the punishment to be
measured by the gravity of the crime.
but 1 insist that the punishment shall
be inflicted within the law, and under
the law, and by the machinery of the
law.
1 favor liberal pensions to the vet
Grams of the Confederacy. They are
passing rapidly away and those that
are left should be put upon the roll as
but as a permanent record testimonial
of the infinite gratitude and affection
of Georgia, to be handed down to our
children and our children's children.
These are the propositions upon which
1 ask the people of Georgia to elect me
governor If 1 am elected, the supreme
impulses which shall control me will be
the impulse to be of service to the people
Of my state and the impulse to render
justice to every citizen within it's bor-
ders