The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-07-26
FIcE HOLDING TO
'BE MORE EXPENSIVE
.,,,, ~ LAW ADDS SOME
,oNA, q DENS. WILL
cosT CANDID "

r,bich will be acted ION
e, / anu sonate judiciary committee in
NE s 9's the proposed establish
|" ~ G@ . second primary system in
81 . Going to make office-hold-
fg nre # expensive luxury for as
pies J;dates. During the pend
pc o r@I' consideration of the bill
~ ' Gentleman from Muscogee-
'I hos devoted the better part OF
l Of the general assembly
~. 9', roeasure-there was some talk
rslieving the candidates Of the
i # the second primary by put
| the burden on the Counties but
.ct was not passed that way, and
Srjdes only the said executive
En,ittee shall provide for said sec
/ Urinary elections for governor
a+otp house officers to be noml-
Nj in 1916"
Ill., this injunction is contained
10 clause making the act a par
lorly retroactive one, in order
i might go back and cover the
graign already under way and the
Hon already called, it is the only
Ironce in the bill as to who shall
idp for either of the primaries.
sbrsbing the precedent as to the
AoDd primary, therefore, it is the
N conclusion that thereafter it is
legislative intention that the
scptive committee shall always
Lovide" for "said second primary
lcrons" as it has provided for gen
i primary elections.
Two Courses Open.
That being the case, there IS one
two courses to pursue, both OF
icb have been discussed since the
sage of the bill by the house. The
70 committee may increase the as
sment on. candidates entering the
os between the end of the first
mary and the holding of the sec
one. by doubling the assessment
the second primary candidates,
cb would mean that, in the gu
Material race, for instance, it
hid have to cost two of the candi-
es thousand dollars each to take
chance of winning the office; or
state committee could adopt the
18th Carolina plan of of calculating
cost of a second primary in max
up the original assessment sheet,
fix that assessment, pro rated on
the candidates, heavy enough to
ID the second primary. Then IN
vent Of a surplus-which would
an abnormality in Georgia-pro
Ee the surplus and return 1t to the
|essed candidates after the second
mary,
'hese, though, are speculative mat
S. The bill will have to pass the
late before anything like that is to
confronted, and, to say the least
it, there is a great deal of room
speculate on whether it will pass
senate or not. That it will get
Ough in its present form is hardly
be hoped for, even by its most ar
it suppOrters-and there are some
them. Then, even if it should get
Ough the senate there is a further
just as serious a speculation
ether it will ever get by Governor
IRIS veto and become a law. There
those who doubt that-and there
a good many of them.
Governor Opposed.
Governor Harris has gone so far as
say he is unalterably opposed to
measure that will require a sec
primary election to get the noml-
ion for any office in the state OF
orgia, and the word "unalterably'
so emphatically used by the gov
or that it might very well have
N taken as an almost unmlstaka-
declaration of what is gong to
pen to the bill if it is eventually
he'd through the upper house. In
meantime, it is a known fact that
governors friends haven't lost
time in preparing for a right
al war with it in the senate com
tee and then, if necessary, on the
r Of the senate. So, after all, the
position is yet far from being
u Of the woods"
n the sense that it concerns every
in the state of voting age it is
oaoly the most important piece OF
Station of this session. In fair
to the bill and to its author,
ujigh, it ought to be understood, IN
MY. that it was not designed in
put through during a campaign
Retroactive Law.
n the trend it has taken, passing
N it did in the house, it has all
effects of a retroactive law, and
ie Of the amendments most GER
lly We're put on it with view to
rucular effect" but Mr.. Neill, the
nor Of the bill, drafted and intro
ed the measure a little more than
ear ago. 1t was No. 80 among the
Sc Sc bills of this legislature, indicat-
mat it must have been introduced
ne very outset of the session last
I which is a fact. Indeed, it is
Wn that the cointroducer of the
sure was a member representing
'unty which came third in the let
on the call of the roll.
'ut however all that may be, the
5 have decreed that the measure
! IN the way of being conspicuous