The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-09-08
HERBERT CLAY
THEN" AND NOW

The Cherokee Advance carried
an article last week referring to
constitutional amendment, which
| passed both branches Of the legis~
lature at its recent session, putting
Solicitor Generals on salary, and
in doing so it referred to Herbert
Clay as follows:
1T will be remembered
that the enactment of this law
was strongly advocated and was
one OF the chief planks in Her
bert Clays platform for cleo
ton to the office of Solicitor
general four years ago. Mr..
Clay was then, as he is now, in
full sympathy with any move
ment which would remove the
solicitor generals from the fee
system
The Advance is supporting Mr..
Clay in his race for Solicitor Gener-
al, and in this connection we wish
to direct your attention especially
to the following language used by
the Advance: MIR. Clay was then,
as he is now, in full sympathy with
any movement which would remove
the solicitor generals from the fee
system"
Another thing we wish to call
your attention to is the fact that
| Mr. Clay was then" as he is now"
a candidate for Solicitor General of
the Blue Ridge circuit, and then
as he is now" MIR Clay was after
catching your vote
''Mr. Butt, Mr. Clay's opponent,
told in his address in Alpharetta
last week in the presence of Mr..
Clay, that putting solicitors on a
salary was one of Mr. Clay's planks
four years ago, but he charged that
two years ago Mr.. Clay went to At
! lanta and met with other solicitors
| in an effort to defeat similar bill
which was then before the House
and had already passed the Senate
Mr.. Clay did not deny, but instead,
! admitted that he had went to At
lanta, and met the solicitors about
the bill, and gave as his reasons
certain objections to that particular
bill
''Now then, the Advance draws a
different picture by saying Mr.. Clay
is in full sympathy with any
movement which would remove the
solicitor generals from the fee sys-
tenn" If this is true, why did Mr..
Clay, two years ago, fight that par
ticular bill because he objected to
something in the bill?
This bill which was recently
passed by the legislature is only a
constitutional amendment and in
the event the bill is ratified by the
people, and no doubt it will be, the
bill does not become law, but the
passing of the constitutional a.
mendment provides that the Sena-
tors and Legislators and the people
of judicial circuit can go before
the legislature and say to them:
eve have come down here to have
you pass bill putting our solicitor
general on salary" Then if this
bill is passed by the legislature, and
until then only, /can you put So
licitorj general on a salary
'If Mr.. Clay fought the bill two
years ago, after promising the peo-
pie in his campaign four years ago
that he stood for a bill to put them
cn a salary, isn't it reasonable to
believe, if he is again elected, that
he will fight another bill to put this
particular Office on a salary in
stead CT a commission as it now IS?
II de not believe the people will
stand for Mr.. Clay at the coming
election when he is cutting summer
Gault8 trying to take care of Mr..
Clay while he hands the voters a
sold brick. Milton County News.
adv.