The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-04-02
NOMINATION Of
4 SOLICITOR
FOR DISTRICT
A. D. GALE THINKS SAVAN-
NAH IS PROPOSING AN EN-
TiRELY UNDEMOCRATlc
MEASURE FOR PRIMARY.

Considerable local interest has been
evinced in the proposition being dis
cussed by the daily press of the state,
looking to submitting the nomination
OF judges and solicitors general to a
statewide primary Instead of permit
ting them to be selected by the citi-
zens of each circuit.
Upon being asfed by a. News report
er today for us opinion upon this
question, A. d. Gale members of the
local bar, who is now considering en-
tering the race for solicitor general of
the Brunswick circuit. stated:
Yes, | have noticed the statement
in the newspapers that there was a
movement on foot to request the state
executive committee to submit to
statewide primary the nomination for
solicitor general of the eastern judi
cial circuit but ! have not treated the
proposition seriously and have
.AOught that it was only sensational
newspaper talk
THE rule fixed and always observ-
ed by the state executive committee
for the nomination of solicitors gener-
al Of this state, is that the nomination
shall be by a plurality vote of those
counties composing each judicial cir
cult
'It would be entirely undemocrat-
ic and unheard of for the state com
mittee to provide an uniform method
fpJ hn of oil
general of the, state except the solic-
itor general OF the eastern circuit, and
then provide special method for that
circuit, especially when the intend
ment of such exception was to pre-
vent the people OF that circuit from
cial who was to serve them, If this
proposition was carried into effect,
every citizen in the eastern circuit
might cast his vote against a candi-
date for this office, and yet citizens
of other circuits could force this OBJ
jectionable candidate upon the people
of the eastern circuit.
Personally I would be opposed to
any change in the present rule where
by the people Of a particular circuit
are permitted to say who shall serve
them in this impotant officer. The
service of these officials is confined to
particular circuits, and it does seem
to me that it is a complete abroga-
ton of home rule to say that the
citizens of these circuits should not
have the right to name their own OF
ficers. What has been said of the
eastern circuit is just as true of all
the other circuits. an aspirant for this
office who was Objectionable to every
citizen of the circuit. might be forced
upon the people of that circuit
1T can be urged with just as much
justification, that the congressman
from each district should be nominal
ed by the state at large These Of
ficials. as are the judges and solici
tors general, are elected by the votes
Of the citizens of the entire state, then
why not require the congressman to
submit their nominations to the vot
ers of the entire state.
at ocurs to me that there is just
as much logic in permitting the vot-
ers of the entire state to say who
shall be mayor of Savannah, Atlanta,
Macon, Augusta, Columbus and Rome,
as there is in saying that those cities
should have a voice in deciding who
should fill the office of solicitor gen
eral of the Brunswick Waycross or