The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-03-29
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able to Washington, TO the eHect tina
waen the present terms OF federal Of
Acehoiders in Georgia expire, the mer
who are serving them viii not b. 20
appointed unless they have always
measured up TO that peculiar ana moi
in every way nattering yardslick ap
pl.ed by lio!c smith and T. W. Hard
wick. AS is remembered quite we'll,
through agreement and a disposition,
forced on the two present senators
as lar as they were personally con-
cerned, the main federal Offices in
this state were given TO men whose
main qualification politically was that
they had been democrats, through
fair weather and foul and that they
could do the work.
Typical Of the several really high
class appointments made was chat of
Joseph S. Davis, OF Albany, 10 be mar
shall for the United States court,
southern district of Georgia. Mr.. Da-
Wis is man of long and more than
ordinarily useful service to his
party, OF extensive and constructive
business experience i'll South Georgia
and possessing those personal quail
ties that made his appointment an
exceptionally good one and decided
credit to the late Senator Bacon, who
was mainly responsible in securing
Il. In Mr.. Davis South Georgia was
recognized and the appointment was
generally approved, with the possible
exception OF unsuccessful applicants
and certain inside political circles, in
all that territory from Macon TO tho
Florida line.
"There has been talk that Mr.. Da-
Wis is to fail OF reappointment and
that some faithful servant of the
picturesque political fortunes of Sen
ator Hardwicls is to be given the
place. If the president, or those who
advise him finally as TO appointments
in Georgia. yields to the demands OF
The politically debt-ridden and devil
beaten about the bush Georgia sen
ators ON this matter he will make a
grave mistake. IL Is not that the
office means SO very much in itself
The point is that Mr.. Davis, who has
done his work we'll, whose occupancy
of the office has had its part in the
strong and efficient functioning of the
important court OF which he Is Il by
no means mean official, Is o. democrat
of the purest water, and TO appoint
another man in his place by the same
democratic influence that named him
will do the democratic party in Geor.
gia no good In fact, this Is time,
and each year seec the danger in
creasingly strong when from the ma
tional cmlnence less and less atten.
ton should be paid to local schisms in
the Solid South, much less to deliher.
ately aggravating them
Neither MIR Davis or any other
federal otIieeholder who has done his
work well. who was appointed by the
present administration, should be
oustod merely to help pay the politi
cal debts of one of the senators.
That s-not democracy, and it's stupid
ly bad for party discipline and party
loyalty"
Tho News agrees with its Macon
contemporary on the general prinei-
pies advanced in the above. II a
Democratic ofiiceholder, under the
present administration, has served
his country wen and truly and has
made good In the position to which
he has been named, We think he
ought to be retained in that position.
THE absolute control OF federal ap-
pointments by the United States sen
stors is not in harmony with the pyin.
tiples OF democracy. as we understand
them 10 be, and as the Telegraph re-
marks, the proseas plan is dangerous
to party harmony and to discipline.
In the case Of United States Mar
shat j. s. Davis. we have reason to
know that he has made faithful.
enicient and ahlo official; he brought
In the Office n skilled business expo.