The Nevada County picayune., 1920-04-15
NELL BOHLINGER
 FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL

| I hereby formally announce my can didacy for the Democratic nomination for attorney general of Arkansas, sub ject to the primaries to be held next August.
 1 l am not presuming to arrogate to1 myself any superior qualities as al student of the law, for a appreciate the fact that there are many others equally well equipped for this respon- sible office. However, I know that am thoroughly qualified and that if am honored with the suffrage of a ma jority. I will fulfill the trust as faith fully as any one who might be selected. | The office of the chief legal counsel of the state is one that requires the most careful attention to details, and there are innumerabIe questions to be considered vitally affecting the welfare of every individual citizen of the state as well as that of the commonwealth as a whole 1 submit that my eXper- fence in public life and my thorough grounding in the law. both common and statutory, have qualified me to serve well as any other aspirant for this po- sition.
 l It is n matter of common knowledge to my friends and others that l have had d rather successful career as general practitioner. was admitted to the bar in Little Rock in 1909 and since 1913 have practiced ill the Fifth judicial circuit. which is one of the strongest bars in the State and have enjoyed more than my share of the practice. I was formerly a member of the firm of Hall X Bohlinger, and upon the retirement of Judge Hall 1 became the junior member of the firm of Davis l X ROhlinger, the senior member of which is Col. Marcelus l.. Davis, for mer circuit judge of the district. This firm has, in former years. numbered Iamong it's members Judge k. C. Bullock and Judge Jesse Hart. now as associate justice of the supreme court. During my connection I have been .largerly the trial member of the firm and have tried practically all of our cases before the various courts of the circuit. This has given me very wide experience in handling not only criminal but civil cases.
 The people of Yell county honOred me in 191S by electing me 10 represent them in the lower house of the General Assembly. As representative, I have served 60 days in the regular session land 23 days in extraordinary sessions The speaker expressed his confidence in me by appointing me on several i'm portant committees. including the judi ciar ycommittce, and l enjoyed the dis tinction of being selected as the orator of the House to deliver the closing ora tion. 1 led the fight at the opening of the regular session against the seating of appointees by the governor on the theory that an appOintive legislative body is contrary to the spirit of democratic government. The fact that lost has not convinced me that I was in error. l believe that there is no more sacred duty than that of making laws by which our people must be governed. and when these laws are made by those who are not directly chosen by the people. they are not the voice of those who constitute the sinewS of the commonwealth.
 My friends will recall that was also very active in securing the passage of the bill for the purchase of silver service for the battleship Arkansas. Also that was among those who took an active part i'll the emancipation of women from agc-long injustice by Se curing the adoption of equality of suffrage.
 l stand for the rigid enforcement of every law upon the statute books. If the law is bad one it should be amended or repealed: if it is q good law those who are charged with its en-