The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1920-09-03
JOHN S. WOOD
Fought Salary Law.


~ Iii PEOPLE OF THE BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT:
My official duties in the courts have occupied my
time to such extent that have been precuded from
replying to the John S. Wood page advertisement rel
atve to the salary law we'll as his public utterances
AS sworn officer have felt that my time and ener-
ges should be given first to the State and lastly to nv
political interests.
This attack me is manifestly unfair for he at
tempts to mlslead even in the caption, John T. Dor
sey FIGHTS salary law" we'll as the very opening
paragraph, LAS Solicitor General he PRESENTS pet-
ton etc. He would thus try to have you believe that
there is some controversy going relative to this
matter, which was closed months ago. He tells you
his speeches that voted for this bill in the legislature
and then sought to annul it after my appointment as
Solicitor General He does this when he knows was
in the 9151916 house of representatives that this bill
was not introduced during those sessions; that it was
only introduced July 24th 1917 at which time he was
a. member of the House from Cherokee by Messrs
Cheney and Morris Of Cobb, Vincent of Pkens, Ha-
good of Milton Woody of Fannin and Fowler Of For
syt that he not only refused to join with all the other
members from this circuit introducing it, but fought the
having it referred to the General Judiciary Com
mlttee No. Z, OF which he member, and that Com
mittee voted unanimously, Wood present and voting to
kill the ground that unconstitutional for the
county authorities to make the tax levy to pay the Sole
itor General and would, therefore, leave him on the
constitutional salary of two hundred and fifty dollars
per year paid by the State; that this bill recomm
ted July 18th, 1913 Che having resigned in the mean
time) and reported out faVOraby July 22nd 1918 and
passed July 24h 1918 Yet he says in his speeches and
this advertisement that he has always stood for the
principle embodied in that act of the general assem-
bly," He knows also, after the act passed. that
number of the bar all the circuit agreed with him
that the levy would be unconstitutional that the Mari
eta Journal repeatedly called attention to it, that num-
bers of people stated they would enon the county au
thoritie from making the tax levy in the fall to pay the
solicitors salary that the Judge from the bench charg
ed the grand jury of Cobb county at the first term under
my administration March, 1919, that test case should
be made and that if those opposing the bill were right
therefore putting the Solicitor General on salary OF
$500 year the Solicitor should know then that this
grand jury recommended that the very same board OF
commissioners he named instruct the county attorney
to file some suit to determine the natter that the suit
was brought against the clerk and voucher rendered
me for the sole purposes of the suit knowing had to
refuse to allow suit to proceed and that had to later
ask by proper pleadings that be made a party DE-
PENDANT so all the constitutional questions could
be raised.
ASK YOU IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, IN VIEW
OF THE ABOVE, is MR. WOOD A PROPER PER
SON TO BECOME YOUR SOLICITOR GENERAL?
THE ARNOLD CARD.
NV attention has been called to the Arnold card,
signed by J. w. Arnold of Lost Mountain, evidently
written by the same John S. Wood committee and pub
shed as paid advertisement in the papers of the cir
cult NV sole reply to is that Mr. Arnold is beng
paid the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per month
by Mr. Wood to ride Cobb county in his behalf
DUTIES BEFORE GRAND JURY.
He tells you spend too much time in the grand jury
room leaving my assistant the duty of trying large
number of the cases. He fails to tell you that try all
the capital and larger feonies and that have convict