The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-03
%Gr FOR SENATE PRESIDENT
and SPEAKER WAo,Ss1adING UP
FOUR CANDIDATES IT
PER HOUSE LEADERSHIP
FIVE FOR THE LOWER.
WILL CONVENE NEXT MONTH
Something About the Men Who As
pire to High Positions of General
Assembly. All Are Prominent in Po-
liticaI Circles of the State.

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Assembly. All Are Prominent in Po-
litical Circles of the State.
With the converting date for the an
nua1 session of the Georgia legislature
less than two months away interest
is beginning to be manifested in politi-
cal circles throughout the state in the
race for speaker of the house and pres
ident of the senate.
The Legislature will convene on the
fourth Wednesday in June for the us
ual session Of fifty days. 1t will be a
new Legislature not only in the techni-
cal sense that all Of its members will
enter upon a new term of service, but
also in the personal sense that a great
er number Of new men will appear in
the house and senate than have come
into any legislature in recent years.
Five members of the house are run
ming for speaker to succeed John N.
Holder, who ran for governor last
year and therefore did not come back
to the Legislature, while three mem
bers of the senate are running for
president of that body to succeed Sam
uel L. Olive, who ran for congress
last year and likewise dropped out of
the Legislature.
The candidates for speaker of the
house are George H. Carswell, of
Wilkinson county; w. Cecil Neill, of
Muscogee county; J. Howard Ennis,
of Baldwin county; Harper Hamilton,
of Floyd county, and Mack L. John
son, of Barlow county.
The candidates for president of the
senate are Herbert Clay, of Marietta,
in Cobb county; Joseph B. Jackson,
of Gray, in Jones county; A. O. Nix,
of Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county;
L. r. Akin, of Brunswick, in Glynn
county.
About the Candidates.
Four of the five candidates for
speaker of the house are veteran leg1s-
lators with years of service in the
house and senate. Mr.. Carswell is a
banker and planter OF Irwinton. He
has served off and on in the house
and senate for fifteen years or more
and has taken a prominent, and infu-
entail part in legislation.
/ w. Cecil Neill, although a young
man, has served in the legislature long
enough to be called a veteran, having
Ibeen a representative from MusCogee
county for the past eight years, and
Having taken an active part in most OF
the important legislation considered
during that period His most notable
work was the NeiA primary law re-
curing all state primaries in Georgia
Ito be held on the county unit plan
with a turnover primary for governor
and senator in the event more than
1.-TWO candidates run and none receives
a majority of the county unit vote.
Mr.. Nei1l was chairman of the rules
committee of the house during the past
four years.
!. Howard Ennis, a merchant and
PLANTER of Milledgeville, has served tor
many years in the house and senate.
i He has been a member of the appro-
priations committee of both bodies and
was chairman of the appropriations
committee of the house in the past two
years. His active and effective work
for state Institutions located at Mil
lledgeville, such as the Sanltar1um tor
the insane, the Georgia Normal and
Industrial college for girls, the state
prison farm, the state training school
for girls, etc, has had great deal to
do with their growth and development.
He is one of the most popular men IN
Legislative circles.
| Mack L. Johnson, of Barlow coun-
Ity one of the largest planters III
northwest Georgia, is another veteran
member, who has been serving III the
house and senate almost continuously
for fifteen years or more. Agricultural
LEGISLATION has always been his special
Interest, and in addition he has serV-
ed on such important committees as
WAYS and means, appropriations, etc.
He was chairman of the general agrl-
cultural committee No. | IN the past
house.
Judge Harper Hamilton, OF Rome,
who recently entered the race for
speaker, was a member OF the last
ihouse and made many friends by his
liable support of a number OF important
bills.
In addition to the race for speaker
between the five candidates above
named there promises to be lively
race for the speaker pro tenn between
James T. Vocelle, of Camden county
Robert l. Moye, of Randolph county
and Zach Arnold of Clay county. MI
Vocelle is lawyer at St. Marys, Mr.;
Move is a lawyer at Cuthbert, ana
Mr.. Arnold was a member OF the last
lhouse, and has been a member OF the
house for six or eight years.
I Two in Race Veterans.
Two of the candidates for Presi-
dent of the senate are veterans OF the
LEGISLATURE, while the other two are
comparative new corners. The veterans
are Joseph B. Jackson and L. X. AKIN,
Iboth of whom have served OFT ana on
lin the house and senate tor t1t S4:
wears. Herbert Clay and q. a. NIX
are more recent arrivals. MIR. NIX was was
a member of the senate last year, WINE
Mr.. Clay's service in public lie mas
been along lines other than iegisl,a-
tive. He was solicitor general OF tne
Blue Ridge circuit for several years
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