Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-04

ipretty well established that tn
Governor paid in full whateve
debt he may have owed Judg'
Howard" adding:
when it becomes possible for
a Governor and his manager to
make this sort of an agreement
and endeavor to get others into
it for pure greed, we are
through with even an unprej-
udiced consideration Of it. How
ard does not belong on the bench
and Walker does not fulfill his
duties as Governor when he per-
mits him to stay there without
strong and vigorous protests on
the grounds of unfitness. The
! Governor "has nothing more to
say" and if that's the way he
feels about it so must it be. It's
! quite evident that the folks of
Georgia are going to say quite
a lot about it and right soon"
The press of the state has dealt
most leniently with the affair as it
affects the Governor. Up to this
time, little blame has been placed
on his shoulders, it being the seem
ing policy of the press to wait, to
give Mr.. Walker an opportunity to
act, as will be noted from the fol-
lowing paragraphs clipped at ran
dom:
The Moultrie Observer says:
The governor was told better,
and no doubt he knew better,
but he believes in paying poll
teal debts, and Judge Howard
went to him to collect what was
coming to him, and the COVER
nor paid him. The judgeship
received by Howard will do him
very little good. In the first
place, he is in a community
where the bar and the people do
not want him on the bench. They
will make life burdensome to
him. In the next place, the peo-
pie of the State will be influ-
enced by the statements of
Edgar Latham, whether the
proof of the statements are es-
tablished or not. This will be
embarrassing
The Griffin News: 1--WE are
also inclined to thing that Judge
Howard was entirely too in
sistent and that his pound of
flesh will do him harm and it
will do the governor harm, al
though we admire the governor
for sticking to his word and
paying a political debt that he
could not very well avoid"
The Brunswick News: '4t's
up to Judge G. H. Howard to say
something, anything, to kinder
square matters. Somebody
among the higher-ups in Georgia
has done violence to the truth.
But political debts must be liqui-
dated"
Albany Herald: without in
tending to cast any reflection on
anybody, we wish this thing
hadn't happened"
cambridge Post Search
light: at is said that the
Howard matter will be an issue
in the next campaign. 1t surely
ought to. If it is a fact that
Latham notified the governor OF
HVward's proposal TO him and
: offered to face Howard in it and
| the governor went ahead and
appointed Howard in the face
of it, they both ought TO be
elected from the bar 10 say the
least OF it. The people want to
know about this bartering Of
judges and solicitors in this
manner. We never did think
any better of Howard than this
but we do think better of Walk
er and if he has been guilty OF
this the public ought 70 know It.
GAINESVILLE News Gazette.
Practically every governor Of
Georgia during the past twelve
years or fifteen years has gore
out Of office ''in bad" with the
| people Of the state and il be-
| gins to look as II Governor
Walker is already marked 10 20
the same way, although we sin
cerely hope he viii be more. sur
cessful in "weathering the DO
lltical storm" which has already
broken about him."
Savannah Press: 1T wound
appear that the Atlanta com
mittee has taken a long step In
the right direction toward break
ing up the trading in offices In
Georgia by those who aspire TO
political appointments. The
committee is to be congratulated
upon having the courage to
stand out against unethical and
professional attempts to barter
the returns Of office to the f.
nancial benefit Of those who
engage in these trades-or at
tempt to do So"
| The political ambitions o,
Judge Howard are of little conse.
q1ence to the people Of the state
The same may be said Of the fu-
ture plans Of the Governor. What
will count, however, is the protec,
ton Of the judiciary.