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'QTIyc Jeffersonian
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THOMSON, GA., JUNE 8, 1916.
For Governor of Georgia;
HON. HUGH M. DORSEY,
the fearless, incorruptible Solicitor-
General who won the great fight for
LAW AND ORDER,
and the
PROTECTION OF WOMANHOOD,
in the Leo Frank case, in spite of the
best legal talent that could be obtain
ed, and in spite of the most corrupt
“Detective” Agency that ever dis
graced a nation.
Hugh Dorsey does not wear the livery of
the L. &N. Railroad.
He does not belong to Hamp McWhorter.
HE IS NOT THE HAND-PICKED
CANDIDATE OF T. W. HARD
WICK AND CLAYT. ROBSON.
Hugh Dorsey wears no man’s collar
and is not hitched to any corporation’s
horse-rack.
Hugh Dorsey never changed his
politics, overnight, to escape a criminal
prosecution for LARCENY AFTER
TRUST.
Hugh Dorsey is a clean strong,
brave, competent man, and will make
a superb Governor.
The Jeffersonian is for him, tooth and
toe-nail.
What is the Meaning of the
Constitutional Words, “a
Public Tiial?”
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, of last
1 Friday, carried the following item:
At the afternoon session Judge Hill took occa
sion to rebuke the audience for laughing at cer
tain remarks by Solicitor Dorsey.
Judge Rebukes Crowd.
“This isn’t a vaudeville show, but a criminal
trial,” he said. “If there is any more laughter
or audible talking I shall clear the courtroom and
proceed without an audience.. I will have of
fenders brought before me, and that means they
will spend some time in the Tower.”
Once upon a time, there was a revolution
in England, caused in part by the trial of
citizens in court-rooms from Which the people
were excluded.
Such trials were called Star Chamber
trials, on account of the room in which the
trials were held.
The English people bitterly resented the
absence of publicity from these court proceed
ings. and a revolution resulted in their being
forbidden.
Parliament made a law requiring all crim
inal trials to be public.
Our forefathers inherited English liberties;
and they valued the publicity of trials so
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highly that the United States Constitution
guarantees to every person the right to a
public trial.
The State constitutions throughout the
Union, contain the same provision .
Now, suppose Judge Wallace Lambdin
should enforce his view, that the people are
in the Government’s court-room, not by con
stitutional right, but by “the grace of the
court,” wouldn’t Judge Lambdin’s court-room
be another Star Chamber?
A trial from which the public is excluded
cannot be “a public trial.”
Suppose Judge Ben Hill should proceed to
try Innes “without an audience,” would not
a conviction be null and void?
A trial without an audience might coincide
with the ideas of Judges Lambdin and Hill,
but higher courts would probably hold that it
takes “an audience” “to constitute a public
trial.”
In the mean time, let us hope that Mr. Dor
sey will restrain his humor, and not cause a
lot of Atlanta laughers to be immured in the
Tower.
An audience composed of dummies, lav
figures, automatons, and saw-dust men seems
to be the judicial ideal to which we are tend
ing.
God save the State.
The Dip-Vat Law in Florida,
and in Georgia.
Georgia Being Prussianized
by a Prussian.
Dear Sir: For some time we have noticed in
The Jeffersonian, your complaints to the cattle
dipping vats, and while we know that you have
your reasons we cannot at this time see your ob
jections. There are a good many vats in use in
this section and it costs nothing for those who
did not contribute towards the cost to dip their
cattle. The writer having had his dipped and it
certainly killed the ticks, and cows seem to be
doing well. I have discussed your attitude to
wards these vats and all of those who admire you
are at a loss to know the real objection you have.
Please answer in the next issue of Jeffersonian
fully. No one is compelled to dip in this section,
though everybody is taking advantage of it for it
costs nothing to dip.
Yours very truly,
J. P. CHANCE.
(Answer.)
I have repeatedly, during the last year or
so, published the vital objections to the dip
vat law, as administered in Georgia.
Having never read the act, my criticisms
were levelled at the construction and enforce
ment of it, in Georgia.
Briefly, the law, as proclaimed by the
Georgia dippers—and by the afflicted dip
pees—compels the citizen to drive his cows to
the vat, although it may be miles away, in
order that the dippers may baptize the cow
and the ticks, in the effort to “get” the ticks.
Unluckily, the operation often “gets” the
cow.
Now, the cattle-owners in our State, not
only protest against compulsory dipping, but
they stoutly maintain the proposition that it
is better to keep the cow and the ticks, rather
than lose loth the ticks and the cow.
I have never said a word against voluntary
dipping, although (in combattingdhe viola
tion of constitutional rights which com
pulsory dipping involves) I hare said that
there are harmless and convenient remedies
for the evil.
I have also contended that, if John Smith
keeps his cow on his own premises, no legisla
tive body, has the right to take said cow out
of his possession. Neither Congress nor the
legislature has the power to force John Smith
to drive that cow out of that pasture and take
it to some other place to be doctored, in any
way. • - - - - • • ■
If John Smith is willing to let his cow be
eaten up by horse-flies, sand-flies, and ticks,
that’s his own lookout.
The law has nothing to do with it.
You might just as well say that the law cait
force me to fetch my horse to town in
that some vetinarian may treat it for grubs.
Or to bring my collie to some dog-doctor,
to have it treated for lice, or fleas.
But if my horse, dog, or cow has infectious
disease, the law can quarantine it, and punish*
me for letting it meander around off my own,
premises.
The next news will be, that some ingenius
jackass has discovered that “wolves” can be
guarded against, and hollow-horn staved off,
by government money; and w’e Georgians will
be required to lead old Moolly to town to have
her back treated, and have her horns sawed
off.
My information is, that a man of the name
of Brunson, who was born in Germany, is the
starter of all this trouble about compulsory
dipping.
Under the administration of Mr. Conner,
and J. J. Brown, the Agricultural Depart
ment did not attempt to drive people and cows
to the dip-vats.
But the Department seems now’ to be run
according to the notions of Brunson, and
Brimson’s Prussian education leads him to
believe that he has the right to force our peo
ple into his Prussian w’ays, regardless of con
stitutional rights.
Mr. Brunson would be W’ell advised, if he
abandons his efforts to Prussianize Georgia.
He cannot do it.
Our people know- w T hat their legal rights
are, and those rights are not to be safely
trampled upon by Kaiser Brunson.
Let him rest assured of THAT, and call off
his compulsory Prussianism.
The Truth as to the Chaplains
in the U. S. Navy.
(continued from page one.)
We pay $22,000,000 a year to send Chap
lains to the heathen, but we are too poor to
pay fifty Chaplains and send them to the men
in the Naval service!
We make the Government pay those Prot
estant chaplains, and the Papists laugh at us
for opening the gate, for her to enter our
citadel.
The Greater Navy League, and the Pre
paredness craze, is being pushed with all the
organized energy of the Pope's workers, be
cause they realize what compulsory attend
ance upon Catholic worship means to Popery.
Officers sworn to the Pope’s service com
mand our battleships, on Sundays and “Holy”
days—while above the Stars and Stripes
there floats the flag of the church.
No wonder that Cardinal Gibbons exults
over the Chaplain situation, and jubilates in
his Baltimore paper.
He knows a Romanist victory when he
sees it, and he recognizes the act of 1914 as
one of the most astounding triumphs that
Rome has won, since France, Italy, and Por
tugal rose in revolt against her hateful yoke.
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