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Rural Editor Files Suit Against
Georgia's Counfy Unit System
GREENVILLE, Ga., May 12—
(AP)—For the first time in its
long and stormy history, Georgia’s
ccunty unit system has been at
tacked in a state court in a SIOO,-
000 suit.
The system, backbone of rural
domination of Georgia's politics,
was cited by E. T. Methvin, editor
of the Eastman Times-Journal, in
a suit against James S. Peters,
chairman, and Mrs. Iris Blitch,
former secretary, of the State
Democratic Executive Committee.
Methvin is a 42-year old twice
wounded marine veteran. He
claimed that in the 1950 Democra
tic primary, Georgia’s real elec
tion, Peters and Mrs. Blitch de
valued and reversed his vote in
announcing official election re
sults.
Their action, he contended, de
prived him of rights guaranteed
by state and federal law and was
taken “with the malicious purpose
of depriving the plaintiff of his
rights.”
State aid for the two defendants
was promised immediately by
Governor Herman Talmadge, He
said he would instruct Attorney
General Eugene Cook to defend
the State Democratic Party lead
ers if they are governmental of
ficers. Talmadge said he under
stood the State Supreme Court
had held that the chairman of the
Democratic party in this one-par
ty state was a “quasi-governmen
tal official.”
“The county unit system is the
law of this state,” Talmadge said.
“I shall uphold, protect and pre
serve this system as long as I am
Governor of Georgia and a pri
vate citizen thereafter. The county
unit system should not only be
protected, but it should be incor
porated in the constitution of our
state to protect it from present
and future scalawags.”
The Third Suvit
Peters said he hadn’t been serv
ed with legal papers in the suit,
“put if I have been sued, it’s in
a good cause and I'll get a lawyer
and defend it.”
This is the third suit attacking
the county unit system since 1946.
The two previous actions were
made in federal court questioning
the system’s constitutionality. Both
were eventually tossed cut by the
U. S. Supreme Court, in 1946 and
again in 1950, on the ruling that
body should not interiere with a
state’s internal election processes.
Under the system the state’s
e ght largest counties aie allotted
six unit votes, the next 30 in size
ge* four and the other 121 counties
each have two. The urban counties
control only 168 unit votes while
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the predominately rural counties
have 242,
Thus, as has happened in a
gubernatorial election, the can
didate might win the popular vote,
but lose the election ou the unit
vote count.
Methvin said he and his weekly
paper, founded in 1873 by his
lgrandfather, have been fighting
the system for some time,
‘ “It is a question that must be
thrashed out some day and the
| sooner the better,” he said. “I con
tend that my vote is as good as
any vote in northeast Georgia. The
present law, I think, is unfair and
doesn’t give the voter his just
rights.”
Methvin’s suit was brought in
four counts, or theories, of how
he was deprived of his legal
rights.
“Devalued” His Vote
The first contended Peters and
Mrs. Blitch had devalued his vote
by failing to protect bim in the
“full enjoyment” of his rights pro
: vided under paragraph 25, section
!l, article 1 of the state constitu
{ tion, These were:
The right to vote in all elections
in Georgia,
The right to originate the gov-~
ernment by exercising his fran
chise. :
The right to regulate the gov
ernment through the ballot.
The right to elect by ballot.
This count also alleged that un
der the system a vote in the six
unit county of Troup was 2 1-2
times the value of one vote in
Dodge county and one in Chat
tahoochee, which has two units the
same as Dodge, had 24 times the
value of one vote in Dodge.
The second count contends
Methvin’s vote in the campaign
between ex-Governor M. E.
Thompson and Governor Talmadge
was reversed when the Democra
tic Executive Committee cast
Dodge’s two unit votes for Tal
madge,
The third and fourth counts
were brought under a section of
the U. S. code which reads:
“Every person who, under color
of any statute, ordinance, regula
tion, custom or usage of any state
or territory, subjects, or causes to
be subjected, any citizen of the
United States or other person
within the jurisdiction thereof to
the deprivation of any rights,
privileges, or immunities secured
by the constitution and laws shall
be liable to the party injured in
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