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WHY DID THE GRAND JURY
RECOMMEND THE ABOLISHING
OF THE CITY COURT?
They Should Have Made Their Reas
on More Explicit.
The Grand Jury in their general
presentments, recommended that
the City Court ot Jackßon and the
City Court of Flovilla be abolished.
Their grounds were “on account of
an enactment by the last legislature
amending the law governing our
city court, and other information
furnished.’’ The amendment re
ferred to, I suppose, wa* allowing
the solicitor to get his fees out of the
fines and forfeitures, instead of a
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salary paid out of the County Treas
urery. At least three fourths of the
city courts in the state, not only
allow the solicitor fees, but in addi
tion to this the counties payout of
the treasurery into the flue and for
feiture fund, to be paid to the officers
of the court, $6.00 per month for each
month a convict works on the public
road, from the city court. If you
abolisli the city court the solicitor
general of the superior court will get
for trying tiie same cases the same
fees that the solicitor of the city
court is now getting; the only differ
ence the solicitor general will spend
his somewhere else and the solicitor
of the city court will spend his here.
But why didn’t they give us that
other information, the people have a
right to know. It is not fair to the
officers of tiie court for them to
withhold t!i is information. You
have for your judge one that is as
ableasany in the state; no county
in Georgia can boast of one that is
better. He is not only duly quali
fied, but is absolutely honest and
tinpurclmsable, and is just and fair
to all alike. They did not treat him
right in not saying where tiie blame
was.
If the solicitor lias not done his
duty they should have said so, and
if he lias stolen any of the money
they should iiave indicted him. But
[ noticed in the report of the county
commissioner lie said that both the
city court and the superior court
had furnished to the county in labor
5,389 days in convict work, and that
these courts had cost the county
$9,430 30. I wish he had showed just
what each court cost the oounty.
The report of the solicitor of the
city court showed that this court
had only cost the city for year ,1912
$2,644.80, snd had furnished to the
county 6,460 days of convict labor,
counting2o workingdayspermonth.
I suppose some of this was counted
off for good behavior, then I suppose
the commissioner only counted the
days that he worked them. The
showing makes the city court fur
nish about all the convicts from the
courts in the county, and if the
courts cost the county as shown by
commissioner’s report, $9,430 30, then
the superior court costs the county
$6,785 80. Now if it is expense they
are after, why not abolish the super
ior court, or abolish them all, then
the judge of the superior court can
have more to tell you about in his
charge in regard to the increase in
crime. I wonder if the commission
er and the Grand Jury think that
our courts should be run for the only
purpose of furnishing convicts to
work the roads.
The Grand Jury in the close of
their presentments calls attention to
the fact that a great deal of crime
is being committed In the county,
and calls on the citiz ns to help
apprehend them. After they are
apprehended what will you do with
them? You will have courts to try
them. When tin* city court was es
tablished there w as on the docket of
the superior court 150 misdemeanor
cases more than t hat court could try.
These cases liave been traksferred to
city court. A great many of these
have been disposed of in the city
court, many of them nol-proxsed
because there was no evidence to
convict. These parties no doubt
were nearly all guilty, but for the
fact that the indictments were from
rwo to ten years old. the witnesses
had either moved away or made up
with the accused, which made it im
possible to convict. These guilty
parties escaped punishment because
the superior court did not have time
to try them. Only jail cases could
be tried. The poor devil who can’t
give bond is convicted ami punished,
is he should be, but the more fortu
nate criminal that can give bond
goes unwhipped of justice.
Two boys in Atlanta, two years
tgo, held up an old man ami robbed
dm. One gave bond and is free
'oday. because the courts did not
have time to try him. The other
participant in the crime went to jail,
was tried and sentenced to a number
if years in the chain-gang and is
there now Abolish your courts and
criminals can walk your streets and
public highways unmolested and un
tried.
Now It has been rumored that a
great deal of tire opposition to the
city court was brought about by the
influence of tiie Central Georgia
Power Cos. O. course the Grand Jury
was net actuated by this in making
their recommendation, but the fact
still remains that it would inure
more to the benefit of that
company than to any
interest in the county. There are
now pending on the dockets of the
city court about eighty cases against
said company, in which parties who
live, and a great many own homes
on the pond of said company, are
plaiutifis, and if this court is abol
ished tiiese cases will by operation
ot law be transferred to tiie superior
court, and tills court holding only
two courts a year, and witli more
othor business accumulating than it
can try. the plaintiffs would never
get their cases to trial. If the cases
are tried in the city court,“and are
carried up by bill of exceptions, they
will go to the Court of Appeals,
This court keeps fairly up witli its
business, whereas if they are ever
tried in the superior court they will
go to the supreme court, and this
court is always at least a year behind
with its cases. So you can readily
see how it will be a benefit tollthis
company, and what a hardship it
would work on these people oht on
tiie pond, a great many of whom
have all they have made in their
lives invested in their home that
they have or will have to move awav
and leave if conditions do not get
better there, and witii no courts to
appeal to can never get, any redress,
Its the history of the corporations to
run the courts and politics when and
wherever they can. This court they
can’t’run, therefore they want it
abolished.
But 1 don’t believe that any corpo
ration, however large it maybe, will
ever dominate our representative, fur
I am sure that in J. H. Mills we liave
a representative that will stand by
the people whenever he finds their
interest is involved, regardless how
large the corporation that may op
pnse him. or that may be opposed to
the courts. Of course I am not
charging the Grand Jury of being
influenced by this corporation, but
opposition no doubt indirectly
caused a great deal of opposition to
the court, but I do think the Grand
Jury should have been mor explicit
in its ctiarge, arid placed it where it
belongs.
Also tell the people which court
your information involved, the City
Court of Jackson or Flovilla. The
officers of these courts iiave a right
to know, as well as the people. It’s
not right to indict all of the officers
of both these courts in your general
presentments without putting Hiehi
on notice what you are indicting
them for. Your indictment is too
general in its terms. If there is any
tiling wrong done 6ay what it is and
who done it. How can these parties
defend either themselves or the
courts on a charge like this.
Another example that has come to
my knowledge since I commenced
writing this article: “A little negro
about 13 years old, whose mother is
now in jail awaiting trial, went into
a car at the depot and broke open a
crate of oranges and stole several.
He was arrested and put in jail, and
will be tried in the next day or two,
so will his mother, and if convicted
will very likely be sent to the re
formatory. If you had no city court
in which lie and his mother could be
tried they both would remain in jail
until August court, as it seems no
one will go on their bond. These |
two only, will cost the county in jail
fees a dollar per day. This saving
to the county in jail fees In the
course of a year is a great saving, as
the city court clears the jail once
every two mouths of all the misde
meanor cases.
If the city court is abolished it will
los to the people on the Ocmulgee
ami Towaliga rivers who liave cases
in ald court at least one hundred
ami fifty thousand dollars, besides
the damages that may result here
after. besides under the acts creating
the city court,where a suit is brought
<>n an uncondition contract in writ
ing and there is no defense filed you
can sel all 'iis property and put the
money in nis pocket and you cannot
collect a dime out of him.
lam sure that our representative
will look to the interest of the peo
ple, and not act without due pre
caution. Although it costs money
to run the courts civilization de
mands that we have them.
Citizen.
The Home Kitchen.
Paint your kitchen walls and wood
worn white above tlie wainsc<>ath>g
It keeps soiled hands away Its
cheerful brightness is always invit
ing. One quart of turpentine added
to one-half gallon of L. & M. Semi-
Mixed Real PAint makes 3 quartsof
the highest grade of pure paint, and
it is enough to paint a kitchen and
two more rooms. For outside paint
ing the very highest grade ot long
life paint, is made by adding three
quartsof pure Linseed Oil to each
one gallon of L. & M. Semi-Mixed
Real Paint.—Sold by Nowfon-Car
michael Hardware Cos., Jackson,
Ga.-(Adv.)
Chamberlain’s
stem bits. Buy it oow. It may s* UM.
SAM LEE
Does the BEST Laundry work in the city.
Patronize Sam, and help a home industry.
All work guaranteed to be the best.
Laundry sent in by Parcels Post on Tuesday will be ready lor
delivery wlieu you ccme to town Saturday.
Next to Leach &g Company’s Stables,
JACKSON, - GEORGIA.
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LICENSED EMBALMER.
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My careful personal attention given to all funerals entrusted
to me.
Calls answered promptly day or night.
DAY 'PHONE 174. NIGHT 'PHONE 193.
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
When You Paint
Use pure paint an <*
Use Pure LINSEED OIL to add
frOv / Mlliillliifli. H§!§; to it at one-half the cost of Paint.
i PURE PAINT Is made with WHITE LEAD, ZINC and
I 1 LINSEED OlL—that’s the way the L.& M. SEMI-MIXED
I] 1 REAL PAINT Is made.
bl\ But ALL the OIL needful to make the L. &M. PAINT
// Vi ready for use is NOT put into the Paint when it’s pre-
I If pared for the Consumer who buys it.
I I / The ADDITIONAL quantity of OIL is put into the Paint
t by the CONSUMER, as by so doing he SAVES MONEY.
Therefore —buy 3 gallons of LINSEED OIL with every
4 gallons of L. & M. PAINT
and MIX the OIL with the PAINT.
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If the Paint thus made costs more than $1.40 per
If the Paint as you use it is not perfectly satisfactory — X, f
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