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of legal ethics, despite the oath of the attorney general ,
as a member of the bar, that he might connive with the gov-i
ernor to bring about some illegal act. !
Now, Mr. Chairman and ladies and gentlemen, '
think about that most carefully because it is human beings ,
about whom we are talking. If the minority is correct
in that position, then I ask you, does it not also follow \
that an elected attorney general might deliberately set outj
for political reasons to obstruct another, if the attorney ,
general happened to be of a faction different from that '
of the governor, or of a party different from that of the
governor?
Now, bear in mind that in the hard-fought
primary of last year, my good friend, the present attorney
general, was not of the same faction as the gentleman who
won the Democratic primary for governor.
Now, does it not also follow that when nominees
of an attorney general are selected, not for their legal
ability or their vote-getting ability, that sometime in
the future as this State expands under this system we
might have an excellent politician but a poor lawyer?
I cannot cite chapter and verse, but I do understand that