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DELEGATE MASON: Mr. Chairman, I yield two
minutes to Delegate Sherbow.
THE CHAIRMAN: It is a little difficult to do
that in the time allowed.
You have just about two minutes, I believe,
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. Chairman and ladies
and gentlemen, I shall be within that time.
A long time ago a great American once said,
"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."
I also know that you will agree with me that the people
are frequently way ahead of their elected representative.
When the people look at the past and judge the future, they
will recognize that there have been truly greats in
the elected constitutional office of the attorney general,
men like Albert C. Ritchie, men like Alexander Armstrong,
a Republican who served when there was a Democratic
Governor; Thomas H. Robinson, who came from a small county;
William Preston Lane, Jr., who went on to be Governor;
Herbert R. O'Conor, who went on to be United States Senator
and Hall Hammond. I mention none of those who sit in this