Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-20
S|DELIGHTS On
STATE POLITICS
News and Gossip Concerning
the Candidates and Their
Friends in Georgia.
BY JAMES 3. NEvIN.


Nothing by way of politics locally
interests Georgians so much today
perhaps, as the probable results in to-
morrow's ohio primaries This acute
concern applies to both the Republican
and Democratic situations
The primary fight in Ohio tomorrow
viii accomplish two things-it will put
either President Taft or former Presi-
dent Roosevelt out Of the running for
the Republican nomination and it will
either put Judson G. Harmon in the
race or leave him where he is now in
the matter of the Democratic nomina-
ton
In the hotel Hobbies one hears today
far more Taft. Roosevelt and Harmon
than Hudson or Slaton talk.
The truth of the matter is that the
public interest so far made manifest in
the state campaign Is very small,
whereas the interest in the presidential
contest is marked and extraordinary.
From the Democratic standpoint. the
general impression in Georgia today
appears to be that Champ Clark is
making what The Washington Post not
inapty terms "A runaway race for the
nomination"
The idea seems to be crystallizing
rapidly that the nominee either must be
the speaker or somebody not now in the
running
The Wilson boom seems to have gone
to pieces with the Georgia Underwood
victory.
In the event of particularly tight
deadlock, Underwood's eventual uomi-
nation is not highly improbable but if
things continue to go Clarkward for
the next two weeks as they have for
the past two. there will be no tight
deadlock
Republicans from Ohio or others
who are familiar with Ohio conditions.
generally predict that the President with
win out there tomorrow.
In protesting physically against
an insult from the grandstand. "Ty'
cobb seems to have made a unan-
imous hit with the Georgia delega-
ton in congress. Blessed be the
ny that binds!
Having accepted an invitation to
walk right in. sit right down, and
make himself at home inside the
Democratic household far be 1t
from the Hon. Thomas f. Watson
to turn right around and walk
right out again!
The friends Of Colonel j r Way. of
l h
one that surely should appear among
Georgia's Big Four" delegates to the
national Democratic convention in Bal
timore
Liberty county is in the First con-
gressional district and it gave Oscar
Underwood the banner majority there
in, too
The First generally hangs pretty we'll
together in things political and Chat
ham usually points the way
1t has been said-and with apparent
justification that the First is invaria
bly, the best organized district in
Georgia in any campaign; and it does
seem true that the minds of the people
in that political division of the state
bunch up with persistent regularity, as
a rule
In the Wilson Underwood fight how
ever Chatham led off with a Wilson
ildJhilAN when WASH followed
throughout the First with that degree
Of enthusiasm one might have expect
ed. A number of counties seem to have
forgotten their raising and jumped
ChathamS lead and Of that boiling
contingent was Liberty.
And il is because Liberty jumped so
says.
1T IS in the old Tenth district that
Thomas L. Watson has fought his
hardest fights achieved his biggest vic
tories. and suffered his most distress
ing defeats II the name of Watson
has stood for more anywhere in these
United States than right there at home.
| do not recall the place Why not
pay Mr. Watson the supreme compu-
ment if the convention is To honor him
at all-of sending him to Baltimore not
as a delegate at large but as a dele
gate from the Tenth district?
% advance the suggestion respect
fully and invite its earnest attention a
the hands of the powers that be in the
forthcoming state convention in At
lanta.
far and 50 emphatieary in the direc-
ton Of Underwood that Colonel Ways
friends think no reward less thahn a
membership on the Big Four delega-
ton should be set aside for that
county
Elmo Ballew. agent Of publicity for
Plain Dick Russell before hat gentle
mans gubernatorial aspirations rush
ed recently not 20 glory but the grave
is back in Georgia from a long trip
through kentucky.
Mr. Ballew discusses politics most
gingerly, and declares that the situa
ton i'm Georgia never has been quite
clear 70 him. anyway, since he guessed
105 counties for Plain DICK and drew
about that many militia districts
Bombarded With questions from all
quarters With respect to this that. or
the other phase of the political situa-
ton, locally or nationally, all that MI
BaleW would venture either by way Of