Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-02
SIDELlGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

in Atlanta serves to illustrate precise
| " what manner Of man he was.
| When John Temple Graves ran for
vice president of the United States a
! few years back, Georgia did not rally
to him az generously as it might have
done; but one of those who did vote for
him was Jack Wilson.
The night before the election Wilson
was sitting at a table in one of the
Atlanta clubs. and the election was be-
ing discussed. AS the conversation
proceeded, Wilson made his compan-
ions little speech. and this is about
what he said
AS for me boys. / am going to the
polls tomorrow and vote for John Tenn
pie Graves for vice president; and l
may say I am not much interested in
the election beyond that ! do not sup
pose John expects to be elected but
am sure he does expect old Jack to
vote for him, and I shall not disap-
point him. | don't know Sherman and
| don't know Kern. but John is my
friend, and in Atlanta was one of my
crowd. Friendship is more to me than
anything else-and John, therefore,
gets my vote. If you fellows want to
please me, you will vote for John to-
morrow"
And it is fact that every man about
the table promised Wilson he would do
that very thing!
Leonard the colored porter Of the
executive department in the state cap
itoI. has about as many friends among
the passing throng as ANYBODY in the
big building
Leonard is an institution all within
himself, and by his ALWAYS polite and
courteous manner has made 1t more or
less unconsciousy incumbent upon all
visitors to pass him a pleasant word
going in or coming out Of Governor
Browns Office, as the case may be.
Notwithstanding his Chesterfeldian
air generally. however, Leonard had a
terrible fall taken out of him recently,
and suffered much undeserved but re-
signedIy sustained embarrassment.
careless newspaper reporter, in
mind wandering with respect to Lieu
tenant Colonel Jesse Perrv's grand and
gorgeous new uniform, understood to re-
cord Leonards remarks thereon, and hH
put a lot of dialect and half baked
words in Leonard's mouth that never
had been there really, and that rang
exceedingly un Leonardesdue
He had Leonard calling Colonel Per
ry "Cunnul" and he also had him
speaking of a certain piece of the Perry
military regala as a "belyband!"
II wouldn't have been so bad had not
Leonards Sunday school class got hold
OF it and called him down about 1t!
His reputation for using correct and
impressive English was fixed in the
minds of that class, and it demanded
to know what his condition" could
have been when he said those things
about "Cunnul' Perry and his military
"bellyband!"
For the first time in many moons,
Leonard failed to show up at Sunday
school this week
Embarrassment and chaerin so OBJ
sessed my soul on Sunday. in retro
spective contemplation Of that calumny
heaped upon me" explained Leonard
that | hardly had the courage to face
my class. I am quite sure the mem
bers understood that / never was gull
ty of the assault with intent t. muir
der the English language charged
against me, but it occasionally is hard
to eluCdste the situation. neverthe-
less!"
Governor Brown has undertaken the
delicate task of interceding for the re-
porter who affronted Leonard. but he
gave no assurance in advance that his
diplomatic mission viii be successful