Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-05
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS.
BY JAMES B. NEvIN.

II seems 20 he the general opinion that
me state executive committee which
meets tomorrow viii call a state pri-
mary on the county unit plan notwith-
standing its past inclination 10 the popu-
lar plurality variety
After an is said and done the county
unit plan seems 10 be the thing the peo-
pie desire and the state Democratic
executive committee will hardly run coun-
ter to their wishes IN the matter even
though various influential members he
leve more thoroughly IN the popular plu-
rality idea
There viii be an effort made to exempt
The judges and solicitors general from the
operation Of the county unit regulation.
because II viii be held TO operate very
unfairly in some circuits with respect TO
them There are circuits IN which one
county under the unit plan viii absolute
ly control within itself the nominations in
those circuits. For instance. there is
northwest Georgia judicial circuit in
which there are three counties. one with
six electoral votes and the others with
two each. or course, 1t is obvious that
the siX-vote county might override the
combined vote Of the other two.
Notwithstanding this more or less pecu-
liar situation that the county unit plan
may set up in two or three judicial cir
cults. however. the impression generally
Is that the committee will proceed to the
calling Of strict county unit primary
Broadly speaking and with an eye to
the greatest good to the greatest number.
the county unit primary seems to appeal
10 The csmmittee as the right thing
old Doc Cook of north pole fame.
has expressed preference for Old
Doc Roosevelts third party old Doc
r. might find in Old Doc c. ane
press agent, any way
That all things come to him VINO waits
is the firm belief Of William Jennings
Harris particularly II he accepts Bill
Nye's earnest admontion TO hustle while
he waits 81
From start TO finish from inception to
conclusion, through better or worse, for
richer or poorer through sunshine and
rain, and everything else one might think
or along that line the senator stuck to
woodrow Wilson, pending his final nomi-
nation in Baltimore Tuesday.
AS for his enthusiasm. age could not
wilmer II nor custom stale its infinite va
riety. Wilson fortunes never fell so low
nor yet became the night of despair so
thick with gloom that Senator Harris
could not see shining orbs a-glimmer in
the skies, and all the time hopes great
throbhing star above the darkness Of the
dead Neither Horatius at the bridge
nor Leenidas Al rhermopylae had any
thing in particular on Harris
Naturally. the senator is being congrat-
ulaed warmly nowadays by his col
leagues in the legislature upon the han
Df O. lie
helping hand to Wilson He stuck right
to the job, through all the vicissitudes of
defeat in the presidential primary in Geor-
gia to the eventual satisfactory con
summation of the senatorial hopes In Bal
timore
II not the original Wilson man in
Georgia, 2 least Senator Harris may not
inaptly be termed Wilson'S most un-
swerviug and most uncompromsing
friend and partisan
Now that the Baltimore convention is
over. and Speaker Clark has been re-
leved Of the work and worry Incident
TO the furthering Of his campaign for
the Democratic nomination TO the pres
idency. House Parlamentarian Charles r.
Crisp will have a breathing spell in
and likely will be able to
''i'+
and look after his congressional fences
Mr. crisp talking. to friends and ac-
quaiBtances in Baltimore recently, ex-
pressed the greatest confidence in the
outcome OF things in his con
gressional district While he has had
practically no time TO devote to his cam
pagn, he feels, from a voluminous cor
respondencc and reports from loyal and
enthusiastic friends that he is to win out
and achieve the great ambition of his life
to occupy for a fun term or longer his
distinguished fathers seat in the con
gress of the United STATES He served
in congress a short time years ago. fill
ing his fathers unexpired term at his
death
MIR Crisp has been sort Of member
of congress all of his life. as ii is When
his father was speaker. young Crisp was
a general favorite with members and en-
joyed an intimate and warm acquaintance
with many of them AS his fathers see
rotary and later as house pariamentarian
under Champ Clark. Mr. Crisp has ac-