Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-15
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

For a tine last night the atmosphere Of
the Georgia general assembly fairly
reeked with sentiment.
In the senate, along about midnight,
Senator Roberts on behalf Of the entire
membership. presented President Slaton
with a beautiful loving cup
Senator Roberts made A great presenta-
ton speech too II took Mr. Slaton off
his feet. and he experienced considerable
difficulty. despite the traditional senate
rial dignity theoretically attaching to him
in getting his response Of thanks and APP
probation out Of his system
Finally he did get it out however. and
when ne sat down the senate was thor
oughIy convinced that it loved old Jack
S!aton to fare-y ou-weH. and that old
Jack returned the sentiment beyond the
shadow Of a doubt"
Apparently it was just between Jack
and the senate-right in the famiIy-and
il anybody there thought Of the fact that
the presiding officer is more than ordinar-
lily sure to be the next governor. why
well. that idea likely didn't cross any sen
atorial mind at all,
II was A happy occasion and pretty
incident. and well worth sitting through
a lot OF preliminary legislating 10 witness
But the sentimental business IN the
senate had nothing whatever on the sen
| timental business in the house
over there Hooper Alexander Joe Hin
Hall. George Brown, Ell al, were garland
| ing rainbows all around and about the
place, and forgiving and forgetting was
running wild and riot
George Brown presented. on behalf OF
the house. a lovely-thats what Mrs
Holder called it-siver bouillon set
that's also what Mrs Holder called ito
the speaker
And Or. Brown certainly used up a
picturesque lot Of language handing John
Holder that silver thing,
The gentleman from Fulton scared aloft
and snatched a handful Of stars from the
vaulted dome of azure blue-or words to
| that effect-and then he Owed to the
dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean ia
see what was doing there in the way Of
| beauty and gems of purest ray serene
| He wandered by the wayside looking for
| flowers that might there be blushng all
unseen, and such things as he gathered
he laid willing tribute at the speaker S
! feet,
That was some speech old Doc Brown
! delivered last night and it will go dowr
| in Georgia legislative history as easily
| lS-carat fine,
! MIR. Holders response was all it should
! have been He declared, in the words OF
one OF the latest and most popular songs
| of the day that all he wanted was love
! sweet love,
And he said he felt satisfied that he haG
! great gobs and festoons of it-al
wrapped up in the bouillon thing, the
| which he expected to hand down in the
| Holder family for the next 1000 or 5000
years, he didn't know which, and didn't
care particularly; it was all so delightful
! and generous and so forth and so on
And then Carl Vinson, the speaker pre-
! tenn, got his, and John T. Boifeuinet anC
! Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck
Moore got theirs, and Bob" Hardeman
the chairman of the pestiferous commit,
tee on rules, got his, and there was som,
eloquence and near weeping and no vail
ing and crashing of teeth, and-oh it wa
a great, little old night, gentle reader,
And. oh YES, the young gentlemen o
the press. who sit away down front a