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

For time 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 great presenta-
tiCn speech. too. 1t took Mr. Slaton off
his feet. and he experienced considera bic
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 re sat down the senate was thor
oughIy convinced that il loved cid Jack
S!aton to a fare you well. and that old
Jack returned the sentiment beyond the
shadow Of a doubt,
Apparently II was Just between lack
and the senate-right in the famiy-and
if 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
atoria mind al all,
It was a happy occasion and pretty
incident and well worth sitting through
lot Of preliminary egislating to witness.
But the sentimental business in the
senate had nothing whatever on the sen
timental business in the house.
over there Hooper Alexander Joe Hill
Hall. George Brown, Ell al, were garland
ing rainbows all around and about the
place, and forgivng ana forgetting was
running wild and riot,
George Brown presented. on behalf of
the house a lovely-thats what Mrs
Holder called it-slver bouillon set
that's also what Mrs. Holder called ito
the speaker
And Or. Brown certainly used up
picturesque lot Of language handing John
Holder that silver thing.
The gentleman from Fulton scared aloft
and snatched handful Of stars from the
vaulted dome Of azure blue--or words TO
that effect-and then he dved to the
dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean to
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 he blushing all
unseen. and such things as he gathered
he laid a willing tribute at the speaker 5
feet
That was some speech old Doc Brown
in Georgia legislative history as easily
l8-carat fine,
Mr.. Holders response was all il 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 had
it-great gobs and festoons of it-all
wrapped up in the boullon 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 pro
TEN, got his, and John r. Boifeuillet and
Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck
Moore got theirs. and Bob Hardeman
| the chairman of the pestiferous commit
! tee on rules got his, and there was some
/ eloquence and near weeping and no wall
! ing and gnashng Of teeth, .and-oh. it was
a great, little old night, gentle reader,
! And Oh yes, the young gentlemen OF
! the press who sit away down front. a