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

For a 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 beautiful loving cup.
Senator Roberts made a great presenta-
tiCn speech, too. 1t took Mr. Slaton off
his feet, and he experienced considera BILE
difficulty, despite the traditional senate
rial dignity theoretically attaching to him,
in getting his response Of thanks and ap-
probation out of his system.
Finally he did get it out, however, and
when be sat down the senate was thor
oughly convinced that it loved old Jack
S!aton TO a fare-you- well, and that old
Jack returned the sentiment beyond the
shadow of a doubt,
Apparently it was just between Jack
and the senate-rght 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 at all,
II was a happy occasion and a pretty
incident, and well worth sitting through
lot Of preliminary legislating 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 et al, were garland
ing rainbCws 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-silver bouillon set
that's also what Mrs Holder called ito
the speaker
And DR.. 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 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 be blushing all
unseen, and such things as he gathered
he laid willing tribute al the speakers
feet!
That was some speech old Doc Brown
delivered last night and it will go down
in Georgia legislative history as easily
lS-carat fine,
Mr. Holders response Vas 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 had
tt-great gobs and festoons of it-aIl
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 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 gnashing 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 at