Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-27
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.


outer darkness by the unreasoning and
unthinking cohorts of the enemy-and
then, suppose the grand jury should in
|'dict you for not filing properly your
campaign expenses!
WOULDN'T THAT JAR YOU?
Well. that is exactly what has hap
pened to thirteen-consstent old hoo
doc thirteen! defeated candidates fol
office down in Jeff Davis county.
Every blessed one OF them has beer
yanked from the dust of defeat into the
big court by the grand jury!
This is one of the saddest tales ever
chrOniCled in Georgia politics!
Congressman Gordon Lee talking tC
group of friends in Atlanta today
discussed the subject of good roads
from the national standpoint, most in
terestingly.
Among other things, Mr.. Lee said
1T is my opinion that congress, with
in few years, will pass annually a
good roads appropriation bill. relatively
and that the money under its pro-
visions will be of far more benefit to
the masses of the people than the APP
preparations carried by the rivers and
harbors BILL as merltOrious as many of
those appropriations are.
Il have the very great honor of be-
ing a member of the special house COM
mission having under consideration the
entire subject of good roads. We will
meet in November, and enter exhaust
lively into the subject. particularly with
an eye to lending Federal aid in the
matter of road construction and their
indirect maintenance. The plan to have
delivery purposes, such roads as are
kept to a high standard by local au-
thorities, will enter into the Federal
scheme of things, after some sort OF
fashion, eventually. l think.
The question of good roads is one OF
the most pressing that congress has to
consider. The demand for good roads
is confined to no one section. 1t spreads
evenly from one end of the nation to
the other
PERSONALLY. | know Of no finer way
to spend the peoples money-no surer
safer. or saner way to give them back
their oWn-than through the encour-
| agement Of good roads construction"
Barry Wright. of Floyd. former mem
| Der of the house of representatives and
Democratic nominee for membership ir
the next. is an Atlanta visitor today.
Mr.. Wright is at present engaged ir
| the practice OF law in Rome with his
| distinguished father, Seaborn Wright
The younger Wright is an ardent sup.
| porter of Woodrow Wilson and ha!
made several speeches in his behalf
! The senior member of the firm is also
! a Wilson man, but he is possessed o
many repressed Bull Moose sentiments
| that threaten to break loose now ant
then. regardless.
I Young Mr.. Wright SAYS he hopes
! however, to keep his father perfect,
! regular and shouting for Wilson. b,
| sternly frOwning down any suspected
| inclination upon his part TO come 10 AT
! lanta tomorrow night and hear tht
colonel crate to the multitude.
| Governor Joseph Nj. Brown is fonC
| of young people and lends usually
! most willing ear to their petitions
He does not suspect that all the wis
dom of the ages is tucked snngly be
meath either bald heads or heads hoary
with age.
Particularly is the governor inclined
to view with satisfaction the ancien
and honorable institution of matrimony
fashioned in the days Of mans limo
! cencY. and perfected for the uplift AM
| betterment of the world
| The governor. as a man. doubtless
| would be only too glad to further love
young dream, now being INDUCED in b,
q sutton for the hand OF Thomas Edga
| Stripling's daughter. But he likely will
not be able to help it along. if the onl,
| way he can do it Is by pardoning Strip
ling
The governor thinks that by and by
| perhaps a further petition for Strip
| ling's pardon might be in order. Now
! however. he can see no reason to chang
the opinion he formed when the cas-
came before him originaliy-and Opin
ion reached after long. careful. dis
eliminating and exhaustive inyesuga
! ton and consideration
The letter from Youngblood to tn
| governor. in which Stripling's pardon
was sought preCipitated a deluge O
mail in the executive office-largel
from people of a sentimental turn O
mind. who saw in Youngblood's letter
note of pathos and genuine human in
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