Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.

NEHlN.
sort the payment of which is an i'm
portant condition in the voting
qualifications. Tax dodging is a
notable fact among many classes
OF our citizens-especialiy those
who don't give hang who's elect
ed'-and the higher the cost of the
necessities Of life the more these
are prone to dodge their taxes, and
thus cut themselves away from ex-
ercising their suffrage. Yours fra
ternally, BLANK.
The slump in the vote was general
throughout the entire country. What
ever 1t was that caused the falling off,
1t can not be accounted for in sufficient
quantity by local reasons.
1t may be that this correspondents
idea IS the correct one-certainly he
sets up condition that exists every
where. A slump of approximately $780,
600 is acknowledgement that is what the
slump amounted to.
All good Democrats will hope, Of
course, that the problem of the high
cost OF living will be 50 nearly solved
by the time another presidential cleo
ton rolls round that the Democratic
nominee will get the 1,500,000 votes that
remained at home this time, and the
additional 100000 new ones that will
come into existence between this time
and then, as we'll as the entire vote
Wilson got in 1912.
There is much repressed agitation
around and about Macon as to who will
be the next United States attorney for
the southern district of Georgia.
Walter Alderman 70 the present off,
cial and he was appointed last March
for term of four years. However. he
is subject to removal at the pleasure Of
the administration, and he opines "as
how" he will be removed" in due time,
all right-as painlessly as possible, but
surely!
Mr. Alderman says he has many
warm Democratic friends" but he
fears they are not warm" enough to
insist to President Wilson that Aker-
man be left alone in the clover patch
In the opinion of many, the contest
for Akerman's assignment will be be.
tween John 7. West, of McDuffy, and
Daniel G. Fogarty, Of Augusta. How
ever, Samuel L. Olive, OF Bibb, is being
newfoundland If he gets in the mix
up, unquestionably he will be a formid-
able candidate.
Mr.. Tafts recent suggestion that
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practically the entire public service of
the nation" finds no sympathetic re-
Spouse in Democratic breasts nowadays
SO far as Georgia is concerned, any
way
In this vicinity OF the political vine
yard the idea Is to get all the Republi-
cans safely out and as many Demo-
Gratis as can be crowded in. and then
talk about putting the civil service lid
on the whole business!
Until further notice, therefore, Mr..
Taft's motion will be laid on the table.
Says The Savannah Press:
Notice has been served subtIy on
Senator Smith that If he would
let his opponents dish out
the patronage he might have
walk over for reelection. We have
not heard how he received this
proposition.
This must be classified as impor-
tant, If true
Who was the subtle server, and were
his credentials all right, and-when
The Press hears how the subtle serv-
ice was acknowledged, the answer
might make interesting, not to say
highly entertaining, reading.
The suggestion, advanced by Tom
Loyless, Of The Augusta Chronicle Of
Editor James f. Gray, Of Atlanta, for
place in the Wilson cabinet is being
widely commented upon by the press
throughout Georgia-and generally with
entire approval.
All Mr.. Gray's fellow editors seem
willing to let fractional differences sink
into nothingess, when it comes to the
question OF landing one Of the fraterni-
ty in seat Of the mighty under Presi-
dent Wilson.