Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-19
MANY join JOURNAL
URGING CITIZENS TO !.
SEE INAUGURATION
Governor Brown, State, Counl
ty and City Officials, Bank
erS and Business Men Say
Thousands Should Attend

State, county and city officials. bank1
ers lawyers. merchants and other busi4
ness men are unanimous Monday IN
their Endorsement of The Journals sug5
gestion that Georgia should send !
mammoth delegation to Washington on
March to the inauguration of Wood
row Wilson to the presidency.
An immediate response was forthconnA
ing from Atlanta's city fathers They
are already planning for the mayor and
members of general council to charter
Pullman car. or cars. and attend the
inauguration in body to onacialIy rep5
resent the city where woodrow wilson
was admitted to the practice of law.
The Journals editorial. Let Georgia
Be There" has been read and noted BY
practically every man in Atlanta, and
comment upon it is heard everywherel
Many prominent citizens have come for
ward with expressions Undressing The
Journals idea and joining with tbs
paper in urging every Georgian wis
can to make arrangements to go to the
history-making event.
GOVERNOR BROWN.
Governor Brown. who expects to be II
Washington for the occasion If his om1
cial duties will permit. stated Monday
morning that Georgia had a greater SEM
timental interest in the inauguration
than any other state. and that it ID
peculiarly lifting that this state should
be represented in the festivities by a
large delegation. He pointed out that
the presidentet-elect is former Geor3
gian, having spent his boyhood and
young manhood here; that his wife was
u native Georgia girl and that two Of
his daughters were born in this state
The governor said that every Georgian
who could do so should attend the in
auguratiOn. He was very mucn pleased
with the suggestion that Georgians GO
TO Washington in an organized body.
with bands and banners and that they
take a conspicuous part in the ceres
monies.
JUDGE GEORGE HILLYER
Judge George HiIlyer, senior member
or the state railroad commission. and
the judge who in the spring Of 1882
admitted the president-eIect. then resis
dent of Atlanta, to the legal professions
said:
I think The Journal is to be cou5
mended for its strong efforts towards
promoting an emphatic demonstration
by our state at Washington on the Atm
of March next when woodrow wilson
is inaugurated president. I am nat-
urally full of the subject because I can
recollect \wheny a lad standing on my
fathers gate post and hurrahing for
Polk, Dallas and Texas" away back in
/ the '4O's This was the Democratic
slogan of the day, and it triumphed. Z
have been a Democrat ever since then.
James K. Polk, of Tennessee, the Their
Democratic candidate for president was
elected and inaugurated the next year,
4th of March, 1915. There has never
been southern man occupying the pres
/ idential office after President Folks
term expired. until the coming inaugi
uration of woodrow Wilson. The eIecj
ton of woodrow Wilson is great even6
for the nation and for the south. A new
era has begun for both, under which
justice equality and Representative gov1
ernm MT has in the truest sense come to
it's own again. Georgia is more iden3
titled with Woodrow Wilson than any
other state and I think she should be
the llost emphatic and. If possible, tho
most conspicuous in the great cere3
monies of that auspicious occasion The
Journal has spoken out well and strons.
on the subject and trust win con7
tinue to do So"
Asa G. Gambler, one Of Atlanta's most
prominent citizens and one Of the
south's largest manufacturers, when
seen by a Journal reporter, said:
at am going to be in Washington to
see a southern Democrat take the oath
as president of the United States
Every Georgian should go. even If they
have to lock up the house and take
weeks rations with them. We are get
ting back home, back to the White
House, and we should let the people
know it,
at is our privilege as well as our
duty to be in Washington on that oc-
casion, when a new turn in the history
of our country win commence.
THE states military should be there
to a man. Not single member Of the
national guard of Georgia should be
missing from the ranks when the great
parade passes down, the streets OF the
nations capital city. The whole state
of Georgia should be represented BY
thousands of it's citizens to see the
greatest man in present history become
president"
WALTER P. ANDREWS.
Walter P. Andrews. former exalted
ruler of the Atlanta Elks and one OF
the Wilson leaders in Georgia during
both the primary and general election