The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-01-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington City,
January 8, 1912.

from old Cobb.
Roswell has a right to claim Roose-
welt, while Woodrow Wilson set I'D
! as a young lawyer in Atlanta and
married Georgia girl in Savannah.
| Wilson used to come up to the Con-
stitution office frequently to see Henry
! Grady and while everybody recog-
nized his mental strength, nobody
| thought of him as a presidential pos
| sibility. When he was made presi-
dent of Princeton University, it was
great distinction and his election
| as governor of New Jersey made him
| at once a commanding figure in ma
tional politics, for New Jersey is a
! pivotal state and battle ground in
all presidential contests.
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, is go
! ing to be a formidable candidate for
the Democratic nomination and is
conducting a systematic campaign.
! Wilson and Speaker Champ Clark are
doing the same thing There are
other Democratic aspirants, but these
are the heavyweights.
Wilson, being identified with Geor-
gia, will probably be the favorite
there, though there is already a move
| ment on foot to fight him, | under
stand. in favor Of Underwood, of Ala
bama, who, as the leader of the Dem
Ocrats in the house, has loomed I'D
| as possibility. My own notion is
| that if the Democrats expect to do
anything they will nominate Harmon
and Wilson, or Wilson and Harmon,
! if the ticket could be adjusted one
way or the other Even with that,
we may expect a row with William
j. Bryan, who attacks Democrats as
fast as they show strength and at
this time is doing his best to destroy
! Harmon, charging that he is allied
with Wall street interests. Harmon
and Harmony do not appeal to Mr..
Bryan.
The Republicans are having trou-
bles of their own. Roosevelt, who
made Taft president, has set out to
demolish the work of his own hands.
Teddy made a great bluff as a trust
buster and Taft has tried to do what
Roosevelt only pretended he was go
ing to do. Taft says he does not
know why Roosevelt has thrown him
down. LaFollette, who has been fight
ing Taft, may be figuring on the vice
presidency with Roosevelt
Speaking of the vice presidency,
whenever | sit in the senate chamber
and look at Vice President Sherman Il
think of Colonel Moultrie M. Sessions
down in Marietta. They are about the
same size and enough alike to be
brothers. The way they sit, the tilt
of the, head, the expression of the
face, the way they talk-why it makes
me feel like going up and saying
"Howdye, Colonel, how are the folks
down home?"
They call the Vice-President Sunny
Jim" and | think our Town-Booster-
in-Chief is entitled to a sobriquet just
as bright and full of sunshine.
Senator Smith came very near land |
ing Georgian as surgeon general |
of the United States and only missed |
it because the cards were stacked /
against him-the place had been prom |
ised to another. And Marietta would |
have scored one there, for the sur
geOn general would have been a rela- |
tive of a Marietta lady.
Coming up to Washington in De !
cember, | met a most genial gentle |
man. Mr.. T. E. White of Philadelphia,
and we spent three or four days at
ly and has been all over the United |
States half a dozen times.
Mr. White was a son of Mr.. e. J.
White of Milledgeville, and is first
cousin of Mrs. Jordan Black of Ma
rietta. | never met a man for whom |
| formed so strong an attachment |
in so short a time. Mr. White men.
toned to me that he was a brother |
of DR. Joseph H. White, who was born
in Milledgeville, and whose friends /
had suggested him for surgeon gen
eral to succeed DR.. Wyman, whose
death occurred few months ago.
@&#
DR. White stands at the head in
the marine hospital service, He has
been in it for twenty-seven years and
has done great work, notably stamp
ing out yellow fever in New Orleans
six years ago, stamping out the bu-
bonic plague in San Francisco twelve
or fourteen years ago, going to Ham
burg. Germany, to protect this coun-
try from cholera, stamping out small
pox on the Georgia coast etc.
There developed a perfect ground
swell for his appointment, but the
president had a favorite of his own
and the honor went TO DR. Blue, OF