Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-23

ana sheppard ac-
! cldentally ran afou of one another in
the kimball house lobby and so Bob"
had to take the elimination" talk, be-
| hind his back, because all three Of
those present were too polite to under
take the elimination" of one another,
right there before one another's faces.
After lOng-winded discussion of the
situation it was agreed that no matter
! who had chance to win, Hardeman
clearly wasn't in it,
Hardemen is a fine dissenter. how
ever, and when ne hears how complete
| ly and altogether he has been put out
of the running by his esteemed but
! loathed contemporaries he likely will
J advance some staggering claims in his
own behalf
1t is difficult TO see how he is to Sc
| cure any votes at all, If the claims of
BurweI Fullbright and Sheppard COM
bined are anywhere near the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth
for those combined claims run up to
more than 200, which is a good many
more than the entire house member
ship
Burwen alone claims to have III
votes pledged straight to his support
! Thomas E. Watson. in boiling the
! Democratic nominee for the presidency.
seems to have taken little more ser-
ously than was intended the statement
of The New York Times that Wilson
"joined the knights of Columbus
few nights ago in New York.
The Times says Wilson was made
IAN honorary member at the banquet
in question-not a real member
As matter of fact, Mr., Wilson could
not have been made a regular and real
member at a banquet attended by
! guests Of all religious fli.le. More
over. he could be made a member no
where unless ne were a member of the
Catholic church: and he is as was his
father before him. a stanuch Presby-
teran.
Mr. Wilson was along with Con
! gresham Sulzer and many others,
guests of honor at a Knights of Colum-
bus banquet in New York few even
ines since. and was treated like guests
Of honor generally are treated, and he
RESPONDED in kind That seems to be
all there was. TOO. to the incident, and
il is of large or small significance. as
one cares to view it. perhaps
Thomas Jones Pence. of Raleigh. n
G who as Samuel Blythe says, made
i woodrow Wilson a front page posi-
hiIitv' publicitywise. and who now is
tbe head and front of the Wilson press
bureau. wasn't always az important as
lie is today
The time was when Pence was an
humble newspaper man. general broke,
but happy-lille thousands!
He never was commonplace. how
ever. And thereby hangs a tale.
Five years or so back, Tom Pence,
of The Raleigh Observer; Zach Nc
Cshee Of The Columbia State, and John
Corrisan. of The Atlanta Constitution.
mad offices together on G street IN
Washington. in the building where the
old Sun bureau used to be; and when
Tom Zach and John all got TO working
in that office at the same time there
wasn't much room left for visitors.
Tom generally wasn't in, however
Land 90 he framed up scheme to I'M
nrcss people who called for him over
the phone. and it was reduced to Ian
guage thus:
Nov, Zach, when I am called for
!ov.., me phone, and | am not In YOU
or John. whichever answers the phone
say 40, MI Pence isn't in, | am sor-
nv. YOU know he is very busy. But l
lam his private secretary. Any message
/, YOU leave with me will be delivered ana
,, Mr. Fences attention call to II in1me-
diately upon his return You fellow S
i do that for me. and | will do 1t for you
in fact we will all three pull the
stunt for one another!
an that way" explained Pence, we
will make them all think we have pri-
va+e northumberland have observed
:, that nothing gives a man more surely
reputation for astuteness ana lhpor-