Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-07
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.

Right after the state convention met
and fit, and bIed and died" it was
urged in some quarters that it had per-
formed monstrously irregular service
to the people when it named certain
prominent citizens presidential electors.
One excited partisan of the Wilson
persuasion-and. by the way those
Wilson people do seem to he more than
moderately bad expressed fear
that these electors. having been chosen
from the known friends of Under
wood, might. in the event that some
one other than Underwood is elected
next November, tefuse to vote in the
electoral college for the person named
at Baltimore, and-werl, one forgets all
the grand, gloomy and peculiar things
scheduled as likely to happen. in some
folks Imagination, unless something
could be done pretty Qlick, too. to
straighten things OUT
little calm thought and investiga-
ton discloses the fact. however. that
the state convention. in naming cleo
tors. merely followed an ancient and
unbroken custom in that matter
1t has been the inVariable rule for
the convention that names delegates to
the national convention also to name
electors. These electors always vote III
the electoral college for the person win
ming in the party naming them
Discussing this matter, The Macon
Telegraph points out that there was an
elector once upon time who violated
his instructions in this matter and
voted in the electoral college for some
candidate whose cause failed in the
electors state. The Telegraph excuses
the man upon the ground that he was
crazy. and committed suicide shortly
after putting over his remarkable and
unheard of stunt
A whole lot of people have got
back to where they prefer reading
Of Ty Cobb's doings rather than of
the late state convention.
George AIDE says his guberna-
torial boom is a joke, II is rather
painful TO note that George has
reao he'd the point where he consid-
ers it necessary to explain that his
jokes are jokes
Congratulations, good wishes, ana
many happy returns of the day came
in clusters and festoons to former Gov
ernor and United States Senator Jo-
seph NJ Terrell yesterday.
Senator Terrell was - years old on
Thursday, June 6.
Senator Terrell's thousands Of friends
throughout Georgia viii rejoice to
know that his afty-second birthday
found him well along the road to re-
covery from the unfortunate and So
rious illness which came So suddenly
upon him in Washington about year
ago. It now looks as If tho senator is
to become eventually his former physi-
cal self
He was in a very happy frame Of
mind today and keenly relished yes
terdays numerous hearty messages Of
good will and friendship
Many hats are off and elevated Al
arms length above many heads in
Georgia today to Colonel Randolph
AnuetSOn OF savannah. me gen
era opinion is that any future
Democratic president finding him
self in need Of a diplomat guaran-
teed to dip. will do well to consider
Colonel Anderson for the job!
How will Tom Fielder get to Bal
timore? Nobody knows but Mr.
Feder-and he declines to say
Colonel Neyle Colquitt, of Savannah
who served the cause of Underwood So
CALAMITY in the late state presidential
primary, is rejoicing in the assurance
from Mr. Underwood that congress viii
pass at its present session an appro-
priation Of $4,000 for the erection of p
monument to the memory of Generals
Screven and Stewart in Midway Gene
terry. Liberty county
This has been a pet project witt
Colonel Colquitt for eight years.
Congress passed this appropriation