Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-05
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NBvIN.

II seems to be the general opinion that
the state executive committee, which
meets tomorrow, will call a state pri-
mary on the county unit plan, notwith-
standing It's past inclination TO the popu-
lar plurality variety.
After all is said and done, the county
unit plan seems to be the thing the peo-
pie desire, and the state Democratic
executive committee will hardly run coun-
ter to their wishes in the matter even
though various influential members be-
lieve more thoroughly in the POPULAR plu
rality idea
There viii be an effort made to exempt
the Judges and solicitors general from the
operation Of the county unit regulation,
because II will be held TO operate very
unfairly in some circuits with respect to
them There are circuits in which one
county. under the unit plan, will absolute
ly control within itself the nominations in
those circuits For instance there is
northwest Georgia judicial circuit in
which there are three counties, one with
six electoral votes and the others with
two each. or course, II is obvious that
the six-vote county might override the
combined vote OF the other two.
Notwithstanding this more or less pecu-
liar situation that the county unit plan
may set up in two or three judicial cir
cuitsF however, the impression generally
is that the committee will proceed to the
calling Of a strict county unit primary
Broadly speaking. and with an eye to
the greatest good TO the greatest number,
the county unit primary seems to appeal
TO the committee as the right thing
Old Doc Cook. of north pole fame
has expressed a preference for Old
Doc Roosevelt's third party Old Doc
r. might find in Old Doc c. fine
press agent, any way.
That all things come TO him who waits
Is the firm belief Of William Jennings
Harris-particularly If he accepts Bill
Nye's earnest admonition to hustle while
he waits
From start to finish, from inception to
conclusion, through better or worse, for
richer or poorer, through sunshine and
rain, and everything else one might think
OF along that line, the senator stuck to
Woodrow Wilson pending his final nomi-
nation IN Baltimore Tuesday
As for his enthusiasm, age could not
wither 1t nor custom stale its infinite va
riety. Wilson fortunes never fell SO low
nor yet became the night Of despair so
thick with gloom that Senator Harris
could not see shining orbs a-glimmer in
the skies, and all the time hopes great
throbbing star above the darkness of the |
dead" Neither Horatius at the bridge
nor Leonidas at Thermopylae had any
thing in particular on Harris!
Naturally, the senator is being congrat-
ulated warmly nowadays by his col
leagues in the legislature upon the hap
Ply outcome Of his ambition to lend
helping hand to Wilson He stuck right
to the job through all the vicissitudes OF
defeat in the presidential primary in Geor-
gia to the eventual satisfactory con-
summation Of the senatorial hopes In Bal
tlmore
II not the Original Wilson man In
Georgia, at least Senator Harris may not
inaptly be termed Wilson's most I'M
friend and partisan.
Now that the Baltimore convention is
over, and Speaker Clark has been re-
lieved of the work and worry incident
to the furtherng of his campaign for
the Democratic nomination TO the pres
ideney House Parliamentarian Charles r.
Crisp win have a breathing spell in
Washington, and likely will be able to
find little time to run down TO Georgia
and look after his congressional fences
Mr. Crisp, talking to friends and ac-
quaintances in Baltimore recently, ex-
pressed the greatest confidence In the
outcome of things in his con-
gressional district While he has had
practically no time to devote to his cam
pagn. he feels, from a voluminous cor
respondence and reports from loyal and
enthusiastic friends, that he is to win out
and achieve the great ambition of his life
to occupy for a full term or longer his
distinguished fathers seat in the con-
gress of the United States. He served
in congress a short time years ago, fill
ing his fathers unexpired term at his
death.
Mr., Crisp has been a sort OF member
of congress all of his life, as 1t is. When
his father was speaker. young Crisp was
a general favorite with members and en-
joyed an intimate and warm acquaintance
with many Of them. AS his fathers sec
rotary and later as house pariamentarian
under Champ Clark, Mr.. Crisp has ac-