Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-24
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEvIN.

for some money. and it hollow broke
Amt the nothing I can do when a
company takes my money, and then
hollow broke?
''Anser and oblig"
These letters rarely get to the gov
ernor. They stay right with Secretary
Perry, and he answers them, by and
by, as best he may.
Prison Commissioner r. E. Dawson Is
immensely pleased with the fine show
ing che big 4,0O0-acre prison farm, near
Milledgeville, is particularly
with respect TO the crop gathered this
year
I'VE have on the farm today double
the number of prisoners we had a year
ago. Notwithstanding that fact, how
ever, we have not bought peck Of
meal nor bushe of corn since the be-
ginning of the year This is remark
able showing.
we have made the biggest and the
best cotton crop we ever made, and we
are going to make an even bigger and
better one next year We shall produce
all the syrup the farm requires, which
is very great deal: and in many other
respects we shall make gratifying ex-
hibit this year"
Mr.. Dawson visits the farm two or
three times every month, sometimes
more frequently than that The pres
ent prison commission has left nothing
uhdone that it thought might make the
farm better or more useful to the state.
The fine result speaks eloquently of
the hard work done, moreover.
People who like to tease themselves
with How old -is-Ann? and Why-is- "a
hen? puzzles are invited to wreste with
the following. propounded in the cur
rent issue of The LAGRANGE Graphic:
RI Joseph M Brown should. by
death or resignation. vacate the Of
fce of governor of Georgia. a pecu-
liar situation would arise. Govern
r-elect John M. Station as presi-
dent of the senate, would succeed
TO the Office of governor, would call
a special election to I'LL Governor
Browns unexpired term, and might
himself become a candidate for the
short term. Should he enter such
ii contest and be defeated, could it
be said when he takes the Office at
the beginning of the regular term
that he was the peoples choice for
governor
Recalling those 1877 counties he car
ried in the late primary Slaton prob
ably will not lose much sleep over this
problem, no matter what disposition
more nervous and excitable folks make
of it.
Rome doubtless looks toward Atlanta
nowadays, and contemplates with little.
if any, particular interest the Gate
City's little old locker club row.
Because OF some recent activities Of
the Law and Order league under the
leadership of its president, former Rep
resentative Seaborn Wright here are
some of the things you are not permit
ted to do in the Hill City of northwest
Georgia:
You can not patronize a near beer
saloon, for there are no near beer sa-
looms in town; you can not join lock-
err club, for they have been put under
the lid tight; you can not buy glass of
soda water on Sunday, nor a cigar, for
the sheriff Will pull the place if you do:
you can not play a game Of pool on the
loser pay for the game plan. for the
grand jury will indict you for that; you
can not purchase a basket of grapes
from fruit dealer on Sunday, for the
dealer no TAXA de riska to sella da
same
They are figuring on putting in
Great White Way" along Broadway in
Rome, however!