Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-05
SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
BY JAMES B. NEvIN.

days will impress many people as being
nothing short of a pipe dream" of
course-no such good luck ever will
come to Georgia as a legislature ready
and willing to adjourn before the time
limit constitutionally imposed upon it!
Still, if local bills were removed from
legislative consideration merely that
more time might be devoted to the
important general measures proposed,
the change would be well worth while.
And at least one member of standing
and influence has announced his de-
termination to undertake in the next
house reform in the method of hand
ling local measures and general meas
ures with local application.
Ed Cole, who will represent Barlow
county in the next house of represen-
tatives, will be one of the younger
members of the house sure to take
leading and influencing part in legis-
lation, from the very first.
Cole is one of the most thoroughly
and conservatively successful business
men in north Georgia.
He began his business career some
eight or ten years ago, with nothing
whatever by way of capital but brains.
pluck and plenty of energy. He lived
for time in Rome, where he still is
heavily interested, and afterward
moved to Gainesville, where he now
resides.
Cole is not the wealthiest man In
north Georgia, by a very great DEAL
but, having started out with absolutely
nothing ten years ago, he has estab-
lished himself firmly in the business
world, and is recognized as a substan-
tial man of affairs in his. vicinity.
He will be recognized In the new
house instantly as safe, sane and
level-headed legislator.
The operation of the new military
laws passed by the last legislature have
been watched with great interest by
various citizens OF late, and comment
upon them has been generally favor
able.
The late legislature went thoroughly
into the matter of revising the bun
glesome laws under which the militia
had been handled for many years, and
in many ways effectively improved
them.
AS the laws now stand, the governor
is unhampered in his handling of the
troops, when, In his judgment, 1t be-
comes necessary to call them out, and
his militay representatives on the scene
of action are vested with authority to
red tape or cumbersome methods of
procedure
The military authorities are much
gratified. even though some regrettabe
circumstances attended the handling OF
the riotous situation in Augusta, with
the account the militia has given OF it
self under fire of late.
One thing is sure, wherever the state
troops are placed in service the ma
chinery for regulating things is ample
and easy to start in motion.
Oscar Straus. the Bull Moose nomi-
nee for governor of New York, is
former Georgian. remembered with
pleasure by many people in this state
particularly in the vicinity of Savan-
nah.
Around the hotel Hobbies one hears
the name of Straus mentioned very fire.
quently. and his nomination by the New
York Mooses-or is it Meese ?-gener-
ally Is regarded as fine one.
Representative j. Q. Adams, of Hall
known affectionately to the press con-
tingent as the worlds heavyweight
champion mover OF the previous-uues-
ton has notified his prospective col
leagues of the next house OF the ar.
rival In the Adams household Of a
young Mr.. Adams.
Congratulations being very much In
order. Adams has been overwhelmed
with them. He enjoyed a large meas
ure OF genuine popularity in the last
house, and the career OF young Mr..
Adams will be watched with interest by
his fathers former associates no less
than by those yet to make his ac-
quaintance.
Mr. Adams, by the way-senior. not
junior-will be a candidate for speaker
pro tenn Of the next house, and already
has a large number of votes pledged to
his cause.
Although several new counties are to
be proposed in the next Georgia legis-
lature, there already is manifest hos
tility to their creation.
Barrow county, with Winder as the
county seat, of all the new counties
thus far suggested, alone seems likely
to win legislative approval
Members elect of the new legislature
seem to feel, so far as those who have
expressed themselves around and
about political haunts in Atlanta are
concerned, that the time to call a halt
on the new county industry has arrived
and It seems highly probable now