Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-19
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

/ one or the SnfeNueSI pOIItiIdi oo
servers in northwest Georgia, man
/ who has served several terms s rep
resentative Of one of the larger counties
| of that section, but who because he Is
personally for Wilson and does not
wish TO be misunderstood. refuses TO
permit his name used gave 1t as his
| OPT ion today that Theodore Roosevelt
surely will carry the Seventh congress
Isional district over both Taft and Will
! son in the November presidential cleo
| ton
| Discussing the matter today he said:
Il have recently had occasion to
| travel over a large part of the Sew
] enth district. considerably more than
| half of it. and | was astonished to find
the sentiment running so powerfully in
the direction OF the former president.
| Farmer after farmer, in reply to di-
rect inquiry, stated that he expected to
vote for Colonel Roosevelt. Numbers
of them said they would vote for Will
SON Very few expressed an intention
to vote for Taft.
Attention constantly is called to the
fact in the Seventh district that it
went for Taft as against Bryan in the
last election, but the votes that went
! for Taft then went for him entirely on
Roosevelt's account
Mr.. RooseveIts mother lived in the
Seventh district when she was young
| woman and was married there. That,
while plea sanity recalled in some in
| &c inl. o T. q
why the Seventh district seemingly in
cines to the former president now. The
people of that vicinity seem impressed
with the idea that of all the candidates
| Roosevelt is the most human and
stands most aggressively for human
rights Neither Wilson nor Taft APP
pears to have the punch with the peO-
pie of the Seventh that Roosevelt has.
Il do not say these things because l
am glad that they are 80, for l am not.
! | am against Colonel Roosevelt and
would not vote for him in any circum
stances | regard him as a dangerous
man in the place to which he aspires
And am going to vote for Wilson.
Il merely say what Go because, from
close and personal observation, l be-
| lieve it is the solemn truth. If Roose-
welt comes to Georgia and makes two
or three speeches, and the remainder
of the state is in the receptive mood
the Seventh unquestonably is, the for
mer president will carry the state
mark the prediction"
| Not a few citizens viii take this
mans statement with generous grains
Of salt, and think that, a least he is
| mistaken.
The only two guaranteed facts are
that the district unQuestionably did go
! for Taft as against Bryan last time.
and that the person quoted is an OBJ
server of great shrewdness and much
common sense and political experience.
There may be some differences OF
opinion as to whether the president OF
the senate or the messenger thereof
should appoint the senate pages-and
there are some more or less violent diff
| ferences-but there is very little diff
| ference of opinion as to whether the
provision for the appointment of pages
should be attached to a general appro-
priation bill. The almost unanimous
opinion is that it should not,
1t is not germane to a general APP
preparation bill-nor to a special ap-
propriatio bill either for that matter
and it should not be saddled upon the
same. where the entire bill may be
endangered by it. If it be necessary to
enact each year how pages shall be ap-
pointed. the bill or resolution provid-
ing for the appointment ought, in de-
cency and common sense. to stand by
itself That frees the proposition from
other. questions, and permits a settle
ment on the merits of the case.
The house was sGuabbing" with the
senate in its dying hours over the ap-
tpointment of pages, when it should
have been giving its attention to much
more serious matters-notably the gen
eral banking bill, which went to its
death through sheer inattention.
True. the house was contending for