Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

HOuT separate anu ulSLlICL pOllL-
ical headquarters are in full bloom
in the Kimball House nowadays, and
in each and every one optimism sup
posedly is running riot and more or
less hot air is in vociferous evidence.
So far as claiming the earth and
the fullness thereof is concerned, the
innocent bystander at large in the
Kimball lobby just now may pay his
money and take his choice.
Everybody is going to be elected.
Everybody rides, nobody walks. Good
night, nurse
Bill" Burwell has the Speaker
ship race sewed up in a crinoline
sack, and gone. Bill" says so him
self, and so do his 1885, 9S ardent and
ADVANTAGEOUS supporters.
That is to say, however, notwith
standing but-"Bob" Hardeman says
he doesn't know about that. Harde-
man says he is some runner himself,
even If he has permitted BurweH to
do most of the running thus far. He
says he will be there with the good
from this time forward-says Old
DIR. Hardeman, says he. The old Doc
tor says he has the dope" Where
fore, he bids Bur- we'll be- arr-r-r-re!
John T. Allen is going to be elected
President of the Senate. Ask him!
He has checked the Senate up one
side and down the other, crossways
and on the bias, and it's Allen, for
a fareyouwell. He has somewhere
between % and SO votes to his credit,
he forgets which, but it is more than
sufficient.
It appears. however, that the new
Senate is to have two Presidents, for
]. Randolph Anderson Is sure as fate
that he is to be named President, too
and first, at that! He has % votes,
signed, sealed and delivered-2S,
count 'em, 2S. That's what he says,
anyway. He expects to gather in
seven or eleven more as time runs
along-not that he needs them. but
Just for luck.
In the meantime the man who
stands around the Kimball House
lobby and doesn't believe half he sees
and nothing he hears is having rather
a hard time putting and 3 together
in such wise as to make the sum of 4.
Somehow or other, and 3 doesn't
seem to make 4, and yet that's what
the politicians are insisting upon-Or
some of them, at least.
Sporting gentlemen incline to view
the situation about this way: Bur
well to win, to /; Allen against An
derson, even money, and nothing do
ing around the board.
Shelby Myrick, one Of the Repre-
sentatives from Chatham County in
the Legislature, will introduce bill
at the coming session to permit police
officers when on duty. whether in uni
form. or not, to carry a concealed
weapon. This law will be made
Statewide in its application.
Myrick has had this measure in
mind for some time. The experience
of police officers at the Savannah
polls recently, who narrowly escaped
prosecution for carrying concealed
weapons because they were armed
while on duty in citizens clothes
about the court house, has made his
determination in this direction more
emphatic.
Georgia is one of the few States
in the Union" said Myrlck, that
does not permit a police officer to go
armed when on duty. l believe that
an officer of the law should always
be permitted to carry gun when ne
is attending to his business as sucn
officer.
Il do not anticipate any trouble in
passing the proposed bill. / have re-
Gently had occasion to study the stat
utes of several States and have found
that in practically all of them except
Georgia this privilege is granted.
Il do not pretend to say that an
officer when off duty should be al
lowed to carry a concealed weapon.
But when they are on duty. eitherNin
uniform or out of it, they should have
this means Of protection at hand"
The Macon Telegraph has a straight
tip that Dan Hughes, Of Twiggs Coun-
ty, is to be named Assistant Com
Quo Vadis continues at Grand
p