Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Foes Fail to Develop Any Serious
Opposition Against Albanian
Up to Present Time.
JOE BROWN KEEPING QUIET
Governor SIaton Apparently Is
Satisfied With His Position.
Will Not Ask for Toga,
BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.

The impression is becoming more
and more firmly fixed throughout
Georgia that Senator Hoke Smith is
to have no opposition for reelection
TO the United States Senate.
Certainly, if opposition is brewing.
it has been kept amazingly quiet SO
far, and no authoritative hint Of 1t
has escaped from any quarter direct
ly concerned.
TO be sure, there are those in
Georgia, and quite respectable COM
pany of them who have not vet
learned to love Hoke Smith, and who
never may. There are those VINO
would enjoy nothing so much as see
ing the Junior Senator stripped of his
toga and relegated to the darkest
shades, or whatever it is, of public
life.
Whether they are destined to see
that performance enacted is highly
prohlematiCaL however, and the
doubt in favor Of the Senator is wax
ing bigger and more impressive every
day.
The truth of the matter is. the
opposition to Senator Smith realizes
that the accomplishment of his de-
feat If possible in any event, will be
an undertaking pregnant with ex-
IRENE difficulty
Friends Still Enthusiastic.
The Senator has his enemies
throughout Georgia, always has hal
and always will have, perhaps. At
the same time his friends are appar-
emily as numerous as ever, and quite
as enthusiastically for him.
Moreover he is an undisputed lead %
er in the Senate as IL is organized
to-day, and Yields a far-reaching and
potent influence that can not be ra-
tionally discounted
If the impression prevailed at one
time that the Senator damaged him
self particularly in Georgia by rea son
Of the part he played in the reor-
ganization of the United States SEN
ate last spring, that impression seems
to have been thoroughly dissipated,
True enough, the Senator. in hand
ling the always delicate and vexirg
question of Federal patronage, man
aged to get in bad" with divers and
sundry political leaders of one sort
and another hither and yon through
out Georgia, but 1t does not appear
that he has managed to get in bad"
enough, at that, to encourage his DO
litcal opponents in the belief that
an avalanche might be started guar
anteed 10 Overwhelm the Senator.
While the Senator's part in the re-
organization of the Senate of the
United States undoubtedly brought
forth number of panied and mildly
astOnished calculations OF protest
here and there, it appears to b.
agreed now that that part was per-
fectly logical and, in line with the
Senator'S professed political ideals.
and that. therefore, he is not to be
censured for It.
Few Panels Broken.
Moreover, the Senator's DISPOSITION
of the problems Of patronage coming
to his attention, while at times dts
tressing to him and distasteful is
matters to be passed unon, seems u
have demolished few, if any. panels IN
his pretty well set up political
fences. aud hence the wind blows fair
enough in that quarter.
Opposition to Senator Smith has
been anticipated from two quarters.
if it developed at all
RumOr has had il persistentIv
enough that former Governor Joseph
NJ. Brown cherishes Senatorial am
billions. And it is fact that the
former Chief Magistrate has received
since his retirement from the execu-
tive office hundreds of letters urg-
ing him 70 make the race agains;
Senator Smith.
If Little Joe" should hearken to
these appeals, and as to that he has
! indicated nothing whatever, either by
word Of mouth or written document
that anybody knows Of there is no
sort of doubt that the subsequent pro-
ceedings would be thrilling and ex-
citing enough TO satisfy the most eX-
acting.
Brown Boom Languishes.
But of late the Brown Senatorial
boom has seemed to anguish. The
former Governor is taking life easily
and comfortable, dividing his time
unostentatiously between his home in
Marietta and his farm in Cherokee
County If he is figuring upon the
Senatorial proposition from any an
gle, he is keeping his figures mighty
dark; if he is saving much wood, he
also is saying nothing
The Brown boom thus tentatively
If not conclusively, disposed of, those
who still would see opposition to Sen
ator Smith have turned their eyes in
the direction of Governor Slaton.
There has not been much comfort
to them forthcoming from that quar-
ter
Governor Slaton barely has got his
gubeTnatorial bonnee on straight, and
SO far ne likes the looks of il far
too well to let it be suspected that he
thinks a Senatorial toga might be
even more becoming to his style of po-
litical makeup.
Besides. under an uhwritten and
rarely broken law Of Democracy in
Georgia. the Governor is sure to be
awarded a second term in the Gov
ernorship, if he wishes it, without
opposition, and, therefore John Mar
shall Slaton .isAould worry about
things Senatorial nowadays, of
course.