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,
viii Not Ask for Toga.
BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.

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 IL
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 70 love Hoke Smith. and VINO
never may. There are those VINO
would enjoy nothing so much as see
ing the junior Senator stripped of his
toga and releEated to the darkest
shades, or whatever it is. Of public
life.
Whether they are destined TO see
that performance enacted is highly
problematical, 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-
entity 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 wields a far-re.ching and
potent influence that can not be RAJ
tionally discounted
II the impression prevailed at one
time that the Senator damaged him
self particularly in Georgia by reason
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 ii does not appear
l'At' t-N ia ma liza t'l lt EtI IN ma
enough, at that, to encourage his 90
lttcal opponents In the belief that
an avalanche might be started guar
anteed to 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
dstCnished calculations Of protest
here and there, it appears to D.
agreed now that that part was per
fectly logical and in line with the
Senator'S prOfesscd 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 dis
tressing to him and distasteful rs
matters to be passed uron. seems L.
have demolished few, If any, panels y
his pretty wei set up political
fences, and hence the wind blows fl r
enough in that quarter.
Opposition to Senator Smith has
been anticipated from two quarters.
if it developed at all.
Rumor has had it persistentlv
enough that former Governor Joseph
Nj Brown CheTishes Senatorial am
billions. And it is "A fact that the
former Chief Magistrate has received
since his retirement from the execu-
tive office hundreds Of letters urg-
ing him 10 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
hoom has seemed to langush. The
former Governor is taking life easily
and comfortable. dividing his time
uuOStentatiousiy between his home III
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
10 them forthcoming from that quar-
ter
Governor Slaton barely has got his
gubewatorIal Donnog on straight, and
so far ne likes the looks Of IL far
too We'll TO let it be suspected that he
thinks a Senatorial tOga might be
even more becoming to his style of po-
EtiCal makeup.
Besides. under an unwrittpn and