The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-03-11
RACON DEFEAT SURPRISE
,pU,NSAS MAN WAS UNEXPECT-
EDDY CHOSEN OVER HIM
IN CAUCUS.
IF LOST PRESIDENT PRO TEN

esrotor Smith Resigned Place on the
steering Committee, But Later Re-
considered. Is Charged Up to Sen
otor Martin of Virginia.
WASHINGTON.-In the caucus OF
conate democrats Senator James P.
r,arl, of Arkansas was elected by a
vote of p to IA over Senator Angus
.rs n Bacon, of Georgia, who alter
o.ted with Senator Gallinger in the
office of president pro tenn through
ont the last session.
senator Clarke was placed in nom
nation by Senator O'Gorman and
Senator Bacon by his colleague, Sen
ator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. Both
were eulogizeG hy their champions.
Other senators seconded the nomi-
nations. mentioning the fact that
Mr. Clarke'S term would expire in
tha next two years his supporters
made an appeal for his election on
The ground that it would be of as
sfs-ance to him in his race for re-
election, They also urged the fact
that Senator Bacon was in line for
thp Craftsmanship of the committee
ON foreign relations as a reason why
he should not be elected to preside
over the senate.
The result of the election caused
considerable stir, the friends of Sen
a+or Bacon feeling that he had not
been fairly treated.
,-.L. DociOr,od Erop, Counmittap
At the afternoon session Senator
Smith rendered his resignation as a
member of the steering committee.
Mr. Smith, who had been especially
Jealous in his support of Senator Ba-
con. said he felt his colleague had
been made to suffer on his account.
He was induced to withdraw the
RESIGNATION later, but not until there
had been a general discussion of the
affair.
Senator Bacon himself said he had
been unprepared for the defeat be-
cause he had not known there was
auv other applicant. He added that
if he had been informed that any
other person desired the honor he
would have withdrawn from the race.
First of a Series of Bombsells.
Senator Bacon's defeat was due
unauestionably to the hostility of
Senator Martins friends in that Mar
tin, through Bacon's assistance, was
put out of the senate leadership in
favor of Kern.
The result was a socalled victory
for the progressives over the cOnserV-
atives, for while Senator Clarke is
cciT hn
named president pro tenn as a rebuke
to Bacon and as measure of re-
venge against the Georgian.
This is but the first of a series of
bombshells that likely will be eX
pI0ded in the senate because of the
substitution of Kern for Martin.
The older senators and the social
ed conservatives resent Martins GUST
ing, although they have tried to put
a good face on the situation.
Georgia's Delegation Resentful.
The Georgia delegation is very re-
sentful of Bacon's defeat, but there
is no doubt about how it happened.
The Martin senators, to designate
them that way, were determined to
be reyenged on the Georgian, and
they adopted the means they did in
order to hit him the hardest.
At this time he refuses to discuss
the matter at all, but his associates,
practically as a unit, are bitter in
their comments on his treatment.
Senator Smith would not talk
about the matter Immediately upon
adjournment of the caucus, but he
evidently realized that Bacon's defeat
Indicated grave conditions to follow
and probable discord in the narrow
margin of control by which the CEN
ate is now held by the democrats.
Bartlett Lost, Too.
Intense disappointment is also felt
by members of the Georgia deiega-
ton over the failure of Representa-
tive Bartlett of Georgia to land on
the ways and means committee. This
committee selects all the other com
mittees of the house, and the Geor-
gia delegation put forward Mr.. Bart
lett, the dean of the delegation, to
make the race for the place made
vacant by the resignation of Repre-
sentative w. G. Brantley.