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.

III 4iipA SSSlOu IL Detomlns more
and more firmly fixed throughout
Georgia that Senator Hoke smith Is
to have no opposition for, re- election
to the United States Senate.
Certainly, if opposition is brewing,
it has been kept amazingly quiet 50
far, and no authoritative hint of II
has escaped from any quarter direct
ly concerned.
To be sure, there are those in
Georgia, and quite a 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
prOblematiCal, however, and the
dSuht 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 haJ
and always will have, perhaps. Al
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 it is organized
to-day, and Yields far-reaching and
potent influence that can not be ra-
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
ale last spring, thar 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
lltcal 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 a number of panied and mildly
astonished calculations of protest
ne and thAFl q 70 u
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 rs
matters to be passed uron, seems e.
have demolished few, If any, panels n
his pretty well set up political
fences, and hence the wind blows far
enough in that quarter.
Opposition to Senator Smith has
been anticipated from two quarters
if it developed at all.
Rumor has had 1t persistentIy
enough that former Governor Joseph
NJ. Brown cherishes 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 to make the race against
Senator Smith.
If Little Joe" should hearken ia
these appeals and as to that he has
Q indicated nothing whatever, either by
! word Of mouth or written document
~ l., l. u.
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
unostcutatiOusly 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 tenra lively,
If not conClusively, disposed of, those
who still would see opposition to Sen
ator Smith have turned their eyes in
the direction Of Governor ySlaton.
There has not been much comfort
10 them forthcoming from that quar-
ter.
Governor Slaton barely has got his
gubernatorial bonnes on straight, ana
so far ne likes the looks OF it far
too well to let II be suspected that he
thinks a Senatorial toga might be
even more becoming to his style of po-
litiCal makeup.
Besides, under an unwritten 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 should worry about
things SenatCeial nowadays, OF
COURSE.