Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14


there is a little bit Of a crowd in the
white house these days-about a hun
dred a minute. Also there are crowds
in the anterOoms of the various cabi-
net offices, each member of the null
titude elbowIng his neighbor and look
ing askauce. as If to say: who is this
person. But neither in the white
house nor in any cabinet office east Ct
Seventeenth street is there any such
crowd as is gathered in the office #
William J. Bryan. secretary. Of state.
Secretary Bryan has had no chance
to eat comfortably or sleep creditab!y
or have a chance to think about the
problems before the state department.
Even the surging multitude at the
doors Of the white house is a mere
handful compared with that which
swarms at the doors of the office Of
the secretary of state.
The crowd is not made up altogether
Of Office seekers. though, of course, they
preponderate. There are many men in
town who followed Mr. Bryan through
his campaigns or who knew him per-
sonally, and before they leave Wash
ington they want to call and shake
hands with him. Then there is the
great army of men who do not want a
job in the state department, but do
want one somewhere else, and who
have the idea that Mr.. Bryans voice
viii be potent in their behalf if they
can get him to raise it. There are
also those who want to get something
i'm the state department and know they
must see the secretary if they are 20
.get it. These three divisions make up
the mass which clogs his doorway and
makes it impossible for even senators
and representatives to see him. even
such men as his old running mate, John
w. Kern.
Small Wonder He Did It.
1t is no wonder that he sends out
dispatches indorsing Henry Lane VIII
son without reading them. The Won
der is that he has time to read any
thing whatever, or to know what he
is signing. When he is not trying 20
receive and dispose OF this hive Of WISH
tors he is running over to the white
house to consult with the president,
always on orders received from the
executive. The man who invented the
word busy" had never heard of VIII
liam Jennings Bryan.
When the president made public his
warning to the Latin American repub-
lies to the effect that they mustn't i'm
agine they could start anything just
because there had been a change Of
administration, Secretary Bryan in
formed the newspaper men that he had
nothing to add to the statement. AS a
matter of fact. he had not even seen il.
The president wrote it himself without
consulting anybody.
Senator TiHman this week made a
Biblical quotation with regard to the
horde Of office seekers. 1t was as fol-
lows:
THE wild asses of the desert are
athirst and hungry: they have broken
into the green corn"
Today Senator Tinman came into
Secretary Bryan's office and saw IN
one side swarm of office seekers and
on the other crowd Of newspaper
men. He glanced over both groups and
then turned to the secretary with 4
quizzical smile.
When ! said that thing, Bryan"
said he. Il didn't know that you hal
two herds of wild asses around here"
The secretary grinned. Then ne
turned to the news gatherers and said,
with a compa ssionate smile; You men
who come to the state department are