Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-22
POLITICAL NEWS
FOR BUSY MEN
GeOrgianS Ready Now to Take
Any Available, Even Small,
Federal PIumS.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

Since last the gentle reader and this
department met, grand, gloomy and pc
culiar things have happened hither
and yon, nationally and otherwise, and
some have been made happy and some
have been made sad, and still the game
wags merrily along-merrily being
used in its ultra generic sense, of
course
| Georgia has landed no cabinet plums
no ambassadorships and no assistant
secretaryships.
| 1t was said in Washington a short
| time back, that Mr.. Bryan had ex-
pressed the opinion that Georgia need
not expect much by way of administra-
| ton favor. as Georgia generally had
come TO be listed with the reaction
airy" states Whether he said it or
not, Georgia has captured no particu-
larly blue ribbon assignments thus far,
nor does any little bird anywhere whis-
! per or chirp that anything of the kind
| is in store
Nevertheless. since Georgians have
leone to realize the situation, and ap-
plicants for presidential largess have
come to sing and declare that any lit
tie job that's a nice little job is the
right little job for them-why, few
plums of the more modest persuasion
are about to drop into the anxious laps
of various Georgia patriots here and
| there, and mayhap things are pretty
enough as 1t is!
Chairman William J. Harris of the
state Democratic executive committee,
will be named director of the census.
| The place is one much sought after,
carries a handsome salary, as salaries
under the national government go, and
most Of the time does not absolutely
work man to a fragile.
An interesting circumstance in con-
nection with Mr.. Harris promotion is
that he will be required to take up his
residence in Washington, and may,
therefore. find it necessary to resign as
chairman of the state executive COM
mittee, and certainly, in any event, the
greater part of the chairman's duties
will devolve hereafter upon the vice
chairman, Hon. w. S. West, of
Lowndes.
| Mr.. West is a former president Of
the state senate and many times a mem
/ Der of the Legislature. He has been
! identified with Georgia politics for
years, and has been mentioned more
than once as a likely candidate for the
governorship in succession to Mr.. Sla-
| ton.
incidentally, it may be said that Mr..
Harris appointment as head of the
census bureau has given very great
satisfaction to all factions in Georgia
politics. He is recognized as a most
fit and proper man for the place.
Walter P Andrews, who helped man
| age MIR. Wilson's primary campaign in
Georgia, is being urged for the consul
generalship to Paris.
! This is a most desirable position.
and the friends Of Mr.. Andrews are
convinced that he would meet splen-
| didly its many unique and exacting
! requirements. 1t is understood that
the Atlanta man is being considered
| favOrably in this connection.
! And that Colonel ]. Lindsay John
/ son, editor of The Rome Tribune
Herald, is to go to Shanghai is gen
orally accepted as a settled and sure
| thing.
He is very close to the secretary Ct
state, and has been one of his faith
| full Georgia followers, for better or
worse, ever since the days Of SO.
| Postmaster Tom Murphey. of Angus
ia, will be a candidate to succeed him
self.
| Although Mr.. Murphey was appointed
/ by President Taft, he never has re-
nounced his Democracy, and feels that
there is no partisan reason whatever
/ why he should not now aspire to be
| his own successor. The appointment
| of Mr.. Murphey was made by the then
president purely as a personal matter
/ and by way of compliment to Augusta.
where Mr.. Murphey is very popular.
| The only disturbing thing in the sit
/ uation, from the standpoint Of Mr.
Murphey's friends, is that he voted for
| Mr. Taft in the late election. Mr. Muir
phey takes the position that ne could
not, in mere gratitude and decency, DO
otherwise, and that should not count
/ against him in the matter of reap
! point Il - DtlHS urged aSdln9l
| him, nevertheless.
| In the event of a fight on Pratt
| Adams. for the district attorneyshiD
/ Of south Georgia, which seems certain
| to come. it is said that the man TO be
pitted against him is Robert L. Ber-
ner, of Macon.
Unquestionably. that fght-if it ma
lterializes-wilI bring on more talk, and
much more at that.
The new county fever still is ramp
| ant in south Georgia.
! 1t is now being proposed to create
| a new county of four militia district,
/ to be whacked out Of Worth.
| If the fever is not headed off, the
next legislature will have little time 10
devote to anything else except new
county propositions.
| Joseph l. Deadwilder. of Clarke,
wants TO be United states district at