Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-27

In the meantime. there come pugna-
cious shifts and snorts galore from
south Georgia way, the while Con
gresham Charlie Bartlett holds the
center Of the stage in Macon and de-
mands vociferously To know whittier
are we drifting. and why so slow with
the pie" cutting around and about the
national capital?
IF we have offices to confer, prepare
to confer them now admonishes
Bartlett
This thing Of standing out in the
rain. and the sleet, and the snow long
ago became a tiresome story to Bart
lett. Having heaved in sight of the
promised land at last. after all these
years of wandering in the Wilderness.
Bartlett is sending up an emphatic APP
peal to Moses to hurry on across the
river and proceed with the assimilation
Of all the loose milk and honey about
the place!
Bless YOU, my children" and well
done. thou good and faithful servant"
are all Iight-Mr. Bartlett admits that
but what he is looking for particu-
larry is the Jobs!
Wherefore, while the heathens rage
and imagine vain things. if Caesar
doesn't hurry up and carve conquered
Republican Gaul into or %. 1867 parts,
as the exigencies OF the situation may
be found finally to demand a lot OF
people are going to be mighty unhappy,
and the Glooms will put the Joys ever
lastingly down and out,
If there is any estate more melan-
choly than being a patronage distribu-
ter, it is being a patronage didn't
getter, perhaps.
Far from the madding crowds igno-
bic strife, nevertheless and notwith-
standing. stands Monsieur lie ChevaIier
Donald Harper of Paris, knight of the
legion of honor, gentleman of La Belle
France, and so forth and so on. all
unconscious Of the fact that right here
in Georgia, his old home, a boom has
been started i'm his behalf, which has
for its object the naming of the cheva-
lier to the position or United States
ambassador to France!
NJ. Donald is quietly and unostenta-
tiously attending to his duties in Par
is-but on its way TO Washington from
Georgia is monster petition to Pres
ident Wilson setting forth the cheva-
lier's many qualifications for the am
bassadorship. and expressing the mod
est hope that it may be conferred upon
him.
Those Georgians who know Chcya-
Iier Donald. moreover. are firmly of the
opinion that he would fill the assign
ment to a nicely il IL should be given
him. FOR ne is born diplomat, and
would find himself Immediately at
home in the Paris legation.
Judge Augustus W F'ite is perhaps,
the happiest man in Georgia, consider
ing the fact that once he was bitten by
a patronage germ. and was threatened
with a severe attack Of patronageitis.
Having recently been led up into the
high mountainS-Or having led himself
up, as the case may be-and shown the
Kingdoms of earth, not one of which he
could see yearning for him TO come and
rule over IT, Judge rite has decided that
the old Cherokee circuit is good enough
for him. and there he will remain,
1T j. better to have a fair TO mid
ding Job and be satisfied with it," OBJ
serves the Judge philosophically
enough. than to banker for a large,
opulent thing you can not get, any
way"
In the white house in Washington i'm
the meantime-there being no lack of
'ins" as well as outs in this crisis
there sits a Presby terian president Sc
cure In the belief that whatever is to be