Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-05
Alexander Looks Like a Sure
Winner of the North Georgia
Federal Attorneyship.
BLAL0CK SLATED FOR
REVENUE COLLECTOR
Hitch to Get South Georgia At
torneyShip, and Thompson
North MarShaIship.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.

WASHINGTON. March 5.-Despite
again various wars and rumors Of wars
(and that little despite" is coming in
for a steady working job nowadays
the following Georgians seem sure to
land various pums
A. o. BLALOCK. to be collector of
internal revenue.
HOOPER ALEXANDER, to be dis
trict attorney for north Georgia.
HOWARD THOMPSON, to be mar
shall for north Georgia.
ROBERT HITCH, to be district at
torney for south Georgia.
All of these gentlemen were good
Wilson men and good Hoke Smith men
in the primaries.
In making up the list of Georgia
postmasters, moreover. the signs all
point to distribution along those
same lines, all the way down the line.
Senator Bacon does not seem to be
profoundly interested in the patronage
question. He is deeply concerned with
the nations foreign affairs and with
his prospective duties as president pro-
tenn of the senate. Besides. Mr.. Ba-
con was hut recently named for an
other full term of six years in the
senate, and there appears to him. no
doubt no immediate necessity for both
ering with his fences or undertaking
the organization of a machine
In short, the impression is gaining
ground all the time that the right of
senatorial veto of 0. X in Georgia
affairs has been placed largely If not
altogether in the hands of Senator
Smith
To Make Favors Countabe.
There is. of course. no question that
Senator Smith will be a candidate to
succeed himself in the senate. and his
partisans here fail to express the
slightest surprise or disapproval that
he should elect to put his friends on
guard in Georgia His unique status
in the senate and his nearness to the
new president make it reasonably sure
that he can deliver the goods where he
peases. as a rule. And that he is de-
termined TO deliver the same where it
will be known that he did the work
can hardly be doubted by one who uses
his eyes and ears about this national
capital and cares primarily to get at
the truth of what is going on. with
an intent to state it in unbiased form.
Those who came here from Atlanta,
Georgia and Vicini.y--and there were
thousands who did--unite today in saw
ing that Tuesdays big Inauguration
festivities, with the climax of joy that
the night brought was the biggest
thing of the kind they ever saw. The
parade was a wonder, and Georgia was
very conspicuous in it. There was no
military from any section that made a
finer impression than the Georgia boys
did, and when they passed the big re-
viewing stand In front of the white
house they were cheered to the echo,
time and again. In the grandstand just
off Lafayette park, Immediately in front
of the white house, 10000 people
watched the passing troops. Georgia
was cheered more, perhaps, than any
others. unless it was the great West
Point cadet display.
Notwithstanding the fact that the big
Inauguration show is all over and
Washington theoretically has settled
down to huumdrum things, the Georgia
visitors are slow in getting away, In
the grand rush for trains last night and
today the Dixieland visitors have been
conspicuous 10y their absence