The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-07-18
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

III GeOEBld do wen do III W d5liH COl
this week is the split between Con
gresham Tom Bell and Senator
Hoke Smith over the Gainesville
postoffice.
Mr.. Bell wanted editor Hardy OF
the Gainesville News appointed in
place of Mrs. Longstreet but the
President appointed Mrs. H. w. j
Ham, widow of "Snollygoster" Ham
who was a noted editor and lectur-
er in his day.
AS Gainesville is the home of Mr..
Bell he would naturally be entitled
to name the postmaster. He ad-
mits, however, that he could not
have put Mr. Hardy over without
the help of Senator Smith and the
circumstances were such that the
Senator did not feel bound to help
Mr.. Bell in this matter, although he
and the Congressman were on the
very best of terms and cooperating
in all other matters.
The truth is Mr.. Hardy's course
during the Presidential primary was
such that the Postmaster General
was not willing to ask the president
TO appoint him. President Wilson
lived in Gainesville twenty-five
years ago and two of his daughters
were born there Miss Jessie Wilson
who is to be married in the White
House in the near future, was born
in Gainesville.
1t is true that twenty-five years
ago Woodrow Wilson had not be-
come famous He was only a strug-
Cling young lawyer but by last year
he had been President of Princeton,
was a noted historian, and was
Governor of New Jersey. He was
slated for the Presidency which he
has since attained. 1t would seem that
a local newspaper would find oc-
casion for pride in the fact that he
had once lived in Gainesville and
would speak pleasantly of the pos
sioility of a former citizens family
becoming occupants of the Presi-
dents mansion, just as we in Cobb
are proud of the fact that Secretary
McAdoo, of the Treasury Depart
ment, was born in our county and
that he recalls the old home with
tender memories
But editor Hardy did not see it in
that way, according to the records
on file. He fought Wilson. One
paragraph from his pen, according
to what | hear was to this effect:
They say Hall county should go for
Wilson because two of his children
were born here. They must think
Gainesville is his mother-in-law. >"
Mr.. Hardy is mighty clever man
but there is where he broke his mo-
lasses jug.
Postmaster General Burleson has
got more human nature in him than
any other man connected with the
administration. He is Democrat
also, of the kind we raise down
South. He is from Texas, he is. and
don't you step on the tail of his
coat
A certain gentleman from Geor-
gia, who is related to the Wilson'S,
who managed the campaign, who is
referred to by Mr.. Bell as an Inter
loper," and whose name if anybody
wants to know is Edward T. Brown,
did not wish to see a man named
postmaster by the president who had
published offensive articles about
the presidents wife and daughters.
Honest, now, how do you think Mrs.
Wilson would have enjoyed such a
paragraph about herself published
In the pretty little Georgia City
where she had lived? How would
her husband have felt if his Post
master General had come over and
asked him to name Mr. Hardy under
the circumstances? Would you have
looked the president in the face and
have asked him to do it when there
were plenty of other men in Gains
vile who could have been selected?
1t was not a question of patronage.
1t was simply and solely a question
OF good taste. Mr. Bell picked a
man whom he could not put over
without assistance and he has no.
body to blame but himself.
Still, somebody has to be blamed
1t reminds me of a story | heard
last week of a little short-legged
fellow down in West Virginia who
went out to milk a COW when he
was tight, Staggering along with
his pail he leaned down to milk, lost
his balance and fell under the COW.
Pulling himself together on the 9th
er side he gave the docile animal a
savage kick, eXclaiming, Now, ding
you, let me see you jump over an