Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-22
GEORGIA PLUMS
MAY BE DIVIDED
BY SENATORS
Such The REPORT CURRENT
Senators Bacon and Smith
Thus Agree

ltpollCdl stories tnat come out
Washington are sent by correspond
ents over the wires. Now and then d
Georgia politician who visits Wash
ington hears something Of interest
which, for one reason or another, the
correspondents do not handle. An un-
usually interesting report comes from
Washington regarding the division OF
the Georgia appointments.
According to this report it is said to
have been agreed between Senator A.
o. Bacon and Senator Hoke Smith that
they would make somewhat of ter.
ritorial division of the federal appoint.
ments which might fall to their lot
Senator Smith was to have controlled
all the appointments in the northern
portion of the state, such as District
Attorney and Marshal for the northern
district and others of this class, while
Senator Bacon was to take those in the
southern division.
The report has it that Senator
Smith assented to this plan readily,
making only the stipulation that none
of the parties appointed by either of
them should be personally objection
able to the other. 1t is said that this
provision was accepted by Senator Ba-
con, the understanding being that if
any man named to any particular po-
sition was unsatisfactory to the 9th ar
senator, the appointment should not pc
made.
Then, it is said, Senator Smith pre-
pared his list of appointees, even in
Guiding Hooper Alexander to be dis
trict attorney of the northern district,
and submitted it to Senator Bacon. The
senior senator glanced over it and re-
turned it to Senator Smith with the
statement that he had no personal OBJ
lection to any man thereon named.
Following this, it is said Senator
Bacon made out his list and in tuIn
submitted it to Senator Smith.
Senator Bacon was not quite 50
lucky. AS the story goes, the junior
senator made objections to every one
@. Senator Bacon's selections, which
meant that the senior senator either
had to raise protest or revise his
list of appointments. 1t is rumored
that Senator Bacon demanded thai
Senator Smith put his AFFECTIONS to
each of his appointments in wlitnss,
but so far as is known, this has not
yet been done.
1t is this situation that probably
had something to do with the reported
withdrawal OF A. Pratt Adams, of Sa
vannah, from the list of those applying
for the district attorneyship in the
southern district of Georgia. Thus
section of the state Senator Bacons
recommendation will control, it wou.
seem that this control is to be limited
by the attitude of the junior senator
towards Senator Bacon's appointees.
1t is not to be understood from thia
that Senator Smith will succeed in
putting his own political friends into
office in the southern section of the
state, but according to the way things
have been arranged, it would look rs
If he were going to have a pretty big
sayso in whatever is done there.
The fight is still waging warmly for
the position of district attorney in the
northern district. Senator Hoke SMITH
has indorsed Hooper Alexander and Is
standing on the Endorsement 1t ia
rumored that this is the one apopint-
ment, above all others, upon which
Senator Smith will insist.