Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07

I State Senator and former Repre-
sentative W. l.. Converse. Of IownGe~
one Of the pest-known men in Geor-
{ gia is nejEs urged by numerous
. friends n South Georgia to enter the
: Congressional race next year against
( Representative Randall Walker OF the
! Eleventh
Senator Converse. who besides
/ being statesman. is one ~ me very
/ busiest men in 'Hc commonwealth.
( has taken the matter under serious
/ advisement ana 10 Is altogether likely
that he will enter the contest
At least. that is the persistent polit-
| ical gossip one hears about the State
! Capitol nowadays from the lips Of
/ observers who keep pretty close tab
on things IN the Southwestern sec
| ton
| II Senator Converse does get into
| the Congressional race. It goes with
out saying that he will become imme-
diately a most formidable candidate
/ and one to be rerkoned with His
services in the Legislature have made
him fine reputation and it probably
| is true that among the entire mem
/ b"rsnIp Of both the House and the
Senate his race will be watched with
| sympathy and good wishes He prob
ably did more in Atlanta and at home
for the schools In his Congressional
/ district than any other one man hail
SC
modest about that work, however. and
rarely mentions It himself
Senator Converse is = we'll balanced
man. He IL an extremist in nothing
He is tolerant and mindful of the
| opinions OF others. The difficulty In
the way Of getting him to run for
Congress- perhaps. would be in con
vtncinR him that he could spare tine
time from his business.
Their seem TO be shape ups SEIZED
uled for several Congressional dis
tricts I'm Georgia next time, and II II
comes to a battle I'm the Eleventh be-
tween Converse and Walker, 1t is
going to be mighty interesting.
The race there last time, when Con
gresham Walker won out, was very
close indeed, and Mr.. Converse was
not in that race. either!
Because of some rules Of promotion
in the consular service Of which ne
was not aware when he made appli-
cation for the position at Shanghai,
it appears that Colonel J. Lindsay
Johnson, Of Rome, likely will not be
named to that post. A number OF
his friends, therefore, now are urging
him upon President Wilson as TT
and proper man to be United States
Minister to Uruguay
This Is one of the most important
diplomatic assignments in South
America, and Colonel Johnson would
nm II most acceptably. The Rome
| editors tastes run to things agricul-
| tural in large measure and the agri-
cultural interests of South America
are vast. II Colonel Johnson is sent
to Uruguay and II is thought he may
be he viii he more or less In his
element and fully CapaCitated to rem
der great and material service to his
country
Secretary Bryan is said to be heart
ily in favor of Colonel Johnson for
the South American post.
The rumor that Judge Pottle. Of
the Court Of Appeals, is thinking Of
resignng persists. Notwithstanding
the Judges most emphatic denial
Judge Pottle was rendered a most
advantageous legal connection a short
time ago and did talk that matter
over with a few friends. 1t is likely
that the resignation report found cur
rency through this In addition to
this, too. he was mentioned for Con-
gress in successicn to Mr.. ROdden-
berry, and that also, served to push
the rumor along.
Judge POttle says, however,, that he
has no idea whatever of resigning
now nor any time soon. In fact, he Is
not thinking of resigning at all.
Seaborn Wright, of Floyd County,
called on Governor John NJ Slaton
for "a social chat" to-day.
How does anybody know it was a
social chat?
Nobody does know-thats what the
Rome man said il was, however.
As matter OF fact Mr. Wright
and the Governor are fine personal
friends, and have been since they
served in the Legislature together