Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-21
Foes Fail to Develop Any Serious
Opposition Against Albanian
Up to Present Time.
JOE BROWN KEEPING QUIET
Governor SIaton Apparently Is
Satisfied With His Position.
Will Not Ask for Toga.
BY JAMES 3. NEVIN.

and more firmly fixed throughout
Georgia that Senator Hoke smith Is
to have no opposition for reelection
to the United States Senate.
Certainly, if opposition is brewing
it has been Kept amazingly quiet 50
far, and mo authoritative hint OF II
has escaped from any quarter direct
ly concerned.
To he sure. there are those in
Georgia. and quite "A respectable COM
pany of them who have not vet
learned 20 love Hoke Smith. and VINO
never may There are those wnr
would enjoy nothing so much as see
ing the junior Senator stripped of MS
toga and relocated to the darkest
shades, or whatever it is. Of public
life.
Whether they are destined to So,
that performance enacted is highly
problema teal however. and the
doubt in favor of the Senator is wax
ing bigger and more impressive every
day.
The truth of the matter is the
opposition to Senator Smith realizes
ina, the accomplishment Of his de-
feat If possible I'm any event, will b.
an undertaking pregnant with ex-
IRENE difficulty.
Friends Still Enthusiastic.
Ihe Senator has his enemies
throughout Georgia, always has ma
and always will have. pcrnaps. A;
the same time his friends are appar-
emily as numerous as eve. and quite
as enthusiastically for him.
Moreover, he Is an undlsputed lead
er IN the Senate as IL is organize,
to-day, and Yields a far-reaching ans
potent influence that can not be ra-
tionally discounted
If the impression prevailed at one
time that the Senator damaged him
self particularly in Georgia by reason
OF the part he played in the reor-
ganlzation Of the United States SEN
ate last spring that impression seems
TO have been thoroughly lissipated.
rue enough, the Senator, in hand
ling the always delicate and veNiug
question of Federal patronage. man
aged to get in bad with divers and
sundry political leaders of one sort
and another hither and yon through
out Georgia, but it does not appear
that lie has managed to get I'm bai'
enough, at that to encourage his DO
ttcal opponents in the belief that
an avalanche might be started guar
anteed to oyerwhelm the Senator.
w lille the Senator's part in the re-
organization Of The Senate of the
United States undoubtedly brought
forth number Of panied and mildly
astonished calculations OF protest
here and there, it appears to b.
agreed now that that part was per-
fecty logical and in line with the
Senator'S protested political Ideals
and that, therefore, he is not to be
Censured for It,
Few Panels Broken.
Moreover, the Senator's disposition
Of the problems Of patronage coming
to his attention, while at times dis
tres5ing to him and distast eful S
matters to be passed uoon. seems L.
have demolished few, if any. panels y
his pretty well set up political
fences, and hence the wind blows far
enough in that quarter.
Opposition to Senator Smith has
been anticipated from two quarters
if it developed at all
Rumor has had it persistently
enough that former Governor Joseph
NJ. Brown CheTlshes Senatorial ann
billions And 1t is a fact that the
former Chief Magistrate has receives
since his retirement from the execu-
tive office hundreds Of letters urg-
ing him 20 make the race agaius;
Senator Smith.
II Little Joe" should hearken to
these appeals, ana as to that he has
indicated nothing whatever either by
word of mouth or written document