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.
B. JAMES 3. NEVIN.

ne IMPRESSION is becoming more
and more firmly fixed throughout
Georgia that Senator Hoke Smith /,
to have no opposition for reelection
to the United States Senate.
Certainly, If opposition is brewing
it has been kept amazingly quiet st
far, and no authoritative hint of II
has escaped from any quarter direct.
~ concerned
To be sure, there are those In
Georgia, and quite a respectable com.
pany Of them who have not vel
learned to love Hoke Smith, and who
never may There are those wnc
would enjoy nothing so much as see.
ing the junior Senator stripped of MS
toga and relegated to the darkest
shades, or whatever it is, of public
life.
Whether they are destined to see
that performance enacted is highly
problematical, however and the
doubt in favor Of the Senator is way.
ing bigger and more impressive every
day.
The truth Of the matter is, the
opposition TO Senator Smith realizes
that the accomplishment OF his de-
feat, II possible in any event, will b.
an undertaking pregnant with ex-
treme difficulty.
Friends Still Enthusiastic.
Inc Senator has his enemies
throughout Georgia, always has Ia.
and always will have, perhaps. Al
the same time his friends are appar.
emily as numerous as ever, and quit,
as enthusiastically for him.
Moreover, he is an undisputed lead.
er in the Senate as ii is ORGANIZED
to-day, and Yields a far-reaching an
potent influence that can not be ra,
ttOnally discounted
II the impression prevailed at on,
time that the Senator damaged him.
self particularly in Georgia BY reason
Of the part he played in the reor.
ganization Of the United States Sen.
ate last spring that impression seems
to have been thoroughly dissipated.
True enough, the Senator, in hand.
ling the always delicate and vexira
question Of Federal patronage. man.
aged 10 get in bad with divers anC
sundry political leaders OF one sor
and another hither and Won through.
out Georgia, but 1t does not appeal
that he has managed to get in bad
enough, at that to encourage his DO.
litcal opponents in the belief thai
an avalanche might be started guar
anteed to Overwhelm the Senator.
While the Senator's part in the re.
organization Of the Senate of tn,
United States undoubtedly brought
forth number of panied and mildly
astonished calculations of protest
here and there, II appears TO b.
agreed now that that part was per.
fectly logical and in line with tbs
Senator'S professed political ideals
and that, therefore, he is not to b,
Censured for It.
Few Panels Broken.
Moreover, the Senator's disposition
of the problems of patronage comin4
to his attention, while at times dis.
tressing to him and distasteful Is
matters to be passed uron, seems [,
have demolished few, If any. panels II
his pretty wei set up poliuca
fences and hence the wind blows fail
enough in that quarter.
Opposition to Senator Smith ba,
been anticipated from two quarters
if ii developed at all
Rumor has had it persistentIy
tll'A1AA AAlebl lpA lllFi AuONtI nor JbStDf
NJ. Brown cherishes Senatorial am.
billions. And it is a fact that tn,
former Chief Magistrate has received
since his retirement from the execu.
tive office hundreds OF letters urg.
ing him TO make the race agains
Senator Smith.
If Little Joe" should hearken t
these appeals, and as 10 that he has
, indicated nothing whatever either by
word of mouth or written doCumen
that anybody knows of, there is NJ
sort Of doubt that the subsequent pro.
ceedings would be thrilling and ex-
citing enough to satisfy the most ex-
aCting.
Brown Boom Languishes.
But of late the Brown Senatorial
hoom has seemed TO anguish. The
former Governor is taking life easily
and comfortable, dividing his time
unoStentatiously between his home IN
Marietta and his farm in Cherokee
County. If he is figuring upon the
Senatorial proposition from any an
gle, he is keeping his figures mighty
dark, If he Is saving much wood, he
also is saying nothing
The Brown boom thus tentatively.
II not cOnClusively disposed Of those
who still would see opposition TO Sen
ator Smith have turned their eyes in
the direction Of Governor Slaton.
There has not been much comfort
to them forthcoming from that quar-
ter.
Governor Slaton barely has got his
gubernatorial bonnie. on straight, and
so far ne likes the looks Of il far
too we'll 10 let II be suspected that he
thinks a Senatorial toga might be
even more becoming to his style Of po-
Htical makeup.
Besides. under an unwritten and
rarely broken law Of Democracy in
Georgia. the Governor is sure to be
awarded a second term in the Gov
elnorship, if he wishes it,. without
opposition, and therefore John Mar
shan ~lat1n should worry about
things Senatorial nowadays. OF