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 B. NEVIN.

ne Impression Is becoming more
and more firmly fixed throughout
Georgia that Senator Hoke Smith is
to have no opposition for reelection
10 the United States Senate.
Certainly, if opposition is brewing.
it has been kept amazingly quiet 50
far, and no authoritative hint of IT
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 vet
learned to love Hoke Smith, and VINO
never may. There are those VINO
would enjoy nothing so much as see
ing the junior Senator stripped of his
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 wax
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. If possible in any event, will b.
an undertaking pregnant with ex-
IRENE difficulty.
Friends Still Enthusiastic.
The Senator has his enemies
throughout Georgia, always has hal
and always will have. perhaps. A;
tho Il. Fry
entity as numerous az ever, and quite
as enthusiastically for him.
Moreover, he is an undisputed lead
or in the Senate as il is organized
/ o-day and Yields a far reaching ami
potent influence that can not be ra-
tionally discounted
If the impression prevailed at one
time that the Senator damaeed 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 disslpated.
True enough. the senator, in hand
ling the always delicate and vexire
question of Federal patronage. man
aged to get i'm bad" with divers and
sundry political leaders Of one sort
and another hither and Won through
Out Georgia, but it does not appear
that ne has managed to get in ba 4"
enough, at that, to encourage his DO
lttCal opponents in the belief that
an avalanche might be started guar
anteed TO oyerwhelm the Senator.
While the Senator's part i'm 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
fectly logical and in line with the
Senator'S professcd political ideals
and that, therefore, he is not to be
rensured for it.
Few Panels Broken.
Moreover the Senator's disposition
of the problems Of patronage coming
to his attention, while at times dis
tressing to him and distasteful rs
matters to be passed uron. seems E,
have demolished few if any, panels n
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 cherishes Senatorial am
billions. And it is a fact that the
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 to
these appeals, and as 10 that he has
5 indicated nothing whatever, either by
! word Of mouth or written document
that anybody knows of, there is ne
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
boom has seemed to langush. The
former Governor is taking life easily
and comfortable, dividing his time
rnostentatiously between his home ~
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 sa wing much wood, he
also is saying nothing.
The Brown boom thus tentatively
if not conclusiyely, 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
10 them forthcoming from that quar-
ter
Governor Slaton barely has got his
gubernatOrial bOnnel on straight, AMI
So far ne likes the looks Of it far
too well TO let II be suspected that he
thinks Senatorial toga might be
even more becoming TO his style Of po-
litiCal makeup.
Besides, under an unwritten and
rarely broken law Of Democracy in
Georgia the Governor is sure to be
awarded second term in the Gov
clmorship. if he wishes il, without
oppO uiOn. and therefore John Mar
shall SlatJn should worry about
things Senatorial nowadays, OF