Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-13
The Regional Triumvirate
Welcome TO Atlanta


nall sOuthernerof personal and official dignity who
the city guests to-day
The Secretary of the Treasury of joint and excellent
Tennessee and Georgia The Secretary of Agriculture
of the good blood of North Carolina The Comptroller of the
Currency vrgnian to the born The three of them
carry the whole scheme of the republic in the
hands of the wise and war disciplined South
William G. McAdoos Georgia years spent among the
hills of Cobb Marietta and in the Georgia schools and col
eges out of which he swept swiftly and smoothly into
marvellous of unbroken progress notable achieve
ment which has landed him. without seeking and before his
meridian Of he in the real first place the Cabinet
astonishing Chief Magistrate who also citizen of Georgia
Mr. McAdoo life story reads like fortune
fame set in tranquil courage tireles industry clear thinking
clean living and temper Of radiant kindlness Fortune has
given hts successful life Georgia deeply proud
of her lion share in McAdoo
David Houston Of and scholarly gentle
who also distinctly of force and magnetism The
heart of the President him at sight
han unto the David Of old He has grown upon the Cabinet
and the Capital City, since the earliest day of the Wilson
Administration of its strongest and popular
Two Cabinet officers make tribute North Carolina
and recall the day when Georgia under Grover Cleveland
Ambassadors in Alexander R. Lawton Henry
Few who have figured largely in the economic and
and beloved in Atlanta than John Shelton Williams of Rich
mond Time when the head of the seaboard Air Line
Railway its vre youth his helpful upbuldng policies his
frank direct and kindly genius of construction his nfexibe
purpose and his prevailing courtesy made him the toast of the
railroad world in Dixie He virgnan of the Dandrdges
and of the washngons and brful friends
who give him welcome.
These gentlemen here give patient open minded
impartial hearing Atlanta and the other cities present their
claims to-day for the regional bank which belongs
in this section Of the general country These sttngs
laborious, judicial and exhaustive.
1t Is well that Atlanta the real Capital of the new South
Richmond of the Old South should vary official
with social refreshmen to its distinguished guests
ve Of this evening and Of Saturday evening offer but
gestion of the continuing hospitality which Atlanta would de-
light to lavish three great whose characters and
achievements have reflected such honor South large
is neither likely that the hearings before the
regional tiumvate shall be unfriendy dagreeabe
of sister cities competing here exercising audabe
ambition for self preferment and the audab
They also Atanas guests while
sure of her superior claim and will urge earnestly she will
hear with courtesy and without impotence the other pleas
Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile will
be welcome to this tribunal of adjustment
There abundant for Atlanta upon any regional map
that can be presented to Thoughtful jury
In the four hundred miles from Boston through New York
and Philadelphia to Washington and Richmond there will
THREE regional banks and nowhere the republic will there
protest against preponderanoe in this award
900 miles from Washington Richmond Atlanta
Richmond has Of the three banks accredited East
Atlanta naturally and geographically the first point to be
considered in the South With bank take care
of South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and
section of Lousiana given to Dallas Houston
Texas for Louisiana Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and an
other given San would ONLY BE THREE
BANKS IN 5000 MILES!
Surely this would be enough for this I'm
and marvelousy growing territory Then with bank for
Cincinnati Cleveland for Chicago Louis for St Paul
Salt Lake there would to be the rest possible division
Of the ten banks which the committee plans
Atlanta has only to make plain its adaptabhty the re-
gona territory of which she the varied crops
and money needs of the States crcewthout criticism
or sur against her Southern compettorsand with such
mittee the decision should be inevitably in favor
impossible believe with the SIGHT of this annish