Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-20
HARDW|CK BOOM
B D NJ B SHELL
To RIVALS
SIaton Faction Processes to See
Effort Of Hoke Smith to
Embarrass Governor.

Senator. regardless OF sectional lin
say the Slaton hosts.
Putting slaton "ln Hole"

Senator. regardless Of sectional lines
say the S;laton hosts
Putting saton "ln Hole"
Plainly. continue the slatonites. the
urging Of North Georgia temporary
I appointment upon Slaton. and the
urging Of a South Georgia candidate
against Slaton for Bacon's unexpired
term, is a palpable effort to put
Slaton in a hole"
Now, all Of this is merely the sur
face reasoning Of the Slatonites, as
| precipitated by the Hardwick an
commemorative big development in
| the Senatorial situation thus far. OF
! course. there IL much to be said on
| the other side-and doubtless will be.
Maybe II will come TO pass that
| Governor Slaton will enter the race
| for the long term against Senator
! Smith. and that the short term fight
win be allowed to fall between Hard
wick and somebody yet 10 announce.
Then there would be two North
Georgia candidates and two South
Georgia candidates, all keeping out of
each others back yards.
Situation Badly Mixed.
Up one side and down the other,
the Senatorial situation seems badly
mixed and getting worse mixed every
minute.
The Governor is assured OF Con-
gresham Hardwicks candidacy. lie
thinks the formal announcement VIII
not come. perhaps, until after the
temporary Senator is named, but he
realizes fully that the announcement
Is to come. nevertheless.
His nfUCa WAS crowded to over
flowing all day Friday, and several
hundred kilograms touching the Sen
atorial situation have been received.
Ii is not likely that the new Senator
viii he named before the middle OF
next week, however.
The disclosure OF Congressman
Thomas w. Hardwicks intention to
be a candidate for the unexpired term
of Senator Bacon, as set forth in The
Georgian of Thursday, proved to be
something OF a bombshell among the
politicians of the State.
Announcement "Feoler."
About the hotel Hobbies there
cropped out a disposition among some
observers. as the news soaked in, to
suspect that Congressman Hard
wlcks fiat footed declaration Of his
intention TO run, made to more than
half a dozen weli-known people IN
Atlanta wednesday was not AAtNHNoS
altogether as honest-to- goodness
and don't YOU make any mistake
about-it matter. but that II was de-
signed more as a "feeler," to see what
II might bring forth over in the Capt.
toll for instance, wherein John Mar
shall Slaton is attending rather close
" to the business OF governing the
state OF Georgia,
IL that was its real purpose-and
the majority opinion is that 1t was
not-the result produced In the Capt.
toll seems not to have been unduiy
exciting or spectacularly astonishing
OF primary importance, to be sure,
Is the matter of the temporary Sena-
torial succession Those who keep
tab the closest on this matter still
incline to see John T. Boifeuillet, OF
Macon. as the most likely winner.
but they are laying no odds on 1t at
that.
Crisis Up to Slaton.
Close seconds to Boifeuilet are
william W. Osborne, of Savannah;
Clark Howell, of Atlanta, and dozen
others with well developed booms,
Admittedly the keynote to the flu