Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-26
By JAMES 3. NEvIN.

Democratic party nowadays-time
was, Of course. when he wasn't so
particularly any person or thing.
| Recently there came to his ears GER
tain rumors Of Bull Moose move
ment to put him in the race for
United states Senator, to fill either
one Of the Forthcoming vacancies he
elected to take over--but the Roman
resolutely refuses to have anything to
do with the proposal!
who are the round -bellied, red
nosed persons undertaking to shove
me out Of the Democratic party and
into some other party just now?" in
qulred the gentleman concerned, pie
turesquely and Enthusiastically
enough. when the matter was mem
toned to him.
"Just to show my contempt for, the
suggestion, ! win leave tomorrow
night for Indiana. where l VIII de-
liver few more prohibition
| speeches.
/ Nevertheless and Notwithstanding.
! there is much present-day Bull
Moose activity in Georgia, and should
the Rome prohlbitionist and orator
undertake to handle one end of the
Forthcoming Bull Moose campaign, he
would have some aggressive and ef-
fective backing.
| Mrs. Wright is, moreover, and has
been for a long time, an outspoiken
and enthusiastic admirer and cham
pion of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
sometime President of these United
States, and the undoubted hub about
which the Bull Moose party most Sc
rieusly revolvesl
Bull Moosers are going to run
somebody for something In Georgia
pretty sooner bust!
They feel running symptoms in
their bones--they admit a fighting
disposition that will no longer be de-
MED. And so. If the Honorable Seab
win not rally to their flag, somebody
else shall. That much is definitely
settled
4 It may be remarked, in passing, too,
that the Bull Moosers are better or
ganized and more thoroughly pre-
pared for scrap in Georgia right
now than they. ever have been. When
next they sally forth to war, they
may not bring home the bacon, but
they will leave dent in somebody's
armor-belleve them!
| Former Congressman Overstreet, of
| Savannah, who is opposing Congress
man Charles G. Edwards for the lat
ter's seat in the National House %
Representatives is In Atlanta for a
| day or so. Mr.. Overstreet is making
an active and detailed campaign to
defeat Mr.. Edwards, and believes he
| Is to win.
| Edwards, however, will - no easy
mafk-there is hardly a doubt OF the
] truthfulness OF that statement. He
may not be as spectacular as some
members OF the Congress, but ne
seems to suit his particular district
pretty well. He is what the First
!, terms a ''producer"-a producer being
Congressman who gets things" for
''the folks back home!"
Both Edwards and Overstreet are
good men, and each has q strong and
/ well-organized following. The race
between them, therefore, is bound 10
| be interesting and more or less doubt
| full as to finish.
Former Railroad Commissioner S.
! Guyt McLendon, who is perhaps the
very best posted man in Georgia on
the tariff and kindred questions. VIII
deliver a lecture In the Kimball House
| ballroom tomorrow Thursday
evening. to which all business men
are cordially invited.
Colonel McLendon will discuss the
Panama Canal, with reference to its
usefulness, tolls and other angles, and
particularly with reference to the
/ business mans iateress In the same.
I-is talk will not be along political
lines. as he holds that there is no poll
4 ties in the canal uestion, and should
NJ be, but it will be along business
lines purely.
Those who really wish information
as to this great work. as it will bear
| upon the business world, will do well
| to attend Colonel McLenGon's lecture.
is an authority on this question.
stats Senator John T. Allen. OF Mil
ledgevilie. is in Atlanta attending the
| present sitting Of the Railroad Com
| mission. Senator Allen is one of the
really influential members of the
| Senate, and commands the entire re-
| spect and esteem OF his colleagues.
He says the Congressional race is
| opening up in great shape in the
Tenth District, and that his fellow
\ townFman, Carl Ti.son, the first man
to enter the race and the only one so
| far to announce a platform. is be-
lieved ~ De big and promising pos
sibility for the succession to Mr..
H4rdwick.
c. NJ F'urlow, whose return TO the
| State Treasury Department has
brought to Treasurer Speer so many
congratulatory letters Of late, will be
connected directly with the bank ex-
amining bureau OF the department.
| He is regarded as one of the States
| foremost experts in this work, and
| his reinstatement. following an en-
| forced absence of several years be-
cause OF III health, has given particu-
| lar pleasure to the business men
throughout the State.
Mr. Furlow already is actively at
work on his old Job. and numerous
friends have called to express their
qualification because OF his return.
State Senator John w. L. Brown.
of Barlow County, is spending a day
or so In Atlanta. He says folks are
not talking politics nearly 80 much in
his end OF the State as some people
may imagine. but that they are
watching things. all right!
Crops. not solitics, is the first con-
Germ OF the. people In the Cherokee
section" said the Senator. And