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

the cty's guests to-day.
The Secretary of the Treasury of joint and excellent
Tennessee and Georgia The Secretary of Agriculture
of the good blood Carolina Comptroller of
Currency vrginian the born The three of them
carry the whole currency scheme of the republic the
hands of the wise and war discplned South
William G. McAdoos Georgia years spent among
hills Cobb Marietta and the Georgia schools and col
lege of which swept swiftly smoothly into
marvellous of unbrken progress notable achieve
ment which has landed him. without seeking before his
meridian of life in the real first place Cabinet
astonishing Chief Magistrate who also citizen Georgia
MIR MAdoos life story reads like fortune
fame set in tranquil courage treless industry clear thinking
clean living and temper Of radiant ndlnes Fortune has
given his successful life Georgia deeply proud
of her lion's share In McAdoo
David Houston is of those scholarly gentle
who also distinctly of and magnetism The
heart of the President him sight
thans the David of old grown upon Cabinet
and the Capital City 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 Cleveland
Ambassadors in Alexander Lawton and Henry R. Jack
Few who have figured largely in the and
industrial life of Georgia been more admired
and beloved In Atlanta than John Shelton Williams
mond Time when at the head of the seaboard Air Line
Railway in its vre youth his helpful upbuldng policies his
frank direct and kindly genius of construction his nfexble
purpose and his prevailing courtesy the
railroad world in Dixie He vrginian the Dandridges
and of the Washngons and Atlanta friends
who give him welcome.
These gentlemen here give patient
impartial hearing Atlanta and the other cities present
claims to-day for the regional bank which belongs somewhere
of The s Sul1b a
laborious, judicial and exhaustive.
It is well that Atlanta the real Capital of the South
Richmond of Old South should vary official labor
with social refreshmen to its distinguished guests
ves of this evening and Of Saturday evening sug
geston of the continuing hospitality which Atlanta would
light to lavish three great whose characters and
achievements have reflected upon large
is neither necessary likely hearings before
regional triumvrae shall be unfrendy dagreeabe Each
of cities competing exercising the audabe
ambition for self preferment and the audabe
They also Atlanta guests while
sure of her superior claim and will earnestly she will
hear with courtesy and without impotence the pleas
Nashville Birmingham Montgomery Savannah 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 Boston through New York
and Philadelphia Washington Richmond there will be
THREE regional banks and nowhere the republic there
be protest against preponderance of section
is 600 miles from Washington Richmond to Atlanta
Richmond has of the three banks accredited East
Atlanta naturally and geographically the first point be
considered in the South With bank Atlanta care
of South Carolina Georgia Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and
section of louisiana given Dallas Houston
Texas for Louisiana Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and an
other given to San Francsco-there would BE THREE
BANKS IN 5000 MILES!
Surely this would be ant enough for this i'm
and marvelousy growing territory bank for
Cincinnati Cleveland for Chicago Louis ST. Paul
Salt Lake there would be the possible division
Of the ten banks which the committee plans
Atlanta has only make plain its adapabiity to the re-
gona territory of which she the the varied crops
and money needs of the States crclewhout criticism
sur against her Southern compeorsand with such CON-
mittee the decision should be inevitably in her favor
impossible to believe that with the sight this astonis
ing and historic cydoubng its population the decade
tnt the