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

mena southerners-of personal and official dignity
the citys guests to-day.
The Secretary of the Treasury of joint and excellent
Tennessee and Georgia stock Secretary Agriculture
of the good blood Comptroller
Currency is Virginian to the born The three
of them carry the whole currency scheme republic
the hands of the wise disciplined South
William G. McAdoos Georgia years spent among
hills of Cobb Marietta Georgia
eges out of which he swept swiftly and smoothly that
marvellous of unbroen progress notable achieve
which has landed him. without seeking and before his
meridian OF life in the real first place the Cabinet Of that
astonishing Chief Magistrate who also citizen Georgia
Mr. McAdoos life story reads like of fortune
fame set in tranquil courage treless industry clear thinking
clean living and temper of radiant kndness Fortune has
given his successful life frown Georgia deeply proud
of her lion share in McAdoo
David F. Houston of those and scholarly gentle
who also distinctly of force and magnetism
heart of the President him sight
han the David grown upon the Cabinet
and the Capital City the earliest day the Wilson
Administration of its strongest and popular
Two Cabinet officers make tribute North Carolina
and recall the day when Georgia. under Cleveland
two Ambassadors in Alexander Lawton and Henry Jack
Few who have figured largely the economic
industrial life of Georgia the admired
and beloved in Atlanta than John Shelton Williams, of Rich
mond Time when at the head of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway its ve youth his helpful upbuiding policies
frank direct and kindly genius of construction
purpose and his prevailing courtesy him the
railroad world in Dixie He is vrginian Dandridges
and of the Washngons and Atlanta brmfu of his friends
who give him welcome.
These gentlemen here give patient
impartial hearing Atlanta and the other present
in this section of the general country These sngs will
laborious judicial and exhaustive.
1t is well that Atlanta the real Capital of South
Richmond of the old South vary labor
with social rreshmen to its distinguished guests the fes
ve of this evening and of Saturday evening offer but sug
geston Of the continuing hospitality which Atlanta would
light to lavish three great whose
achievements have reflected upon large
1t neither necessary likely that the hearings
regional triumvrae shall be unfrendy dsagreeabe
OF our sister cities competing here exercising audab
ambition for self preferment and the audabe it,
They are also in Atlanta guests and while feels
OF her superior claim and will urge earnestly she will
hear with courtesy and without impotence other pleas
Nashville Birmingham Montgomery Mobile be welcome
to this tribunal of adjustment
There abundant Atlanta upon any regional map
that can be presented to Thoughtful jury
In the four hundred miles Boston through New York
and Philadelphia to Washington and Richmond there will be
THREE regional banks and nowhere republic will there
be protest against any peponderance section in this award
1t 800 miles from Washington Richmond to Atlanta
Richmond has of the three banks accredited East
Atlanta naturally and geographically the point to be
considered in the South With bank to take care
of South Carolina Georgia. Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and
section of Lousana-if given to Dallas or Houston
Texas for Louisiana Texas Arkansas Oklahoma and an
other given to San Fancsco-here would ONLY BE THREE
BANKS IN 5000 MILES,
Surely this would be enough measure for this i'm
and marvelousy growing territory with bank for
Cincinnati Cleveland for Chicago St Paul
Salt Lake there would possible division
of the ten banks which the committee plans.
Atlanta has only plain adaptabilty to the re
gona territory of which center-to the varied crops
and money needs of the States crcewthout criticism
ur against her Southern compeorsand with such COM
mittee the decision should be inevitably in her favor
impossible to believe that with sight this astonish