Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-20
HARDW|CK BOOM
BOMBSHELL
To RIVALS
SIaton Faction Processes to See
Effort of Hoke Smith to
Embarrass Governor.
Senator regardless of sectional lines
say the Slaton hosts.
Putting SIaton "in Hole"

Senator, regard less of sectional lines,
say the Slaton hosts.
Putting SIaton sin Hole"
Plainly, continue the s;atonftes. the
urging Of 8 North Georgia temporary
appointment upon Slaton, and the
urging of 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
nouncement--the big development in
the Senatorial situation thus far. OF
course, there is much to be said on
the other side-and doubtless will be.
Maybe 1t will come to pass that
Governor Slaton will enter the race
for the long term against Senator
Smith, and that the short term fight
viii be allowed to fall between Hard
wick and somebody yet to 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 Hardwick's candidacy. He
thinks the formal announcement will
not come. perhaps, until after the
mporary Senator is named but he
realizes fully that the announcement
is TO come. nevertheless.
flowing all day Friday, and several
hundred kilograms touching the Sen
atorial situation have been received
1t is not likely that the new Senator
will be named before the middle Of
next week, however.
The disclosure of Congressman
Thomas w Hardwick's 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 bombshell among the
politicians of the State.
Announcement "Feeler."
About the hotel Hobbies there
cropped out a disposition among some
observers, as the news soaked in, to
suspect that Congressman Hard
wick's fiat footed declaration of his
intention to run, made to more than
half a dozen well-known people IN
Atlanta wednesday, was not lnleHuea
altogether as honest to- goodness
and don't-you- ke-any mistake
about 1T matter. but that it was de-
signed more as ''feeler," TO see what
II might bring forth over in the Capt.
toll, for instance, wherein John Mar
shall Saton is attending rather close
ly to the business of governing the
State OF Georgia.
II that was its real purpose and
the majority opinion is that II was
not--the result produced in the Capt.
tol seems not to have been unduly
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 stih
incline to see John r. Boifeuillet, of
Macon, as the most likely winner
but they are laying no odds on il at
that.
Crisis Up to SIaton.
Close seconds to Boifeuillet are
William w. Osborne, of Savannah;
Clark Howell. of Atlanta, and dozen
others with well developed booms.
Admittedly the keynote to the flu