Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-28

their troubles this year In nearly
an districts either a real race Is in
progress or there is threatened oppo-
sition Of the most serious kind for the
present Representatives.
Being an Administration Congress
man that is. being a member Of the
majority party in the House when
the President is Of the same faith
has it's dra wbacks II is by no man
ner Of means all beer and skittles
not oven near beer and near skittles.
az might he the case with Georgia
Congressman. OF course With such
veterans as Bartlett, Adamson and
Edwards, not 10 mention such young
or members as Tribble, Park and
Walker, facing trouble. one well may
inquire why this thusness in a Demo
cratic year, when things SO long have
been so peaceful?
The fly In the ointment is not far to
seek lit is mostly summed up in the
pestiferous little word patronage,
'fll - ~ ~ tAif'il - '.dilNlflr IT,
membered most pleasantly by many
Georgians as n perfectly proper Gov
ernor Of this Commonwealth, once
upon time stated parable when he
said that he who appoints one man
10 office makes one migrate and
score Of encmiesi"
Wherefore LET a postofIice become
vacant in Congressman Soandso's
a tf-4ga aV,I no. lg.-t s.lEx -.
presto. where grew one enemy before,
now grows dozen or more
Scratch around and see II you can
locate the cause of the opposition to
Congressman Blank this year Dol
lars to dOughnuts, and you find II
based upon antagonisms arising from
blasted ambitions in the matter of
some Federal appointment.
II may be that the trouble was un-
avoidablc no doubt the Congressman
did his level best TO do what was
right II does not matter in the least.
There was the pie" spread for the
fcasting and while twenty men want.
cd II, only one could have II!
When ones party is in the minor
ity and all one has to do in Congress
is to view. with alarm, and not bother
ones noodle about offices one knows
holding on TO ones Congressional job
is not so difficult, once let ones par
ty grab off that White House prize,
however-ah, it's a sad tale, ship
mates!
Local Bell phone Ivy No. l6, now To-
Gated in the Brown Randolph Bull J.
ing, in Marietta street, has been right
there for more than 80 years. II was
the one and only phone in the state
Capitol when that building was To-
Gated on the same plot of GROUND
and, though many changes have taken
place in the meantime, phone 16 still
does business at the old stand
Since this phone was originally in
stituted in the old Capitol which was
the scene of many political tragedies
and comedies Of the late seventies
and early eighties. when Reconstruc-
! ton was very much a thing still TO
be reckoned everything else
! has been moved from the locality that
might suggest the ancient order Of
things, and Georgias statesmen have
been housed snugly in one Of the
handsomcst capitols in the nation.
Phone No. 16 doubtless would re
fuse to work in any other vicinity,
after all these years OF service
The present fishing on Sunday
law. of which everybody who isn't
fisherman approves heartily was
passed on sunday. The Legislature
enacting II evidently thought there
was no great harm perhaps, in pass
ing ~ good a law on so good n day.
Officially to be sure, said law was
passed on Saturday but, as a matter
Of fact, IL was passed at 4 o'clock
Sunday morning, long after the hour
of legally required adjournment had
arrived and departed, and to meet
which unseemly emergency the SEN
ate clock had been solemnly set back
eight or ten hours,
II doesn't matter so much who WAS
President of that Senate, or exactly
when said Senate sat, the facts in re
the passing of the anti-tishing on
Sunday bin are right
Senator II r, DuBose of the Thir-
tieth District, has numbered his
guns against the Ubiquitous Georgia
tax system" in speech at Wr:-
kirsville which rather "bristles." as
they say about those sorts ot things
SAID "iniquitous" system is none 9th
CT than the present tax equalization
/ law!
II has been very well understood
4 that there would he some opposition
( registered against the law, but It was
not very well understood, il seems,
4 that Senator DuBose was to head q
and begin t. He is an eloquent man.
and well qualified to lead the OPPOSE
/ tion hosts
Those responsible for the law, how
/ ever. seem in no wise disturbed by
/ the Senator's attitude They appar-
I entity are entirely satisfied that the