Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-24
By JAMES 2. NEViN.

Since Georgia seems 10 De bent ana
/ determined upon having an old-t.me
! rough and tumble hit-and- po-
4 litical year, LET'S 20 the limit and get
/ all the fun there is OUT Ok L.
FOR there is no denying the fact
I that real politics can furnish more
/ fun than any other kind Of scrap,
not barring even dog fights Or boxing
matches.
/ This proara m would d.. lie spot.
/ Let jack Slston ran against
/ tlolle Smith for the fun term Senator
ship Smiths present term as Sen
ator expires In March 1915, and Sid-
! toms as Governor IN June 1915.
/ If Tom Hardwick must run for
/ the unexpired term OF Senator Bacon,
! let him do 81 and put Bill" Howard,
( Of Augusta, up against him.
Then find two serappsrs down in
7 South Georgl % fight out the Cover
uorship.
Atlanta and North Georg q then
/ would be sure OF the long term Sen
/ atorship, no matter who won.
The Tenth District and Middle
1 Georgia would be certain Of the short
I term Senator. no matter who won.
South Georgia would have the Gov
/ ernorship regardless OF the winner.
! Each section would have one OF
1 the three big plums and n 10 race
would one section he p!tted against
another
/ Slatons friends say lie i bound to
. go to the Senate. Smiths say he -
bound to stay there That's enough
4 10 make a scrap.
/ Hardwick and Howard have served
3 together In Congress and know where
and how to hit each other. They
are good fighters The former IL a
/ Smith and the latter Slaton sup
/ porter.
South Georg a can pick it's own
/ two from the Smith and Slston
4 camps.
Let's 90 to i, for regular scrap.
A. RANKIN FILLER.
\. Rankin File should worry:
There will be excitement. If not
/ glory. enough for all. when the de-
/ bris has been cleared away next Au-
gust.
/ Georgia is facing more different
/ kinds Of political shunling and scuf-
| ding right now than A, Ran1in File
| and all Of his honorable, bloodthipsty
and inceGdiary ancestors ever faced
/ IN all their honorable careers!
| Already there is a general glrding
/ of lolns going on end gathering OF
clans from Rabuu Gap TO Tybee
/ Light and the merry war is on.
I r. George Washington Hardwick
d'd it, with his little hstcEet.
Before he threw his hat into the
ring near peace. II not real peace,
wac abroad IN the land.
| Now, gentlemen may CRY peace,
| hut there amt no such ANNA roam
/ ing the reservation,
! A. Rankin File mas the correct idea
of the true Georgia definition or
/ fun" however
Molly Goodies may deny t. and some
4 more childish minds really may be-
/ iieve it to be otherwise. but the uu-
/ disputed fact OF the matter is, Geor-
Eia seems lust naturally TO despise
/ dun time politically
Before the present crisis was pre-
\ cipitated-before Senator Bacon's Ia
mentable death. in other words-it
/ was quite the fashion to say. Let Us
/ have peace Good will ami brotherly
love in Grand Old Georgia Twas
/ fashionable in many quarters.
And the way TO get ii was to let
/ the present Governor succeed him
self in ap erfeCtly orderly manner
and the present senior United States
/ Senator succeed himself after the
1 same fashion
: -NAtA vi q Spb' AAla'lN CpVASs ct -tdSN.
/ that advice was perfectly sincere and
/ aboveboard,
station was young admitting that
/ he would make q mighty fine Sena-
| tor" Of course-and could afford 10
until? Well. until after the
4 reNt general election, anyway
/ And Notwithstanding the fact tina; n
= lot or people We're gong over to The
7 capitol and telling Slatou not to DO
anything OF The kind wait busl-
mess, YOU knoW-Staton wasn't giving
! these visitors much aid and comfort.
/ And for that Slatun was loudly
praised hither and yon.
! with the coming OF tie vacancy or-
/ casioned by Senator Bscon's death,
! however and the time then apparent
! Is having arrived when there was no
| particular use why Slaton should wait
any longer--why then,
! Well, that was right where I. Geor-
4 Eia Washington Hardwtck did il with
mis- little Ratchet, as aforesaid!
4 A. Rankin File Sidelights esteemed
/ cores pendent. outlines a progra \.
more or less in jest that may come 20
/ pass in many OF its more essential de-
| tails.
Herdwick is no tourfushar He IS
. a tighter-and q good one. No ne d
for anybody to make any mistake
about that.
Whether he has TO try conclusions
eventually with Slaton or Howard. or
somebody else. he will give a convinc-
ing account of himself
He has been In Congress a good
long time, as that sort Of thing goes
( nowadays, and his risen 10 rather
h.sh station. He Is close in the con
, tdenCe OF the President and is a
member of the powerful House Com