Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
By NAMES B. NEviN

The failure Of the National House
OF Representatives to provide for a
standing committee on woman suf-
trage is largely credited to the sin
cere hostility Of Representative
Hardw.ck, Of Georgia, to such an in
uoyation
The proposal it seems first went to
tho Committee on Rules, OF which Mr.
Hardwick is an influential member,
and that committee divided evenly on
"A favorable recommendation, but
without the vote Of the gentleman
from Georgia. Mr. Hardwick cast his
vote before a rule was reported, how
ever and he voted against the crea-
ton Of the rev committee. thus
making IL a practical certainty that
the issue on the floor Of the House
could not be favorable 10 those advo-
eating the proposed new committee.
Mr.. HardwiCk has deep-seated con
ViCtlons against CONAN suffrage and
no doubt his misgivings as to the
merits Of the same are shared by
many NJ his constituents, at the same
time there are, in Augusta. which IS
IN Mr.. Hardwick's district, as well as
elsewhere in Georgia, large number
Of persons who do believe quite As
ardently as Mr. Hardwick disbelieves,
IN that very thing
Curiously enough, too, in the mat
Ter of woman suffrage, Mr.. Hardwick
and his Nemesis, the sage o. Thomp-
son-otherwise known as Thomas r.
Watson-are in complete accord. Mr.
Watson has no patience whatever
with the votcs-for- women idea.
II isn't often that Hardwick and
Watson get together on anything. but
that they are ogcther in this particu-
lar regard shows conclusiyely that
they CAN get together. anyway
The question of woman suffrage
never has become an acute issue in
Georgia, and the interest displayed in
ii thus far is scattering and, for the
most part. passive. At the same time
II is a fact that the question is com
ing more and more into the public
eye every day. and those who observe
political events closest in the State
are free In their predictions that Il
viii become an issue to be TeCkoned
with sincerely before many more
years have passed Just az IT has be-
come an issue-and a victorious is
sue, too--in very many States in
other parts of the Union.
Judge Payton S. Wade, named 10
succeed Judge Robert Pottle on the
is one Of the most scholarly men in
Georgia and his opinions are likely to
be models of good English, rhetoric
and law.
Judge Wade was very heavily in
dorsed to Governor Slaton, who
without that, had a great personal
desire to name the Dublin man. The
Governor and Judge Wade were
roommates at college and the tie Of
friendship and mutual respect exist
ing between them is one OF long
standing
The bar OF the State, moreover, as
reelected in comments of the State
press is heartily in accord with the
Governor in this appointment
The new Judge takes Office to- day
United States Marshal for North
Georgia Howard Thompson, OF
Gainesville, recently so desperately
III continues TO improve, and his
physicians now pronounce him en-
tirely out of danger
II all goes well with him. he ex-
poets to he able to return to his
duties actively next week.
Sitting up and taking notice of
what the Hon Seaborn Wright had
to say Of one thing and another in
Atlanta rev uaSS ago, Inc SdNan-
nah News rather agrees with the
Rome orator in part, particularly
wherein he contrasts the inland city
and the city by the sea.
Says The News:
The sale OF liquor has been and
is being carried on under cover
I'm Atlanta, while in Savannah the
business is open and above
board but because IL is conduct
ed in Atlanta under cover the
consumption Of liquor is no less.
In fact there are rea sons for
thinking that the consumption is
greater since there is always a
desire FOR that which is prohib-
tied
We call attention to what At
lantn's chief of police says and
what Mr. Wright said simply for
the reason that our rural friends
have been misled into thinking
that only in Savannah were in
toNicants being sold, that Atlanta
was the good city and had gra
Ciously Welded to the efforts Of
the prohibitionists, And hasn't
Atlanta herself given color to this
View Atlanta can not be held
mp as an example OF the success
Of prohibition
query; Who Is holding Atlanta up
as an example of the success of pro-