Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-14

| Brantley, now general counsel for a
number of Southern railroads, with
headquarters in Washington, is in At
| lanta for few days. He called upon
Governor Slaton to-day in the eXecu-
| tive offices of the Capitol.
1t generally is agreed not only in
] Georgia, but throughout the nation,
| that the national House of Represen
tatives lost a real statesman when
Mr.. Brantley retired. On both sides
| of the House, Republican and Demo-
| cratic alike, Mr.. Brantley was most
| highly respected and genuinely es-
| teemed He was rated as, perhaps,
| the very best lawyer on the Demo
| cratic side, particularly on constitu-
| tional points. When he first an
nounced his intention to retire from
| Congress, his immediate colleagues
| from Georgia united in protest and
| petition that he reconsider, and in
this they were Joined by very lage
majority of the entire Congressional
| membership. Mr.. Brantley had then
served in Congress for many years
at a tremendous financial sacrifice,
however, and he did not feel that he
could continue to do that, in justice
to himself and those dependent upon
him.
Mr.. Brantley states that he has re
tired definitely and finally from the
field of politics. His name has been
suggested. time and again, for the
United States Senate, but he says he
has no ambition in that direction and
never expects to ask for that or any
other office. He speaks with great
affection of the people of the district
he formerly represented in Congress,
and, while necessarily absent from
the State the greater portion of his
time, he still retains his citizenship
here and remains Georgia's loyal son.
The Triton Gazette, dismissing pol
iticS for the moment, makes edito
rally the following terse and siSnifi
cant statement with regard to the
financial status of the farmers in its
/ immediate vicinity:
Despite all the hysteria in some
of the State papers about the
amount of money in the farmers
hands, there are few If any farm
ers or business men in this sec
ton who have any more money
now than they had one year ago
Last fall was a very favorable
one, but it was a great debt pay
ing fall. The people haven't any
more money than they had year
ago, but they owe great deal
less-therefore. the country is
better off,
The report of the State Treasurer,
recently made public, shows that
savings banks deposits have very
substantially increased within the
| past few months, and it certainly
! seems probable that an appreciate
proportion of the same must have
| come from the farmers-and the in
| ference in the mind of the State
| Treasurer is that the farmers actually
| have more ready cash in hand now
| than they had this time last year.
But even if they have no more cash
now than they had then, and still are
much further out of debt, they are
| well ahead of the game.
The continued serious Illness of
Colonel Charles r. Pendleton, editor
of The Macon Telegraph has greatly
distressed and saddened the news
pa per world in Georgia. Almost with
out exception, the weeklies CARLY in
their current issues editora! notes of
| most respectful sympathy and per-
| sonal and professional appreciation.
| The editor of The Telegram phi is very
| sincerely loved by his fellow crafts
men in Georgia, and 1t is doubtful
whether the words of any one editor
IN the state carry 50 much weight
and influence as his.
nat ne may recover completely
ana return soon TO 'He WORK ne loVes
| so wei ana ptrlolhiS Win sucn sig
MAJ aolllty ana lh'elllsehce certainly
| is the Wish ana nope oI the press OF
Georgia.
| 1t will be rather risky business t.
| undertake ,he shipment Of game by
| parcel post in Georgia hereafter, as
State Game Warden Davis has just
returned from Washington, where he
secured a PostoltiCe Department order
| forbidding it,
Warden Davis is making every in
tellieent effort to enforce the game
law in Georgia, and ii is specifically
! d against the letter Of that law 10 ship
game from one county to another or
out of the State into another State
This law was being violated constant
~, however by postofiice shipments;
and after the package containing the
sam, the State seemingly mao no
way to help Itself warden Davis
has found a way by gong 10 WASH
ington and having 1t out with the
Postmaster General.
Judge Moses Wright mas declined