The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-04-24
Marietta, Ga, April "a, 1914.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

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There has been quite a lot written
about the part the South took in
shaping the affairs of the Govern
ment in the years before the war.
Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and
others are often mentioned. But
they are all dead.
Looking back over the years since
the war we find the names of many
great southerners who were sent to
Washington. Many of them also are
dead.
1t is probable that the South would
have sent more of her ablest sons to
Congress and the Senate if we had
not felt that we were in a helpless
and hopeless minority.
That is all passed now and it is
not worth while to grieve over split
milk. / am just going ov-r it pre-
liminary to word about what South
erners are doing in Washington at
this time.
We are, of course, all proud of the
fact that the President is a Southern
man Wilson was born in Staunton,
Va. and his biography records the
fact that his boyhood was partly
spent in Augusta and that he prac-
ticed law two years in Atlanta.
remember well how he used to
come up to the Constitution office
in 1881 and 1882 and that during
the first Cotton Exposition, which
was held on the site of the present
Exposition Cotton Mills, another
young fellow would come with him
Walter II. Page, magazine writer.
They would come to see Grady and
Uncle Remus
Woodrow Wilson was a slender
young man very much like Colonel
o. II. Langford, of Marietta. Little
did | dream that one would become
the best President this country has
had since the war and that the other
would become Ambassador to Eng
land, the most important diplomatic
post in the world.
Then there is McAdoo, Secretary
of the Treasury, Born near Mariet-
ia, Ga, October 81, 1863" The At
torney General, McReynolds, a Ten
nesean; the Postmaster General
Burleson, a Texan; the Secretary Of
the Navy, Daniels, a North Carolin-
ian. Certainly, as Ben Hill said,
I'VE are in our fathers house" when
the cabinet meets.
1t is a great mistake to think that
sort of thing amounts to little in a
practical way. To illustrate: We
have today two United States Judges
in Georgia. The Northern District
us presided over by man appointed
by Grover Cleveland. He selected
Judge Newman as representative of
the people of the State Everybody
honors him and everybody loves him.
How about the Southern District?
Speer was appointed by President
Arthur. What for? Because he was
a renegade Democrat, first an In
dependent and then a Republican for
spoils And Georgia hangs her head
because this man stands practically
impeached in the Capitol, besmirch-
ing the fair name Of the State with
his misdoings. Let us be thankful
that Woodrow Wilson is there to give
us a true Georgian when Speer Is
removed.
Over in the House is the great lead
err, Underwood and Speaker Clark,
both from the South The South
does not have to sit on a side seat
since Cannon walked the plank and
every district in the whole Southern
country ought to send it's ablest men
there and keep them there.
Georgia has some good ones and
they are attentive to their work.
Adamson, of the Fourth, is Chair
man of the Committee that built the
Panama Canal and there is not a man
in the House who has really more
influence unless it be Underwood,
the recognized leader. There is some
good Senatorial timber in the Geor-
gia delegation but l forbear to men
ton names lest | release a hive of
Senatorial bees
Let's look in on the Senate.
Last year they passed the Tariff