Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
Cos Is Regular Democrat
When He Rides GreyNule
Bird Hunting IN .Alaba,za
BY FUZZY WOODBURY.

If any Atlanta Democrat wants to
get the real up and down on Governor
James M. Cox, the party standard
bearer, he should go to the Terminal
station, grab an Atlanta and West
Ala There he can hire mule or
an automobile or other means of To-
comotion, and proceed over the Ma
con county hills to the old D. E. Las
lie place, where for three winters,
the Democratic nominee has hunted
birds and generally relieved him
self from the tedium of public Of
flee by leading the life of a typical
southern country gentleman.
At the old Laslie place he can find
Nose Harris, who is long and lean
and chews tobacco and knows all
about game birds and bird dogs, and
during a part of the winter season
he can find James M. Cox, who is
likely to be president of the United
States. On his every hunting trip,
Nose is the close companion and
sportsman1y advisor of the governor
and the governor rejoices in Moses
homely humor and his knowledge of
the ways of the partridge.
Nose will tell you that there is no
more simon pure Democrat in the
whole world than Governor Cox and
that he is a Democrat in everything
the word implies. Nose will tell you
that the Democratic nominee can and
will cast aside his statesmanly
habiliments and don an old canvass
shooting coat and corduroy breeches
and ride mule ell day.
He will tell you that he doesn'c
care how sticky the red clay mud is
if a covey of patridges can be
flushed evry now and then and he'll
get up, some of them invariably
come down when Cox's gun goes to
his shoulder.
He'll also inform you that he'll
trudge all night long behind bay
ing pack of hounds in pursuit of the
the fiery wildcat or ride as hard as
the most enthusiastic hunter in all
the south in pursuit of the elusive
fox.
fed with the south in 1917, when he
came to Montgomery at Christmas
time to be with the Ohio national
guard "division, encamped at Camp
Sheridan. During that visit he was
enthusiastically received by Demo-
cratic leaders of Alabama, who rec
ognized him as the power who had
not only carried Ohio personally, bur
who had brought it. three times into
the Democratic column in 1916, the
only one of the great middle western
states to go for Wilson. 1t was Will
very largely to his reelection, and
Cox was the leader who had turned
the trick.
Among other features of enter
tainment provided for the Ohio exec
utive, he was taken to the Macon
county shooting preserve of Mr.. D.
e Laslie, of TuSkegee, prominent
planter and banker of East Alabama.
Governor Cox enjoyed the shooting
so thoroughly that he bought tract
of land from Mr.. Laslie and main
tains it simply as shooting field.
He is always host to large group
of southern sportsmen. who declare
that he is a sportsman in the truest
sense Of the word.
He is a member of all the lead
ing social clubs Of Montgomery, and
is considered just one of them by the
people of Alabama's capital. Just a
few weeks ago he made trip south
to attend the wedding of Miss Anne
Kilby, the daughter of Governor
Thomas E. Kilby, of Alabama, and on
ILLS Zip ho SpolC q u1J VI IHO III az ,
lanta.
Mr.. Laslie loves to tell story on
the governor that happened during
his shooting expedition of last year.
His mount was a grey mule of I'M
certain years and steadiness. Along
with Nose Harris, the governor was
riding through an open field behind
a brace of steers and keeping his
eye on the dogs rather than on his
mount. The mule stumbled into a
gulley, partially concealed by black
berry bushes. In most unceremoni-
our ~fasion, the Democratic stand
ard-bearer went head over heels over
the hard head of his quadruped.
Scratched and jolted, he rose to
mount when he was stayed by a re-
mark from Nose Gunner" said
Nose solemnly, eff you can't stay on
the Democratic donkey any better
than you can on that air Macon
county mule, I'll be DANCED if you're