The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-13
IT MAY Be BROWN
HIS CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNOR A
SETTLED FACT.
DU BIGNON AND TERRELL, TOO
WILL BE A WARM CAMPAIGN IN
GEORGIA SOON.

believed That Messrs. Brown and
Terrell VIII shortly Resign Their
Respective Positions as Railroad
Commissioner and Attorney Gem
eraI for the Purpose of Getting
Actively Into the Fight-NEr. duBig-
non LIS Not Idle and Is said to Have
Been Comforting with His Friend.
in South Georgia.
Atlanta March 12.-Hon. ]. Pope
Brown, Railroad Commissioner, is square
" in the race for Governor of Georgia in
1902 There is no longer any doubt as
90 Mr.. Browns intentions.
The Constitution will say tomorrow
that it has it upon the best authority that
Mr.. Brown is not only now in the race,
but that he is making a quiet canvass
of the state in his own interest as a can
dldate for the governorship.
Mr.. Brown has been in frequent consul
tadons with his friends during the last
month or two and has at last reached a
definite decision. To several of these
friends he has stated that he has posi-
lively decided 20 enter the race, that he
was going to work upon canvass of
the state, and that though it was too
early now to make his formal announce
ment he would do so at the proper time.
His announcement, therefore, will prob
ably be forthcoming shortly.
The question as TO just what course ne
should pursue has given Mr. Brown no
little thought for several weeks past, and
as he put it in talking with several of
his friends II feel as if it were now or
never"
That being Mr. Browns feeling with
regard to the matter, and it being his
ambition to become Governor of the
state, other things being equal, it is not
unnatural that he should have decided as
he has done-to enter the race
Mr. Browns friends have frequently in
this connection referred to the fact that
from a financial point of view at least,
he is better situated as a railroad commits
sloner, which pays salary of $500 a
year for six years, than he would be in
the Governors office, should he succeed
in getting there. But Mr.. Brown does not
look at the matter from that point of
view He has made il clear to his friends
that it is his ambition to be Governor of
the state and that he does not consider
the question from the financial standpoint
Having entered the race, as he unques-
tionably has, it is more than likely that
Mr. Brown will at an early date tender
his resignation as a member of the Rail-
road Commission. Indeed this has already
been rumored. but Mr.. Brown has not
yet given any intimation as to when he
viii take this step. 1t will probably be
when he makes formal announcement OF
his candidacy.
1t is reported around the capitol that
Attorney General j. M. Terrell will soon
resign that opsition for the purpose Of
entering actively into the canvass for the
governorship 1t has been settled for some
time that MIR. Terrell would be a candi-
date for Governor. What work he has
already done in his own interest in this
connection has been of a quiet and purely
personal nature, but his friends are we'll
informed as to his attitude, and they
know that he is going to make the race
Not desiring to begin an active canvass
for Governor while he is still attorney
general, Mr.. Terrelfs friends say that in
a short time he will resign the office he
now holds for the purpose of taking the
field.
1t is not definitely known just when
Mr.. Terrell will take this step, but it is
expected he will do so just prior to or
about the time of making formal an
nounce of his candidacy. Mr. TerrelPs
resignation when it comes, will create a
demand for the office of attorney general,
and it may be that the appointment that
follows will have an interesting bearing
upon the fight for Office in 1902.
Hon. Fleming duBignon, whose candi-
dacy for the governorship is now a settled
fact, has by no means been inactive of
late Reports have reached Atlanta that
he has been busily engaged in conferences
with his friends in South Georgia, and
they are rallying to his support thus early
in the campaign.
CHARGED WITH MANs9AUGHTER-