The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-20
CAMPAIGN GROWS
 MORE INTERESTING. Senator CIay'S Endorsement of Hoke Smith Is Discussed GORDON LEE FAV0RS BROWN pr. Lee Broughton Has Announced From the Pulpit That He is Sup
 porting Governor Smith After
 Opposing Him Once.
GORDON LEE FAV0RS BROWN

Atlanta, May 19.-(Special )-Every pos-
 sible influence is being brought to bear in shaping the campaign for governor.
 Wherever they can be induced to do it
 men whose say so is supposed to carry
 weight with certain number of voters
 are being brought into the limelight, and
 their inducements of Governor Smith or
 Joseph M. Brown, as the case may be, is
 given widespread publicity.
 There are one or two notable instances in point, United States Senator A. S. 1 Clay has just come out publicly in favor l of the reelection of Governor Smith, despite the fact that the other candidate, I MT. Brown, is from Senator Clay's hone
 county Cobb.
 l Now published reasons are all very good for popular consumption, but the | politician goes deeper than the quotation
 marks for motives hence there is some
 talk about Senator Clay's indorsement ot
 the governor.
 The legislature by which Senator Clay i will be elected to succeed himself will
 not meet until the end of June, 19O9 but
 Senator Clays present term expires March 1, lyJ9, so that there is an interim
 of about four months during which Geor- gia has a senator only as the result ot executive appointment. There is, of course,
 TO question as to Senator Clay's election, but should the governor happen to ap- l point someone else as senator from Geor- gia for the four months interim Senator ] Clay would lost his present position 10 | ba tba ,e ,ic period of service, in addition to the salary for that time amounting to some s2o0U. 1 , hich is not to be lightly thrown away. l In other words if the interim appointee
 should be someone other than the regular | ly elected senator the latter would go to ] the foot of the committee list, and 1t
 would require some years, perhaps, be- fore he could get up again to the point
 of being a committee chairman.
 Reasons of Politicians.
 i Whether this has anything to do with Senator Clay's public indorsement of Gov ernor Smith or not, the politicians Ire
 putting it on that ground, figuring that
 the senator was endeavoring to make hi1,-
 self solid for the interim appointment, l NlllS tHe BoNeiiOT Was no uOuDl Slad 10
 receive the benefit of the indorsement Friends of Governor Smith in Cobb coun- l ty have been predicting quite freely that l sentiment in Cobb would change when ] Senator Clay came home and took hand il. the fight. They have even gone so l far as to say that Senator Clay would | come home and introduce the governor
 to a Cobb county audience. The governor l did not nave a very pleasant experience CD his recent visit to Marietta, and since | then there has been no little talk about Senator Clay taking an active nand ia | the fight there in his behalf. Whether
 Senator Clay is going any further than 1 just to make public announcement of
 his position indorsing the governor IS he has done, is question that remains l to be solved. Friends of the governor in Cobb continue to assert that he will; friends of Senator Clay, on the other hand,
 assert that he wil not be willing to com