The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-27
GEORGIA AROUSED
 OVER CAMP PA|GN
Each Candidate for Governor
 Has Many Speakers
REGISTRATION VERY HEAVY
Possibly 100000 More Voters Will Go to the Polls Than in the Last Elec- tion, and This Will Cut Big
 Figure in Result.

Atlanta, May 26.-(Special )-Thls Is the final week of the campaign and the can dldates are now in the home stretch. That things will be made to hum from now un- til the end there does not appear to be the shadow of doubt.
 Governor Smith is not relying solely upon his own campaign efforts. He has 1O or a dozen orators in the field, includ- ing Congressman T. II. Hardwick of the Tenth, who Is going to make seven speeches for hlm in as many days. Like wise Judge James K. Hines, attorney for the railroad commission, Is still on the stump, and has announced d number of dates. Governor Smith himself will make a speech every day right up to June f, and some days he will make two. To- morrow he will speak at Clarkesyille, In Habersham county; Thursday at Canton, Cherokee county, and on Friday he will invade Cobb, the home county of his op- ponent, Joseph M. Brown, making two speeches, one at Marietta in the morning and another at Acworth in the evening. Saturday he makes two speeches in El- bert county and one in Franklin. and on Monday he will speak in Albany.
 In the meantime the opposition is not inactive In this respect. This week it has 15 or 20 speakers in the field, covering every section of the state. Some strenu GUS work in this respect is being done in behalf of Mr. Brown, whose friends point to the governors extreme activity and that of certain of his supporters as indi- eating the desperate straits he is in. Hon. A. II. Cox of Atlanta, a well-known lawyer; Frank Saffold of Swainsboro. former Congressman Charles L. Moses and others are doing some good campaign work on the Brown side and they will keep steadily at it until the day of the primary.
 Interest Is Intense.
 So intense has been the interest in this lace that the registration of voters, which closed Saturday night was probably the largest known in the history of the state. In 1so6 there were about 270,0o voters reg istered throughout the state. There is scarcely a doubt that this years regstra- ton will go considerably over 30o,oo0. and of these probably 25,000 will be white voters, all of whom may cast ballots in the primary. The registration in F ulton county in 1906 was 12,S21; this year it has gone over 16,000, the count not having yet been completed With anything like q proportionate increase in other counties of the state the number will go consider ably over the SOO,OO0 mark.
 It is apparent from the foregoing fig h, Ir,-a consider which did not participate in the primary of two years ago. There were 50,000 white voters registered at that time who did not vote, and besides there are now at least 5O,000 more qualified who were not then registered This means a possibility of pretty nearly 100000 votes which did not figure at all in the cam paign of 1906. Just what effect this may have it is difficult to say. They may split about even, and again they may turn the tide of the election.
 Arrangements have been practically completed for the primary of June 4, and the fight will be carried right to the polls. There will continue to be considerable anxiety until it passes into history.
 Minor Contests.
 There are a good many minor political fights being waged in the state. some of them for Congress, some for state house offices and others, but the governors race has overshadowed them all.
 w. J. Speer asserts emphatically that he is going to win in the race for state treasurer, while State Treasurer R. E. Park who is d candidate for reelection, declares that he has no fear as to the re- suit So confident has he been that he has not left his office during the cam pagn He has remained at his desk and his entire campaigning has consisted in letters to friends in various sections of the state and two or three newspaper cards, principally in answer to statements made by his opponent.
 With the four candidates in the race for prison commissioner, and none of them widely known In Georgia, it is gem orally believed that no candidate will re- ceive a majority and that for this one po- sition there will have to be a second pri- mary on June IT, the date provided by tine executive committee.
 In the race for railroad commissioner the two incumbents, Judge George Hill- yer and Fuller E. Galloway, feel confident of their election. w, D. Branan, a travelling man. who is running against the former, is travelling about the state and making considerable of a race. Lit tie has been heard however, from R. H. Jenkins a merchant of Hogansville, who is opposing Mir. Galloway. His name will be on the ticket, but if he is doing much in the campaigning line, he has been do- ing it very quietly
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