The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-03
ALL IS NOW OVER
BUT THE SHOUTING
Tomorrow Georgia Voters VIII:
Nominate Officials
WARM CAMPAIGN is ENDED
Claims and Counter Claims Are Made
By Candidates for Governor and 1t
Remains To Be Seen Whether
1t Is Smith or Brown.

Alldnld, June z.--NSpeclal.)-lI Is dl
over now but the shouting, and the pre-
vailing question is who will that be for?
The Atlanta Journals prediction is thai
Hoke Smith will carry the state by 27,66i
votes which, it expresses the opinion
may go to 10000 or 10000.
Manager j. r. Smith, for Joseph NJ.
Brown, predicts that his candidate will
carry the state by 25,5OO
So the difference of opinion here seems
to amount to something more than 5O,O9l
votes.
Both sides have been busy since Sunday
in ridiculing the absurdity of the other j
claims. Both claim their estimates are
based on conservative reports from every
county in the state
The Smith people concede "a counties to
Brown, principally small counties which
went against the governor two years ago.
The Brown people are more liberal, and
concede two congressional districts to Gov
ernor Smith, qualifying the concession
with the statement that the results in
these will be close.
At Brown headquarters it is pointed
out that the Smith CLAIMS are ridiculous
on the face of them because among ths
counties claimed for the governor are
Fulton, Cobb Cherokee, Bib and a num-
Der of others, which, it is stated are Ger
tain to give Brown good majorities. An
other criticism is made of the Smith claim
that the result in Chatham Will be close,
when 1t is known that the supporters of
Governor Smith in that county concede it
to Brown by a majority of 1900 to 2060
votes.
Many Close Counties.
There are many counties in the state
which the governor will carry, if he car
res at all, by majorities of so to 100 votes
so 1t is apparent that under the popular
vote plan of nomination, the Brown ma
tority in Chatham will overcome the gov
ernor's strength in some % or 80 of these
close counties.
On the other hand it seems now ger,-
orally believed that the governor will
get a fair majority in Richmond county
which, of course, will have the same eff
feet in overcoming Brown leads in such
close counties as he may carry.
So keen is the interest in the political
situation that 1t is thought here at least
100000 votes will be polled in the primary
and that the winner will have to carry
more than 100000. Governor Smiths 20, goo
majority two years ago was secured in
total vote for him of $4,000, and total
vote in the state of 10000. That 10000 70
10000 more votes will be cast this time
there scarcely seems to be any question.
Who will get them? They may prove the
deciding factor in the race.
Joe Brown Club.
The Fulton county Joe Brown club now
claims membership of of 1867. The total
registration in the county Is approximate
IS 10000 If the claims are borne out there
Is no question that Brown will get a 5000
majority here. More conservative est1-
mates however, put Browns majority IN
Fulton at 1900. Two years ago the county
gave Hoke Smith 22O0 majority. This may
mean a reversal of 300 votes, or it may
mean that the additional vote which has
come into the reckoning is for Brown.
The difficulty in arriving at a true esti-
mate of the situation appears to grow
out of the fact that there are so many
close counties in the state-counties in
which the majorities will be small which
practically impossible to tell Just what
these counties will do. When a county
with 1000 to 5000 votes gets to where the
majority will not be 100 votes either way
il is almost out of the question to tell
what it will do.
However the state will not be kept
much longer in doubt The battle of bal
let's will have been finished by Thurs
day night, and though a slow count is
predicted 1t is believed the reports at
midnight will fully tell the result.