The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-17
EACH CONFIDENT
 OF FINAL SUCCESS
Geergia's Candidates Are Busy
 With Their Campaign
FARMER VOTE CUTS FIGURE
Local Politics Will Have Some Effect Upon Candidates for State Offices and All Points Are Being
 Very Closely Watched.

Atlanta. May 16-(Speeial. )-Few polit- teal developments have come to the sur face during the past week. In the inner circles however, several interesting fea- lures are being discussed There ap- pears to be a genuine confidence both or. the part of the warm supporters of | Governor Smith and those of Joseph M. Brown as to the ultimate result of the election, though neither side is making aLy predictions as to how many counties it proposes to carry.
 A we'll known Georgia politician who makes it a business to keep posted on state affairs, after a tour of the state, sat down the other day with paper and pencil to figure on the result According to report he based his conclusions on his own observations where he had made them and on reports from friends and when he got through his figures footed up a majority of 5000 for Brown. He was even surprised himself at the-final result. but is said to have declared to friends that he would not miss it 1000 votes.
 Of course the governors supporters will scout the idea that any such conclusion as that is possible; they laugh at it. They are now asserting that the gov ernor will carry the state by at least as large a majority as he did two years ago which was 25,0OO, and express the opinion that it will be even larger. They are not only claiming Fulton county but are asserting that the labor vote which has been put down against the governor will be pretty well divided.
 l usually well posted politician said to- day that the result in the June primary would depend largely upon what is. now a wholly unknown quantity-the farmer vote There is no political organization among the farmers, hence it is practical ly impossible to know how that vote will go until after the election. The way he figured it out however, was that the 1 rest of the state was about evenly divid- ed and that success would go to the can didate who could carry the largest per | centage of the country vote. As usual, i both sides claiming it, but nobody on earth really knows just how it is go- ] ing. In some sections it is reported for 1 Brown and in others for Smith. 1 It is talked at the capital that local 1 politics in Richmond county is going to cut figure in the race for the gover- norship, that is to the extent as to which candidate will carry the county. It is re- porfed here that warm political friends of Governor Smith in nlAagusta, who are strongly opposed to th- candidacy of 1ldi- tor Bowdre Phinizy for the state senate, have practically put the governor on no- tice that he must withdraw his moral sup i port from Mr. Phinizy, if he is giving 1 him such or he can expect nothing from them. Editor Phinizy is strongly for ' Governor Smith and has thrown to him i the entire influence of his paper. In [ that way it has come to be understood 1 that MT Phinizy is the governors can- ! didate for the senate in Richmond, and l reports have it here that that under 1 standing is not wholly relished by cer- tain of the governors friends in Augusta, where local politics, it is said, comes | ahead of everything else.
 l Because of other political races it is i difficult to predict how certain counties 1 will go as between the candidates Tor ] governor. Over in DeKalb it is said the 1 race for Congress between Congressman | Livingston and J. L. Mayson of Fulton is the all absorbing topic. prominent | DeKalb citizen said the people in that county had almost forgotten the gover- l rorship race because of the congressional | contest. And" he predicted you will find a good deal of trading of votes thare in my opinion, so that it is really hard 10 tell where DeKalb will be found in 1 the windup.
 It is also common tall that owing to the number of contests in Fulton there will be considerable trading of votes in this county though that is something which the primary itself will have to develop.
 T. Y McCord, who is a candidate for the state senate in Fulton against Speaker John NJ Saton of the house of rep~e- sentatives, remarked to some friends to day that the governorskip fight had al- most ruined him. Everywhere he went, he said he was asked who he was for for governor. Though he has been well known as a strong supporter of Cover nor Smiths he has found it necessary to | become neutral in order to sustain his own candidacy. But his case is no exception to the rule.
 A prominent member Of the legislature from a neighboring county, who is a candidate for reelection. said today that in his opinion practically no attention is ] being paid to the new law which makes | the purchasing of votes in primary election crime. Of course there is no actual vote buying as yet, at least but it is common report that well known ward politicians are in the employ of various
 candidates and are working for them,
 tooth and toe nail. The same legislator said he had a proposition made him by a number of these ward workers which
 he simply returned to them with copy of the law which makes payment of money for such services equally criminal | ,.;..l,+ I, ,oeipar ..fx