The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-03
BROWN HAS ISSUED
 REPLY ID ATTACKS
Candidate for Governor Issues
 Warm Statement
ALL CANDIDATES ENTERED
Several of Those Running For State Offices Have No Opponents, So Governors Race Will Have
 the Greatest Interest.

Atlanta, May Governor Smith returned from South Georgia yes terday, apparently satisfied with the cam paign he has so far made in that section of the state.
 He came up to talk over the situation at headquarters, to make speech in the Fifth ward in Atlanta, and will remain here until Sunday night, when he will again return to South Georgia. Incident ally, he spent a few hours in his office at the capitol
 The governor has announced three South Georgia and one North Georgia ap- pointments for next week. Monday morn ing he speaks at Baxley in Applng coun- ty; Monday night at Brunswick; Tuesday he speaks at Sylvester in Worth county, and Wednesday he returns to North Georgia, speaking at Cartersville in Bar tow. Saturday he will speak at Wash ington, Wilkes county. This will be the governors second visit to Brunswick since the campaign began. He is keeping just about as busy as it Is possible for him to do and will cover all of the state possible between now and the primary of June f.
 Joseph M. Brown, the governors op ponent, today issued a card in which he replies to some attacks which the gov ernor has made in his speeches upon the formers father, the late Governor and Senator Joseph E. Brown. MT. Brown warmly defends his father and says he is not an issue in this campaign. He then goes on to bring the campaign down to the real issue of business and indus trial prosperity.
 The entries in all races for state house offices closed at midnight last night, un- der the rules of the state executive com mittee. No person who had failed to pay the assessment of $50 at that hour will be permitted to enter any race for state and there will be no other candidates.
 Entries In the Race.
 Following are the entries:
 For Governor-Hoke Smith and Joseph M. Brown.
 For Secretary of State-Philip Cook.
 For State Treasurer-Robert E. Park and w. J. Speer.
 For Attorney General-William A.
 For Commissioner of Agriculture-T G. Hudson.
 For State School Commissioner-Jere N. Pound
 For Judges of the Supreme. Court, two to be ehosen-Horace NJ. Holden and Bev- erIy D. Evans, both incumbents. For Judge of the Court of Appeals Richard B. Russell
 For Railroad George Hillyer, Fuller E. Galloway and H. War ner Hill, members of the present com mission, and w. D. Branan and R. H.. Buchanan candidates who are opposing Hillyer and Galloway respectively. John H. James of Atlanta had announced his candidacy but up to yesterday had not paid his assessment.
 For Prison Cominissioner-R. F. Davi- son of Greene; Wiley Williams of Musco- gee; Jesse E. Mercer of Ben Hill; R. H. Milledge of DeKalb, and K. R. Foster of Bibb.
 The closing of the entries puts an end to all the rumors ab, It other candidates for governor, as it will be recalled there was some talk about Seaborn Wright, the Floyd county prohibitionist, getting into the race.
 The race for prison commissioner is the only contest in which there can pos sibly be a second primary. This will be necessary in the event any candidate fails to get majority of the votes cast, and should it be held it will come on June r under the committees rules. It would be pretty hard on the candidates should it be found necessary, as the bur den of the expense of holding the election would fall wholly on them. The salary is only 5000 a year ~-
 Smiths Statement. Considerable comment has been caused l by the statementsmade by Governor Smith I in at least one of his South Georgia I speeches that Judge R. B. Russell of the l state court of appeals is now support ing him. The only foundation for the l statement was a publication in a Law