The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31
CLOSING DAYS OF LIVELY CAMPAIGN Smith and Brown Supporters Each Claim the Victory ESTIMATES ON THE RESULT
 
 Some Claim the State of Georgia Will Declare for Smith By 10000, While
 Browns Friends Say He Will
 Be 3o,ooo Votes Ahead.
ESTIMATES ON THE RESULT

De oU,oUO votes Aneao.
 Atlanta. May 3o.-( -(special.)-Th Geor- gia campaign for governor is practical ly over. But little time remains to pump further political arguments into the voters, and, besides, they are already pumped full.
 The next three days will be devoted by the Smith and Brown homogeneous to the marshalling of their forces pre- paratory to the primary on Thursday, which will decide the result.
 There is no possibility of making any thing like an accurate prediction as to parent buoyancy on both sides, and cam raign predictions are as enthusiastical- y large as political effervescence will ,ermit. <
 Governor Hoke Smiths campaign man. agement is claiming the election by 8 majority of 10000 votes Joseph M, Brown being his only opponent, it would, of course, never do to. admit that he was going to get only the meager 25,OOO ma
 
 years ago. So the claim is jumped up 15.- coo votes, and to back it reports are se- cured from various sections of the state as to majorities which his friends are claiming in different counties.
 Little Joep Browns friends are claim ing that his majority will be anywhere from 5000 to 5000O and they, too have reports from supporters in practically every county on which they base their assertions. They figure on holding pra > ticaly the same vote that was cast against Governor Smith two years ago, or something like 90 per cent of 1t. If their claims are justified that would give them 6200O votes to start with. Then they are counting on the labor vote, the populist vote and others which were cast for Governor Smith in the primary of 1906
 Estimates Too High.
 Conservative politicians, however, con- sider that both sides are much overesti- mating the situation. Some of them con- tend that the situation is so close as to make it practically impossible to figure on the result, and that the majority will te, whoever wins, under 10000 votes. One of these, who has travelled the state over thinks Brown will win by 10000 to 15,00o; and there are those who hold that Gov ernor Smith will get small majority.
 Reports from several sections of the state but principally from South Geor- gia, indicate that the result in many counties will be so close as to require the official count to demonstrate which way the county goes. It is asserted that there are some 50 counties in the state in which the majority will not be more than 100 votes, whichever way it goes. There are counties which Governor Smith carried before by 300 to 600 votes whica, in cases where they are conceded to him this time it is confidently predicted his majority will scarcely reach more than zoo.
 As yet neither side has given out any estimate of what counties It expects to carry Perhaps such estimates are con sidered of less importance or value this tune because of the fact that the election is not based on county results but on the total vote in the state. It used to be important to win the vote of even the smallest county because it meant two votes in the state convention, now the majority in a single large county of the state may wipe out the majorities of the opposing candidate in 25 or 30 of the N~1N'-N %~ NNO~~+
 Politicians Figures.
 However, it may be of some interest to know how a well posted politician has figured out the situation as to counties. He has wholly ignored the claims of the respective candidates and their managers, ana figures that the counties will go as follows:
 For Brown-Banks, Barrow, Berrien, Bibb, Bryan, Bulloch, Calhoun, Charlton, Chatham, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clinch, Cobb, Colquitt Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Dooly, Dougherty, Echols, Fannin, Fay cite, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Habersham, Haralson, Heard, Houston, Jackson, Jasper Jones, Lee, Liberty, Lowndes, Lumpkln, Madison, Murray, Paulding, Picl,ens. Pierce, Polk, Pulaski, Quitman, Rabun, Rockdale, Screven, Stephens, lift, Toombs Towns, Twiggs, Union, Walker, Walton, Ware, Wayne, White and Whitfield.
 For Governor Smith-Baker, Baldwin, Burke, Butts, Chattahoocnee, Chattooga, Clayton, Crawford, Douglas, Early, Eff | fngham, Ebert. Emanuel, Glascock, l Glynn, Greene, Hancock, Harris, Hart, Irwin, Jefferson. Jenkins, Johnson, Lin | coin, Marion, Macon, Mcintosh, Miller. Milton, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Pike, Putnam, Randolph, Schley, Spald- | ing, Stewart, Sumter, Ianaferro, Telfair, Troup, Upson, Warren, Washington, Webster Wilcox, Wilkes and Wilkinson.
 Doubtful-Appling, Brooks, Campbell, Carroll, Coffee Columbia, Coweta, De- catur, DeKalb, Franklin, Gilmer, Grady, Hall Henry, Jeff Davis, Laurens. Mo Duffie Meriwether Muscogee, Richmond, Talbot, Tattnall, Taylor, Terrell, Thomas, Turner, Walton. Worth and Ben Hill. In many of the counties put down as 1 doubtful he stated the situated looked to | him so close, according to the information he had received as well as from his own | personal observation, that it was impos | sble to predict just which way the vote l would go. He said he was satisfied in any 1 event that the majorites in these counties | either way would be comparatively small Closing Speeches.
 l The close of the campaign will find | Governor Smith at Albany on Monday l where one of the warmest fights in the | state is being made. It is said there is | scarcely voter in the county who is | not enrolled in either the Smith or tht ] Brown club, and things at present stanf l there appears to be little doubt that l Brown has the country. What effect | Governor Smiths speech will have re- mains to be seen, but it may be counted