The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-21
LOCAL OPT|ON|STS
WANT A CANDIDATE
Another Man May Enter for
Governor of Georgia.
TWO TO CHOOSE FROM.
Albert H. Cox of Atlanta and Judge
Richard b. Russell of the Court
of Appeals Are Dark Horses
In the Race.
TWO TO CHOOSE FROM.

Atlanta, july zU.-tSpec1al. )-RepOrt
is current that effort is being made
to get third candidate into the race
for governor.
According to this report it is move
ment on the part of the local option
lists of the state.
They do not consider that they are
in any wise represented in either of
the candidates now foremost in the
race.
1t will be recalled that both Gov
ernor Brown and former Governor
Smith in 1908 signed statements which
were presented to them by the stall
wart prohibitionists.
The local optionists, it is said. want
a candidate and they want strong
one; consequently they are looking
around.
Report has it that they are now
working with at least two well known
Georgians with a view to getting one
of them into the race.
It is said these gentlemen are AL
bert H. Cox of Atlanta, a we'll known
lawyer. and Judge Richard B. Russell
of the state court of appeals, who was
recently thinking of running, but
never finally reached a conclusion.
Mr.. Cox took quite a prominent part
in the Brown Smith campaign of 1908,
making number of speeches through
out the state in behalf of Governor
Brown, especially upon the county unit
plan as a convention basis.
AS the situation now stands the pro-
hibition question has not been brought
into the campaign at all. Neither of
the candidates has taken hold of the
ma tier; neither of them wants TO.
Neither have the prohibition1srs
called on them this time to make any
promises or sign any statements: pos
sibly they are satisfied with the state
ments formerly secured.
But the situation Is one In which.
evidently. the local optionists have
feel that local option sentiment Is
strong In the state and believe 1t pos
sible to secure the election OF local
option governor.
1t is a little late to start new
candidate on the road. Things have
been pretty we'll lined up. Still tn ere
are some who think there Is a chance;
they believe they might use the wedge
which Judge Hart made in the situa
ton before he drew out of 1t.
Whatever Is to be done, 1t Is re-
ported. will develop In the next few
days, probably by the latter part of
this week. Then the local option cam
didate, If there should be one, would
have a month in which to mako his
campaign.
Pretty Wnr Stroy.
The announcement of pretty war
story will take place here next Fri
day when the Forty Georgia
regiment-the Fighting Forty-second,
as 1t was called-holds Its annual re-
Union at the courth ouse.
When Sherman's troops march ed
through Atlanta on their way to the
sea one of the buildings destroyed here
was the Atlanta Female institute, a
successful girls school founded by Prof
James r. Mayson.
In the very year in which the war
began there was presented to the in
stitute a handsome Bible by the soph-
omore class of 1850. This book was
found by Capt Paul COLLISION of Com
pdny A. Ill Ic6iuiCiiI ANCN 1VAN WI
unteers, who seeing what 1t was, de-
cided to preserve Ut. He sent it to
friends in North Chemung, N. Y, his
h ome, and 1t has been there ever since
An article about the old Bible In the
North Chemung Star-Gazette was copied
In the Constitution, and from one source
and another that brought out the history
of it.
1t was ascertained that Miss Amanda
III. Mayson OF Atlanta, sister of Pro-
lessor Mayson, founder of the institute,
was the nearest relative. She was
pupil at the institute during the war.
| When these facts were conveyed to
Captain COLLISION. he sent the Bible to Clark
Howell to be restored to Miss Mayson,
and the occasion of the reunion of the
Forty-second Georgia was chosen as the
most appropriate for the informal cere-
mony.
There is now pending in Congress a bill
| to compensate the heirs of Professor
Mayson for the destruction Of that prop
erty, the building having been deFol-
ished after 1t had been used by Sheronan
as hospital quarters for his wounded.
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