The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-14
GOVERNORSH|P IS BECOMING ACTIVE
Hudson May, Run Against
 Brown and Smith
OTHERS MAY ANNOUNCE
date for Re-election-GeOrGin Of- ficiaIs Take Up Subject of Min
 erals in That State

Atlanta, March Especial. .)-It is sur | prising the extent to which the talk 0 a compromise candidate" for governo persists, as if it were essential that ther be compromise candidate in order t avoid a heated race between Governo l Brown and former Gov. Hoke Smith. | From what was considered joke whef it was first mentioned, the suggestion ii said to have brought Commissioner o Agriculture T. G. Hudson to the poin of serious consideration of the matter MT. Hudson won't talk about 1t for pub lication, but it is understood he freely discusses 1t with his friends, and thu belief is growing that he would vel come the opportunity to make the ract | if he could do so on the understanding that he was a compromise candidate. | Then Chairman H. Warner Hill of the railroad commission has been prominent ly mentioned in this connection. He has not only been mentioned, but 1t is un- derstood he has received letters from many friends over the state suggesting his candidacy MT. Hill is not discuss ing the matter. but it is stated by his friends that, while he would perhaps, like to be governor, he would not care to en- ter into any scramble for the office.
 Again, there is Comptroller General Wright, who has been several times spoken of as a possible ''compromise candidate" Captain Wright has poured several buckets of cold water over the suggestion; he is a candidate for re- election as comptroller general, he says, and has never once thought of looking even in the direction of the governor ship.
 The discussion of these names, how ever, which is kept up constantly here and there. is indicative of the persistence of the compromise candidate proposal; but where it originated no one appears to know.
 Despite all the talk it is a pretty safe prediction that none of it has come from Governor Brown or his close political friends; neither the governor nor they are saying anything just at present.
 A conversation with Governor Brown on the subject these days would read something like this:
 Governor. are you going to make the race for re-election?'
 q think the people of Georgia are tired of politics and want a rest from 1t. So far as I am concerned I propose to let them have it.
 How long a rest?
 'Well, that depends. By the way, did you know they used to make coffee out of the golden rod bloom during the war?'
 And then the governor will tell you more about the dormant and undeveloped resources of Georgia in five minutes than you ever heard before, and you will go away forgetting that you failed to find out anything about his political inten- tions.
 Notwithstanding which those close to Governor Brown state with positiveness, apparently of knowledge, that he will run again this year and that his announce ment will be forthcoming Tin due course, If anyone knows just what that means.
 Governor Browns friends say that &C., cording to his view neither he nor any one else has the right to agree upon "compromise candidate' and offer him to the people or deOTSld, tIldl IL IS d QucS- tion for the people, and not for a few men. to decide whom they want for gov ernor.
 Taking it for granted that the governor will be in the race-and 1t is a safe bet the question arises will that force ex- Governor Smith to run, even against his will? Each horn of the dilemma has its supporters.
 It appears to be the opinion in some %l,a to1l af s0nrf rr tCp O camlidate" grows. in some way, out of the fact that the ex-governor does not want to make the race, but fears that he may be forced to do so, if his re- gently successful adversary makes an- other try at it.
 If Governor Brown should keep out of it, that would let Governor Smith out and he could quietly await his opportuni- ty to make the race for the United States Senate. But if Governor Brown runs would it be as easy for him to do the same thing? There is the political nut to be cracked this year.
 In the meantime Governor Smith is about to go to the Pacific coast for a months trip. He is taking vacation, but Is scheduled to make several speeches -one of them at Los Angeles. There is little question that he can do so in per- feet safety. He will return about May 1 and Governor Brown may be counted upon to hold his silence until that time or longer.
 It is not recorded, however. that they have entered into any agreement on the subject
 There is already material for some pret- ty lively politics in Georgia this year n the race for the state treasurership, a prospective race for prison commissioner, and enough congressional fights to keep more than half the districts of the state pretty well stirred up.
 While Congressman l.. F. Livingston of the Fifth is tied up in Washington, with no likelihood of release until some time in June, his opponent, Solicitor General William schley Howard. is getting in some hard licks about the district He has already made three speeches in At lanta and one or two in other counties. Colonel Livingstons friends here are openly charging that the New York cot ton exchange is furnishing campaign funds in the hope of accomplishing ms defeat because of his well-known fight on that institution. This the Howard sup porters deny with equal emphasis de- nouncing 1t as a campaign canard There is every indication that the fight in this district is going to be close one. Congressional contests are rapidly shap- ing up in the First, Second, Sixth, Sev- enth and Tenth, and there is yet possi- bilty of others
 Altogether the prospects are exceeding ly interesting for an off year Maddox Not n Candidate Now that there is no longer any hope of inducing Mayor Robert r. Maddox to stand for reelection, candidates and prosr pective candidates for mayor of Atlanta are shaping up their plans There have been one or two announce ments, those of former Alderman F. A. Quillian and Mayor Pro Tem. E. E. Pom eroY and there are one or two more