The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-28
GEORGIA POLITICAL
 FACTIONS DISAGREE
Hoke Smith and Joe Brown
 Are Leaders
TAX TROUBLE ARISES
Whether or Not All Property Is Taxed on Equal Basis-Oth-
 CT Atlanta News

Atlanta, November 27.-tspecial)-I is
 interesting to note the attitude of the
 two schools of political thought in Geor- gia" toward the proposal to hold pri-
 mary for the nomination of a United States senator
 These two schools, to put 1t more spe- officially, are the Hoke Smith school and the Joe Brown school; the latter might be designated the Joe Terrell school.
 This interesting differentiation. was made by Gov.-elect Hoke Smith in his second campaign.
 | On the question of a primary for United States senator, however, 1t looks very much as If the two schools of political thought had swapped places,
 The Hoke Smith school, in the two platforms representative of it's thought, couldn't do too much for the people,
 It held, or seemed to hold, that the peo- pie should be given opportunity to have | voice in the nomination of candidates for every office in the public gift in other
 words. that all officials should be nomi- hated by primary.
 
 want primary for United States sen
 ator, while the Brown-Terrel school does
 MT. Smith himself says nothing about l it; he simply says he is not candidate | not now at any rate; ergo, there is no special reason why he should have any voice in the matter
 But the Atlanta Journal, which Is rep resentative of the Hoke Smith school of political thought, declaims loudly against a primary. There is no precedent for it, it says; there is no reason why the peo- pie should be called to the polls just 70 vote for a successor to Senator Clay.
 This question was not involved in the election of representatives in October or In the August primary, therefore the leg islature would not now be bound by a primary choice though it would. perhaps obey it.
 On the other hand the Brown-Terrell school of political thought is appealing loudly for a primary. The people, de- clares the Constitution, should be given voice in the selection of their sen ator: Georgia was the first of the states to place the selection of their senators | in the hands of the people: a great prin-
 ciple is at stake; Terrell should resign before the primary that he may have no advantage over the other candidates, etc. Thus runs the Brown-Terrell school
 of thought.
 Between the lines, however, there are
 some interesting signposts which even the | primer politician will have no diffi-
 culty in reading.
 | It is always considered good politics,
 of course, to appeal to the participation
 of the people in the selection of officials
 Conversely, a refusal to put a matter of | this sort before the people is generally l considered bad politics. l Will it have that effect in this case? | It remains to be seen. The state ex- | ecutive committee is composed of grad | uates in the Hoke Smith school of pc-
 ltical thought. and there is every indi- cation that it has no Intention of calling a primary.
 The answer is obvious Should MT. Smith decide to become a candidate 1t IS possible that the people, having Just nominated and elected him governor, lllght not feel disposed to nominate him in a primary for the United States Sen ate, and then hold another election for governor. But 1t might be different with an uninstructed legislature, one which Is supposed to represent by safe majority
 the Hoke Smith school of political thought.
 On the other hand, considering the pre- sumed attitude of the legislature it would look as if Senator Terrells chances would be better before a primary than before the legislature direct.
 The question arises as to whether Sen Isator Terrells demand for primary will appeal to the people sufficiently to inf1u- ence the action of any number of mem bers of the legislature in his favor. Will the legislature hesitating to precip- | itate another election for governor de- eide to leave MT. Smith In the gover- nor's chair and send someone else, per haps MT. Terrell, to the Senate? These are some of the interesting ques- tions and surmises growing out of the 1 senatorial situation. The game Is just now in the preliminary stage and the two schools of thought are doing some deen thinking