The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-13
NEW CANDIDATE FOR
 MAYOR IS FOUND.
Winn Will Oppose Jim Wood
 ward in Atlanta
HARD FIGHT EXPECTED
Odd Fellows Will Meet in Atlanta Sep- tember 19-Many Changes Will Take Place Among the Cap
 ito1 Employees

Atlanta, September 2.-(Special.)-A
 lanta has at last found candidate for
 mayor with which to fight Jim Wood
 ward-Courtland Vim, well known at
 torney, former councilman, vice-presi-
 dent of the board of education and pub
 lie administrator.
 | Other aspirants for the mayoralty who
 have been in the race for months, have
 decided to forego their ambitions for
 the present in response to the general
 desire among certain clements to cen-
 ter on a candidate who can beat Wood
 ward. The latter, despite his conduct
 while mayor and while otherwise in the
 public eye, still has a strong following
 and it Is admittedly going to take a
 strong candidate and hard work to de- feat him.
 | However, with the opposition to Wood ward all contered upon Vim who has
 a good record. it is generally believed that this can be done without difficulty | Woodward however, doesn't believe
 ne can be defeated by Winn. It is said
 the only candidate he really feared was
 Mayor R. r. Maddox, and that if Mad dox had made the race he would have
 given up the fight without going into it.
 Vim lives in the same section of the city as Woodward he is in the Second
 ward while Woodward is in the Third
 These wards adjoin and are on the south
 side of the city, so that it will be i'm possible to make the sectional issue be- tween south and north sides-an issue
 which has figured prominently in sev-
 eral local fights.
 It will be a hard fought race between
 now and the primary the latter part
 of October
 odd Fellows Will Meet The week beginning September 19 will witness the second gathering of the
 Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Atlanta. The first was held here thrty-six years ago, and there are few Georgia Odd Fellows now living who re- call the occasion. The membership of the order was far more limited then, and there were not as many Odd Fellows at that time in the whole state as there are in the city of Atlanta today.
 Judge J. c. Bloodworth, a well-known justice of the peace here, was one of the few who recalls the occasion. He was little more than boy at that time, but remembers the great interest taken
 in the gathering of which he was then a part What he remembered best about it, he said, was the speech made by Governor Milt Smith who said among other things:
 when the Creator was forming this
 globe he reserved a lot of the best min
 erals, finest soil, dearest water, most beautiful flowers and sweetest fruits,
 and these he dufnped down in one place
 and made Georgia
 | It was thought time this year to bring the Sovereign Grand Lodge to Georgia | again this year, and committe head ed by U. A. Hynds of thisN city and | Judge R. T. Daniel of Griffin, went to Seattle last year and won over Chi cago's famous offer of $5o,ooO as an en- tertainment fund. The grand lodge re- qures only $15.000 for this purpose, and this the Georgia Odd Fellows have al
 ready practically made up. Atlanta giv- | ing more than half of it and the balance coming from other sections of the state. | The Sovereign Grand Lodge will be in session here for the entire week, Septem- her 1924 inclusive and, its Is said in cluding delegates. visiting Odd Fellows and others will bring at the least es- timate 3O000 visitors to Atlanta. Fully this number participated in Seattle gath
 erng, and it is expected the attendance here will be even larger.
 There has been talk of holding the
 sessions in the hall of the house of rep resentatives, and it is probable that is where all except the public sessions will be held. But that hall would not come near accommodating the attendance on one of the public meetings which will, unouestionably have to be held in the auditorium -armory where at least 5000 persons can be accommodated.
 Changes at State Capitol Although the change in state admin istration recently voted at the primary is nearly 10 months away for Governor Hole Smith will not be inaugurated un- til the latter part of June, 1911. there is
 already much talk about changes in state house employees and officials whose ap- pointment is made by the governor Of course the governor names all of the onnloves in his own office, and while if is rare that the selections are an- nounced until a short time before the inauguration, things have so shaped themselves that it is stated, his official staff is now practically known. c. M. Hitch. who was executive secretary under IGovernoS Smith before, is practically cer- | tain to be recalled to that position MT. l Hitch had been secretary under Gov ernor Candler and Governor Terrell, and also private secretary to Senator A. O.. Bacon. His familiarity with the duties | of the office makes him valuable man in that position and there is no question | that Governor Smith is going to insist on putting him back there.
 | Another of the executive secretaries, it | is pretty well settled, will be Josiah Car ter. who also served in this capacity
 under Governor Smith. and who, since
 the latters defeat in 1908. has been run
 ming the Marietta Journal. the official organ of Cobb county.
 | M K Haralson, stenographer in Gov
 ernor Smiths office, and who rendered
 valuable service during the recent cam paign, will, it is stated, be Governor