The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-11
BROWN SHOWS WHERE
 VOTES COME FROM Governor of Georgia Claims Election By Country People SMITH WILL ANSWER Two Candidates for Governor Have En- tireIy Different Views Upon the
 Responsibility of Legisla-
 tive Action
SMITH WILL ANSWER

Browns address to the people, published
 today, and Hoke Smiths speech in Macon
 Friday night, in which it is expected he
 will reply to the governors statements,
 are the central features of political in- | terest in the state campaign this week.
 Governor Browns friends are especially | pleased with his address, particularly his
 statistical demonstration of the fact that
 his largest vote came from the country | districts, instead of the cities and towns
 whereas 1t has been claimed by his op-
 ponents that 1t was the cities with the
 railroad ring and the 'liquor vote"
 which elected the governor.
 That former Governor Smith will have
 warm and emphatic reply to make to this
 and other features of the governors S
 statement cannot be questioned, and as
 his next appearance will be in Macon on Friday night, 1t is naturally presumed his answer will be forthcoming at that | time.
 In his address Governor Brown called | attention to one feature of the 1.-two
 schools of politics in Georgia" to which
 MT. Smith has frequently referred. which
 Is just now subject of interesting discus sion among the politicians.
 Difference in Views Governor Brown points out that one diff ference between his views and those of Governor Smith is that he feels that the legislature and the various state depart
 ments should be responsible direct to the
 people and not controlled by the dictation
 of the executive. He thinks, as he states, that the railroad commission should act
 of it's own free will and accord. under
 their oaths and in accordance with the
 law, instead of being instructed by the governor to do a certain thing in his particular way. He says he feels the same is true as to actions of the legisla- ture, and points out that Governor Smiths record in his relations with both sides
 show that his policy was to demand
 and insist upon the particular action that he wished.
 In this connection 1t Is now charged at
 Brown headquarters that MT. Smith Is now attempting not only to secure
 new legislature in full accord with his
 own plans and ideas, but that he Is lay ing plans for the election of officers of
 the general assembly throughout, who
 shall be in thorough sympathy with his views.
 Election of Smith Men
 It is now stated that Mr. Smiths plans include, if possible, the election of Smith men In every official position in the gen eral assembly from president of the sen ate and speaker of the house down through the doorkeepers.
 In evidence of this assertion, it is point ed out that Smith men have already come out for the positions of speaker of the | l de,t Af he to fx, fbo next legislature. Senator w. H. Burwell.
 who will be elected without opposition as a member of the house from Hancock county, sand who is a well-known sup porter of MT Smith, has announced his candidacy for the speakership next year against Speaker John N. Holder, who will be returned from Jackson county, and whoh declined to run for Congress in the Eighth because of his desire to return | to the legislature and hold the speaker ship for another term. While he has pre- sided with the utmost fairness and inn partality, Speaker Holder is known to hold Brown, rather than Smith, views, and the lines of the 1.-two schools of pol- tics' will here be closely drawn. Fight fin the Senate A similar fight is promised for the pres idency of the senate. President John M Slaton of the present senate, also kept out or the congressman race III the Fifth district with a view to serving a second term as president of the senate. Fulton county gets the senator from the Thirty-fifth twice in succession, and MT. Slaton will be reelected to that body without opposition. and it has been known for many months that he would stand for reelection to the presidency, Though he will return to the senate without op position, 1t appears now that he will have opposition for the presidency in the person of Representative J. E. Sheppard of Sumter, who is to come to the sem ate next year from his district, and who is known as man of the strongest kind of Smith sympathies. President Sla- ton, on the other hand. Is inclined to the Brown school of politics, so that here Is promised another direct and in teresting clash between the two schools" It Is said there Is every indication that should Hoke Smith be elected hot fights will be on for every position in the two houses.
 How Legislature Stands How the next legislature will stand is at present very much of a conundrum. While Joe Brown was elected in 1908, his hands were tied as the result of the election at the same time of a Hoke Smith legislature. Though, as he has
 stated, Governor Brown does not believe in the executive dictating to the legisla-
 tive branch. 1t stands to reason that more
 of his recommendations would undoubt- edly have gone through if he had had .