The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-10
BROWN MAY ISSUE
FULL STATEMENT
Governor Is Expected to Say
More on Candidacy
ATLANTA TURNED DOWN
CITY uo. Failed to Get Stopovers From
Railroads and Has Been Unable to
Purchase the Old POST
ONCE Building

Atlanta, June -(SpeciaL)-Gov. Joseph
M. Brown is expected to issue within the
next few days a statement more at length
concerning his candidacy for reelection.
The statement given out the other day
was rather informal and was prepared
hurriedly following the meeting OF the
state executive committee.
Within a week or 10 days he will, ii is
stated, have considerably more to say.
Then will come his message to the gen.
eral assembly, which, while 1t is a state
document, will, of course, deal with the
various acts and features of his admins
tration, and upon his administration it is
Governor Browns purpose to stand.
The general assembly meets June %
and the message will probably be read In
both houses that day. There are some
features of his administration which have
been attacked by his political enemies, but
of these Governor Brown has said prac-
tically nothing, preferring to make his
statement and give his reasons officially
to the general assembly.
Governor Brown has opened no head
quarters, and it is doubtful II he will do
the stump or by opposing candidates
through the press, he will probably be
very little heard from, except for such
statements as are necessary to place the
record of his administration before the
public.
Governor Brown does not pretend to
have carried out al lof the platform pro-
visions adopted by the convention which
nominated him; In fact, with an adverse
Legislature that has been impossible. Yet
some OF these pledges, such as the res
toration of annual lump sum payment of
pensions. have been enacted despite that
handicap.
With the friends of Hon. H. H. Perry
Of Hall promising Governor Brown the
fight Of his life upon the composite issue
of the principles of the campaign of 1905
the friends of the governor are processing
amusement over the persistent efforts to
get former Gov. Hoke Smith into the
| race In spite of his two emphatic re-
fusals. They point to these efforts as
evidence of the belief on the part Of the
so-called reform element that Mr.. Smith
is the only man with whom they could
hope to win.
| Atlanta II DisappOinted
While It is proverbial that Atlanta usu'
ally gets what she goes after, she has just
| fallen down on two things for which she
has made a pretty strong play-securine
the old postoffice building for city hal
and the effort to get the railroads tt
grant stopovers here on one-way through
tickets.
While neither proposition is yet deat
one. both look SO for the moment, ant
the town feels "sorter'' hard hit.
The proposition to let Atlanta purchas
the old postoffice building for a nomina
sum was knocked out of the sundry civil
bill in the House of Representatives on
point of order. OF course, there IL tn
hope that the Senate will put 1t back an
insist on keeping 1t there. But there
no telling how It will come out.
The stopover proposition was knoclSe
into a cooked hat by the unanimous &C
; ton Of all the railroads entering AT
lanta declining to grant the request upo
numerous grounds which, to them, seer
adequate and sufficient.
Both of these propositions will be take
Iup for discussion at the meeting Of tn
ldiysctors Of the chamber Of 'commeFc