The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-03
BROWN ATTACKED IN RESOLUTIONS Cobb County Committee
 Opposes Candidacy TO ANNOUNCE LATER Ex-Governor Is Attacked Because Name Was Voted for in Regular
 Election Last Fall-Pros-
 pective Candidates

Atlanta, August 2.-(Special. .p-Much in d1gnation has been manifested by the friends of former Governor Joseph M Brown in Cobb county. over the recent action of the democratic executive com mittee Of that county in passing by a vote of 22 to 6, resolutions attacking him and designed to operate against his pros pective candidacy for governor.
 It is stated that political enemies of the governor rounded up every possible mem- Der of the committee who could be relied cn to oppose him, and that out of total membership of 46. there were found p ready to pass any resolution that might iniure him politically.
 The resolution in question attacked the former governor because of the fact that
 his name was voted for in the regular election last fall after he had been de. ieated by Gov. Hoke Smbith in the pri- mary. This was done, as will be re- called, at the instigation of Thomas E.
 N atson and without the connivance or consent of Governor Brown. The resolu- tion passed by the Cobb county commit tee. however intimates that he was a party to 1t and calls upon the state execu- tive committee to pass a rule prohibiting any candidate who ran in d primary and wno was voted for in the regular cleo tion after being defeated, from partici- patlng in future primaries.
 IT Is hardly likely that the state com mittee would take any such action in this l case because, no matter how much the members of the committee may be op- pused to the ex-governor, it could not in the present state of public sentiment do anything perhaps which would furnish A bigger boom to the Brown campaign Friends of Joseph NJ Brown in Cobb county have already taken the matter up and are considering a plan of circulating document denouncing the committed s action. They assert they can easily se- cure 3cD signatures to it in the county. many of them from men who voted against him in the last election.
 There appears to be practically no ques- uon as to former Governor Browns en- tering the race. His political friends ex- pect it, his political enemies are worried ever it because they do not know whom to put against him.
 In the mantime former State Treasurer J. Pope Brown and Judge R. B. Russell of the court of appeals are busy running thelr campaigns. Judge Russell is wor- red Just now over the question whether 7r not he should resign and let go of a sure thing. in order to make the race, and Inc torfner treasurer is making campaign dates for future speeches. On Saturday August ,, MT. Brown will speak at La voria In Franklin county, and on Thurs day, August 10, at Dudley, in Laurens county.
 IL does not appear, however, that the candidacy of MT. Brown or that of Judge Russell has stirred the state up to any extent. and the indications are that the people are in no hurry to become aroused over the campaign
 Ex-Governor Browns decision not to announce unu lit is definitely known
 about when the primary will be held. is possibly wise one. He thinks perhans
 Georgia has had enough of politics for a while