The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-07
EXTRA SESSION
 BARS BRANTLEY Candler Is HOke Smiths
 Candidate TERRELL RECOVERED Senator Is Completely Recovered From Recent Attack and Is in the Race to Stay-Organ-
 ize Medical Society
TERRELL RECOVERED

Atlanta, March 6-(Special )-The ex- tra session of Congress means the elim- ination, it is said, of Congressman Will liam G. Brantley from the race for the United States Senate.
 | Up to the time that the extra session was decided on it was practically certain that MT. Brantley would be in the race;
 not, it is said that he proposed to make
 an active fight on Senator Joseph M. Ter rell, but, Senator Terrell failing for any | cause to land the plum, he thought he
 would have good chance to gather it in. But an extra session of Congress means that MT Brantley will practically have to remain in Washington to assist in the organization of the new ways and means
 committee of the House of which he is
 a prominent member.
 This will give him no time for figuring
 in a. campaign for the Senate in connec- ton with which there is said to be some | hard work to be done by whomsoever | would enter as a candidate and as evil | dence of which it is said that Railroad
 Commissioner c. Murphey Candler, who | will carry the Hol.e Smith banner in this
 race, is now doing some of the hardest
 political work of his life, although he has
 rot as yet made his formal announce
 ment.
 It is quite well understood, however,
 that Mir. Candler is to be the candidate
 Of the Hoke Smith faction; that Hoke Smith will support him and that at the proper time Congressman T. w. Hardwick
 of the Tenth will withdraw in Candlers s
 favor. It is also anticipated that Judge w. A. Covington of Moultrie, likewise
 of the Hoke Smith camp, will get out of MT. Candler's way.
 | Senator Terrell has recovered from his
 recent attack to an extent beyond the
 hopes of his friends It is said now that there is absolutely no impeachment in his | speech and with the rest that he needs
 he will soon be himself again and be | able to be about. Along with this inn
 provement in his condition comes the an- | rouncement that Senator Terrell is posi- | lively in the race to stay, and will make
 only such campaign as the condition of
 his health will permit between now and
 the assembling of the legislature the lat | ter part of June.
 | It looks more and more, therefore, as
 if things are shaping themselves inevita- | bly for a race between Candler, on the | Hoke Smith side and Terrell as the ex- | oonent of the other "school of political l thought" In Georgia. | MT Brantley, it is said was anxious
 to have made the race, but. of course, he cannot afford to neglect at the opening
 of the extra session the duties which at
 tach to him as leading member of the House ways and means committee. Ad- vices from Washington, therefore, are to | the effect that he may be definitely con | sidered out of it.
 The question naturally arises as 70 | whether Terrell or Candler will develop | the greatest strength in the legislature. Admitting that it is a Hoke Smith | legislature, that the governor and his policies have majority in the house and perhaps also in the senate, nevertheless Senator Terrell's friends have great con fidence in the assurance of support which he has received from some of the Hoke Smith members in both bodies. Those as-
 surances came at a time, however, when it looked as if Mr. Smith himself would be @ candidate of his faction. Now Candler enters as a new factor, a new
 element; whether that will make a change in certain pledges given to Senator Ter rel remains to be developed.
 MT. Candler expresses great encourage nent over the situation. Politically all lied with majority of the legislature, his friends feel that he cannot be beaten It is one of the most interesting political situations which has developed in Geor- gla in some time, and they are still looking for the man who can correctly predict the outcome