The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-19
GEORGIA PUZZLED OVER SENATORSH|P The Race Brings Up Many
 Questions GOV. BROWN MAY RUN Senator Terrell's Physical Ability to Make Campaign Is Being
 Doubted = Where Does
 Hoke Smith Stand?
GOV. BROWN MAY RUN

Atlanta, March Specially United States senatorship just now presents one of the most puzzlng po- litical situations that has confronted Georgia in some time.
 Here are some of the questions that are being asked:
 Will Senator Joseph M. Terrell be physically able to make the race?
 If not, will he resign before the extra session of Congress convenes? If he should resign. who would Gov ernor Brown appoint in his stead? Is Governor Brown prospective can didate for senator In the event Senator Terrell does not run?
 Is 1t still the hope of Hoke Smith that he will be rushed in as a dark
 horse at the critical and psychological | moment? | There Is a substantial foundation for | propounding each of these questions, though tue answers to them vary with I the viewpoint.
 1 There are those who believe confi-
 dently that. Senator Terrelrs condition
 is such that he will not be able to at | tend the extra session of Congress, which convenes on April 4, although it has been the senator's earnest hope
 that he would be able to be at his desk ever since he returned to Atlanta. Should 1t so turn out they think
 naturally that he would resign and
 leave 1t to Governor Brown to name a successor for the extra session, who would serve only until the legislature should elect a senator for the remain
 ing four years of Senator Clay's unex-
 pired term. That would mean only
 about three months.
 l Then there is vague but persistent
 report that in the event Senator Ter
 rell should not make the race, Cover
 nor Brown himself may become a can didate. The governor has, of course, said nothing on the subject and will not for all of these situations are de- pendent upon Senator TerrelPs physi
 cal recovery or his failure to get well
 enough to resume his duties.
 There are but little more than two
 weeks left until April 4, and within thai | time all of these matters must develop. 1 As to whom Governor Brown would ap- l point, that is a matter which depends l very largely on whether or not there IS
 truth in the report that the governor him. self is thinking of getting into the sena- | torial game. Naturally it would make a l difference. No names of possible ap- l pointees have so far become public, for the reason already stated, that the situ- ation has not developed to that point. l While the Hoke Smith faction is put | ting forward Railroad Commissioner c. l M Candler of DeKalb and proposes to center it's strength upon him, to the ex- l clusion, it is said of Congressman T. w. | Harlwick and others, the belief in Hoke | Smiths ambition and hope that he would ultimately be called upon to solve the | problem has never wholly disappeared
 Tell the average politician that you believe Hoke Smith is entirely out o1 it, that he will not even be consid- cred, and his reply is more than apl
 to be: .,,
 can switch that legislature to Hokt l Smith, he's going to do it and go tc l the Senate'
 | The belief has not even been dis pelled by Mr. Smiths most recently | reported political ambition-to run for vice president on the ticket with l Wodorow Wilson of New Jersey. This report grew out of MT. Smiths atten- l tions to and entertainment of Governor l Wilson when he was in Atlanta attend | ing the Southern Commercial congress l Governor Wilson was played up here
 as the next democratic candidate for
 President and he certainly left behind
 him the belief that he will be the man.
 So it Is that if asked what is to- | day the most probable outcome of the
 senatorial controversy in Georgia there
 is not man in the state who could
 reasonably approximate 1t. And yet the
 next two weeks will. perhaps, bring
 the most important and significant de- l yelonmentS in this connection,