The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-25
GEORGIA RACE IS BECOMING LIVELY Announcement of Brown Brings Life to Campaign BRIEF AND POINTED Brown Will Take Conservative Atti-
 tude on Prohibition Situation.
 His Announcement Will Keep Others Out
BRIEF AND POINTED

Atlanta, September 2.-With former Gov. Joseph NJ Browns announcement as candidate for governor out tnls afternoon, it Is expected the race will take on new life.
 The former governors announcement is brief and to the point. He merely states that he has decided to yield to the urgent request of many friends and enter the race. He has nothing to say regarding issues at this time. though it is said he will make more extended statement within few days.
 While Governor Brown and his friends consider that this is all the announce ment that is necessary al this time so fai in advance of Gov Hoke smiths | resignation, there will, perhaps. be some l little disappointment that he did not iu- dioate his attitude on the more important questions before the people. particularly the prohibition question.
 | AS far as can be learned Governor l Brown will probably take conserva- 1 tive attitude on the prohibition situa- tion He is considered a local optionisi,
 and it is thought he will more than l likely lean in that direction in what ever he has to say on this subject
 What he will do to counterbalance the absence of the strong Hoke Smith sen iiment, the presence of which has here tofore bees the source of his greatest strength. remains to be developed A strange and somewhat mysterious
 feature of the situation is the fact that some of Governor Browns former strong political friends have recently been In duging in the gentle art of knocking" {"
 They have been saying things not calculated to help materially In a polit- lcal campaign. Whether they have been assuming this attitude because they are
 not as close to the ex-governor as they used to be- or whether they are not In his confidence because they have been
 assuming this attitude. is a question no-
 body seems prepared to answer
 IL is also strange that these unpleasant
 and perhaps ungeaerops rcinarks are slr
 ways accompanied by the statement
 'Stnl. I am for Joe Brown and will sup
 port him. If he runs
 MT. Browns real friends consider that
 those who are circulating remarks of this kind have turned against him for pur- pose; there is a reason 1t is charged,
 why they did not want him to enter the
 race Some of them. 1t is alleged, had
 an eye on other candidates; or there may
 be other reasons.
 The former governor, 1t Is stated, has decided to enter the race only after very careful consideration. He and his friends have gone over the situation as it ap- pears in every section of the state. Every county has been considered, and con- ferences have been held with men from nearly every one of them.
 | From these conferences the former gov- 1 ernor and his friends have concluded that he can win, and he is going into 1t for th@ fight of his life. They realize that
 he might have had easier sailing had he gotten into the fight earlier. when the agitation against. Hoke Smith for failing to hustle off to the United States
 Senate was at its height. But MT Brown was opposed to a long campaign. He did not believe the people of the state
 wanted it. and he thought things would be more favorable for him if he held
 back at that time, and waited until II
 was definitely known when Governor Smith would leave the executive office.
 
 may now be put to test.
 Joe Browns announcement means that seN eral others who have been hanging on I the edge. looking for an opportunity to l get into the race. will now keep out of l It. Among these are Murphey Candler. l railroad commissioner who recently stat | ed that he would not make the race with 1 Joe Brown in it. but that he might run 1 If Joe Brown did not: Dr. l.. q. Hard man of Commerce, former legislator and one of the authors of the state pro- hibiton bill. who was all ready to lift his banner to the breeze and was merely
 waiting for something positive and em- phatic from the ex-governor, and. finally. President John NJ Slaton of the state
 senate. who will be governor ad interim | when Governor Smith resigns. and who
 said he would give s1ooo to Joe Browns 's | campaign but that if Joe Brown did not run. he would run himself.
 Up to date Judge R. B. Russell ap- pears to have had the best of the run ming. As between himself and Pope
 Brown, he has stirred up considerably more enthusiasm wherever he has been.
 and had it been left to the two of them.
 there would probably have been little question as to the outcome.
 Judge Russell spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of his followers in Atlanta Fri 6ay night, following Judge Spencer R. Atkinson. his campaign manager. His friends are now predicting that he will carry Fulton county regardless of the l entrance of Joe Brown into the race. | An enrolment of 2600 Russell voters in | Fulton county is claimed at his head- quarters. This is about one-sxth of the countv's voting strength with full reg | istration.