Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-03
mi TIM Hudson ENTER The
- RACE FOR CONGRESS IN The THIRD?'
at is the Question Now Being Asked Over the Whole
Third District
tv WITH FOUR CANDIDATES IN The
|FIFIO The CONTEST WOULD PROB
|IRIy Be A QUIET, HANDSHAKING
|SORT OF AFFAIR.

DURl Ui hlA"'
,ore and more the question is be-
oekad throughout the Third Con-
esiopal District: Will Tom Hudson
IN tbe race to secure the seat at
4 sbington representing the new
8rd?
no commissioner has made no pub
:. statement as to his intentions. Ma
]. of his closest friends and admirers
81 o that they do not know what his
ssntions are, although they are anX-
for him to enter the field, so they
II get work actively in his interest.
ii no word has yet come to them
In Atlanta to throw off their coats,
ID m their sleeves and pitch in. All
I'm are waiting for, they say, is the
.Epal.
When a Times-ecorder man sought
4 get the commissioner to talk about
il matter recently it was without
Il Rcess If the genial Sumter county,
q has his mind made up he is keep
u it to himself, and perhaps very
sk of his closest advisers. He evi-
ahtly intends that when he is ready
81 an announcement, be it one way
Il the other, it shall come directly
sbm himself and be straight and 10
q point.
sAll over the district there is un-
Nestionably growing belief that M.
.pdson will be a candidate for con-
fess, and that the fight will be A
aadrangular one, the other candi-
Ates being the three already in the
ald. Messrs. Charles F. Crisp, John
Il Mercer and Emmett Shaw. The
AtranCe of Tom Hudson in the race,
4 course, would considerably change
ae present aspect of it. The conf
sssioner's personal popularity is
Hll known, he has a host of friends
aFoughout the district, and the fight
p the honor would wax warm, in
ped, from the moment he announced.
Judge Crisp is also possessed of a
Pong following, numbering warm
1d devoted friends and workers in
8ery county in the district. During
ne interval between the sessions of
pngress the judge pretty well cam
RSsed the district, canvassed it pe"-
pnally, in a quiet. transformations
eanner, meeting many leading citl-
fnS everywhere, soliciting their sup
prt and influence, and otherwise lin
pg up a following for the primaries.
me judges friends say that his work
pong this line has been very effective
|nd tnat ne will be home from Wash
psIon once more in ample time 20
pdKe the rounds again and protect
Is interests. Naturally a man of .
|enial nature, such as Judge Crisp is
'ofh and reared in the district, is
pie to get in close touch with the
|eople by his quiet journeys among
Ple'n' 1t is not believed he will make
ny speeches during the campaign. In-
'eed' 1t is regarded as probable that
lpeechmaking will not be INDUCED in
/ any extent by any of the four can
'ud'es-if there are four-if it is in
0'sed IN at all. Mr.. Mercer. who is
S''ong man of business affairs. ono
the most progressive and success.
VI planters of the district. has tn
''"e capacity for making friends il
qu'eI informal way that marks his
''IcuS competitors. Mr.. Mercer's
'enuS' and they are found all ovel
lnIrd' insist that the time has
H. V 'oF more men of his type a
"0H'ngton that the House is to-
- with lawyers, and that tn,
N'"' especially, should send the bust
D''',""-iarmer to the front to repre-
~ IT. That is an argument beini
~, III ward by them everywhere.
/, "'' candidate Shaw is doing il
IS Oailiwick is not known aroun,
,,s Inc extent of his strength out
o,ue o OF his home county is not consia
- ~ as very great by the best inform
- men in the district. In a four
~, q,"e'ed fight, such as that in tn
caa r'.u may be, though every count,
~ q and the four candidates ar
6is,., o contest every county in tn
/, ''', not conceding any county, b
N. D.S nome county or not, to any O
-. o'"er candidates, until the return
i'm ~ from the primary and the cleo
n, ""S not yet been settled whethe
H. congressman is to be chosen b
DOL popular vote or by the convention
hoag '@'e system. Both systems hav
VI. 'led in the old Third. Some fl
evs. 'ue some favor the other. whicr
10 b. system is selected, there is al
pol., some kicking. For what woul
Dr.. 'S be without kicking.
sio., ", De that as it may, the congre,
a. race in the THIRD is apt to col