Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-13

.,onra June 1.-THE contest over
49,. Georgia governorship is maintain
90 ouiet a phase as any has pre-
..od in the last ten years. The
,aidates are working, but neither of
,na,o appears to be stirring things up
-r,f, NAV be partially accounted for
tho fact that the presidential fight
=. Georgia, together with the trim
,,incs which Watson put upon it,
,o.bo,. took the edge off of the state
situation.
pr+ en- far as can be learned the
.ordidates themselves prefer this sort
Of contest to the "froth-whipping"
4obrs which Georgia has gone through
With in the last six or eight years Joe
Hill Hall of Bibb is doing little or
nothing. or if he is, the newspapers
foil II record it, while President John
NJ slaton of the Senate is combining
himself to educational speeches, cor
H raspondence and the like and so far
has not made a single political ad
dress,
The contest for commissioner of ag-
4 ,iculture has assumed very much the
same phase as that for governor. The
n only candidate that is doing any active
Il work so far as reports disclose, is
II Hon !. D. Price of Oconee. Mr.. Price
is travelling over the state by train,
81 by automobile and by buggy and is
Il apparently seeking to reach every pos
q chile section of it before the state pri-
mary
All that Hon. A. O. Blalock of Fay
Il ette has done so far is to announce
81 his lineup with Representative E. Ca
III baniss of Oglethorpe, former president
81 of the Georgia Farmers Union, whom
n he proposes to make his assistant, if
ii elected. If Mr. Blalock has done any
travelling or made use of the mails to
any extent it has not been disclosed.
Neither has Hon. J. J. Brown of
Ebert gotten about much. Mr.. Brown
M is the present assistant in the agricul-
Isl tural department and he is relying
largely upon the support of Thomas E.
vi Watson, who is his close personal and
political friend.
Candidates for railroad commission
Ter are becoming so numerous that it
is impossible to recollect them. There
Rre three members of the commission
Ito be elected this year to fill the plac-
les Of Commissioners George Hillyer
Of Atlanta, Joseph F. Gray of Savan-
bah and Paul B. Trammel of Dalton.
commissioners Gray and Trammell are
sure to be candidates to succeed them
selves; Commissioner Hillyer once
nnounced that he would retire, but
under pressure from members of the
Atanta freight bureau is again con-
idering making the race.
omething like a dozen candidates in
me race for railroad commissioner, all
for SIX year terms. The question has
risen as TO whether candidates will
e required to pick out the particular
lace for which they propose to run
VIII all run in bunch and the
iree with the highest vote be given
ne pIums. Heretofore candidates
AVE been required to select the par
cular commissioners place for which
IeF proposed to run, but that is said
have been largely due to the fact
lal the terms expired at different
aleS Now when all the terms to be
INFESTED for are six year terms, d
Iefent view may be taken and it is
oSSioIe each candidate will have to
'"Ne the race wholly on his own mer-
instead of trying to pick dement's
the record of the particular COM
''SIoher whose place he is after.
MS is a matter which will be left
Jne state executive committee. 1t is
peculiar and interesting fact, by the
"S' mat a Hoke Smith committee
III make the rules for the COMING
mary although the other faction Is