The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-15
HALL WILL MAKE RACE FOR GOVERNOR Interesting Political Deyel- opments on in Georgia PRIMARY ON AUGUST 5 Outside of Gubernatorial Race Chief Interest Will Undoubtedly Center
 Around State Department
 of Agriculture

Atlanta, January (special.)-In
 process of making, even thus far in
 advance of the state primary which
 cannot be held. under the law, until
 August 5, as it cannot be separated
 from the regular state election the first Wednesday In October by more than 60
 days. As the legislature will be in ses-
 sion until the middle of August, the primary will naturally be postponed
 until the latter part of that month. | Notwithstanding the primary is so
 far away, several state fights have al
 ready begun to shape up. Joe Hill Hall of Macon, the nestor of the house of representatives, has not only made it plain that he Is to be in the race for governor, but has gone so far as 10 announce the first speaking date of his campaign at Knoxville, Crawford | county, March IS. MT. Hall will thus | open his campaign in his home county. | If MT. Hall persists in carrying the
 race through, it Is generally believed that it will mean the elimination from | it of Attorney General T. s. Fielder, as | Bibb county could scarcely afford to have two candidates in the field. MT.
 Fielder will probably make the race for a second term in the office of at | torney general. He is a staunch Hoke Smith man, and whether he will have opposition remains to be developed That Gov. John M Slaton, now exer- cisng the functions of the office un-
 der the constitution in the interim be- | tween Governor Smiths resignation and the election of new governor, by virtue of his office as president of the senate, will be a candidate, is scarcely to be questioned. Although entitled | to run under the constitution, because of the hiatus between his two terms, | Gov Jos. M Brown who goes in a second time on January 24, will not | be a candidate for a third term. He | has so informed his friends
 | It is possible of course. but not prot- l who has been prominently mentioned as d prospective candidate for gov ernor, and Governor Slaton would make the race against each other. They
 arc both aligned with the same polit- ical factions and hold the same polit- ical views
 Present indications, therefore point to very interesting and picturesque | race between Governor Slaton and MT Hall, who are warm personal friends through long association in the legis- | lature. Both are good stump speakers
 and there will be some lively political l
 gether in the fight.
 The demand for a south Georgia gov
 ernor may possibly come to the front | again, and that section may insist on Colonel West or some other south | Georgia man making the race. In this
 event there would, unquestionably, be | three cornered fight
 | Outside of the race for governor. | chief interest will undoubtedly center
 around the state department of agri-
 culture. While Commissioner T. G. | Hudson has made no public announce ment of his plans, he has informed his
 friends that 1t is his purpose to enter
 the race for Congress in the third dis | trict which, IS the result of the trans . | fer of Congressman Dudley M Hughes
 to the new twelfth. has left the third without a congressman. He will be opposed by Charles R. Crisp. son of the | idt' 'PSdhVi NlldIltS AIlSps anu HOW
 parliamentarian of Congress. Both of 1 them live in Americus. and the fight will be an interesting one.
 | This leaves the field open for candi- | dates for commissioner of agriculture.
 and so far there are five of them either | announced or prospective. Senator A.
 O. Blalock of Fayette county and for | mer Senator ]. D. Price of Oconee are already actually in the race and are 1 now actively working for the place. Col w. l., Peek of Rockdale, a we'll l known farmer and former alliance
 leader. is almost certain to come into | it, having stated his determination Go | run. Then there are Capt. R. F. Wright assistant commissioner of az
 riculture, and J. J. Connor of Bartow, | former president of the state agricul.
 tural society. both of whom have long
 been known as candidates for the
 place, and who have been expecting to get into 1t as soon as MT Hudson re-
 tired from the office.
 | Should Commissioner Hudson resign his office to make the race for Con gress, which he would likely do.
 though hardly until after the comple- | tion by the committee of the pending | legislative investigation of his de- partment it will necessitate an ad in- terim appointment to the office by Gov | ernor Brown. Those interested in the
 race profess to believe that Governor
 Brown would select for appointment | some man who does not expect to be
 a candidate, thereby giving no undue
 advantage to any of those likely to be 1 in the running. This is a reasonable
 supposition as it is a plan which has
 been customarily followed by Georgia governors, except in a few cases con-
 trolled by political influences. If the | appointment should fall to any of those named here, it may be taken as reason
 ably certain that he would not be a candidate.
 Hill Tuggle. former prison inspector, is running for prison commissioner
 against Capt Wiley Williams of Co.,