The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-11-24
COMING SESSION
Will Be full OF
POLITICS
LEGISLATIVE MEETING EXPECTED
TO "sIzzLE"- CANDIDATES
WILL FLOCK TO JACKSON
MUCH JoCKEYlNG FOR POSITION
Every Candidate Will Watch For op-
portunity to Put Opponents '1n
Hole"-Three In Race For Senate.

Jackson, Miss, Nov. 24.-Not since
the days of reconstruction will ses-
sion of the legislature have more poll
tics in it than the body that will con-
vene here Jan. 6. The session will
"sizzle" with politics from the opening
to the close.
Candidates and prospective candi-
dates from all sections of the state
will flock to Jackson. The political
lines for the next state campaign will
be formed, and it will be a game of
''jockeying" for advantage. Every cam
,ddate and his friends will watch for
an opportunity to manufacture political
capital. Nothing will be overlooked
that will put political antagonist "in
hole"
closes it is expected that candidates
will be out for practically every state
office from Governor down. Naturally
the fight over the Governorship will
attract the most attention, because
that is the most important office to
be filed. 1t is an office that few man
, would refuse, and it is one that many
would like to have.
| If present plans are carried out, the
United States Senatorship will not cut
any figure in the next state campaign.
The new amendment to the Federal
Constitution making United States
Senators elective by direct vote OF
the people has made it necessary for
the legislature to fix dates for the cleo
, tion of Senators. According to the
general understanding in the state, the
Legislature will make the senators cleo
tive at the same time that the Con-
gressmen are chosen. Senator A. G..
Anderson of Tippah county win in
troduce bill to carry that plan into
n effect
Election in 1916.
Senator John Sharp Williams term
in the Senate will expire March 4, 1917.
Senator Anderson's bill will provide
II that his successor shall be elected in
n 1916. at the time of the congressional
* election. Senator Vardaman's term
ID will expire March 4, 1919. The Ander.
,e son bill will make vardaman's success
ID sor elective in November. 1918.
4. Senator Anderson's bill will divorce
n national politics from state politics
,d The election for state officers viii b,
held in 1915. The enactment of thu
Anderson bill into law will prevent th'
senatorial contest from being injecte
6 into the state campaign.
The avowed candidates for Senate
as are Senator John Sharp Williams, Cor
an gressman T. U. Sisson and forme
State Senator John l.. Hebron. Go,
Brewer has been industriously boone
by some of his friends for the honol
but so far the Governor has not ind
Gated his purpose in that direction.
Gov. Brewer does not run, the figf
" will be between Williams, Sisson an
en Hebron. So far no opposition has d
VII veloped against the reelection of Va
oe daman.
Candidates for Governor.
or Up to date Lieut.. Gov. Theodore {
Is Bilbo of Poplarville and John r. Tai
the of Hattiesburg are the only two avo'
ano ed candidates for Governor, but it
op- said that Prof ]. H. Powers, State S
lse- perintendent of Education, and H.
Eve Quin. Speaker of the House of Repr
sentatives, are tentative candidates.
Several other names have been me
toned as probable candidates for &C