Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-20
Hardwick First to Enter Race for
the Unexpired Term Of
A. 0. Bacon.
Continued From Page I.

very quiet and reticent about the
matter. AS a matter of fact, he has
not even said that he will run for the
Senate. He has met inquyry thus far
by stating that he is Governor, and
attending to the job the best he
knows how" and that the matter of a
temporary successor to Mr.. Bacon is
the one and anly Senatorial matter
engaging his attention extensively to
date.
At the same time many of his
friends confidently believe he will be
a candidate for the Senate in the
summer primary, probably to be held
in August.
In the event the Governor enters
either of the Senatorial races that, Of
course, Will open the Governorship
fight, and that likely will precipitate
more or less wild scramble,
In that race the following probable
entries are figured: Thomas S. Eel
der, of Macon; Joseph M Brown, Of
Marietta; Murphey Gambler, of De-
catur: w. S. West, of Valdosta; Cor
don Lee, of Chickamauga; Seaborn
Wright, of Rome; w. H. Burwell, of
Sparta, and Randolph Anderson, of
Savannah, who, in the event of Gov
ernor Slaton's resignation, will be act
ing Governor for several months.
The first gun in one of the most
strenuous political mix-ups Georgia
ever has known will be fired within
the next "a hours, when Congress-
man T. w Hardwick, Of the Tenth
District, will announce his candidacy
for the unexpired term of Senator A.
o. Bacon.
Strenuous Race Certain.
Undoubtedly Mr. Hardwick's an
nouncement will upset and more or
less disturb permanently some tenta-
tive plans for the Senatorial success
sions understood already to be pretty
well under way. Mr.. Hardwlck stands
definitely for certain things in Geor-
gia that are mighty popular with one
school of politics and mighty unpop-
ular with the other. And there are
Just two schools in Georgia that real
" count, when It comes to an cleo
ton day show down"
The Congressman from the Tenth
has a we'll earned reputation as
hard and often successful fighter, and
he admittedly Is fine political STRAIT
egist. and a campaigner of the whiri-
wind sort. His determination to run
for the Senate furnishes the State
politicians the first point from which
definite calculations may be started.
With Hardwick's initial bow to the
big Georgia political audience already
assembled to see the show surely on
the cards, the performance will begin.
Battle To Be Far reaching.
There will be no between the acts"
from now until November, and the
battle is to be far-reaching in event.
ual consequence.
II may mean the making over OF
Georgia's political map-"from Rabun
Gap to Tybee Highland ever since
Alexander H. Stephens used that ex-
preston II has been taken to mean
most serious political business in
Crackerland.
II looks now as II Georgia is in for
perhaps a double-barrel Senatorial
race, with a Senatorial appointment
figuring as a sort of side issue four
or five sided Governorship race, and a
Legislative scramble that will affect
intimately and profoundly every one
of the 146 counties. not to mention
some 40-odd Senatorial districts.
And maybe. as long as the show is
on, there viii be a State house office
or so mixed up in the big fight along
with a handful Of judgeships.