The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-12-01
JUDGE BRANDON
TO ENTER RACE
FOR GOVERNOR
Friends Make POsitiveState-
ment That Tuscaloosa Jur-
list Will Be Candidate
MAN FOR THE PLACE
CAMPAIGN SLOGAN
Splendid Record of Brandon as Public
Official as Indorsement-Wil
Make Formal Announce
ment Later

Bill Brandon is going to run for gov
error.
| If he does not announce of his own
volition, his friends are going to put him
| in the race. The Tuscaloosa county pro-
bate judge will positively be in the race
for chief executive of the state in the
coming campaign.
Information to this effect was brought
to Birmingham yesterday by large dele
cation of Tuscaloosa people who came
here for the purpose of letting the world
know that Bill Brandon was going to
run. Judge Brandon himself has made
| no formal announcement, but he let it be
known while here yesterday that "he
was in the hands of his friends"
| James Rice, solicitor of Tuscaloosa
county. headed the delegation which was
leading in boosting Judge Brandon.
Others in the party were DR.. Aston
Fits, E. l.. Dodson and Murray Cannon.
Tuscaloosa came to Birmingham en- masse
yesterday for the football game and most
of the visitors were members of the I'M
official but nevertheless persistent Bran
| don campaign committee"
The judge himself was rather reticent
nouncement was concerned. However, he
| let it be known that he rather thought
he would run and he expressed great
qualification at the loyal support which
he was receiving from his friends. That
he will make his formal announcement
in the near future was the positive state
ment of the members of his party and
of many of the leading citizens Of his
home town.
ASSURED OF SUPPORT
So persistent were the Brandon
boosters around the hotels yesterday and
last night that the football game was
almost made to occupy a secondary place
in the consideration of the crowds who
were in the city. Incidentally, Judge
Brandon was assured of the support of
people from every state and many polit-
ical leaders urged him to enter the race
without further delay.
Judge Brandon is going to make the
race for governor and he is going to
win said James Rice, county solicitor
of Tuscaloosa. There is not man who
has been mentioned for the place who
is better known all over Alabama than
Judge Brandon. He was elected by an
| overwhelming majority to the postiont of
|
only state office for which he ever ran.
| LAS stump speaker and campaigner,
he has no peer among the men who are
| being considered for the place and he has
sources of strength which will make him
| a most formidable candidate. He Is very
strong with the leading men of the state,
but at the same time, he has wonderful
strength with the masses of the people.
He will not run on any one issue. He
will not try to ride into office on either
prohibition or saloons. He considers that
question as settled and he thinks there
are other momentous issues which de-
mand the attention of the people OF Ala
hama. Judge Brandon will be in the
race in the near future and when he be
gins his campaign, every man who enters
the fight will realize that he must defeat
the Tuscaloosa candidate, if he expects
to land the place"
FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
When informed by a representative
of The Age-Herald of the statement OF
Mr.. Rice and other of his friends, Judge
Brandon admitted that he was seriously
contemplating entering the race. 81
am not yet prepared to offer for the
position of governor, nor can | make
my final announcement today. How
ever, I am being urged by people, not
only in Tuscaloosa but all over the
state, to make the race. I am inclined
to think that / will be candidate, but
1 think it too soon to formally open the
fight at this time"
DR.. Aston Fits, one of the leading
men of Tuscaloosa county, was en-
thusiastic in his support of Judge
Brandon. He is going to run, and the
people of Tuscaloosa insist that he Of
fer for the place" said Dr. Fits
Judge Brandon was only recently re-
elected probate judge of his county by
large majority, but we do not in
tend for him to remain in that position
after the coming primary We are go
ing to make him governor and we think
he is the man for the place Alabama
needs Bill Brandon in the governors
chair and we propose to see that >the
needs of the state in this regard are
taken care Of"
Murray Cannon, one of the leading
wholesale merchants in the state, also
announced the candidacy of Judge
Brandon. "They tell me that it takes
a good deal of money to make a state
wide campaign for an office of the inn
portance of governor" said Mr.. Can
non. Judge Brandon is not a rich man,
but we are not going to let him stay
out of the race merely because he does
not feel able to spend the money to
conduct campaign. The people of
Tuscaloosa are behind him, as are many
of the leading men over the state, and
we will consider it privilege to con-