The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

Jackson, Miss, September 7.-tSpecia}l Former Gov. Earl Brewer of Ciarksda.e is destined to be the Agricola of Mis- sissppi Having served acceptably for four years. from 1912 to 1s16 as governor he returned to pastoral pursuits and the practice of the law, stating that he had all the political honors he ever wanted and that h.s only ambition thereafter was to be the biggest cotton planter in the world, lie has come mighty near reach ing that goal, If not already cover the top" but it now looks as if he has been settled on as the Moses to lead the stata ont of the political wilderness in which it has been wandering under vardaman and Bibo for years
 One of these worthies has been repud- lated at the polls, anu after next Marcn will ae known no more forever in ;he Senate halls at Washington; the other is doomed, t seems, to defeat for Con sress ii the sea coast district, September lo That will dispose of the two Leaders Of The "ene- gallGs" contingent in the state, but certain of their coat-tail hang. CTS aspire 60 succeed them as governor and the men who overthrow and clipped the VardaInan wool, and woh are now ready to apply the shears to Governor Bilho, do not propose to permit anvthiu., akin to continuation of this deuresn- ing influence in the state, if they ca1 heip it-and they believe they can Wit, Earl Brewer IS their flag-bearer.
 
 Already there are several candidates in the gubernatorial field, viz: Ross Col. hns, present attorney general: Lee Rus. sell lieutenant governor, and Marion hliey Of Meridian, an anti candidate wbc ran next to Bilbo in the last race. These are officially announced but it is prob. aoie MT Riley will withdraw in favo, or Brewer Prof. w. H. Smith pres; Heht or the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Starkville, and H F. Blackes lee, former commissioner of agricultur, and director general of the Centennia exposition that was postponed on accoun of the war, have the matter "under ad Nlstment and are liable to erupt at an, tune, as is also Col W. A. Montgom cry, penitentiary trustee Still other nave been mentioned-among them tn Great White Chief who declared tn fh'Sht oL tlc pflUldTV when the return showed he had been showed under. tha the people had made a mistake-a tenn porary mistake" This has been taken f mean that he will be a candidate fo governor next year, as he will then be
 statesman @ out of a job-and in tn event the falls down on that, the supposi ton IS that the will shie his castor int the senatorial arena once more for tn John Sharp Williams succession But, tn Flf
 already corrected their 'mistake''th mistake of 1911, when they gave Varda man such an overwhelming majority owe Alexander and Percy
 BE LIVELY RACE
 In the event that Earl Brewer doe agree to enter the lists and Vardaman ms opponent, there will be one of tn Hveiiest series of campaign concerts eve experienced in Mississippi and in Vardaman majorities in even hide bound old Pontotoc vii be a thing c the past, for Brewer is as ambidextrou as Nardaman. and can sprout poetry ou Of one side of his mouth while sIingin mud out of the other.
 The Vardaman- faction hate Brewer worse than the devil does hol water He was governor of the stat when two or three of them came to grit before the courts on charges of ma feasance, or misfeasance, in office. an when others managed to escape tf courts, the detectaphones and the Burr DAective agency because, it was a legged. of the political bias of the iurie Governor Bibo was fed through tn hopper two or three times, and can out badly disfgured but still in the rin, and was afterwards elected governc on his cry of persecution. However, h bitterest enemies will not deny the ia, that he has made a good governor H leaves the gubernatorial office in chars of Private Secretary Buck half the tim and that may, in a measure account ft the bouquets he has received as the mo progressive governor the state has ev. had-a governor who has secured u passage of a great deal of construct, legislation.
 WILL BE EASY
 But he does not like Brewer ar more than Vardaman likes him, an just as soon as Brewer announces h willingness to serve the people of u state once more as their chief executiv these two dead uns" will think then selves called upon to throw as many more obstacles in his path as Vardama has piled up in front of President Wi son. And MT. Brewer, a strong, virl unafraid democrat, will have no mol trouble in kicking these obstacles out his way than the President has had. + has received thousands of letters fro over the state urging him to permit u use of his name in the gubernatori: contest; several strong delegations ha, visited him at his home in Clarksdal and at his hotel in Jackson, assurin him of vigorous support. and it is CO., fidently predicted right here that he wi be candidate-the candidate of tn -Nartiaman- -Rilbo faction. and