The Brunswick News

GOVERNOR'S RACE LACKING IN "PEP" AT PRESENT BUT IT MAY WARM UP SOME LATER

Candidacy of Walker and Hardwick Has Not as Yet Stirred Populace, But Legislative Session Will Likely Bring on and Arouse Great Interest.

Atlanta, Ga., June 3.-Although the gubernatorial campaign has been on ostensibly for a full week, there are no indications reaching here that the people of the state are greatly interested in the race between former Attorney General Clifford Walker and Governor Thomas W. Hardwick.

Neither does it appear that there are likely to be soon.

The approaching session of the general assembly with its influx of local statesmen and politicians is expected to inject some "pep" into the race if there is to be any, which is quite likely, because Georgia in recent years has never seen a gubernatorial campaign lacking in fireworks.

The campaign is to be peculiar in one respect, at least. Mr. Walker has announced that he will not open campaign headquarters in Atlanta, but will direct his efforts from his home town of Monroe. Atlanta friends of the former attorney general will probably maintain local offices for their Fulton county drive.

Governor Hardwick's supporters will probably establish offices in the Kimball house.

There appear to be no issues at this time, in view of Governor Hardwick's recent statements that he is wedded to no particular plan for tax reform, which he insists should be worked out by the legislature. The inevitable struggle there over the various measures along this line may lead to campaign issues, although they do not appear on the surface now.

Predictions are already plentiful as to the outcome, although they are of necessity purely speculative. Mr. Walker's friends claim that he will have the active support of Senator Thomas E. Watson and that he will make a vigorous speaking campaign calculated to rally to his standards his many friends of his first two campaigns; if these materialize, a close race is likely.

On the other hand, the friends of the governor say that his record as chief executive is invulnerable; that he has saved the state millions of dollars and that another term will give him the opportunity of compiling one of the greatest records of constructive administration of the decade.