Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-07
Democrats Everywhere Rallied
to the Cause and the Desert
ers Were AnnihiIated by
Overwhelming Odds
Mr.. SMITHS VOTE WILL
P0BABLY REACH 100000
10000 Votes Probably Polled
for BroWn-Mr. Smith Re-
CeiVed 4,978 Votes in
Fulton County

BY the overwhelming force of their
numbers, the loyal Democrats of Geor-
gia on Wednesday rallied at the polls
and effectually annihilated the deserters
and their allied aggregation of miscel-
laneous voters who had assailed the lines
of the party. Hoke Smith, nominated by
the Democrats on August % as their
candidate for governor, is now governor
elect of Georgia, and Gov. Joseph M.
Brown, whom the ragtag allies sought to
proclaim governor again under the ban
ners of a fake Democracy, will retire
from mis- office when the legislature con-
venes next June. Official figures from
more than 30 counties indicate that 10000
votes were polled.
BY a ratio of approximately five to one.
the regulars stamped the life out of the
revolt led by Thomas z. Watson. Full
ton, Cobb Muscogee Richmond. Bib and
Chatham counties all declared themselves
fatty for the Democratic nominee. Every
other county of the state, with the excep-
ton of four. that has been heard from.
held itself in the column of the loyalists.
Glascock went for Mr.. Brown by a re-
ported ratio of three to one. Warren
county gave Mr.. Brown a majority of Is.
Lincoln gave him II majority. Douglas
county was carried by Brown by "a ma
jority.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
RATIFIED.
All of the three proposed constitutional
amendments were ratified by vote of the
people, Under one of them, Richmond
county will be allowed to issue more than
the constitutional limit of bonds An
other permits Fulton. Richmond and
Chatham counties to supplement the sal
aries of their superior court judges. The
third puts high schools on the same
basis as common schools in county or
ganizations permitting the levy of a tax
for the former as well as the latter.
The vote was~heavier than had been
expected, but it was light all through
the state in comparison with the pri-
mary vote and the registration figures.
There was little excitement at any of
the polls in Georgia, and after the for
tunes of the day were indicated by the
returns in the forenoon, there was little
interest.
AS usual, Fulton was the barometer
for the rest of the. state. When 1t be-
came manifest in the capital county that
the Democrats were mastering in good
force to repel the attack on their party,
the fortunes of the day were clearly in
dicated. There was nothing left to do.
then, but add the returns as they came
in.
In Fulton, 6,0S1 votes were polled, Hot
Smith receiving 4,97S of that number,
Joseph NJ. Brown 1,Oi3 and IS going to
the Socialist candidate, c. o. Brown, or
being scratched. To these figures the re-
turns from Oak Grove district. one of
the remote polling places of the county.
are yet to be added, but the regstra-
ton there is about 100. and its whole
vote will not alter things one way or
the other.
MAJORITY IN ATLANTA.
In the city of Atlanta, $50 votes were
pOlled in the ten wards. OF tH-
for Hoke Smith, 915 We're for Mr.. Brown
and 70 were scattered.
Mr.. Smiths majority in Fulton, which
he carried at the primary by 56S votes,
was 1886. The total vote pOlled We'd
nesday was almost exactly 80 per cent of
the regstra ton in this county. In the
primary Mr., Smith received 5,53S votes.
In the whole state Mr.. Smith is es-
timated to have received 5000 votes out
of an approximate total vote of $4,000.
This estimate leaves about 1900 votes
for Joseph NJ. Brown.
Cobb county gave seven precincts to
Mr.. Brown, but gave Mr.. Smith a ma
iorty of 646 in the whole county. Mari
eta gave Mr. Smith 557 votes and Mr..
Brown PIP.
McDufie county, the home of Thomas
E. Watson, who led the deserters fight,
gave Mr.. Smith 800 votes. and Mr..
Brown $50.
Chatham county gave Mr. Smith LOIS,
C. o. Brown (SocialisD, II and Joseph NJ.
Brown Z.
Bibb county gave Mr.. Smith PRACTICAL
" the entire vote.
Muscogee gave Mr.. Smith 901. G.. o.
Brown 43, and Joseph NJ. Brown g.
In HARRISON, Jackson. Laurens. Pauld-
ing, Carroll and Banks, Joseph NJ. Brown
was given a heavy vote. But the coun-
ties of Coffee, Telfair, Fannin and Dodge
refused to give him any vote at all.
FULTONS DETAIL VOTE.
Following is a table showing the vote
in the wards and precincts of Fulton