The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1910-07-22
REPUBLICAN WILL
RUN IN THE SEVENTH
Walter Akerman, of Car.
tersville, Nominated By
Meeting in Rome.

The executive committee of the Sew
entL district Republicans met at Rome
on the 18th and nominated Walter
Akerman, OF Gainesville, for Congress
and he will be in the race against the
Democratic nominee.
Hon. Gordon Lee and Judge Moses
Wright, after scrapping it out between
themselves, will find a Republican
candidate ready to continue the fight
with whichever wins in the primary.
The Republicans think the result OF
the last Presidential race, in which
TAFT scored a popular majority of about
/ 200 votes in the district over Bryan.
indicates that Republican Congress
sional candidate will have chance to
win They say Mr.. Alderman will be
the first Republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Seventh since the Walter
Massey, of Walker county, ran in 1896
In that election there were three candi-
dates, the populists running McGarri-
ty, who received about 5000 votes,
Massey about 1000 and Judge J W.
Maddox, the Democratic candidate.
about II 900.
Walter Akerman comes Of a dis
tinguised family, his father, Amos T.
Akerman, being attorney general in
General Grants cabinet. He has
several brothers who have achieved dis
tinction, one of them being a professor
at the University of Georgia, another
district attorney at Macon, another a
prominent physician at Wilmington.
N. c., and still another prominent as
a politician at Macon and one of the
electors from Georgia in the last Presi-
dental election. Walter Alderman
himself graduated at Princeton Uni
versity in 1890 and has been postmaster
at Gainesville u years. He is vice
president of the Gainesville board of
education, and for some time has been
chairman of the district Republican
executive committee
1t is rumored that before the COM
mittee met, word was received from
Frank Hitchcock at Washington.
chairman of the national committee.
that in view of the large Republican
vote in the last Presidential election
in this district, Congressional candi-
date must be put out. The rumor has
it that Hitchcock promised active sup
port from the national committee in
the way of spell-binders. !" Roose-
veltis to speak in Rome in October and
will probly give the movement his sup
port.
This movement is said to be one
made by the Taft clubs, composed ex-
clusively of white men. The colored
brother will not be in it until election
day when he will, of course, be permit
ted to vote if he is registered. The
Taft clubs will find that voting for a
Republican candidate for president is
one thing and that voting for Repub-
lican candidate for congress, whose
election would break in on the solid
Georgia delegation, is something quite
different.
Mr.. Akerman stated that though he
would most likely accept the nomina.
ton he would not publish his formal
acceptance for about two weeks yet, al
which time his platform will also be
made public.
Among those attending the meeting
in Rome, were Walter Akerman and
David Freeman, of Gainesville; G. H.
Keller and d. c. Cole, of Marietta: C.
r. Jones, of Rossville; w. H. Carroll,
of Lafayette; J. A. Crawford and Thos
Glenn, of Dalton; j. w. Spinks and
j. E. Carter, of Dallas; DR.. f. B.
Hutchinson, of Buchanan; T. B. Nc.
Clellan of Menlo; Charles Neal. OF
Summerville; j. |. Fullwood, of Cedar.
town; F. l.. Dyar and W. NJ. TAYLOR
OF Calhoun; Major Strickland, of Aus.
tell; Taylor, Of Resaca; 4. NJ. Grudgel
and c. W. Brown, of Spring Place; A.
5, Anderson, of Catoosa county; A. L.
Waite and j. 2. Dyar, of Barlow coun.
ty; A. N Tumblin, of Cave Spring land
John r. Barclay, of Rome.