Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-05-03
Returns Are Slow Coming in
and Exact Vote VIII Not Be
Known Probably for Several
Days
HIS LEAD ON WILSON
ESTIMATED AT 5000
$4,000 Votes Had Been
Counted at NOon---Total
Vote viii Probably Run Over
100000

Oscar w. Underwood carried Georgia
over Woodrow Wilson by a small pIu-
rality.
OF the result there is no doubt. but
the returns are stin incomplete and the
figures cannot be stated exactly.
Estimated according to all the re-
turns that are in. Underwood's plurality
ranges something over 5000.
The returns indicate that Underwood
carried about 81 counties. and that
Wilson carried A.
The total vote for. Wilson ana IN
derwood will approximate 100000, but
this does not represent the entire vote
cast in the state. Speaker Clark. Gov
ernor Harmon. Senator Hoke Smith.
Taft and Roosevelt all received compli-
mentary votes. which viii swell the to-
tai probably to 10000 The official AZ
ures win probably not be all in for
several days. and until they are il viii
be impossible to tell just what plurality
Mr.. Underwood received.
Wilson carried Fulton county by
overwhelming odds, and he carried
Chatham, Richmond. Bib. Floyd and
several other big counties. But his
pluralities in the big countless were
not sufficient to offset Underwoods
heavy lead in many of the comparative
ly small counties.
Underwood's failure to sweep the
state with the great plurality predicted
by his managers is explained by them
on the ground that fair weather kept
the farmers at the plow.
The Underwood Fulton County club
OF more than 5000 members. which was
loudly proclaimed IN the local morning
paper Tuesday, did not materialize al
the polls. But this was not surprise.
Underwood's total vote in Fulton coun-
ty was only s.454, or a little more than
half the membership claimed for the
Underwood Fulton club.
Likewise was the big Underwood Bib
County club, heralded at the 18th hour
by the Macon Telegraph. conspicuous
by it's absence from the polls.
Sizing up the state as a whole. the
cities and towns went for Wilson and
the rural districts went for Underwood.
The line of demarcation was plain and
unnistakable. Perhaps no other political
campaign in Georgia has ever brought
out the distinction so remarkably
The explanation is not far to seek.
It was the result of the influence
welded by the country newspapers
throughout the state. with which the
Underwood managers spent huge sums
for advertising They emblaroned the
picture of the Alabama Congressman on
the front page OF country weeklies from
the mountains to the seashore. and their
Underwood supplements were sent
broadcast over Georgia. Their advertis-
ing bills were doubtless pretty heavy.
but the money was well spent 1t turned
the trick
Under the rules adopted by the state
executive COMMITTEES. every county in the
state must send Underwood delegates to
the state convention. This applies to
the counties which went for Wilson, as
we'll as to those which went for IN
derwood.
The convention is scheduled to meet in
Atlanta on May g. 1t will send a dele
CATION TO the Baltimore convention In
structed to vote for Underwood. The
instructions, probably, viii be Under
wood to the finish
The county executive committees will
meet Thursday and consolidate the re-
turns In a few days the state COM
mittee will assemble in Atlanta to con-
soIidate all returns and officially de-
clare the result for Georgia.