Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-26
BROYLES-POTTLE
T|ETODEADLOCK
CONVENTION
Should the Popular Vote De-
eide the Winner, Atlanta
Man Would Lose.

peals nomination, politicians already
are beginning to speculate as to the
| final outcome
| Broyles and Pottle each will go into
the convention with exactly 1874 unit
! votes to his credit.
Pottle has 1,762 the advantage over
Broyles in the popular vote. however
and in four the number of counties car
ried.
| Final and complete returns were not
received from all counties until late
Saturday night.
The commissonership of agriculture
also goes to the convention neither
Brown, Price nor Blalock having a ma
Jor1ty' which is necessary to nominate.
B.. Popular Vote May Decide.
| In the court of appeals race. both
candidates Broyles and Pottle. will go
into the convention backed by deIega-
! lions composed of their known friends
! in the various counties carried BY each.
There is no established rule or prece-
! dent to fall back upon in deadlocks Of
| this kind, but the executive committee
of the state did provide that in certain
/
| should decide the winner of a nomina-
ton, porvided majority of the unit
vote was not shown for any candidate
! in these races.
If that test should be applied in the
Broyles- Pottle contest. Pottle would
win, for he received S4.251 popular
votes, as against S2.495 for his adver-
sary.
Pottle also overlapped Broyles in the
number of counties carried, winning IS
against the Atlanta mans IL
1t is further pointed out by Politics.
! friends that the nomination of Judge
Pottle, in the circumstances would
leave things as they have been-Judge
Broyles safe and snug in his position
of city recorder of Atlanta and Judge
Pottle safe and snug in his position of
appeals court judge. Curiously enough,
too. both positions pay the same sala-
ry, $4,000 per annum.
Believe Pottle Has Shade.
Judge Politics. friends also call at
tention to the fact that had the electoral
vote been counted under the present
apportionment, rather than under the
new apportionment yet to go into ef-
feet, Judge Pottle would have won out
over Judge Broyles by ten convention
or unit votes.
On the surface of things. therefore,
the politicians are figuring today that
| Pottle has a shade the better of it, al
though they admit, without question
that there is nothing binding upon the
To-, H.,
The convention may, in its final wis
dom. reject, if it likes, both BrOyles and
! Pottle but the trend of talk is decidedly
| unfavorable TO the suggestion of a
| dark horse" The convention alone
has authority over the nomination now
Judge Broyles is not in the city to-
| day, and Judge Potte did not care to
discuss the status of affairs. further
than to express his satisfaction that
definite result seemed to have been
arrived at, in so far as the primary out
come is concerned.
Georgian Gave PottIe Hope.
| Had it not been for The GeOrgian's
failure ever to admit unequivocally the
nomination of Broyles over him, Judge
Pottle likely would have conceded his
defeat to Judge Broyles Saturday.
The other papers insisted 50 posi-
| lively, and upon such good authority,
apparently, that Judge Broyles had
won" said Judge Pottle today. that l
had about concluded to send my con
gra tulations and best wishes to my At
lanta adversary, and let it go at that.
81 believed ! had a chance either to
win by a narrow margin or tie the race,
but the newspapers Of Atlanta stood
two to one against that idea, and it
| looked by the rule of preponderating
| evidence, as If | were out of the run
ming.
| The Georgian, however persistently
refused-or failed-to admit my defeat.
| 1t stuck to it that ! might tie the race,
anyway, although it did say that if two
unofficially returned counties went
against me / was defeated.
The Georgian had been so accurate
! in it's foreCa SITS on the governorship race
that ] concluded it surely must know
what ii was talking about in the court
of appeals race, and that my chance for
either a nomination or tie, however
seemingly slim, was worth waiting for
and hoping for.
No Feeling, He Says.
! Besides the Georgians attitude,
while utterly impersonal, as / realized,
conceded with some information of my
own. not in accord with the statements
of other papers.
Therefore, ! reversed my original
notion to concede my defeat, and held
my peace.
! II have no feeling in the matter, and
! have had none | merely thought the
| truth should be established.
Closest Race in State History.
| The Georgian, upon its own figures
and rejecting all others, in its noon and
home editions Of Saturday, suggested
| the likelihood OF a tie in the court OF
appeals race.
| Seemingly. Broyles had 1t by four
unit votes provided the two counties
| unofficially returned TO The Georgian as
having gone for Broyles really went to|
! Broyles
Saturday night, however, one Of these
counties was found not to have gone to|
+ Broyles. The result then was tie. or a
narrow margin Of victory for Pottle.
When finally the other county was
reported officially as having gone to|
/ Broyles the result-a tie-beCame abb