Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
S|DEL|GHTS ON
STATE POLITICS
Gossip About the Men Who
Are in the Public Eye at
Present.
BY JAMES 8. NEVIN.

mixed things up in the various news
come thereof seems especially to have
been designed by a kind and watchful
Providence, to the end that no particu-
lar engine of journalistic uplift locally
might suffer a crushing preponderance
of embarra ssment, and every precinct
heard from!
The race was dead heat, dog
fall, an even break Designations are
matters of taste.
Giooms and Joys scatter impartially
and divide like gentlemen and real
sports should.
To begin at the beginning, the pre-
election campaign dope" ran to Pot
tie.
Pot4le was expected to win. and the
f4rst reports, wired in as a rule from
noon to 2:so o'clock on election day, in
dicated Pottle victory sure.
A tumble Of Reports.
Inc W eUDeShS1S cAbhAct NiNlioNs
exception. gave the race to Pottle.
Thursday morning The Constitution
printed Politics. picture and declared
him a winner.
Thursday afternoon The Georgian
said It looked like Pottle and The jour
Ya1 said It looked like Broyles.
Friday morning The Constitution said
gsSra
Friday afternoon The Georgian said
It was rott1e and The Journal said 1t
was BroySea.
Saturday morning The Constitution
said 1t was Broy4os by scratch, and
at noon Saturday The Georgian said 1t
was beginning 10 look nightly like a
ttei
Broyies Thanked His Friends.
Saturday afternoon The Journal said
1t was Broyles by 100 to 17S, and The
Georgian said 1t either was Broyles by
1872 to 1855, or 1t was a tie.
The Georgian quoted Judge Pottle as
saying he thought it might be a tie,
while The Journal carried a card OF
thanks from Broyies to his friends, IN
which he claimed victory sure.
Sunday morning both The Consti-
tuition and The Journal admitted that
che race was a tie--but The Constltu-
ton carried on it's editorial page new
ertheless, an illuminating PRONUNCIATION
snalyzing the meaning Of Broyles
election!
Somebody certainly had mixed those
babies up, all right!
The Georgian knew nothing Whatever
NJ the figures in The Constitution and
Journal Offices. 1t was figuring-as
best it could-from its own returns.
II went wrong on it's Friday story,
claiming victory for Pottle, on returns
subsequently corrected.
Then Looked Like 5royles.
II based It's two Saturday stories on
complete returns from all but two
oounties-Lincoin and Union.
With those two counties unoflcially
but seemingly reliably returned, It
looked like Broy4es by 1875 to 1872.
The Georgian stated Saturday after
noon that a swing Of either Union or
Lincoln from Broyies to Pottle would
tie the SCORE.
Curiously enough, and with that per-
w5uten4 pervsrxity of fate that seems to
have followed the Broyles-Pottle fig
urss one Of them DID swing In the
Anal and concluding lap-and the race
vaa a tie. with a convention fight the
snswer!
Saturday about 80 O'Clock a well
Known Atlanta politician came to The
Georgian Office and demanded to know
why The Georgian did not admit the
nomination of Broyles."
"All the other newspapers admit 1t,
and It looks like bull medicines in you
not to fall in rne!"
Trying TO Get Correct Figures.
Put it wasn't pure bull -headedness. "
The Georgian had no personal inter
sz+ in the race. Broyies and Pottle
were simply Mr.. X and Mr.. to The
Georgian. and 1t was looking for the
correct figures to attach to each exhib-
it-nothing more.
The Georgian couldn't make two and
two equal FIVE, when two and two
didn't seem to do anything OF the sort
even to please prominent Atlanta poll
ticians.
Besides, The Georgian knew what
was biting the prominent Atlanta pol
,tician. He had a candidate for city
recorder up his sleeve, and he wanted
the election of Broyles conceded.
The Georgian didn't have a candi-
date for city recorder and all candi-
dates for the court Of appeals looked
alike to The Georgian
Upon the official landing of Union and
Lincoln depended The Georgian's fig
ures for final accuracy in the court of
appeals race.
Giving them both to Broyes-where
they seemed to belong-Saturday aft
ernoon. his election was indicated by
1S6 to 1872.
When in the finish, however. one
landed in the Broyles and one in the
Pottle column. two votes came off of
Rrovles and went onto Pottle.
Result-to stay put-Broyles 1874 and
Pottle 1874!
Georgian Foresaw Tie.
The Georgia was the first newspaper
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