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

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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 LISP 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 commissionership of agriculture
also goes to the convention neither
Brown. Price nor Blalock having a ma
Jority, which is necessary to nominate.
Popular Vote May Decide.
In the court of appeals race, both
candidates, Broyles and Pottle. will go
into the convention backed by delega-
tons 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
cases a plurality of the popular vote
should decide the winner of a nomina-
ton. porvided a 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 S4257 popular
votes, as against S2,495 for his adver-
sary.
Pottle also overlapped Broyles in the
number of counties carried, winning rs
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
Iapportionment, rather than under the
y
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
convention in any of these suggestions.
The convention may, in its final wis
dom, reject. if 1T likes, both Broyles and
Pottle, but the trend of talk is decidedly
unfavorable to the suggestion of
dark horse" The convention alone
has authority over the nomination now.
Judge Broyles is not in the city to-
day. and Judge Pottle did not care to
discuss the status of affairs further
than to express his satisfaction that a
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 so posi-
lively, and upon such good authority,
apparently that Judge Broyles had
won" said Judge Pottle today. that |
had about concluded to send my con-
gratulations and best wishes to my At
lanta adversary, and let 1t go a that.
q believed l 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 reponderating
evidence, as If | were out of the run
ming
The Georgian, however, persistently
refused-or failed-to admit my defeat.
1t stuck to 1t that l might tie the race,
anyway, although it did say that if two
unoficially returned counties went
against me was defeated.
The Georgian had been so accurate
in its forecasts on the governorship race
that | concluded ii surely must know
what it was talking about in the court
Of appeals race, and that my chance for
either a nomination or a tie, however
seemingly slim. was worth waiting for
and hoping for.
No Feeling, He Says.
Besides, tne 1eOl gan : dNLlLuupi
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 it's own figures
land 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 it by four
unit votes, provided the two counties
unoticially returned to The Georgian as
having gone for Broyles really went to
Broyles
Saturday night. however, one OF these
counties was found not 10 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 ~ having gone to
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