The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-22
WALKER LEADING
WITH IS VOTES
pF CHARLTON GIVES PARKER A
MAJORITY DEADLOCK WILL
BE THE RESULT.
then A DARK HORSE WOULD
COME IN FOR NOMINATION
Walker Carries Eight Counties With
10 Convention Votes, Parker Carries
Six With IS Votes, While the Re-
suit in Charlton is in Doubt.

Charlton county. looms up this
in the Eleventh congressional district.
The vote of that county will possibly
decide who is to succeed Congress
man W. G. Brantley from the Elev-
enth district. If it finally goes for
Randall Walker then the Valdosta
candidate, in the face of the returns,
will receive the nomination, IF it
is found that Judge Parker has re-
ceived majority of the votes of the
county, then the Brunswick conven-
ton, which convenes here on August
81, will witness a deadlock and there
is no telling who will receive the
nomination.
Up to 100 o'clock this morning the
count in Charlton had not been COM
pleted, or rather returns had not been
received from the various precincts.
1t was stated by phone from Way
cross that the vote was so close that
it would take the official count, At
/ o'clock Parker was said to be nine
votes ahead at Folkston, the county
seat, while Walker had about the
same majority from one or two pre-
cincts which had reported. The
News made efforts to get returns from
the county up to o'clock this morn
ing. Up to that time nothing had
been heard from the county in Way.
cross.
While official returns have not
been received from number of coun-
ties, unofficial figures give Randall
Walker of Valdosta, eight counties
with total of Is convention votes,
while Judge Parker has carried six
counties with a convention vote of
IS; therefore it can be seen that if
Charlton county goes for Walker,a
the returns from other counties are
accurate, he will receive the nomina-
ton, while if the county goes for
Judge Parker, and he holds the six
counties accredited to him last night,
he will have eighteen votes, and, as
was intimated in The News several
days ago, the convention will result
in a deadlock.
Dark Horse Suggested.
1t was late last night when it be-
came known that deadlock was
probable, but dark horse was at
once suggested. 1t is not believed
that either of the present candidates
could be able to break the deadlock,
so tight have the lines been drawn,
and it would then be up to the con-
vention to name some man in the dis
trict as Congressman Brantley's sue
lessor. The name of Judge Joseph
w. Bennett has been prominently men
toned and he would no doubt be the
most formidable candidate. In Way
cross it was stated that only two
names had been mentioned, that of
Judge Bennett and Colonel Dickerson
of bonneville.
The News was last night in tele-
phone communication with the Par
ker headquarters at Waycross and the
Walker headquarters at Valdosta, and
both headquarters claimed some of
the same counties, among them be-
ing JEFF Davis, Appling and Irwin.
However, it seems that these three
counties have gone as indicated in the
table above.
The situation is indeed an interest
ing one. and all eyes will be turned
on Charlton county this morning It'll
So expected that the news will be-
eagerlv SOUGHT and something should
be known early in the dsv.
As to the nopuls- vote between the
tive candidates, nsthing definite is as