Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-27
S|DEL|CHTS ON
STATE POLITICS
Gossip About the Men Who
Are in the Public Eye at
Present.
BY JAMES 9. NEVIN.

mixed things up in the various news
paper offices in Atlanta, and the out
come thereof seems especially to have
been designed by a kind and watchtul
Providence. to the end that no particu-
lar engine of journalistic uplift locally
might suffer crushing preponderance
of embarra ssment, and every precinct
heard from.
The race was a dead heat, a dog
fall an even break! Designa tons are
matters of taste.
Glooms 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.
Pottle was expected to win, and the
first reports, wired in as a rule from
noon to 23O o'clock on election day, In
dictated a Pottle victory sure.
A tumble of Reports.
The Wednesday night extras, without
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
nal said it looked like Broyles.
Friday morning The Constitution said
1t looked nightly like Broyles.
Friday afternoon The Georgian said
II was Pottle and The Journal said it
was Broyles.
Saturday morning The Constitution
said it was Broyles by a scratch, and
at noon Saturday The Georgian said it
was beginning to look nightly like
tie,
eroyles Thanked His Friends.
Saturday afternoon The Journal said
1t was Broyles by 100 to 178, and The
Georgian said it either was Broyles by
1872 to 1856, or it was 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
,he race was a tie-but The Constitu-
ton carried on its editorial page, new
ertneless. an Illuminating PRONUNCIATION
analvziug the meaning of Broyles
election
Somebody certainly had mixed those
babies up, all right.
The Georgian knew nothing whatever
nj ne figures in The Constitution and
Journal Offices. 1t was fguring-as
nest # could-from it's own returns,
It went wrong on its Friday story,
claiming victory for Pottle, on returns
subsequently corrected.
Then Locked Like 5royles.
# based its two Saturday stories on
complete returns from all but two
counties Lincoln and Union.
With those two counties unof1cially
hut seemingly reliably returned, it
looked like Broyles by 1875 to 1872.
The Georgian stated Saturday after
noon that a swing of either Union or
Lincoln from Broyles to PottIe would
tie the score.
Curiously enough, and with that per
sistent perversity of fate that seems to
have followed the Broyles- Pottle fig
ures one Of them DID swing in the
final and concluding lap-and the race
was a tie. with a convention fight the
answer.
Saturday about $50 o'clock a well
known Atlanta politician came to The
Georgian office and demanded to know
u.bv The Georgian did not admit the
nomination of Broyles.
"Al the other newspapers admit it,
and it looks like bull-headedness In you
not to fall IN line!'
Tryinq to Get Correct Figures.
Rut it wasn't pure bull headedness.'
The Georgian had no personal inter
OCT in the race. Broyles and Pottle
,,.era simply Mr. X and Mr.. to The
ceorgian. and it was looking for the
,o,r:ect figures to attach to each eXhib-
it-nothing more.
The Georgian couldn't make two and
two equal Ave, when two and two
admit seem to do anything Of the sort
aven to please prominent Atlanta poll
ticians.
Besides The Georgian knew what
was biting the prominent Atlanta pol
i+ician He had a candidate for city
recorder up his sleeve. and he wanted
the election of Broyles conceded.
The Georgian didn't have q 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
,,res for final accuracy in the court of
appeals race.
Giving them both to BrOyles-where
they seemed to belong Saturday aft
ernoon. his election was indicated by
1856 to 1872.
When in the finish, however, one
landed in the Broyles and one in the
pottIe 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