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

day in the matter of the court of ap- |
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 commissionership OF agriculture |
also goes to the convention neither
Brown, Price nor Blalock having a ma
1orlty, which is necessary to nominate.
Popular Vote May Decide.
| In the court of appeals race. both
candidates Broyles and PottIe. 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 plurality of the popular vote
should decide the winner Of 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 |
BroSles- Pottle contest. Pottle would |
win, for he received S4,257 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 Curiousy 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
lapportionment. rather than under the
new apportionment yet to go into eff
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 it likes, both Broyles and |
Pottle, but the trend of talk is decidedly |
unfavora Bile to the suggestions of a |
! dark horse" The convention alone |
has authority over the nomination now.
Judge Broyles is not in the city to-
day, and Judge PottIe 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 unequvocally the
| nomination of Broyles over him, Judge
Pottle likely would have conceded his
defeat to Judge Broyles Saturday.
The other papers insisted 30 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-
CALCULATIONS and best wishes to my At
lanta adversary, and let 1t go at that.
81 believed I 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
unotficially returned counties went
against me | was defeated.
! The Georgian had been so accurate |
! in its forecasts 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 nominate or a tie, however |
seemingly slim was worth waiting for
No Feeling, He Says.
! Besides, the GeoTglans 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 it's own figures
and rejecting all others, in its noon ana
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
unotficially returned 10 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
narrow margin OF victory for Potte
! When finally the other county was
reported officially as having gone TO