Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-02

his strong ally in Gilmer Boss" Cox
who had absolute control of the election
and custody of the ballot boxes, and told
him over long distance phone that 1t
would be necessary for him-Cox-to re-
turn a Morris majority from Gilmer suf-
ficient to overcome the outside Patterson
majority; and that through the secret and
unlawful manipulations of the said Cox
such a majority was returned from Gil
mer in favor of Morris; and that upon
that fraudulent showing, Morris is at
tempting to take over a nomination right
eously belonging to Patterson.
Patterson's petition that the entire vote
of Gilmer county be disregarded, and that
the nomination be awarded him upon the
returns from the other counties in the
circuit, was referred by the state con-
vention to the executive committee for
settlement, and that is the issue the com
mittee is to try on Wednesday
Patterson's Allegations.
In support of his allegations, Patterson
sets forth the following alleged facts:
That the registra ton lists of Gilmer coun-
~ were entirely in the hands At strong
Morris partisans, and that they arbitrar-
lily refused and declined in hundreds of
instances to permit the registering of
| Patterson men, whereas they allowed any
and all sorts of Morris men to register;
that the managers of the election pre-
cincts were all notorious Morris men,
and that Patterson men were rigidly
excluded from participating in the man
| agement; that the managers openly and
| viciously refused to allow Patterson men
! to vote, but opened the gates wide for
! Morris men; that the vote of Gilmer was
| consolidated in secret by Boss" Bart
Cox, clerk of Judge Morris court in Gil
mer, and that all attempts upon the part
| of PattersOn'S friends to participate in
! the counting were thWarted even to the
! point of pistols; that two districts in Gil
mer, conceded to Patterson, were pre-
vented from holding an election at all on
| August 81: that Cox and his crowd
| thwarted all efforts to serve notice of
contest upon them, and that no execu-
! tive committee meeting was held the day
after the election to compile and declare
the result as the state committee pro-
vided; that repeatedly friends of Patter
son, applying to vote. were coolly in
! formed that their names were not on the
registration lists, although they ought of
right to nave been there; that had fair
election been held Patterson would have
received a majority vote Of Gilmer, and
that. in any event Morris could not have
carried the county by a majority suffi-
| Gent to overcome the Patterson majority
throughout the entire district elsewhere
To sustain these allegations there will
| appear before the state executive com
mittee on Wednesday the following at.
torneys: Carl Hutchinson and Samuel d
Hewlett, of Atlanta; II. II. Dean, OF
Gainesville, and Samuel Allen of Crit
fin. They will present a mass of evil
dence to uphold their case against Morris
Always Charges Of Theft.
Morris will be represented by Luther Z
Rosser Of Atlanta, and other counsel. He
sweepinglY denies all the counts set VI
in the Patterson indictment, and claim.
that he-Morris- fairly and sQuareh
nominated for the judgeship and that h
will be able so to prove.
What the real truth of the Slime
county situation is. the Lord alone, per
haps, knows,
The only thing that is settled with pre-
else and exact defniteness is that as reg
ularly as elections come around in Gil
mer, stencil follows that arises to higf
heaven and spreads all over the state
Whichever side wins, charges Of bald
faced theft and highway robbery imme
diately follow.