Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-09-10
H. |. PATTERSON NAMED
JUDGE OF BLUE RIDGE
State Committee Gave Him
Decision Over Judge Newt A.
Morris, of Marietta

II. L. Patterson. OF Forsyth county,
became the Democratic nominee for
Judge OF the Blue Ridge circuit, Thurs
Gay afternoon. when the state Democrat
&c executive committee declared him to
h. after the committee had listened
tC testimony for nearly two days, and TO
argument for slightly more than half
an hour. The primary in Gilmer county
for judge was the point at issue. Mr..
Patterson having contested its fairness.
the result there having gone against
kim so heavily as 10 more than offset
his ma5orities in other counties OF the
circuit. In declaring Mr.. Patterson
the nominee. the committee implied its
diSapproval Of the method and result in
Gllmer. Also. IN so doing. il displaced
Judge Newt Morris. Of Marietta, judge
uf the circuit for the past four years.
and the winner on the face OF this years
primary returns
The vote OF the committee on the mo-
ton to declare Mr.. Patterson the nom
inee was q viva vOce vote, with no nays
spoken On the only test vote, taken
upon : motion BY Mr.. Lawrence, Of
CHATHAM. 10 declare the election in
I.nner county valid land thereby make
Judge n IRIS the noninee). the result
stood nine to twenty-nine. as follows. no
proxies teing admitted TO vote:
HOW THEY VOTED.
Ayes. J. w Mayson. A. A Lawrence,
A. Whitaker. W. y. d. Dixon. ~ C
Martin. D. W. Blair. S. 7. WOrley, d.
b. BuIlard. H. P. Meiklehsm-s-
Nays: ". = West. c. R Hutchens.
Albert Howell. Jr.. J. A. Brannen. A s.
HARDY. W r. Frier. W. l. McElmur-
W. Z. Saunders. E. L. Rainey. ]. E.
HAYS. ". NJ Harper. F. NJ. Longley. c.
E Battle. T H Persons. J. E Boden-
hamer. b. H Hardy. J. H Han, Roy
ID. Stubbs. o. Roberts. w. r. Little, S.
ri. Allen. Carl Vinson. Alvin Golucke,
A. 4. Woodward. c. W. Griffin. L ID.
shannon and ]. W. Palmer-2s.
The vote was taken shortly after
o'clock Thursday afternoon. and a few
minutes later. after adopting two res
olutions bearing on the national cleo
ton this year, the committee adjourned
AT SIS O'Clock all evidence was in, and
the committee went into executive ses-
sion A few moments later it recalled
the attorneys and the principals and the
newspaper men. and for half an hour
heard argument from the two sides. II.
II. Dean. OF Gainesville. and ]. d. Kill
patrick. OF Atlanta, argued for Mr.. Pat
terson. and Luther z. Rosser. Of Atlanta,
argued for Judge Norris Then the COM
mittee went into executive session again
to decide the result. Three votes were
taken-to declare the result in Gilmer
valid. lost By to =: to refer the matter
hack TO the voters OF Gilmer. lost by Is
20 -. and 10 declare Mr.. Patterson the
.~nrnfwna nEurfar viva r-ora
CLOSING TESTIMONY.
During the two days OF the hearing
numerous witnesses were called by 10th
sides to testify. The closing witnesses
were DR.. w. " Russell, ]. B. Kincaid.
W. D. McDaris. G. G. Wright. NJ d.
Kelly. J. J. Wilson. J. c. Day. A. G.
sharp. +. n Stanley NJ l. Tankersley.
chairman OF the county executive COM
mittee. al OF Gilmer county, and all tes-
tifying in behalf OF Judge Norris: w.
81 Davenport. OF Forsyth. who testified
that no papers about the election I'm
Forsyth could be produced by the clerk
OF the court there when he asked for
them-pr0ving that Gilmer was not Pc
cullar IN this respect: Senator Gordon
Cole. OF Gilmer, testifyins 10 the same
effect about Bib county: stiles Hopkins,
o. Atlanta. 10 the same effect about
Fulton county: Judge Newt Morris, of
Marietta 10 the same erect acout Cooo
county. J. o. Crawford and Sheriff J.
III Pcnlznd. Of Gilmer: George Patter-
son. a Valdosta attorney. son OF the
contestant; ". A. Pence and " Pinson.
n Gilmer county; Homer r. MeClatchey.
manager Of the telephone exchange at
Marietta; Bob Milton. former sheriff
81 Gilmer county; former State Senator
w. T.. DAY. eighty-four years old, the
patriarch among politicians In the Geor-
gia mountains: and H. l. Patterson. the
contestant