Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-03
COURT TO HEAR BITTER
BLUE RIDGE JUDGESHIP
CON TEST WEDNESDAY

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 it
would be necessary for him-Cox-to re-
turn a Morris majority from Gilmer suf-
fcient 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
mttee is to try on Wednesday,
Patterson's Allegations.
In support of his allegations, Patterson
sets forth the following alleged facts:
That the registration lists of Gilmer coun-
ty were entirely in the hands of 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 Norris men to register;
! that the managers of the election pre-
! cinCtS We're all notorious Morris men,
| ana that Patterson men were rigdly
excluded from participating In the man
aEcment; that the mana gers 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 We're thwarted. even to the
| point of pS tolls; that two districts in Gil
mer, conceded to Patterson. were pre-
vented from holding On election at all on
| August Il; that Cox and his crowd
! thwarted all efforts to serve Eoticc 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 Cooly in
! formed that their names were not on the
registration lists. although they ought of
| right to have been there; that had a 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-
| cient to overcome the Patterson majority
| throughout the entire district elsewhere.
| To sustain these allegations, there will
appear before the state executive COM
nittee on Wednesday the following at.
| torneys: Carl Hutcheson and Samuel ID.
! Hewlett, of Atlanta II. H. Dean, of
| Gainesville, and Samuel Allen, of Grif-
| fin. They will present mass of evil
dence to uphold their case against Morris.
Always Charges of Theft
Morris will be represented by Luther T.
| Rosser of Atlanta, and other counsel. He
| sweepingly denies all the counts set VI
| in the Patterson indictment. and claims
that he-Morrs-was fairly and squarely
nominated for the judgeship and that he
will he able SO to prove.
| What the real truth OF the Glmel
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 high
! heaven and spreads all over the state!
! Whichever side wins, charges OF bald.
faced theft and highway robbery imme-
! 6;gtelN follow