Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-28
SIDEL|GHTS ON
STATE POLITICS
Gossip About the Men Who
Are in the Public Eye at
Present.
BY JAMES q. NEVIN.

paper Offices in Atlanta and the out
come thereof seems especially to have
been designed by kind and watchful
Providence, to the end that no particu-
lar engine OF journalistic uplift locally
might suffer a crushing preponderance
Of embarrassment, and every precinct
heard from!
The race was a dead heat, a dog
fall, an even break Designations are
matters OF taste.
GIoonS and Joys scatter inpartially
and dsvAde like gentlemen and real
sports should.
70 begin at thu beginning, the pre-
eteottou campaign dope" ran TO Pot
tie.
Pot<1e was expected % win. and the
nrst rspovts, wired IN IS q rule from
neon to .: 80 O'Clock on election day, in
dtoated Pokt1e victory sure.
A Jlsu,his Of Reports,
The wednesday night extras, without
exception, gave the RAoe to Potsle.
Thua6Ay morning The Constitution
printed Politics. picture and declared
HIM a winner.
Thursday afternoon The Georgian
saAd It looked Ike Pottie and The Jour
1zmi said n hooked nke Broyles.
Friday uDcru3ng The Constitution said
% Hooayed NIGHTLY lFke Broyies.
YxAdAW afternoon Tne Georgian said
N was rSo&x10 and The Journal said It
was Bgoys@s.
Saturday Morning The Constitution
said II was Broy4Us By a scratch, and
at noon Saturday The Georgian said it
w~s BEGINNING to look nightly like a
TIED
BrpyIes Thanked His Friends.
Saturday afternoon The Journal said
It was BroyteS by 100 to 17S. and The
Georgian said It either was Broyles by
1872 to 1ss, or It was a tie.
The Georgian quoted Judge Potue as
saying he thought it might be a tie'
while The Journal carried card OF
thanks from Broyles to his friends IN
which he claimed victory sure.
Sunday morning both The Consn-
tuition and The Journal admitted that
,ha race was q tie--but The Constitu-
ton carried on its editorial page, new
ertheless, an illuminating PRONUNCIATION
Analysing the meaning of Broyles'
election!
Somebody certainly had mixed those
babies up, all right
The Georgian knew nothing whatever
az the figures in The Constitution and
Journal of1ces. 1t was iguring-as
best II coNld-from its own returns.
II went wrong on It's Friday story,
claiming victory for Pottle, on returns
subsequently, corrected.
Then Looked Like 5reyies.
II based its two Saturday stories on
complete returns from all but two
oeSrntIes Lincoln and Union.
w4rh those two counties unofdcially
hut seemingly reliably returned, 1t
hooked ltks Broytes by 1Ss to 1872.
Tho Georgian stated Saturday after
Noon that a swing Of either Union or
Yspooin from Broyies to Pottle would
DO She SCORE.
Cur4ousty enough. and with that per-
n,~+nnt porverwaty Of fate that SCENE to
hswn forowed me Broyles-Pottle fig
urnm ono Of them DID swing IN the
nnmI and concluding lap-and the race
IVAN a tie, with a convention fight the
answer!
Saturday about $50 o'clock a well
known Atlanta politician came to The
Georgian once and demanded to know
Univ The Georgian did not admit the
nomination of Broyles."
"Au the other newspapers admit it,
And II looks like bull-headedness in you
not to fall in hne"
Tryinq TO Get Correct Figures.
ant II wasn't pure bull headedness."
The Georgian had no personal inter
sst in the race. Broyies and Pottie
ware simply MT. x and Mr.. to The
Georgian, and il was looking for the
correct figures to attach to each exhib-
,t-nott1ing more.
THE Georgian couldn't make two and
+yo equal Ave, when two and two
admit seem to do anything Of the sort
a,,an to please prominent Atlanta poll
ticians.
Resides. The Georgian knew what
uas hitting the prominent Atlanta pol
,.ic,sn He had a candidate for city
recorder up his sleeve, and he wanted
the election Of Broyles conceded.
The Georgian didn't have 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
ures 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
1876 to 1872.
When in the finish, however, one
landed in the Broyles and one in the
Pottle column, two votes came off of
Rrovles and went onto Pottle.
Resut-to stay put-Broyles 1874 and
Pottle 1874!
Georgian Foresaw Tie.
The Georgia was the first newspaper
TO suggest the likelihood of a tie be-
tween the two candidates-it suggested