Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-05
URGED To
POLL BIG VOTE FOR
WILSON ON TUESDAY
Leading Democrats of All Fac
tons Unite in Urging Sweep
ing Majority for Wilson and
Marshall


Tuesday the people of the United States
choose a president and a vice president
for the ensuing four years
Georgia is expected to do her part to-
wards giving Wilson and Marshall the
biggest vote in the history of the party
and getting nearer home still. Fulton,
county is expected to do her part to-
wards a great Democratic landslide.
Leaders of the party in the state are
all confident of great Democratic vic
tory, but they are unanimous in urging
that every Democrat In the county and
the state go to the polls early Tuesday
and cast his ballot for the party's stand
ard bearers.
The Young Mems Democratic league
has a number of committees to work
throughout the day in getting voters OF
the county to the polls, ed leaders OF
the party in the county generally will
be found doing their utmost to get ont
vote which will be gratifying to tia
Democracy of the nation.
Relative to the Importance of every
mans casting his ballot for Wilson and
Marshall. Governor-elect John NJ. Sla-
ton has said: Every Georgian. who
stays away from the polls Tuesday or
casts his vote against Woodrow VIII
son. but lessons the influence Of Georgia
in national affairs. and retards her recog-
milton in the sisterhood of states"
REGISTRATION 1925.
The total registration for Fulton coun-
ty is l6, AS, and of this number only IA
are negroes. Thirteen thousand four
hundred and eighty-four OF the white
voters and $50 Of the negro voters Of
the county are in the city. This is
representative registration list for thu
city, and party leaders believe that the
vote Tuesday for Wilson and Marshall
will be a real credit to the county.
In the city the polls will remain open
from z o'clock in the morning until
o'clock in the evening. In the country
precincts, where the number of voters
is very much smaller than in the city,
the polls will be open only from o'clock
in the morning until in the afternoon.
No voter, who finds himself unable to
reach the polls in his own ward or dis
trict, need lose his ballot. The election
laws provide tnat any registered voter.
who finds it Impossible TO reach his
home precinct may go to the polls near
est the county court house and there
cast his ballot In Fulton county the
SECOND ward polls are almost adjacent
to the court house, and the voter from
another ward can so there and ballot.
provided he first takes an oath before
the election managers that ne is regis
tered in another ward or precinct
AMONG the Georgians of note who
unite in urging that the people of Geor-
gia maintain the states ascendency in
Democratic councils by polling the most
tremendous vote in its history for tina
DemocraticS party, are Governor Joseph
NJ Brown, Senator A. o. Bacon, Senator
Hoke Smith. Governor-elect ]. NJ Sla-
ton, w. ]. Harris. chairman of the stats'
Democratic executive committee, and
many others.
OUR OPPORTUNITY.
This is our one opportunity" says
Senator Smith. THE Republican party
has been split in two. A great victory
is in front of us and beg every Dem
ocrat in our beloved state of Georgia
to vote and get his neighbor to vote and
thus become a part Of our great vic
tory"
Senator Bacon urges the Democrats of
Georgia to vote Tuesday in tpe follow
ing language: When the Gratifying
result is announced and there dawrs for!
US a new political day. it will be in
tensely gratifying to Georgians to note,
when they compare the votes. that this
state has not been laggard, but has
stood in the forefront of the victors."
Governor Brown says: This, in my
opinion, is a Democratic year, and Geor-
gia, the leading state Of the south, must
maintain her merited ascendency in the
Democratic councils, and by no means,
therefore should she fail to give d
sweeping majority for Wilson and Mar
shall"
Vote early.