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 it
would be necessary for him-CoX-to re
turn Morris majority from Gilmer suf
hcient to overcome the outside Patterson
majority; and that through the secret and
unlawful manipuations of the said Cox
such 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.
Pattersons petition that the entire vote
of Gimer 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 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,
and that Patterson men were rigidly
excluded from participating in the man
agement; that the mana gers openly and
Vciously 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 Pattersons 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
registra ton 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-
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 Hutcheson and Samuel D.
Hewlett of Atlanta; II. H. 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.
Norris will be represented by Luther Z.
ROsser, of Atlanta, and other counsel. He
sweepingy denies all the counts set up
in the Patterson indictment. and claims
that he-Morris-was fairly and squarely
nominated for the judgeship and that he
will be able so to prove.
What the real truth of the Gimer
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 GU
mer, a 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-
diately follow.