Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-23
Toe Pottle Announces AS
Candidate for Governor
Campaign Issues Sharply
Drawn by Distinguished Mil
IedgeviIIe Lawyer and SOIiC-
itor in Formal Announcement

Hon. Joseph E. Pottle, of Milledge-
willie. is in the race for governor.
He issued the formal announcement
of his candidacy Saturday afternoon.
after having given careful consideration
TO the urgings of thousands of friends
and admirers in all sections of the state.
Mr.. Pottle will Immediately enter
upon an active campaign and will en-
deavor to see as many voters of the
state as possible between now and the
primary In his announcement he eX-
presses his willingness to meet the
other gubernatorial candidates upon the
stump and discuss with them the issues
of the campaign.
It was at the state Democratic con-
vention in Macon, on May 3, that Mr..
Pottle was suggested for the governor
ship and the suggestion was greeted
with approval and enthusiasm on all
sides Within a few few days a move
ment to get him in the race was under
way, and IT gathered in force and vol
ume TO such an extent that he found
IL impossible TO decline.
The eloquent and brilliant speech
made by Mr.. Pottle at the convention in
which he sounded the keynote of the
Democratic party's principles. swept
the delegates into a furore of applause
and put his name on every tongue.
A LOYAL FRIEND.
Zoe" Pottle, as he is known to thou
sands of loyal friends and admirers in
Georgia. is one of the strongest and
most prominent men in the state, and
has long been known as the man VINO
never breaks his word"
He is the solicitor general of the
Ocmulgee judicial circuit, which place
he has held for fourteen years and IN
which he has never had opposition. This
circuit comprises the counties of Bald
win. Wilkinson. Jones, Hancock, Put
nam. Jasper. Greene and Morgan, and
formerly included Laurens.
He is a prominent member Of the
NIiIIedgevills Metlf&list church, in which
he Is a former steward; is a lifelong
prohibitionist; is an active Mason and
Shriner. and one of the leading members
of the Benevolent and Protective Order
OF EIks in Georgia. having been honored
as exalted ruler by his home lodge; and
is an official in the Sons of Confederate
Veterans organization.
Mr.. Pottle is forty-nine years of age
an6 is Just in the prime OF vigorous
manhood. He is a son of the late Judge
Edward II. Pottle, who was a colonel
In the Confederate army and was for
eleven years the judge of the old north
ern judicial circuit which was made
ND of the counties of Warren. Glascock.
Lincoln, Taliaferro, Ebert, Hart, Han
cock and Wilkes.
Outside of being solicitor general of
the Ocmulgee circuit, Mr.. Pottle has
never sought or held office and, as stated
above. this Office has been given him
without opposition by an APP
p-eciative constituency.
&c ATE SEVER Al. TIMES
However. he has been a delegate to
several national and state Democratic
conventions. His only activity in poll
tics has been on behalf of his friends,
hundreds of whom. scattered through
out the state. are indebted to him for
his loyal and untiring service.
Personally. Mr.. Pottle Is a man OF
exceptional magnetism. He is every
inch a man, attractive and rugged
90 countenance. witty in conversation,
wgrm-hearted and generous.
Mr. Pottle enjoys an ideal home life
and is famous as a loving and devoted
husband and father. His wife was Miss
Hattie Wright, of Milledgeville, niece
Of General George Doles who was killed
at the battle of Cold Harbor. They
have three children. Mrs. Walter Greene,
OF Augusta; Miss Mary Pottle and
Joseph z. PottIe, Jr.. who is a student
At the University of Georgia. Mr.. Pot
tie is a brother of Judge J. r. Pottle,
the well known Albany attorney who
resigned from the state court of APP
peals year or Do ago. and he has one
sister. Mrs. A. IL Hodges, of Bulloch
county.
AIR. Politics. platform, as contained i'm
his formal announcement, Is positive
and straight to the point and stands out
in contradistinctlOn to the platform an
Uouncements of the other candidates by
reason of the fact that it taxes an un-
eCuivocal and unmis:akable position
aCainst the sale Of the states Western
and Atlantic railroad, just as IL is posi-
tive and unevasive in every other ut
terance.
Mr.. Politics. formal announcement in
full appears in today's paper. He
says ne will open his campaign at War
rentOn. his boyhood home.