Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-04
JOE POTTLE Gets FINE
RECEPTION At VIENNA
DooIy County Voters Hear One
of Most Impressive
Speeches of Campaign

VIENNA, Ga, August 1.-Although
audience that filled the big Dooly coun-
ty superior courtroom heard Joe Pottle
of Milledgeville, deliver one of the most
impressive and effective speeches he has
yet made in his campaign for governor,
and at the conclusion of his address his
hearers crowded around 20 shake his
hand to tell him how they enjoyed his
speech and to pledge him their support
That he made a wonderful impression
is admitted by all who heard him.
Among those who called on Mr.. Pottle
at his hotel this morning was Judge III
w. Wooten, an aged and retired lawyer
who several years ago was judge OF
the county court of Calhoun county
Judge Wooten told Mr.. Pottle that he
was a member of the Fifth Georgia reg
iment during the Civil war, which had
been commanded by Mr. Politics. father.
He paid his old colonel a high tribute
and declared 1t gave him great pleasure
to be able to support his son for gov
ernor. Mr.. Pottle was introduced to the
Dooly county voters by w. V. Harvard,
a we'll known Vienna attorney.
AGAIN HITS DORSEY.
Mr.. Pottle renewed his attacks on Mr..
Dorsey for his connection with the Lou
isville and Nashville railroad in it's
fight to set aside the state law prohib-
iting it from paralleling the Western
and Atlantic railroad; declared Mr.. Dor
sey's action while solicitor general in
accepting fee of $1,000 from the widow
helms for his work in extraditing the
Illnesses was contrary to all presidents;
ridiculed him for what he termed as
inconsistency and insincerity regarding
executive clemency for having recon-
mended clemency for murderers, bur-
glars, forgers, for men convicted of
crimes against women and other con-
victs, although he now sets himself up
as opposed to any interference with the
verdicts of the courts unless some new
fact Is discovered which justities such
interference.
Mr. Pottle, in citing the record Of
cases in which Mr.. Dorsey urged Glenn
ency, read a letter which he said Mr..
Dorsey had written to a convict at the
state farm named Chris Majors in which
he suggested to the convict that If he
would make application for a pardon
he Dorsey would aid him all he could.
According to the letter read by Mr.. Pot
tie, Mr.. Dorsey wrote Majors that he
Dorsey would recommend that he be
let off with the payment of a reasonable
You all know what costs mean to l
solicitor general" significantly remark
ed Mr.. Pottle.
Some folks are criticising me-" said
Mr.. Pottle, because 1 happen to have
some personal friends who are anti-pro-
hibitionists. / have been a consistent
prohibitionist all my life and Tor twenty
five years have fought against the liq'
uor traffic My home folks know this
to be true. If in order 70 be elected
governor 1 have got to repudiate a lay
down on a loyal friend simply because
he differs with me on the prohibition
question, then l am not the man for
you to vote for 1 never laid down on
a friend in my life, and 1 don't propose
to begin now.
81 presume some anti-prohibition
friends in Bibb county. are supporting
Governor Harris, that some in Jackson
county are supporting DIR. Hartman, anu
1 know that a number in Fulton county
are supporting Mr.. Dorsey, but that is
no reason to doubt their sincerity in
this matter"
WOULD MEET DORSEY.
Mr.. Pottle read letters from former
pastors and others in support of his
statement that he had always been an
earnest and consistent prohibitionist.
Mr.. Pottle said that an invitation hao
been sent to him and Mr.. Dorsey to
come to Blackshear, Pierce county. one
day this week and jointly address the
voters. He said he had promptly ac-
copied but that Mr.. Dorsey had de-
clined, giving as his excuse that he
(Pottle) did not have a sufficiently for
midable following in the state to Justify
him Dorsey in meeting him in joint
debate.
Il suspect" said Mr.. Pottle, that this
egotistical alibi was merely a subter-
fuge because Mr.. Dorsey did not relish
the prospect of a debate. However. from
the outset l have been ready to meet
Mr. Dorsey at any time and place, and
am still willing to do so.''
During the course of his speech Mr..
Pottle stated that after his address IN
Dublin Monday a man had inquired how
he stood on the separation of church
and state and he said he had replied
that he, like all other patriotic citizens,
was unalterably opposed to any union
of church and state or anything which