The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-15
DORSEY IS An EASY
winner IN GEORGIA
And Gov. Manning Wins in
South Carolina Over t.X-
Gov. Cole Biease.

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 14.-Hugh M.
Dorsey will go into the Georgia DEM
ocratic convention at Macon Septem-
Der rs with a big majority of votes
pledged to him for governor as re-
suit of the state primary on Tuesday.
While returns today still are incom-
plete, figures at hand give Dorsey 107
counties with convention vote of
260, Gov. Nat E. Harris 81 counties
with a convention vote of SO, DR.. L..
G. Hardman, four counties with ten
delegates and Joseph E. Pottle three
counties with half dozen delegates
also. A majority in the convention
will be 1872 votes.
The difference in the popular vote
for Dorsey and Harris was not as
great in proportion as the delegates
gained, that being due to Harris run
ming close second in some of the
counties to which the greater number
of delegates are allotted.
Apparently all state house officers
with the exception of Governor Har-
ris are confident they will be return
ed, although the race between w. J.
Speer, treasurer and his opponent w.
]. Fakes is close and later returns
could put Fakes in the lead.
M. L. Britain, state school super
intendent, has safe lead over Alex
ander E. Reese.
In the first congressional district
where Charles Edwards declined to
offer for denomination J. W. Over
street evidently has defeated Peter w
Meldrim, former president of the Am
erican Bar association. The count in
the Twelfth district is in favor of
Judge W. E. Larsen, in his race
against Congressman D. M. Hughes
and it will take more complete re-
turns to determine the winner. Other
congressman who had opposition ap-
parently have been successful.
r. E. Davidson, incumbent, has a
wide popular and convention vote
lead over his three opponents for
prison commissioner but returns do
not indicate he will have a majority
in the convention.
C. M. Gambler and Guyton McLen-
don, incumbents, have safe leads over
James H. Peoples and J. A. Perry, re-
spectively, for places on the railroad
commission.
w. w. Larsens maintained his lead
over Congressman D. M. Hughes, in
the Fifth district and apparently is
nominated while the race for commits
sioner of agriculture between the in
cumbent, J. D. Price, and J. ]. Brown,
still needs the official count to decide
the winner. Price had sligh lead
in convention votes at last reports.
Places of other state house officers
were not threatened.
1t will take the official count to de-
eide which of the fourteen aspirants
for the three places on the court of
appeals bench will nave the largest
number of convention votes and it ap-
peared likely today the real battle
would be fought in the convention.
The three highest on the face of re-
turns available today are w. Frank
Jenkins, O. H. B. Bloodworth and
Walter F. George.
]. w. Overstreet has defeated Peter
w. Meldrim, former president of the
American Bar association for congress
from the First district where Con-
gresham C. D. Edwards retired.
In the Eleventh district Congress-
man J. Randall Walker is being close
ly pressed by J. E. T. Bowden.
Complete returns from the sixteen
counties in the Eleventh congression-
al district give Congressman ]. Ran
dali Walker a plurality of 300 over
his opponents, w. S. Thomas and j. E.
T. Bowden.
Other congressman who offered for
denomination were successful.