Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-08
POTTLE WINS VOTERS
OF GAMBLER COUNTY
Makes Profound Impression
in Address at Court House
at Meter
fsnscisl DIspatch to The JournalD

/ la aux. t---JOt OAAAOs
candidate for governor, opened the pres
\ ent week of his campaign this morn
I ing, with a speech TO the voters of Cam
/ der county, in the courthouse here.
Judge r. y Hardeman, of the middle
/ judicial circuit, a friend of Mr.. Pottle'5
\ of many years standing, adjourned
/ court for him TO speak. and he was in
/ troduced by Colonel W. II. Lanier, one
/ of the leading attorneys of this sec
ton.
Before Mr. Pottle came here, II was
generally thought that Gambler county
/ voters stood in the main divided between
Governor Harris and DR.. Hardman, with
Mr.. Pottle running a strong third. Aft
er his speech. however, leading citizens
/ from all sections of the county told
| him they felt satisfied they would be
able to line Gambler up in the Pottle
| column.
| That Mr. Pottle made a profound i'm
/ preston on his hearers cannot be denied.
4 Gambler county is one of the many new
counties of the state but is making re-
markable progress in every way.
/ Mr.. Pottle came here this morning
/ from Milledgeville, where he spent Sun
/ day with his family. He is highly
/ eIated over the success of his campaign.
Last week he spoke in Towns. in Lau-
1 rens. Dooly, Dodge. Morgan, Montgom-
/ cry. Wayne and Pierce counties. and in
/ addition he stopped to shake hands with
/ his friends in towns in Pulaski. Eman-
| uel. Toombs and Blakely counties. To-
night Mr.. Pottle will speak at Stillmore,
/ Emanuel county. and Tuesday at Mount
/ Vernon in Montgomery county.
MATTERS DISQUALIFYING DORSEY.
i Discussing what he charges are mat.
II tiers which absolutely disqualify MI
Dorsey to be governor of Georgia Mr.
u Pottle says:
when Mr.. Dorsey, while solicitor
/ general of the Atlanta circuit and hav-
ing taken an oath to represent the state
l in all cases where it's interests were in
u volved. became connected with law
1 suit to nullify an act Of the legislature
| protecting the Western and Atlantic
/ railroad Estate road). from being paral-
leled. he disqualified himself to repre-
| sent the state in protecting its best prop
erty-a property valued at approximate
" $50, O0O, 900.
/ Mr. Dorsey's law firm brought this
law suit which had for its n rp"'-"
Il destruction of the Western and Atlantic
/ railroad. because if the Louisville ana
I Nashville railroad, which employed MT
u Dorsey's firm, is permitted to parallel
/ the Western and Atlantic that property
will become almost valueless. Without
anv Western connections ii would be
helpless. for IL cannot live on its local
business between Chattanooga and At
Il Ianta. Everybody knows that TO be true.
! "As strange as IL may seem, we hni
4 Mr. Dorsey while solicitor general and
paid by the state to defend its interests
allied With a firm of lawyers in an at.
| tack upon the law and the property OF
the state. ] presume that Mr.. Dorsey
received his part of the fee, paid his
firm by the L. & y. to bring this as
salIt on the state. At least, l nave
never heard that he had denied having
received il. Thus it appears that MT
Dorsey has the money of the state IN
one pocket for protecting its interests,
and tbe money of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, in another pocket
for lighting the state. Can any such
course of action be reconciled?
FEE FROM WIDOW HELMS.
sNTr Dorsey did an unprecedented
thing when he accepted a $1,000 fee
from the widow helms for his services
in connection with the extradition OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor E. lines from
Texas to Georgia.
THE two daughters of the widow
helms mysteriously disappeared and all
the evidence at hand was such as to lead
| IN the popular belief that the Illnesses
had obtained the property OF one ana
had made way with both of the girls.
These people were arrested in Oregon
and brought to San Antonio, Tex LOT
trial OH a charge of murder. 1t being be-
lieved that that was the city IN whlch
the girls had met their end. At least
that was the last place at which they
were seen alive. and the Illnesses were
living there at the time.
Victor lines was put on trial in san
Antonio but the state was unable TO con-
yict him of murder for the reason that
l. was impossible % produce the bodies
or any portion of the bodies of the girls.
The Texas law requiring that such PROOF
I of death must be supplied.
at the request OF the widow Nelms.
who was determined that the Illnesses
should not go scot-free, Mr.. Dorsey, then
the solicitor general of the Atlanta cir
cult, obtained an indictment charging
them with larceny after trust, conclusive
evidence being at hand that lnnes had
swindled one of the girls out Of large
sums OF money.
The Illnesses resisted eXtradition TO
Georgia an dtook out a habeas corpus
writ which finally got 10 the supreme
court of the United States. 1t was then
that the widow helms, this distressed
lheart-broken woman, who had practically
. beggared herself i'm her efforts to locate
her daughters and to bring to justice
those whom she believed to be RESPONSE
BILE dor their disappearance, went TO MT.
Dorsey and asked his aid in getting them
back 10 Georgia.
aAyr. Dorsey, who now poses as the
! great defender of women. very promptly
Informed her that he would take the case
fer $1,000. He eXacted of this widow
$500 in cash and took mortgage on her
little remaining property for the re-
. manning $500. This mortgage is on rec
ord in the office Of the clerk of the su-
iperior court Of Fulton county and can
{ be seen by any person who cares to look
, for IL.
Mr. Dorsey's action in accepting this
fee was not only contrary to all prece-
dents of solicitor generals in this state,
p but was illegal I dare say there is not
a solicitor general I'm this state who has
, been in office for any length of time who
has not gone into other states TO repre-