Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-12
HARRIS SUPPORTERS :
|. SAY FIGHT WILL NOT
REACH CONVENTION
Statements From Governors
Headquarters Predict That
He viii Win the Nomination
at the Polls


his trip to Marietta, Monroe and Athens
for addresses, he said he felt perfectly
confident that he would be nominated at
the polls next Tuesday and his clear
majority would stop all talk Of con-
vention fight and render any conventional
vote unnecessary except as formal rati- !
| f1cation.
Governor Harris appeared strong and
we'll despite his fatiguing trip by train
and auto through about fifty counties
in three weeks. He had made his sched-
uled speeches and every day ne has
spoken at several points not on his
itinerary.
At the Harris headquarters in the
Kimball house Saturday the following
statement was given out by the friends
who are in charge of the office man
agement of the campaign:
Governor Harris will carry more
than enough counties to assure him of
nomination at the polls. It is our un-i
ment purposes publishing Sunday morn
ing a list of the counties he claims. !
which includes practically everything
but Richmond and Pierce. Voters who
read this list, If It is published, may
readily see from their knowledge Of true
conditions in their own counties. how
we'll justified the Dorsey claims may
| be regarding COunll6S 0lSchACIcs 81
cit is not our intention to publish q
rival list Of counties claimed by Cover
Tor Harris His friends who have made
up their minds to vote for him viii do :
so because they believe It the right
course, not because they think he viii
win elsewhere. But Governor Harris and
the newspaper correspondent who trav-i
eled with him, set down a day or two
ago the counties the governor felt abso-l
1 NFRrN1 hA A.
lieved might go to other candidates.
Every county in the Harris column
is one which we feel positive he will
Icarry Where there Is the slightest un-
certainty 1t has gone in the 'doubtfur
list.
"The list gives Governor Harris sew
enty-nine counties, including the six
vote counties of Fulton. Chatham. Nus
cogee, Richmond, Floyd and Bib. We
feel there is, not the slightest doubt or
his losing one of these. 1t includes most
of the four-vote- counties. and the total
county unit vote will run well over 2Oo'l
when only 1e1 votes are necessary TOT
a majority over all competitors.
eve feel confident that the most OF
these doubtful counties will be found
in the Harris list when the votes are
counted. We have conceded in this list
thirty-nine counties to Mr.. Dorsey.
us the governor stands an excellent
chance. We concede ten counties to Dr..
Hardnnan and nine to Mr.. Pottle. we 90
not believe they will gain more than
those numbers.
1--WE believe the desperation of Mr..
Dorsev's hackers is clearly revealed In
the recent attacks made upon governor
Harris. Three weeks ago MI DORSEY
merely said the governor was gooo
IL he SAWS lTOVeT-l
nor Harris is not too old, but ne GIGS up
other charges against him. -.
"OnA of these desperate EFFORTS 70
...r, the rising Harris tide was the
publication of a letter from e1-GoVer
nor John NJ. Slaton to a man ne nau
considered a friend, but who turned ~
over to the Dorsey headquarters. Al
the hone of arousing evon more preJu-
dice aud passion than had been inspires
nv Thomas E. Watson In his weekly
publication.
'"This so-called Valdosta speech or
Mr.. Dorsey's It is stated by the editor
of the Valdosta Times was never oe-
livered by him, and We have been I'M
able TO learn of any place where 1t
has been delivered to this good day. IT.
was prepared in Atlanta, IL seems well
understood by Mr.. Albert Howell, pres
ident of the Atlanta Constitution, which
published 1t, snd a member OF me legai
firm TO which Nj Dorsey belonged IN
til he was forced by criticism to resign
for time. We might mention here that
II was this firm which was employed
by the Louisville & Nashville railroad
to attack the state in an effort to de-
stroy the value of the state railroad,
and Mr.. Dorsey was then member or
the firm and responsible for Its acts.
II might be well to remember that Mr..
lott al ~ =
Ianta circuit, was then under an annual
retaining fee, paid by the state. to In
sure his services in defending the state
against Just such attacks. Whether or
not the fact that Mr.. Dorsey was at
that time a promising candidate for gov
ernor influenced the Louisville & Nash-l
VILE road to employ his firm when 1t
already had an able firm as counsel in
Atlanta may be left to the imagination.
But the Louisville & Nashville viii be,
heavily interested in the state road sit
uation in the next two years and pos
sIb1y 1t would not have objected to a
friend as governor and member Of the
Western & Atlantic leasing commis-l
sion.
1--WE have devoted this space to Mr.
Dorsey because the race is clearly be-
tween Governor Harris and that aspir-.
ant for office We do not believe Mr..
Pottle or Mr.. Hardman will make a
ably neither gentleman will poll any
considerable part of the vote that would
fall to them naturally under other con-
ditions, for the people of Georgia have,
begun to realize that a vote for them
will be a wasted compliment and in a
hotly contested county might give Mr..
Dorsey a plurality and therefore the.
county unit vote.
Mr.. Dorsey is crying that the slogan
in Georgia is Anything to beat Dorsey.
In one sense of the word this is perfect
ly true. 1t is natural alignment. On
the one side is Dorseyism, which means
wisconsin and all its baleful Influences
which means an appeal to prejudice
rather than to reason; which means tbs
domination Of Georgia by a railroad long
notorious for it's debaunchery Of public
servants and its ROBBERY of state treasur-
les.
ION the other side are thousands OF
good citizens, many staunch supporters
Of Nat z. Harris in his first race and
still his faithful adherents; many friends
Of Mr.. Pottle and Of DR.. Hardman who
for various reasons would prefer the
nomination of their favorite. But all OF
these, DESTROYS Of preserving the good
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