Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-01-21
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Her Politics

= bright would run for the senate this
year, and that. in the event of his cleo
! ton. which was believed to be assured
he would stand for president of that
/ body. Mr.. Fullbright is an able lawyer
! and will, it is said, devote his entire
| time to his profession.
r. L. Davidson. of woodville, Greene
! county, will be a candidate to succeed
| himself as state prison commissioner
| Mr. Davidson, who is the chairman OF
/ the commission and who has held the
| Craftsmanship for several years, is the
! only member of the commission who
| must go before the people this year. lie
| has made a fine record both as a com
missioner and as chairman of the com
mission.
1t is reported that two former prison
| inspectors-Dr. w. J. Flanders, OF
wrightsville, and Hill Tuggle. of Stone
Mountain-may oppose Mr.. Davidson.
1t required two elections within thir-
ty DAYS to fill the offices of mayor
and councilmen at Bishop. Ga. In the
/ first primary, held in December. the
mayoralty and councilmanic candidates
both tied There were fifty-one regis
! tered voters in Bishop, one failed to
vote and the others split evenly-twen-
! ty-five against twenty-five. This neces-
STATED the runoff election, which was
held Tuesday
The story of this rather unique situa-
/ ton is told by The Journals Bishop
correspondent I'm the following:
I'm the election held here Tuesday
| James o'Dilon was elected mayor and
/ s B. Porter was elected coun-
Gilman. This is the second election
that has been held to fill these two
places. In a former election held In
December G.. D. Cook and j. w. Chan
dler ran for mayor. There were fifty-one
registered voters, and in the election
/ that dag there was a tie, each candi-
Date receiving twenty-five votes.
| "At the same time s. b. Porter and
Or. o. l. Branch ran for councilman
place, among others. Each of these can
didates received twenty-five votes. MAX
\ ing two ties in one election. Citizens
of the town petitioned the two former
. ca ndidates for mayor to withdraw and
allow James O'Dillon to run unopposed
This was done and Mr.. O'Dillon ran and
was elected. s b Rorter and o. j..
/ Branch each ran again for the vacant
place in the council and Mr. Porter was
/ elected The council as it now stands
is composed of r. NJ. Anderson, j. r
Edison, DR.. E. II. Kenimer, w. ID. Bel
and s. b. Porter
T. Leslie Bowden, former member OF
the Columbus city council, is to become
a candidate for the Legislature. according
TO his friends. This is the first news
( of activity in the race for representa-
( tive. Ii has been generally accepted as
a fact that the incumbents, Messrs Eo
] Wohlwender Herman Swift and Cecl
<eilf. would be candidates to succeed
themselves. The announcement of Mr.
Bowden is the first intimation of oppo
/ sition.
i Thomas ]. Brown, of Elberton, solic
itor general of the Northern circuit i
in Atlanta Wednesday shaking hano
with old friends and acquaintance. Mr.
/ Brown has recently announced for con
gress from the Eighth district to sue
| coed Congressman s. J. Tribble, of Ath
ems, and is already waging IAN ACTIVE
campaign among the voters of his dis
trict.
/ The following comes from The Jour
rails Columbus correspondent:
THE Muscogee county primary dat
will not il is said, be fixed until IL Il
determined when the state presidential
primary is to be held, it being the de
Sire of Chairman DlSmdkeS ana olhe
/ members fthe local committe to have
this election on the same date Mr.
Dismukes is a member of the state com
mittee from Muscogee and he has beer
urging that all counties hold their pri
maries on the same date as that set by
the state for the presidential primary.
state Senator T. w. Hardin, of the
lForty-second senatorial district, who L
has been persistently reported would b'
a candidate for congress from the Sew
enth district in opposition to Congress
man Gordon Lee, was one of Governo!
| Harris visitors Tuesday. He admitted
that he was seriously considering MAX
ling the race for congress, but made M
definite announcement concerning same
The Journals Savannah correspond
ent says:
Those in the First congressional dis
trict who want to get out opposition tC
Congressman Charles 6. Edwards ar;
now centering their hopes on W. \. Da
Wis, of Waynesboro, Burke county. j
A. Brannen of Bulloch county, has de
clined to run. Mr.. Davis, it is expected
will make some announcement in a few
days"
An interesting three-cornered race foi
the office of solicitor general of tine
II Chattahoochee circuit is about to be