Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-09-01
DORSEY PLATFORM SHAM,
DECLARES JOE P0TTLE
IAN Unworthy Appeal to Pas
sion and Prejudice He
Tells Dawson Voters
Especial Dispatch to The JOurnalD

Especial Dispatch to The Journal)
DAWSON, Ga. Aug. S0.-While dis
GUESSING the candidacy of Hugh NJ. Dor
sey here today Joseph e. Pottle declared
that "Mr. Dorseys platform on the sub
iect of executive clemency is sham,
rretense and fraud and an unworthy
appeal to the passions and prejudices of
the people" He said that Mr.. Dorsey's
real platform was based on propo'
sition which ne does ont dare to public
ly announce, because he knows that II
he did do so it would shock the peoples
sense of propriety.
Notwithstanding this fact" said Mr.
Pottle, mr. Dorsey is by indirectlon
and insinuation planting his campaign
entirely on this vaguely-concealed issue.
No man worthy to be elected to the
high office of governor should be able
tn get his consent to seek the office
on such ignoble grounds"
L. & N. SCHEME.
Referring to the several schemes Of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad TO
destroy the Western and Atlantic RAIL
road and the part that Mr.. Dorsey had
as a member of the law firm represent
ing the Louisville and Nashville, Mr.
Pottle said
THE trail from the firm, of which Mr..
Dorsey was a member, to the Louisville
and Nashville railroad company, is so
plain that it may be seen clearly by any
one Not only was the suit filed in the
superior court of Fulton county by that
law firm to enabel the Louisville and
Nashville, their clients, to parallel the
Western and Atlantic railroad, but IT
has been openly charged on the floor OF
the house of representatives that the
so-called interurban bill was prepared
in the Office of Mr.. Dorsey's law firm
and that this bill had for it's object the
same end, namely, to permit the Louis
willie and Nashville to get around the
anti-paralleling law"
Going further into the Western and
Atlantic railroad question Mr.. Pottle
said:
1T is notorious that the Louisville and
Nashville railroad company has, for
many years. been Extensively active in
the political affairs of several southern
states. There is now pending in the
supreme court of the District of Column
bia a proceeding on behalf Of the United
States government to compel Milton H..
Smith, president of the Louisville and
Nashville, to answer the following ques-
ton, asked him while a witness before
the interstate commerce commission.
How much money did the Louis
willie and Nashville railroad company
expend for political purposes in Georgia.
in 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915?
THAT question was asked him by Hon.
Joseph w. Folk, the attorney for the
government, and Mr.. Smith replied: on
the advice of counsel decline to answer
the question
AFTER POLITICAL CONTROL.
This incident demonstrates conclu-
sively that the Louisville and Nash
VILE railroad has been and is engaged inl
an effort to employ the same means tol
control the politics of this state that it'll
has employed in the other states re-
ferred to.
"Its counsel and advisors in these
activities have been and are the firm
of lawyers of which Mr.. Dorsey was
until a few days ago a member. 1t as
a significant fact, and has a very 5us-
picious flavor, that Mr.. Dorsey's law
firm never represented the Louisville
and Nashville railroad until it becamel
generally understood in Georgia that
Mr. Dorsey was to be a candidate for
governor"
A large representative OF ali
classes of Terrell county citizens gath
cred in the court house here this morn
ing to greet Mr.. Pottle after his speech.
His hearers crowded up to tell him what
a fine impression he had made and to
express the opinion that he would carry
this county.
Mr.. Pottle was introduced by Colonel
J. r. Irwin, a leading attorney of this
city. A few minutes after he arrived at
the hotel here this morning a delegation
of twenty or twenty-five prominent cit
liens of Terrell county called to shake
hands with Mr.. Pottle and to congratu-
late him on his effective and successful
campaign. Some of those in the delega-
tion were II. A. Wilkinson, lawyer; T.
B. Raines, farmer; DR.. j. w. Patterson,
DR.. ]. G. Dean, j. r. Irwin, lawyer; M.
H. Marshall, nurseryman j. A. Fergu
son, farmer; Uncle Billy Hairbuck, a
well-known Confederate veteran; NJ. H.
Marshall, Jr, automobile dealer; j. Z.
Turner, sheriff of Terrell county; ]. A.
Laing. former solicitor geenral of the
Pataula circuit and a number of others.
This afternoon Mr. Pottle will speak
at Shellman. in Randolph county. On
Thursday he speaks at Cuthbert, Ran
dolph county, and Edison, Calhoun
county.