Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-09
TJWJUTY DENIES HE DISCUSSED PEACE NOTE
GEORGIA ELECTED
WOODROW WILSON
PRESIDENT AT NOON
State Electoral College Meets
in Senate Chamber at Cap
itoI and Casts Official Bal
lot for Nominees

Georgia was electing a president and
vice president Of the United States
Monday. though few people knew about
il other than the fourteen members OF
the Georgia electoral college who met,
according TO law, at noon in the senate
chamber of the state capitol.
The meeting was "A mere formality to
canvass and declare the vote for presl-
dent and vice president, but il was very
necessary. especially as this election,
when Georgia's fourteen electoral votes
spelled the difference between defeat and
victory to Woodrow Wilson.
All fourteen Democratic presidential
electors, two from the state at large and
one from each congressional district,
were present and the election was gone
through with all due formality.
Judge L. j. Reagan, of McDonough,
former chairman of the state Democrat
IL committee. was elected president Of the
state college and Raymonde Stapleton'
executive secretary to Governor Harris,
was elected secretary.
Clark Howell, national committeeman
from Georgia, read letter from vance
Mccormick national Democratic chair
man. outlining the procedure for cleo
toral college meetings. Then j. ID. How
ard of Milledgeville, elector from the
Tenth district, took pleasure in nomi-
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sew. the best and greatest president the
United States has ever had" The noml-
nation for president was followed by the
nomination for vice president. j. b.
Jackson, of Gray, elector from the sixth
district. placed in nomination the name
of Thomas r. Marshall, Of Indiana. A
written ballot was taken and both nomi-
nees were unanimously elected.
Three copies of the certificate of elec-
ton will be made, one for the federal
nudge of this district, another to be mail
ed TO the president of the United States
senate, and a third to be taken to Wash
ington by a special messenger. Harllee
Branch. of Atlanta, was elected to this
most after he was nominated by L. b.
Norton. of Lithonia, elector from the
Fifth district
Among the electors present Monday
was ]. c. williams. OF Greensboro, edi-
tor of the Greensboro Herald-JournaL
who mas the distinction of having rep
resented the Eighth district for two con-
secutive terms as presidential elector
and of leading the electoral college tick
ct in the recent election. The other cleo
tors were:
From the state-at-large, Judge r. J.
Reagan. OF McDonough, and c. c. Brant-
ley. OF yaldosta.
FIRST confessional district, D. L.
Staufieid, of Reidsville.
second district, W. ]. Bush. OF Col
quit.
> Third district, Judge R. l. Upton. Of
Ashburn.
Fourth district. DR.. C. Howard, of Gus
seta.
Fifth district, L. B. Norton, of Lii
thonia.
Sixth district, ]. B. jackson. Of Gray
Seventh district, c. Z. Pearce, OF Tai
lapoosa-
Ninth district, William Butt, of Blue
Ridge.
Tenth district. j. d. Howard. of Mil
ledgeville.
Eleventh district, W. d. PEBBLES, of
Valdosta.
Twelfth district. ]. Pope Brown. of
Hawkinsville.
The electors accepted an invitation
extended by Attorney General Clifford
Walker to lunch at the Hotel Majestic
Governor Harris made a brief speech,
praising the president and expressing
his qualification that Georgia gave such
large majority to "the GREATEST man
the country had ever known for the
greatest office in the world today"