Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-09
Former u. S. Senator
Sweeps State in Defeating
Clifford Walker in Runover
Primary Thursday

Incomplete returns from every
county in Georgia. received by The
Tri-Weekly Journal show that
Thomas w. Hardwick carried 1O1
counties, with a total of 24O
| county unit votes, and that Cliff
ford Walker carried SO counties, with
total of 144 county unit votes.
Towns county, with two unit votes,
held no primary, and therefore, is not
counted in either candidates column,
| Although the returns were not
complete, they were sufficient to
indicate clearly and beyond any
doubt the nomination of Mr.. Hard
wick for governor in the Demo-
cratic turnover primary held We'd
nesday. Complete returns probably
will switch some counties from one
column to the other. but the result
will not be changed.
1t is too early to make a con-
solfdation Of the popular vote for
the reason that less than half the
counties have sent their complete
| returns.
Vote Light
Throughout the state the vote was
light. Indications were that the total
vote would not exceed 100000. as
compared with a total vote, of about
Zz5,OOO in the first primary on Sep
TENDER 4. when a very full. ticket
served to stimulate interest and
bring out a large vote.
OF the big six counties having six
unit votes, and for that reason known
as the big SIX" Mr.. Hardwick car
ried Fulton and Richmond. while
Mr.. Walker carried Bibb, Chatham.
Floyd and Muscogee.
An analysis of the respective COL
umns of counties in the first pri-
mary and the turnover primary
shows that twenty-seven counties
switched from Walker to Hardwick
that seven counties switched from
Hardwick to Walker. that Hardwick
carried three of the former Holder
counties, and that Walker carried
five of the former Holder counties.
The counties that swetched from
Walker to Hardwich are Bacon,
Baker, Berr1en, Ben Hill, Bleckley,
Butts, Gambler, Clay, Chattahoochee,
Clinch, Crawford, Decatur, Early,
Fannn, Gilmer, Grady, Jones, Ma
con, Morgan, Pierce, Quitman, Ran
dolph, Stephens, Stewart, Terrell
Thomas and Webster.
The counties that switched from
Hardwick to Walker are Forsyth,
Hancock, Monroe, Murray, Pike, Ware
and White.
The former Holder counties carried
by Hardwick are Dawson, Jackson
and Lumpkin. The former Holder
counties carried by Walker are
| Clarke, Dade, Pickens, Rabun and
| Wilkes.
State Convention Meets Oct. IS
Within the week, a meeting of the
| subcommi.l ee on rules of the Demo-
cratic state executive committee Will
be held in Atlanta for the purpose of
consolidating the returns and declar-
ing the result. The Democratic
state convention is scheduled to be
held in Macon October 25. There
has been some talk of a change in
! likely. The convention will be COM
posed of delegates in the counties
which he carried. By reason of car
rying more counties than Mr.. Walk
| Cl the NSIC5c"IOo VI WI AAetA u " ~
will control the convention and viii
elect the new Democratic state execu-
| tive committee. The repeated state
ment has been mad by Mr.. Hardwick
that he would reorganize the commit
| tee from start to finish.
The turnover primary was held IN
accordance with the Neill primary
| law. which requires majority or
County unit votes to nominate for
governor and senator. In the first
primary Mr.. Hardwlck received 100
county unit votes and Mr. Walker
received 174.5 John n. Holder re :.
ceived twenty-five. The vote of MI.
HardWick was our less than a ma
iority, which is 1874, and hence a rum
over primary was necessary.