Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-11
HILL, BLOODWORTH
AND TRAN|NELL
HAVE GOOD LEADS
McLendon Has Been Re,
turned as Secretary O.
State and Napier Is Lead
ing for Attorney General

Complete but unofficial figure
from the 1856 counties of the STATE
in the race for governor give Thorn
as w. Hardwick Is counties with 19g
unit votes; Clifford M. Walker g.
counties with TIA unit votes an
John N. Holder 8 counties with
unit votes.
AS 194 unit votes constitute a mn
1or1ty, required by the state law,
insure a nomination for governor O.
united States senator, a run-ovc
primary will be necessary betwee
Mr. Hardwick and Mr.. Walker to de
eide the winner. This primary,
held, Will take place on the frs
Wednesday in October. which fall
on the sixth of the month. It will
be a statewide primary similar il,
all respects to the primary Of las
wednesday except that there will b
only TWO candidates. Mr. Hardwic
and Mr.. Walker.
Neither Mr.. Walker nor Mr.. Hare
wick had any statement to max
Friday, but it was generally assume
that neither would retire and thu
the turnover contest would take place
A complete table elsewhere in TIL.
Journal gives the list of countie
carried In the recent primary by eac
OF the candidates for governor.
with five counties missing, til,
consolidation of the vote in the sen
ator1al contest shows the following;
Thomas E. Watson carried ninety
seven counties. with a total of "a
county units votes and total po,,-
ular vote of 100,501. This gives HIM
the nomination for the United States
senate.
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey carried
thlrty-e1ght counties, with q tot,.
OF 1O3 county unit votes and a tota,
popular vote of 67,17S.
Senator Hoke Smith carried four.
Teen counties, with total of thirty
Tour unit votes and a total popular
vote of 54,687.
The odd numbers in the count,
unit vote for Watson and Dorsey ar,
accounted for by the fact that Lee
county tied between them, and eaci
Is, therefore, credited with one vote.
In the race for the court of APP
peais tosucceed Judge Charles White
ford Smith, Judge benjamin. IA.
Hill has carried twenty- counties
J
Smith has carried eight counties will
sixteen unit votes.
In his race to succeed himself on
the court of appeals, Judge o. H. /,
Bloodworth has carried thirty-eight
counties with ntnety-four votes, willie
his opponent, w. HI. Doris, has car
ried three counties with six unit
votes.
In the race for secretary of state
5. G. McLendon has carried Al coun
I" of h i1xa h.
opponent, Claude A. West has car
ried seven counties with IA unEi
votes. Mr.. McLendon's reelection
by good majority. is indicated.
In the race race for the railroad cons
ried 80 counties with % unit votes
while his opponent, w. Trox Bank
ston has carried 10 count:c with -
unit votes.
In the contest for attorney gen
counties with total of 70 uni,
votes, while George B. Davis has
carried 10 counties with 40 UNI
votes.
Incomplete returns indicate tho
following results in congressional
races: William D. Upshaw has won
by substantial majority over Hooper
Alexander and BENJAMIN M. Black
burn. in the Fifth district.
Charles r. Crisp appears to have
district. ~
Early return indicate that the race
in the First district is very close
between Congressman overstreet and
Sheppard appears to have run third
Congressman Gordon Lee has a
good lead over Claude Porter in the
Seventh district.
In the Eighth district Judge
H. Brand appears to have
won out over Thomas J. Shackleford
and Phil w. Davis.
In the Ninth district, Congressman
T. M. Bell appears to be the winner
over John I. Kelley.
In the Tenth district Congressman
Carl Vinson has good lead over
Sam L. Olive.
Congressman W. W. Larsen appears
to have been victorious over his op-
ponent, Roscoe Peacock, in the
Twelfth district.
WATSON SAYS PEOPLE
ARE AGAINST LEAGUE
Thomas E. Watson, successful
senate, has given the following
statement to The Atlanta Georgian
in reference to the result of We'd
nesday's primary:
1.-THE fight in Georgia, as shown by
the very small vote received by Sen
ator Smith, shows that the lines
we're drawn between the league and
It's enemies.
At took the position that there
was no middle ground between sur
'ender and no surrender for our in
debtedness. The people sustained
his view. Article x was especially
obnoxious, but even without that
feature it would have been voted
Town.
Our people simply condemn the
effort of Woodrow Wilson and a
few other usurpers to change our
form of government without the
consent of the governed. The fact
hat $4,000 OF our soldiers ara still
n Europe and that our government
n siding with Poland ~ k2- -
against the democracy Of Russi.
ntensifes the dread with which the
eague is regarded.
THE prominent thought among
hose of the common people who
vote their opposition TO the league.
n spite of all that is said For it
~ preacher, teacher, public writer
magazine and newspaper, Ii based
lpona the belief that once in the
eague they should never have any
Joys to foreign country to fight
attles with which we have no con-
ern.
THE existence of Article x and
he rapldity with which armies and
lavies are being increased among
he members OF the league con-
lusively proved to the people that
hese warlike preparations are not