The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-10
THE ELECTION
IN GEORGIA
Tom Watson Nominated For United
States Senator Defeating Sena-
tor Smith and Governor
Dorsey

Ihe primary election Tor noml-
nee for United States Senator and
for State Officers in Georgia had the
stage this week. Everybody in this
isection on South Carolina, and peo-
pie all over the United States have
been listening to and reading with
interest every word of news about
the progress of the campaign, es-
pecially with regard to the sena-
torial race.
The entries in the senatorial
race are all men of prominence.
Two of hem are men of national
reputation. Thomas E. Watson, for
mer populist candidate for presi-
dent, former congressman, author
and publisher, was the most specta-
cular candidate. He made his race
on a platform in which he con-
demned the League of Nations
covenant and the administration of
President Wilson generally. Hoke
Smith, former Governor of Georgia
and now Senior Senator from that
state was in the race to succeed
himself, running on a platform of
endorsement of the democratic
platform as adopted Nat San Fran
cisco. He had supported some of the
Lodge reservations in the senate, or
at least some which he wrote him
self, but which were in the Lodge
program. Hugh M. Dorsey, former
ly governor of Georgia was the 9TH
er prominent candidate. He was the
administration candidate, standing
on milk and water reservations to
the League of Nations.
According to figures just an
nounced it seems that Watson has
made clean sweep of the field. He
beat Smith and Dorsey in Fulton
County, their home county, and
carried more than a majority of the
counties in the state. He is nomina-
ted. Dorsey ran second, a poor Sec
ond, and Smith a poor third.
In the Governors race, Hardwick
who stood on the same platform
practically as Watson, is in the lead
for Governor and will probably get
the nomination. 1t not he will run
over in a second primary with Cliff
ford Walker. Should there be a Sec
ond race the chances favor Walker
as the other candidate, Holder ran
on practically the same platform as
Walker.
The outcome of the race was a
surprise to almost everyone. In the
presidential primary, the Howell
faction in Georgia which supported
Palmer, dorsey in this race) the
Smith faction, and the Watson fac
ton appeared to be of about equal
strength. The race was a three
cornered affair. 1t was expected
that the senatorial race would be
much the same, but not so. Just
what contributed most to the out.
come cannot be told at this distance
The cry of persecution which Wat
son put up on account of past
treatment in Georgia no doubt hac
is effect. The steam roller operated
by the Howell faction in the presi-
dental situation and supported by
the National Democratic Conven.
ton initiated against Governor
Dorsey, while Smith appears to have
lost out because after taking a
stand against the League of Ma,
tions on principle, he undertook to
flop back and get on what he thought
was the main band wagon. The main
cause of Watson's election, how
ever, we Judge is his stand against
j. the Un-American, undemocratic
super-government which President
Wilson brought back from Paris and
undertook to force down the throats
of the American people, coupled
with his autocratic attitude in un-
dertaking to run the country single
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