The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1924-03-20
III COUNTIES WITH
CONVENTION VOTE Of
312 CO TO GEORGIAN
Cobb County Gives Native Son
Overwhelming Majority as
Presidential Choice

William Gibbs McAdoo, former sec
rotary of the treasury, swept Geor-
gia Wednesday in the democratic
state presidential primary, defeating
Senator Oscar w :, Underwood, of Al
ALBANIA, his only opponent, by to
vote.
Returns received early this morn
ing by The Constitution from all but
seven counties in the state showed
that McAdoo had carried III coun-
ties with total convention vote of
312 as against 80 counties with a
convention vote of rs for Under
wood.
Returns from seven counties could
not be obtained and in four addition
al counties no primary was held.
These eleven counties have total
Of "a convention votes.
Carries Cobb County But Loses in
Baldwin.
Georgia's native son carried Cobb,
the county in which he was born, by
large majority, but lost Baldwin,
the county in which he spent his boy
hood to his opponent by a vote of
825 to 497.
Muscogee was the single six-vote
county to give majority to Under
wood, the other seven large counties,
Fulton, DeKalb, Bib, Floyd, Chat
ham, Richmond and Laurens, all go
ing for McAdoo.
Four-Vote Counties Show McAdoo
Lead
The great majority Of the four
vote counties are also to be found in
the McAdoo column, there being but
four exceptions reported, Sumter,
Colquitt, Washington and Walton.
Failure of seven counties to report
returns,is probably attributable to
the new Australian ballot law passed
at the Last meeting of the state leg
islature. This law calls for an Off
cial consolidation Of the returns and
the election clerks in some instances
held this rule to mean that no figures
could be given out until after this
official compilation had been made.
No accurate estimate of the pop
ular vote could be obtained early
Thursday.
McAdOo Friends Will Name All
Delegates
McAdoo's victory Wednesday
means that his friends or managers
will name delegates from every coun-
ty in Georgia to the state convention,
to be held in Atlanta April IS. G.
+. Maddox, chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee, Wednes-
day night sent kilograms to the va
riOus county committees calling at
tention to the executive committees
ruling to this effect and asking that
no steps he taken toward the appoint
ment Of delegates to the state con-
vention until Mr.. McAdoo or his
friends have acted in the matter
The state democratic convention in
Atlanta will name the % Georgia
delegates to the national democratic
convention to be held in New York
June "a. All % delegates will be
pledged to McAdoo.
The McAdoo campaign in Georgia
has been conducted under the d:rec-
ton of Thomas J. Hamilton, of Au-
gusta, president Of the Georgia Me-
Adoo club, and the State McAdoo ex-
ecutive committee composed Of Miller
S. Bell, Of Milledgeville, Hollins Ran
dolph, Albert Howell, Jr., Boiling S.
Jones and Walter C. Hendrix.
The following counties were re-
ported complete for McAdoo: APP
ping 2, Baker 2, Barrow ., Ben Hill
2, Berrien 2, Bib 6, Brooks A, Bry-
an 2, Bullock A, Butts 2, Calhoun 2.
Camden 2, Gambler 2, Carroll 4, Ca
toosa 2, Charlton 2, Chatham 6, Chat
tooga 2, Cherokee 2, Clarke 4, Clay
2, Clayton 2, Clinch 2, Cobb A, Co
lumbia 2, Cook ?, Coweta 2, Crisp
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