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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 213
WATSON WINS, HARDWICK IN LEAD
Ex-Senator Climbing Toward Majority and Nomination
SUMTER COUNTY STAYS
IN SMITH COLUMN BY
MARGIN OF SINGLE VOTE
Dorsey Gets 727 to Senator’s 728—Hines and Ri
ley Win Two Seats in State
Legislature
Sumter county remained in the Hoke Smith column where it has always
stood, in yesterday’s statewide primary by the narrowest possible margin of
one vote. The unofficial calculation of last night to this effect was mad*
official at noon today when the county Democratic committee, after can
vassing and consolidating the official returns, declared the result. Smith’s
total was 728 and Dorsey’s 727. Watson polled 316 in the county, said to be
the highest vote he has ever receiced here —certainly within recent years.
Sumter county went overwhelming
ly for Clifford Walker for gover
nor, Holder getting only a scattering
few.
The only other race of interest in
the county was that for Ute legisla
ture, in which five men were contest
ing for two places. The successful
candidates were A. E. Hines, who led
the legislative ticket, and George W
Riley, Sr., both of whom reside in
Americus. Mr. Hines, a retired Sea
board engineer, has farm and com
mercial interests in Leslie and else
where in the Fifteenth district. Mr.
Riley is proprietor of the Farmers Oi
company.
With the vote of the 27th district
still uncounted last night, Mr. Hines
was high man of the field in the
eight other districts of Sumter coun
ty with 404, G. C. Thomas, of Cobb,
was second, with 396; John D. Wil
liams, of the 17th district, third with
300; Mr. Riley fourth with 249, and
J. E. D. Shipp fifth with 246. In
the city the following vote was re
ceived by each: Hines 461, Riley
572 ,Shipp 442, Thomas 271 and Wil-
UNOFFICIAL
UNIT VOTE
ON SENATOR
I
WATSON i
Appling * 2
Baker , 2 I 1
Bibb 6j'
Bleckley 2 1
Butts 2
Barrow 2 ! 1
Bank/ ...-. 2 I
Ben Hill .’. 2,i
Bulloch : .1 4
Candler «..., 2
Clayton i 2 I
Cobb 4
Coffee 2
Clarke 4
Campbell 2
Colquitt 2
DecjSur «...... 4
Douglas 2
Dodge 2
DeKalb . 4
Early 2
Evans •. 2
Emanuel 4
Elbert 4 4
Fayette ' 2! (
Forsyth 2
Fulton 6 1
Grady - 2 j
Greene - 2 ■
Gwinnett 1 4
Glasscock 2
Hall 2
*Hart - 2
Henry *■ 2
Haralson i, 2
Habersham 2
Irwin 2
fJasper 2
Jackson - 4 ,
Jeff Davis 2 ,
Jefferson 2
Laurens 4
Lee 1
Lincoln 2
Lumpkin 2 '
Marion - - 2
Macon 2
Miller 2
Monroe 2
MeDuffie 2
Meriwether - 4
Montgomery - 2
Newton - 2
Paulding 2 |
Pulaski 2 ,
Pike 2
Richmond ~
Screven - g
Stephens ....rj i
Snalding ... -ii& 2
Toombs 2
Turner X 2 i
Telfair 2 I
Thomas 4 |
Tattnajl 2 1
Troun 4
Treutlen 2
Upson 2
Washington 4
Worth 2
Wilkes 4
Wilcox 2
Wheeler 2
Whitfield 2
Ware 4
Wilkinson 2
■ liams 159. The official totals of
each for the county were: Hines 865,
■ Riley 821, Shipp 688, Thomas 667
and Williams 459.
i The official consolidated vote for
• the county will be found in adjoining
• column, showing the results for all
1 offices.
I G. W. Riley today issued the fol
lowing statement:
i “To My Friends and Supporters in
In Sumter County:
“Today I want to assure you of
• my very deep appreciation for the
. confidence you have shown in nomi
nating me as one of your representa
tives in the state legislature.
; “It will be my pleasure and sol
i emn duty to represent you to the full-,
s est capacity, at all times devoting
• whatever ability I may have, and all
, of the energy I can command to your
• interests.
i “Those who worked in my interest,
1 are assured of my lasting apprecia-'
i tion; to all of those who voted for
• me, I hope you will never have rea
' son for regrets.
“GEORGE W. RILEY.”
Walton 4
Webster 2
DORSEY
Burke 4
Chatham 6
Camden 2i
Catoosa 2 ‘
Chattooga 2
Charlton 2
Crisp 2
Effingham 2,
Echols 2
Floyd 6
Houston 4
Heard 2
Hancock 2
Lee 1
Lowndes 4
Liberty 2
Mclnto'h 2
Muscogee 6
Murray ....* 2
Polk 2
Pickens 2
Quitman 2
Rabun 2
Schley 2
Talbot 2
Terrell 2
Tift 2
Union 2
SMITH
Bartow 4
Calhoun .' 2
Coweta 4
Clay 2
Dougherty 2
Dade 2
Dooly 2
Fannjn 2
Harris 2
Morgan 2
Pierce 2
Randolph > 2
Sumter 4
Stewart 2
Taliaferro 2
Twiggs 2
Towns .". \ 2
UNREPORTED
Atkinson 2‘
Baldwin 2 1
Berrien 2
Bacon 2 i
Brooks 4
Bryan 2
Chattahoochee - 2
Carroll 4
Columbia 2
Cherokee 2
Clinch 2
Cook 2
Crawford 2 ,
Dawson .*. - 2 !
Franklin 2 ;
Glynn 21
Gilmer ’ ! - 2#
Gordon 2
Jenkins 2
Jones .......................... 2
Johnsop 2
MadisoX 2
Milton X 2
Mitchell 2
Oconee : 2
Oglethorpe 2
Putnam 2
Rockdale 2
Taylor A 2 i
Walker 2
Wayne - 2
Warren ............. 2
White 2
THE TIMEsUrE:CORDER
fegfrpUBLJSHED IN THE JKfc'HEART OF DIXIE gfrfr?
Official Consolidation For Sumter
For United State, Senator °' l6 29th 15th 27th T ° talfi
John R. Cooper ft 1 q i 1 2 0 4 t 12
i -2 orsey 25 H 9 59 41 36 14 88 438 727
Hoke Smith 64 20 3* 75 10 42 24 79 .179 728
Thomas E. Watson 10 15 27 21 40 4 16 30 149 316
For Governor
™ alter R w ßr t? ""1 1 0 111 0 2 0 2 4 21
i T h u Oma J? Hardwick 55 17 40 47 36 24 20 61 239 539
S N h w l er 18 15 10 31 1 3 2 2 4 Hl 215
Clifford Walker 22 4 21 83 55 54 31 115 625 1027
For Secretary State
8- G - McLendon 81 34 45 118 <72 40 32 112 712 1246
Claude A. West 17 17 27 44 19 42 i 22 87 260 535
For Attorney General
George B Davis ...29 20 26 50 41 47 31 45 315 604
George N. Napier 70 31 46 115 52 36 23 13’6 660 1189
For State Treasurer
W. J. Speer ......... 99 54 7* i 62 92 84 54 203 982 1802
For Comptroller General
William A Wright 99 54 165 92 84 84 54 203 982 1805
For Commissioner of AgricultuA *
J. J. Brown 99 54 72 165 93 84 54 203 982 1806
For State Superintendent of Educa-
tion
M. L. Brittain _... 99 54 72 164 89 84 54 202 982 1800
For Comminioner of Commerce and
Labor
H. M. Stanley 99 54 72 165 93 84 54 203 982 1806
For Commissioner of Pensions
John W. Lindsey 99 54 72 165 93 84 54 203 982 1806
For Prison Commissioner
E. L. Rainey 99 54 72 165 93 84 54 203 982 1806
For Railroad (Commissioner
W. Trox I ankston 34 20 26 92 38 35 23 105 370 745
Paul B. Trammell 63 31 46 70 55 48 31 97 593 1034
For Justice Supreme Court
Walter F. George 90 52 73 165 93 84 54 202 982 1803
For Justice Supreme Court
H. Warner Hill 99 53 72 164 93 84 54 202 982 1803
For Judge Court of Appeals
Alex W. Stephens 99 54 72 1'65 93 84 54 203 982 1806
For Judge Court of Appeals r
O. H. B. Bloodworth 86 39 57 137 73 58 37 145 809 1436
I W. H. Dorris 12 12 15 32 19 36 17 58 162 353
For Judge Cour* of Appeal,
Ben H. Hill 69 32 56 121 53 48 28 127 544 1078
Charles W. Smith 29 * 20 16 39 39 35 25 76 427 706
For Representative in Congress Third
Congressional District
Charles R. Crisp 92 51 67 157 85 76 51 196 845 1620
J. Gordon Jones 6 3 5 77 8 3 7 132 171
■ For Judge Superior Court Southwes-
tern Circuit
Z. A. Littlejohn 99 53 72
For Solicitor General Southwestern “
Circuit
Jule Felton 98 51 73 164 88 82 53 203 982 1792
For Representatives (Two) »
A. E. Hines 28 29 64 77 42 13 106 461 865
G. W. Rilev - 15 24 41 . 63 16 16 31 43 572 821
i J. E. D. Shipp - 23 9 22 71 21 20 23 57 442 688
G. C. Thomas . 40 38 28 27 23 50 13 177 271 667
John D. Williams 72 7 24 76 44 35 27 15 159 459
•<Z-_ -- . - - .7-. - . ,
UNOFFICIAL
UNIT VOTE
ON GOVERNOR
HARDWICK
Appling 2 |
Barrow 2 i
Bulloch 41
Campbell : 2 j
Candler 2 j
Columbia 2 i
Colquitt 2 J
Clayton - 2 j
Coffee 2
Cobb - 4 |
DeKalb 4|
Decatur 4 '
I Douglas - 2 j
■ Evans 2 '
Emanuel 4
Elbert 4
Fayette 2.
‘ Fulton 6
i Forsyth 2
! Glasscock 2
5 Greene 2
! Gwinnett 4
| Haralson 2
i Hancock 2
Habersham 2
Hart 2
Henry 2;
Irwin 2 ]
Jeff Davis . 2 i
Jefferson 2
i Jenkins 2
Laurens 4
| Lincoln 2
Lumpkin 2
| Marion 2
| Miller 2
1 McDuffie 2
■ Meriwether 4
! Monroe 2
1 Montgomery 2 i
Oglethorpe 2 i
I Pulaski 2 '
j Paulding 2
j Pike 2 \
! Rockdale 2 j
Richmond 6 '
| Spalding 2
■ Screven 2
i Treutlen 2
: Tattnall 2
[ Toombs _ 2
Taliaferro 2
Turner 2
> Trou 4
[wpson ...._ 2 i
Warren * 2 f
Wilkinson - 2 '
I Washington ............•... 4 i
Worth . ............ 2 I
Wheeler 2 >
WALKER
Bartow 4
• Bryan 2
Bibb ...... ... .................... 6
Butts 2
Ben Hill 2
Baker 2
AMERICUS, GA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 9, 1920
i Burke 4
I Bleckley 2
■ Chatham 6
I Cook 2
. Coweta 4
Catoosa 2
! Calhoun 2
Camden 2
Chattooga 2
i Clay 2
! Charlton 2'
I Crisp 2
Dodge 2
j Dade 2
■ Dougherty 2
1 Doolv 2
j Effingham 2
i Early 2
! Echols 2
Floyd 6
i Grady 2
1 Heard 2
I Houston 4
Harris 2
Jasper 2
Lee 2
Liberty 2
Lowndes 4
Morgan 2
Muscogee 6
Macon 2
Pierce j»l 2
Quitman 2
1 Randolph 2
I Schley 2
' Stephens 2
Sumter „ 4
Stewart 2
Talbot 2
Thomas 4
Tift 2!
Telfair 2
Terrell 2
Twiggs 2 ;
Union 2
Ware 4
Walton 4
Wilcox 2
Wayne 2
Webster 2
Whitfield 2
HOLDER
I Pickens - 2
Rabun 2
Hall 2
Jackson 4 |
Murray 2
Polk 2
Wilkes 4
UNREPORTED
1 Atkinson *. 2
Baldwin ...... 2
Banks 2
. Berrien 2
Bacon - 2
i Brooks - 4
! Clarke 4
■ Clinch - 2
Crawford ' _ - 2
Carroll 4
Cherokee 2
Chattahoochee 2
Dawson 2
Fannin 21
iHow Sumter Went
In April Primary
For the purpose of comparison by
I those interested, the consolidated
| vote of Sumter county in the April
. presidential primary is reprinted I
' here:
Pal- Wat-
District Smith mer son
15th 84 34 4
New 16th 16 7 10
Old 16th 20 4 5
New 26th 18 4 11
Old 26th 57 32 12
17th 61 4 4
28th 40 8 2
29th 19 12 51
27th 286 266 43 j
Total .610 371 96|
CRISP WINS 13
IN 15 COUNTIES
I FOR CONGRESS
Jones Carries Home
County By 100
Majority
Judge Charles R. Crisp, present
j congressman from the Third district
of Georgia, was returned io that of
fice in Wednesday’s primary by an
overwhelming vote, losing only two
counties out of 15 in the district.
These were Crisp county, the home
county of Judge Crisps’ only oppon
ent, J. Gordon Jones, was won by
J< nes by t majority of only
120 votes, and Taylor, won by Jones
by 40 votes. The totals in Taylor
were Jones 563, Crisp 523. The on
ly other close vote in the district
was in Turner, where Judge Crisp
won by a majority of 11 That
county went strong for Watson and
, Franklin 2
Glynn 2
Gilmer 2
Gordon 2
i Jones 2
Johnson - 2
Mclntosh 2
Madison 2
Mitchell 2
Milton 2
Newton 2
Oconee 2
Putnam 2
Taylor -- 2
Towns 2
Walker ....j. 2
White 2
M’DUFFIE MAN’S TOTAL
WELL ABOVE 200 AND
FIGURES STILL COMING IN
Dorsey Still Far Short of 100 and Smith Poor
Third—Statehouse Results
and Congress
ATLANTA, Sept. 9—(By Associated Press) —Unofficial in
complete returns compiled by the Atlanta Jouranl up to 1:45 p. m.
today indicated Watson had 2 1 5 county unit votes in the senatorial
primary yesterday, Dorsey 75 and Smith 40; for governor, Hard
wick 166, Walker, 146, Holder 18.
ATLANTA, Sept. 9—(By Associated Press) —Thomas E-
Watson has received the Democratic nomination to the United States
Senate on the face of incomplete unofficial returns from approxi
mately two-thirds of the Georgia counties, as compiled by the i
lanta Journal up to noon today. These indicated Watson had 203
county unit votes. Dorsey 71 and Senator Smith 40. It requires 195
to nominate.
Indications were that an official count would be necessary to
decide the governor’s race. The Journal’s figures indicated Former
Senator Hardwick had 148, Clifford Walker 140 and John Holder
20.
Figures on which the Journal's compilations were made were not
complete today for a majority of the counties tabulated. While there
is a possibility that the final returns will show some change, the gen
eral trend of the returns showing Watson leading by a clear majority
and Hardwick and Walker running close had not changed since the
compilations began to take definite shape last night.
Reports to the Jouranl indicate that all congressmen have been
renominated and indications were that McLendon had been renom
inated Secretary of State, George M. Napier nominated Attorney-
General, Paul B. Trammell, Railroad Commissioner, and Judges O.
H. B. Bloodworth and Ben Hill for the Court of Appeals.
All state officials appear to have big leads, but several con
gressional races were close.
ATLANTA, Sept. 9—(By International News Service—(ll
A. M.) —Watson is overwhelmingly nominated to the senate and it
seems certain that Hardwick is nominated for governor.
Following is the county unit vite as it stands at this hour, as
compiled by the Georgian:
Watson, 238; Dorsey, 68; Smith 28. Hardwick, 172; Walk
er, 130; Holder, 8; These returns are unofficial, but as accurate as
can possibly be given at this hour.
All present congressmen renominated except Overstreet i» the
first district who is reported tied with Slater, making probable a sec
ond primary.
Hardwick carried Chatham county by over 3,000 majority.
Dorsey’s plurality in Chatham was over 3,000 with Smith second.
Indicated Results In State House
and Congressional Contest
ATLANTA, Sept. 9.—(By Asso- : <
ciated Press.) —Incomplete unof-l<
ficial returns compiled by the Atlan i
ta Journal up to noon today gave <
the following indications in the con
tests for state offices:
In the race for the Court of Ap- I
peals to succeed Judge Charles White
ford Smith, Judge Benjamin H. Hill s
has carried 29 counties with 80 unit ■
votes and Judge Smith has carried 1
8 counties with 16 unit votes.
In his race to succeed himself on <
the Court of Appeals, Judge O, H.
B. Bloodworth has carried 38 cbun- 1
ties with 94 votes, while his oppen- ■
ent, W. H. Dorris, has carried 3 «
counties with 6 unit votes.
In the race for Secretary of State,
S. G. McLendon has carried 41 coun- s
ties with 100 unite votes, while his .
opponent, Claude A. West, has car
ried 7 counties with 14 unit votes. ’
Mr. McLendon’s re-eleetion by a good ’
majority is indicated.
In the race for the Railroad Com
mission, Paul B. Trammell has car- 1
ried 30 counties with 79 unite votes, .
while his opponent, W. Trox Banks
ton, has carried 10 counties with 24
unit votes.
In the contest for Attorney Gen-
Hardwick, with the former of whom
Jones had formerly been allied. Ter
rell went for Crisp by 700.
The counties embraced in the Third
district are: Dooly, Sumter, Crisp.
Turner, Ben Hill, Macon, Schley, Legs
Webster, Stewart, Terrell, Randolph,
Quitman, Clay and Taylor. All ot
these counties were canvassed per
sonally by Judge Crisp as fully as he
was physically able prior to the elec
tion. . ...
Judge Crisp today issued the fol
lowing statement:
“To the Voters of the Th ~,l Con-■
greCstonal District:
“God 1 as blessed me in many ways |
and especially in that He has given i
me the most loyal and best friends a
man ever had. To them is due my ]
overwhelming victory.
“My heart is filled to ove. - flowing 1
with love and gratitude to the peop e
of the Third Congressional District.
I shall strive to show my appreciation
of the great tribute they nave paid
me by serving them with the utmost
fidelity and by devoting whatever
talents I may possess to their wel
fare. <
“CHARLES R. CRISP.” .
3 , J, mwinwui'
Vlk y OOIX 04 AAQH'Qvvt i
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
eral, George N. Napier has carried 32
counties with a total of 78 unit votes,
wihle George B. Davis has carried 17
counties with 40 unit votes.
Incomplete returns indicate the
following resultsin the congressional
race:
William D. Upshaw has won by a
substantial majority over Hooper
Alexander and Benjamin M. Black
burn, in the Fifth District.
Charles R. Crisp has defeated Gor
don Jones in the Third District.
Early return indicate that the race
in the First District is very close
between Congressman Overstreet and
Judge W. F. Slater. Judge W. W.
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
Charles H. Brand appears to have
won out over Thomas J. Shackel
ford and Phil W. Davis.
In the Ninth, (District Congress
man Carl Vinson has a good lead over
Sam L. Olive.
Congressman W.W. Larsen ap
pears to have been victorious over his
opponent. Roscoe Peacock, in the
Twelfth District.
Dorsey and Watson
Tied in Lee County
LEESBURG. Sept. 9—Leesburg
its two unit votes between
Dorsey and Watson, the result be
ing a tie between the two, with
Smith third. Walker carried the
county over Hardwick. Judge Crisp
won for congress by a majority of
112.
Town of Buford Is
Carried by Watson
BUFORD, Sept 9.—Thomas E.
Watson carried Buford, the scene of
his arrest two weeks ago. The vote
was: Watson, 257; Smith 152; Dor
sey, 119; Cooper, 2.
baffler
Forecast fpr Georgia Partly
cloudy weather, with probable show
ers tonight and Friday.