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VOL, 6 AMEN AND LIKEWISE nULLELUJAH AND A PLEASANT TIME WAS HID 0! ALL Bartow County Voters Come Out Strong And Make Their Decision And All Join Together After the Battle. The election last Tuesday for gov ernor, state house officers, supreme emu t and court of appeals judges, con - ,-snien. judges and solicitors of the <i:i ericr 'courts and members of the n ..Mature, .passed off quietly in Bar p w county, but was nevertheless dfe tii ” uished by the hardest of work and .-t earnest labors,, upon the part of thv candidates and their friends. Tin. u-ghout this county and the Cherokee circuit the race for the judge ship between Judge A. W. Fite for re election and Hon. Malcolm C. Tarver easily took the front in interest, and it was hard, even after the election, to get reports from districts about any other race, so prominent in of all was tile judicial campaign. When the polls opened throughout fKjJIiiKF 'm US ; >§|i r . jppii M HH r v " ; MALCOLM C. TARVER. the county a number of voters were ready to get their ballots and make them out and in a very few minutes afterwards they -were being cast. It wat toon to be tee that the race in P-a; w county was close. Beth sides put up a determined fight and both believed the" would win. A large prr- Kni.cn of the tic'ret • were marked by the votet' a; their homes a: i in their offices ar.rl .teres and other private places. These were taken by. the v: te himself tc the polls and der&vted. ard these who re accustomed to work cn the ground- and to buttonhole and campaign for their friend? as candi dates were not able to make any very Stoat headway .for the rea.-en that the voter scon informed the men who but tonholed him that he had already pre pared his ballot. An unusually large vote was cast at iht Cartelsvilie box. a wrJil as ( h> put the county. The managers • ■ -:• • ■x^g?yssgMCaHßßaa:y JsraK^vvt^ \ '*£if -| /Jr ‘'; .Jy^:;., ;•< '•■li-CiviS " ‘ s -’?•' ; "*. . -’ : f THE BARTOW TRIBUNE REPRESENTATIVE M. L. JOHNSON. here engaged extra clerk hire, and rea- i hzing that the ticket was a long one and that the vote was a large one, they 1 begun counting during the morning ! hours. After the pells closed it was learned that the race for the judgeship at the Cartersville box was exceeding ly close and that in all probability neither Judge Fite nor Mr. Tarver would carry it by nr: re than twenty five votes. The Atco precinct was among the first to report and turned in a majority cf 24 for Mr. Tarver by a vote of 46 to 22. When the Carters ville precinct was finally counted out, a majority of two votes in favor of Judge Fite represented the difference between the two candidates. Taking the Atco precinct and the Cartersville precinct together, gave the Carters ville box to Mr. Tarver by 22 votes. As the country districts begun to re port it was seen to be a fight to the finish with no one able to accurately predict just how the result would come out. Stamp Creek was among the first and this district reported twenty for Fite and 19 for Tarver. Not much Later the Stile.sboro vote was phoned in amid reported as 47 for Fite and 47 for Tarver. From this time on most of the districts reported small majorities for Judge Fite, the Taylors ville district going to .Mr, Tarver by 48 to fifty votes. When the result was finally tabulated it was ascertained that Judge Fife had come to Carters ville with a majority over Mr. Tar ver of 329 and, when the Cartersville majority for Tarver was deducted, gave the county to Fite by 295 votes. This was considered a victory by the ,Tarver men. It had, from the earliest ,AUges cf the campaign, been known, as well as politics can be known, that if Judge Fite failed to carry Bartow county by less than eight, hundred he would be defeated, notwithstanding his friends had hopes of carrying Mur ray county, Gordon county and hold ing Mr. Tarver’s majority down in Whitfield countv to less than five hun dred. In the~e calculations, thev proved to he wrong. Both Gordon and Murray counties reported substantia! majori ties for Mr. Tarver and Whitfield county stood by its home candidate with a majority c.f 652 votes. Judge F;te, however, carried the counties of ude and Catoosa, the first by only five votes and the latter by about a hundred votes. From the best informa tion obtainable at the time of going to press, Mr. Tarver’s n sjoritv in the circuit is 599. The race for solicitor was quietly conducted and excited little attention, 1 ring very much overshadowed by the judgeship race. Mr. the incum bent. was succe.siful and carried every county in the district by substantial CARTERSVILLE, GA., SEPTEMBER 14, 1916 CONDRESSMAN GORDON LEE WINS BY GREAT MAJORITY Carries All But Two Counties And Breezes In With a Lead Of 5000 Votes And This Secures Fine Endorsement. Congressman Gordon Gee was re elected in the primary last Tuesday by a majority ctf approximately five thousand votes. Official returns from ten of the thir teen counties and unofficial returns from the remaining three counties of the district show that Mr. Lee carried eleven of the thirteen counties', Judge Harbin carrying Paulding county by 130 votes and Haralson, county by one vote. This is a very flattering endorsement of Mr. Lee inasmuch as he was unable until the last few closing days of the campaigning to see the voters, and in the limited time he had he was only able to go into a few counties. He left his campaign with the people who seemed to have looked after him splen didly. His opponent visited and revisit ed every county in the district and made what is said to have been a house to house canvass of the voters in the thirteen counties. Among the last features of Judge Harbin’s campaign was a tour down the W. & A. railroad accompanied by a brass band, at which time he made five or six speech es a day. On the date of the primary Mr. Har bin came to Cartersville and worked at the. polls in the l interest of his can didacy and saw practically every voter. Notwithstanding this, Mr. Lee carried the Cartersville box and the county by the largest majority he has ever , received in this county. On the other i-A .y ■C majorities. ’ Contrary to. expectations, he carried Bartow county by 244 votes, r.trd obtained a majority throughout t.I: ’ district of 2,646 votes. The race for congress, notwithstand ing Mr. Harbin’s active ■campaign, re .vulted in a victory for Mr. Lee, who carried ten of the thirteen counties of the district, including Mr. Harbin s own county of Gordon. Judge Harbin came to Cartersville for the purpose of holding down Mr. majority n this county and actively worked throughout the day and importuned each voter by personal solicitation to cast bis ballot in his favor. Notwith standing this Mr. Lee's friends were in a majority throughout the comity by 459 - votes. The race for representatives be tween W. D. Trippe, Rosser Thomas and M. L. Johnson resulted in a victory for Messrs. Trippe and Johnson. Mr. Trippe won by a very handsome vote. He secured every vote in his‘own dis trict of Taylorsville, as well as every vote in the Stamp Creek district, and hand, Mr. Lee remained at his home av Chickumanga. Max Lee carried Mr. Harbin’s own county of Gordon by 615 votes 1 carry ing every precinct of the county. Mr. | Lee likewise carried every precinct in Murray county, securing 1.079 majority out of 1,300 votes cast. The result of the congressional contest furnishes Mr. Lee with the most pronounced en dorsement he has ever reoeived inas much as Ills inability to leave Wash ington and to personally superintend his campaign or to oiganize his forces in the several counties. Yet he se cured a majority of more than five thousand votes in the district and oar j ried all but two of the counties eom j posing the district, losing these only by small votes. 1 . The tabulated' vote is as follows: I .ee's Harbin's Majority Majority ■ Bade 180 J Catoosa 200 ; Walker 780 Cbatooga 503 Floyd 248 Polk 401 Haralson 1 Paulding , 130 | Cobb 40 I Bartow 459 ; Gordon 615 j Murray 1,079 . Whitfield 802 \! 5,307 131 CONGRESSMAN GORDON LEE 643 of the 763 votes oast in the Car tei svil-le district. He likewise nan well in all other portions of the co-unty and was an easy victor. The place for the otheY representative, between Thomas and Johnson, was hotly contested for, but Mr. Johnson, came to the Carters vfile box with an edge of something like 235 votes. Mr. Thom a 6 friends had same hope that the vote at the Car tersville 'box 'might change this but it only gave him fifty more votes and thus Mr. JehnSon won by something like 175 or 180 votes. The election was one of the most memorable ever held in Bartow county and the intense interest displayed by the friends of Mr. Dorsey,'as well as for Judge Fite and Mr. Tarver, man:- f fpsted itself in the great number of people who remained about the court house and the office of The Bartow Tribune where reports were being re ceived by wire from the various coun try districts and the Cherokee circuit. (Continued on page eight.) THE COUNTY FAIR'S THE THING TO BRINGJJS ALI TOGETHER Association Gets Down To Work, Improve ments Being Made And a Great Big Occasion it Will Be Phis Year. The Bartow County Fair, to be held October 10, 11, 12 and 13, will ithL year have more entertaining qualities and will! be more generally patronized than ever before. The association has gene actively to work to make prepar ations for the. event. Improvements have been made on the buildings and the grounds and right now workmen are employed who have already in creased the seating capacity of the grand stand and are extending seats down to the race track rail. This was dene by taking out the hand stand and erecting anew band stand across the track next to the judges' stand. Mak ing this change has enabled the fair to provide several hundred more grand stand seats and it will also provide a place t'er the music which will be more acceptable. Placing the music farther away from the grand stand will take nothing away from the pleasure of those in the stand but will enable many more on the grounds to heur the music. Also in course of construction will be an added section cf grand stand seats for the negroes. No provision has heretofore been made to seat live 'mem bers of this race or tc afford them oomiforts on the fair ground-:. This year they will have a building in wh'ch exhibits will be made of negro indus try and provisions will be made for furnishing them with ace rmodatio is to enable them tc comforthby wLn-r I the features of the fair. ! The grand stand will be ’fenced off | and an entrance fee will- be charged Ihr ginning this year. TV.r association has heretnfc.re charged a general ad mission fee at the gate of fiftv cents with the grand stand free. This year it was thought best to change this rule and to make the general admission to the grounds twenty-five cents vl h twenty-five cents admission tor grand stand seats. In front cf the grand stand this yep.r wi- ! he furai bed a great many entertainments both day j 1 and night, and it is believed that these features will add greatly to the i>opu farity of the fair and will make the grand stand a center of activity which will be profitable to the ar ociaMon. Mr. T. W. Tinsley left Cartersville Wednesday night for Sweetwater, Tenn., and other points for the pur \ pose of arranging for a horse shew this year as last. The ass' elation tried pnit this feature lard vear and wa greatly p'eased with the result. Many fine horse were shown and riders of recognized ability fr 'm a II ranee lent their prt mice to the occasion which t ir i '' : REPRESENTATIVE W. D. TRIPPE, added much to the social value of the week's entertainment. Mr. Tinsley Is familiar with the conduct cf horse shows and knows the quality of show horses and will devote much o-f his time toward the completion of this feature of the fair. It is believed that the live stock ex hibit this year will be better than ever before. Many farmers and others are engaged in raising a fine grade of stock and especially is this true with i reference to bee? and dairy cattle, j horses and hogs. It is believed in Bar j tow county can be made a profitable i live stock industry and nothing can be | devised that will more greatly encour age this industry than, county fairs. The poultry' show will be in charge jof Mr. Water Akerman who is devot ; rag his time to giving advice to pro : liable entrants and telling them what treatment to give their birds An order j to have them show to the best advant ; age. It is believed there are in Bartow : county great numbers of finely bred ! fowls, and it is Mr. Akerman’s earnest desire that these be assembled on the j fair grounds this year. In charge of ; the poultry looms this year will be Mr. W. C. Gaines who has so satis factorily handled this end of the show. Mr. Ruohs Pvron w.'ll have general charge of the fair, a% he has of the Rome fair. This has the effect of bringing about a very desirable ar i angement. The people of Rome have invested a large amount of money in their fair and intend to' make it. a great success and of great value to , the people. They are cc-cpe rating with, the people of Bartow ecamay in making successful onr fair and Mr’. Pyron well furnish the Home fair with much that fi; rfgwnHl' and can onh- be supplied i , through the'werk dona over here. Both fairs wfl be extensively ad- J vertised from now on and active prep larabkn.s will be in course of progress noli day until the dale of the open!mgr. in the nrernti re each and every business n an and all interested in the success of Bartow county's greatest inrtitutfon hemfd put their shoulders to the wheel and advert tee the fair by t king i: up !a order that assurance will be mad 1 doubly .■ore that -a large attendance will be on hand during the fur ch ys the fair is held this yeajr. Dutch Supper. Mr. F. R. Kelly celebrated his birth day on Saturday evening with a Dutch supper. Eighteen gentlemen were the guests. N() 29