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Walker County Messenger.
VOLUME XXXIV—NO. 34
Hoke Smith Again Nominated Gove»-.._.
Gordon Lee Sweeps 7th Against Wright
Lee Carries Every County of Dis
trict But Floyd, Gordon and
Paulding-Majority in District
Reaches 3,779 Votes—Walker
Gives Lee Splendid Majority
of 1,153 Votes
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GORDON LEE, of Walker
Nominated For Fourth Term in Congress
Gordon Lee has been nominated by the democrats of the Seventh
district as their representative in congress for the fourth time, the con
gressional primary Tuesday resulting in a sweeping victory for him oyer
his opponent, Judge Mose Wright, of Rome. Mr. Lee carried every county
in the district with the exception of Floyd, where Judge Wright secured a
majority of 500 votes. The Rome box saved the county for Wright, the
country precincts of Floyd giving Mr. Lee almost vote for vote as sgaiust
his opponent.
While Walker was all along conceded for Lee, Mr. Lee’s majority—
1153—was a surprise to both Lee and Wright supporters. The vote by
precincts was as follows:
District Lee Wright
Wilson 120 34
Chestnut Flat 57 3
LaFayette 3 294 105
Chickamauga 181 19
East Armuchee 112 74
West Armuchee 22. 44
Rock Spring 150 25
Rossville 98 33
Lisbon 37 0
Mountain 44 • 15
Pond Spring 88 3
Kensington 122 18
Cedar Orove 102 10
Cane Creek 93 31
Chattanooga Valley 09 22
1589 430
LEE CARRIES TEN COUNTIES
Official returns show that Mr. Lee carried tea counties of the distbct,
Judge Wright carrying three—Floyd, Gordon and Paulding. Their rna
j ofities are as follows;
County Lee’s Majority Wright’s Majority
Dade 109
Catoosa >.... 295
Whitfield 557
Gordon 22
Cobb 524
Paulding - 214
Haralson 248
Polk 41
Floyd 802
Walker 1153
Murray 598
Bartow 215
Chattooga 570
Total 4317 588
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2(5, 1910
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY PRIMARY
RESULTED IN MANY CLOSE RACES
Thurman Victor Over Rosser For Rep
resentative—Catron Wins Over
Sims For Sheriff—Dickerson
Has Close Call-Deck, Martin,
Ezell and Love Successful
In a contest, hard-fought by every
candidate and his friends, the Demo
cratic voters of Walker county met
at the polls Tuesday and selected
their nominees for county offices.
The successful candidates and
their majorities are:
B, F. Thurman, representative, 98
majority over J. E. Rosser.
R. N. Dickerson, clerk, 5t5 ma
jority over Z. W. Jones.
A. G. Catron, sheriff, 11 majority
over H. A. Sims.
C. B. Ezell, receiver, 591 major
ity over W. S. Parker.
Robt. Martin, collector, 46 major
ity over J. R. Hunter.
Jim Deck, treasurer, 178 majority
over J. F. Smith.
R. D. Love, county school com
missioner, 8 majority over R. L
Powell.
The county commissioners are
John B. Henderson, John 0. Young,
R. B. Shaw, J. M. Ransom and J.
V. Johnson, being the old board
with the exception of J. V. Johnson
who was elected to the place of T.
J. Bandy.
It is doubtful if ever before have
the democrats of the county had so
many close and exciting races down
the home stretch. With the exception
of Ezell, who had a runaway race in
his contest for receiver and re
ceived more votes than both
his opponents, not a single can
didate but was on the anxious seat
until the last precinct had been heard
from and the executive committee
had canvassed the returns and veri
fied the unofficial figures.
All Tuesday evening, even after
the count at the local box had been
completed and there remained only
the returns from Cane Creek and
Chattanooga Valley to make the
figures complete, the races for repre
sentative, sheriff, clerk, collector,
treasurer and school commissioner,
were in doubt and the offices were
claimed by the friends of rival can.
didates. The official count gave the
school commissionership to Love,
after it had been conceded to Powell.
U. M. Malicoat, the only an
nounced candidate for coroner, was
elected to that office, having no op
position but the returns showing a
widely scattered vote for a score of
the well-known citizens of the coun
ty.
For county surveyor, W. 0. Bag
well, of Chickamauga, was declared
the nominee, he receiyi** 96 votes
to 94 for T. W. Haslerig.
The tabulated vote for the dif
ferent offices by districts, will be
found in another column.
Delegates Appointed
Following the consolidation of the
vote Wednesday, Chairman W. A.
Wardlaw, of the executive committee,
appointed the following delegates to
the stale convention, which meeets
in Atlanta Aug. 80.
J. R. McFarland, of Rossville, R.
S. Garmany alternate.
J. E Rosser, of LaFayette, John
Young alternate.
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MAJORITY OF 496
After in eclipse for two
years, thjat, joke Smith supporters
again obu.Aned the ascendancy in
Walker at the primary Tuesday,
running up a handsome majority of
496 votes for their candidates. Two
years ago the county went fcr Brown
by 5(5 majority.
The vote by districts was as fol
lows:
District Smith Brown
Wi150n....... 88 35
Cane Creek 69 33
West Armuchee 38 21
East Armuchee 86 74
Chestnut Flat 11 89
Rock Spring 90 49
Chickamauga 100 81
Pond Spring 43 36
Dry Valley 82 34
Chattanooga Valley... 82 5
Lisbon 29 9
Mountain 50 11
Kensington 81 41
Cedar Grove 57 89
LaFayette 245 148
Total 1151 655
SPEER CARRIES COUNTY
FOR STATE TREASURER
W. J. Speer carried the county
for state treasurer over P. M. Hawes
by a vote of 1190 to 596.
Felder, for attorney general, re
ceived 807 votes to 959 for Hew
lette A. Hall.
Prof. M. L. Brittain received over
1200 majority for state school com
missioner, the vote being Brittain
1518; Pettier 279.
Hutchens, for prison commissioner,
was also the choice of the Walker
votei s, receiving 1255 votes to 510
for R. E Davison.
O. B. Stevens, for railroad com
missioner, received 1086 votes to
715 for his opponent, J. A. Perry.
J. F. Gray also won this county in
his race for railroad commissioner,
his vote being 1345, E B, Mornady
polling 392.
There were no contests in the
other state house offices and all the
candidates polled about the full
vote. The vote in Walker reached
2025 and Judge John W. Maddox
received the endorsement of all with
the exception of 11 votes.
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808 DICKERSON
The Newly-Elected Clerk of
Superior Court
UISTRICTS NAME NEW
EXECUTIVE GUMMITTEE
The new executive committee, as
selected by the districts Tuesday,
is as follows;
I LaFayette—W. A. Wardlaw.
Cedar Grove—J. L. Simmons.
Mountain—J. A. Whitt.
Kensington—J. 11. Wyatt.
Rock Bpring D. C. Alsobrook.
Pond Bpring—Thos. Bonds.
Dry Valley—W. H. Henderson.
Chattooga Valley—C. M. Thur
man. *
Lisbon—W. Z. Hays.
Cane Creek—l). N. Keown.
West Armuchee —J. P. McWil
liams.
Wilson-R. L. McWhorter.
Chickamauga—J. L. Bird.
East Armuchee —No election.
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HON. HOKE SMITH, of Fulton
Nominated For Governor Over Joseph M. Brown
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAB
Has 214 Votes in
Convention
MAJORITY 4,000
Smith Carries Fulton
and Cobb Over Brown
—Walker Gives Him
Fine Vote
Atlanta Aug. 21 —Former Gover
nor Hoke Smith defeated Governor
Joseph M. Brown at Tuesday's pri
mary, and became governor-elect,
lie will be formally nominated at the
state convention in Atlanta on Au
gust 30, will be elected in October
and inaugurated next June.
Mr. Smith has carried not lees than
.*3 counties certainly, with 214 votes
in the convention, and the chances
are regarded as strong that ten ad
ditional counties will give him a
majority when the otiicial count is
announced.
It is impossible at this time ;o in
dicate, the relative popular vote of
the canditates, but it is regared as
almost certain that Mr. Smith leads
Governor Brown by not fewer than
4,000 popular votes. The actual
figures will be known only after the
vote of every militia district in the
state has been Canvassed.
Mr. Smith's managers announce
that they have had no definite ad
vices from 10 counties, at leaateigbt
of which are regarded as certain to
give him majorities.
Official returns from Fulton and
Oobb counties show that each of
them gave Mr. Smith majorities.
He carried his own county, his own
city, his own ward, the county of his
opponent, the city and the precinct in
which he votes. He also carried the
ward of Mr. J. It. Smith, his op
ponent's campaign adviser, and re
duced to a'narrow margin his op
ponent's lead in Floyd county, the
borne of Mr. Kd Maddox, campaign
manager.