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Democratic Candidate Shows Wonderful Strength All Over the Country, Even in G. O. P. Strongholds
LANDSLIDE FOR WOODROW WILSON GREATEST IN HISTORY
WILSON GURRIES
GEORGIA BE
50,000
Late Returns Increase Demo
cratic Lead—Total Vote of
State About 140,000.
, ..mpleted returns from 76 counties in
Georgia, and incomplete returns from
T1 „ remainder show that Wilson and
Marshall have swept the state by not
' ess than 50,000 majority over the com
bined opposition.
Approximately 140.000 votes were
cast Os these, Wilson gets 95,000.
Roosevelt 35.000, and Taft 10,000.
Returns this morning show a gradual
in ;e;tse of the Wilson lead, and it may
be that his majority will crawl well
up to 60,000 in the final count.
Tit'’ local. Democratic victory was full,
•umpiete and absolutely conclusive.
Yesterday, for the first time in many
presidential moons, Georgia aroused
herself and showed genuine, old time
Democratic form.
The Bull Moose, helped along by
Thomas E. Watson, threw a big scare
into the Georgia Democracy, that sc
long had prided itself upon an appro
priated descriptive prefix, "unterrified."
The scare was the thing the Democ
racy needed. It brought forth the cave
dwellers, the laggards, the lukewarm,
and the indifferent.
Mr. Watson helped the cause im
mensely when he bolted to the Bull
Moose. His bolting, after having par
ticipated m the primary, was resented
profoundly. He was the compelling
cause of many Wilson votes in Geor
gia.
Then, too. the great activity of the
state committee and Georgia’s public
men —the appeals of Hoke Smith, and
Little Joe,” and the congressmen, and
.judges, and the mayors—all helped to
sehievt the consummation so devoutly
io be wished in Democratic councils.
All factionalism was laid aside, all
the wounds of the preferential primary
were healed, and Georgia’s Democracy
calked to the polls yesterday, rank and
fr oiidified, unafraid and militant, as
of yore.
Before its advance tiie enemy was
elplese. The threatened Bull Moose
imposition never materialized —the Taft
. -tii hardly made an impression.
Democracy was in the saddle in Geor.
yesterday—and that Democracy was
< te. mined to ride down every protest
t cohort, no matter whence it came,
or in whose opposing name.
The >n > doubt of the campaign—the
ting out of the vote —was resolved
.ml; osnrly and splendidly in favor of
Wil■<••, and Marshall.
Counties. Wilson. Roosevelt. Taft,
.ing 250 .... ....
I ’;• ■ win 550 .... ....
i kcr 200 .... ....
. m.L L .. 100 ....
Hill 150
■ ien 300 .... ....
■ • h 500
■ . ts 20i) .... ....
like 496 .... ....
■ . ■•iin 100 .... ....
’.unt’en 200 .... ....
1 »cli 1 250 .... ....
'.itroll 500
•Vtoosa 100
1 ; tin. n 3,314
v ,i.i 31)3 .... ....
' 111 lion 200
1 'l-’i.v 300
' i iytoii 200
' linch 20u .... ....
' 1,000
1 offer gOO .... ....
''olquitt . .. .. 100 . f
Columbia 425 .... ....
1 725
' •■‘Af :cl 136
' l ,; P 630
’"■'Mn 100
’ atur 1,000 .... ....
I ’■ ■' db 2,500 .... ....
' ’6OO
{■'■’Ugherty 656
.. '• 't an 250
j ; nols 100
wlmghani 200 .... ....
,I ” r t 699
|, f ,l! ‘nuel 7uo
'. nt >‘n 200
. -Y ■ 120
m 345
“ e ■ 100
.: n . n 190
■'•■r-il.in. . 39
A'“ np 400
u . 200
P !ri "’ ,k A 450 A’’
pT.?i* ,n 150
iii;/ 500
H. , 300 • •
fz.ff r ■ * • • • • 500 •••• •• • •
jJE D” vis 100
;1 400
L;;D’ n 300
£... n>i 600
L|;,A, 244
Lincoln 200
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Meir,* , 10l .... .. . .
M»O t n °’ h ” ” 33
Aia, ti " 311
.Mari ( , Or ‘ 600
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Taft Carries
Utah by 5,000
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 6.—With the
results an Utah in the presidential elec
tion closer than they have been in the
history of the state, late returns this
morning indicated that Taft had carried
the state by 5,000, with Wilson showing
unexpected strength. Roosevelt was in
the ruck. In Ogden, however, the colonel
displayed unexpected strength, carrying
that city. Republican State Chairman
Gardner today asserted that the Repub
lican state ticket had been elected by
upward of 5.000.
The Socialist vote in the cities and
mining districts was very heavy.
Milton 150 .... • ■ • •
Mitchell 1.034
Monroe 634 .... ....
Montgomery .... 250 .... •• ■ •
Morgan 500 .... • • • •
Murray 135 .... ....
Muscogee 1.757 .... . •••
Newton 300 .... ....
Oconee 50 .... • • • •
Oglethorpe .. .. 400 .... ■• • •
Paulding 100 ....
Pickens 200 .... ....
Pierce 100 .... • • • •
Pike -100
Polk 200
Pulaski 350 .... ....
Putnam 200 .... ....
Quitman 100 .... ....
Rabun 300 .... ....
Randolph 525 . ... .. • •
Richmond 1,200 .... • •••
Rockdale 300
Schley 191
Screven 200 .... ■•••
Spalding 644 .... ....
Stephens 350 .... ....
Stewart 399
Sumter 960 .... .. • •
Tattnall .. .. 300
Talbot 150
Taliaferro 100 .... ••••
Taylor 309 .... • • • •
Telfair 575 .... ....
Terrell 450
Thomas 700 .... ....
Tift 300
T roup 1,332 .... ....
Toombs 300 .... .. • •
Towns 10 .... ....
Turner 200 .... ....
Twiggs 250
Union 150 .... ....
Upson 250 .... ....
Walker 150
Walton 600
Ware 600 .... ....
Warren 150 .... ....
Washington .. .. 1.000 .... ~...
Wayne 200 .... ....
Webs ter 147 .... ....
White
Wilcox 500
Wilkes 400
Wilkinson 200
Worth 400
Whitfield 363
Totals .... 36,413 350
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1912.
Wilson, by 8,000
In California
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 6.—-Early
this morning indications are that Wil
son has carried California by between
eight and thousand* Tabulations
of the returns at that hour gave the
following: 1.520 state precincts out of
4,372, Wilson 90,355, Roosevelt 85.258,
Taft 662, Debs 11,020.
The failure of Los Angeles to yield
its promised harvest of Roosevelt votes,
with unexpected Democratic strength
in the interior counties, is assigned as
the cause of the Democratic victory,
the first in a presidential election since
Cleveland carried the state in 1892. Los
Angeles, depended upon to give a plu
rality of at least 25,000 for Roosevelt,
gave only 14,000.
Several Southern counties gave plu
ralities for Wilson, and without ex
ception. the northern counties went for
Wilson by pluralities ranging from a
few votes in Yuba county to 8.000 in
San Francisco county. Os the middle
counties, Alameda and Santa Clara
went for Roosevelt, while Sacramento
and San Joaquin were carried by Wil
son.
The race» for congress was close in
several districts, particularly the
Eighth. E. A. Hayes, Republican In
cumbent, and State Senator James B.
Holohan. Democrat, crowded each oth
er closely, but late returns appeared to
Insure Hayes' election. Another hard
fight was in the Fifth district. This
was won on the face of partial returns
by I. G. Zumwalt, Democrat, who op
posed William Kent, Progressive Re
publican incumbent. Zumwalt’s plu
rality was only 258.
The Progressives appear to have
gained control of both upper and lower
houses of the legislature.
- Other congressmen elected are: Elev
enth district, William Ketner. Demo
crat; First district. I. G. Zumwalt, Dem
ocrat; Seventh district, D. S. Church,
Democrat; Eighth district. Everis A.
Hayes. Republican.
Texas Gives Wilson
100,000 Plurality
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Nov. 6.—Governor
Wilson swept Texas, piling up a plu
rality of 100.000 or more, while the com
blni d Taft and Roosevelt vote amount
ed to only about 75,000,
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B, NEVIN.
Ole Miss Democracy certainly went
on the warpath in Georgia yesterday,
ami what she did was a-plenty, and
surely was calcu-
r ®
L /J
z
Hi '
lated to hold some
people for a while!
Ole Miss had
been hearing scan
dalous things
about what was
to happen to the
household in Geor
gia. and it made
her mad—indeed,
it got her dander
up, good and
proper!
She had been
told that Teddy
Taft and Willie
Roosevelt were
coming around
and cut all sorts
of capers, right
under her very nose.
It was whispered that Teddy was go
ing to steal the front gate, and that
Willie actually planned to tie a bow of
crape on her front door knob!
Ole Miss hadn’t been bothering much
about things of late. She had planned
to work in the collard patch all day
yesterday—but when the neighborhood
pest, Sorrell-top Tom, joined Teddy
and Willie, and even went so far as to
make faces at Ole Miss —sakes alive!
but that made her sore!
So Ole Miss put on her old gray bon
net, with the blue ribbons on it, yes
terday, and she got her trusty broom
stick, and she sallied forth to clean up
that combination of Teddy, Willie and
Tom!
It was just a question of getting Ole
Miss riled—and Teddy and Willie and
Tom pulled the trick, all right!
Well, it happened just as Sammie
Blythe, in The Saturday Evening Post,
said it would.
Therefore, nevertheless, however, but,
If. notwithstanding, although, and on
the contrary, Wilson swept the nation.
Samuel kept a large and nifty anchor
to windward all the way through the
stormy seas of prediction, and Samuel’s
figures .were verified.
It necessarily happened that way, for
Samuel had a fine st»t of figures to fit
snugly and beautifully any and all pos
sible contingencies.
It would be something of a job, per
haps. to find one person brave and bold
enough today to admit that he didn't
know all along what was going to hap
pen!
And yet it is a lead-pipe cinch that a
whole lot of people didn't know.
ATLANTA'S COAL
sm SHORT
Fuel Famine Probable if Pro
longed Cold Snap Hits City,
Declare Dealers.
Atlanta’s coal supply is 30 per cent be
low normal and In the event of a sud
,den and prolonged coal snap a fuel famine
would be not unlikely, according to local
dealers. They are filling orders so far,
but the supply on hand is far below the
usual amount.
Several reasons have contributed to
the shortage, among them being a scarcity
of coal cars in Southeastern territory.
Tlie Traffic World says the shortage is
about 15,600 cars in the Southeastern
states, while reports over the whole
country show 50,000 cars under the num
ber needed.
Strikes among the miners of Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia, with the result
that the mines ran far behind orders, also
have helped to make coal scarce. J. Bu
low’ Campbell, of the R. O. Campbell Coal
Company, blames the car shortage and
the slowness of freight movements. T. H.
Stocks says the local supply is 30 per cent
below normal, and in case of severe cold
the dealers could not possibly supply the
city's needs
Louisiana Gives
Wilson Big Edge
N::\V ORLEANS, Nov. 6.—Wilson lias
curried Louisiana by a greater majority
tt un Bryan in 1908. Returns this morn
ing gave Wilson 21,842, Roosevelt 7,428,
Taft 920.
In these same precincts four years ago
Bryan received 18,842. The extreme length
of the ballot will require forty-eight hours
to complete the figures.
T. R. and Suffrage
Win in Kansas
TOPEKA, KANS., Nov. 6—With the
returns coming in very slowly and
nothing definite, it looks like Roosevelt
will carry the state by several thou
sand. The entire state ticket of the
Republicans and all except four con
gressmen seem to haye been elected.
Women in Kansas have evidently won
their tight for the ballot. Returns at
7 a. m. indicated that suffrage has car
ried by 30.000. This is the third fight
fnr suffrage in Kansas. The first was
made in 1869. and the second in 1893.
The women had one of the best organ
izations ever known in the state in a
political fight.
The problem the Georgia Democracy
had to face was the problem of getting
out the Democratic vote.
Two things served to help along the
effort—activity of the leaders and the
opposition of Mr. Wa.non.
It is plain enough that Mr. Watson’s
following balked at going to Roosevelt.
That is, a large setion of that following
balked.
Moreover, - Mr. Watson's bolt to
Roosevelt, after having participated in
the primary and having been elected a
delegate-at-large to Baltimore, aroused
much Democratic resentment. He es
poused the cause of Roosevelt upon the
flimsy pretext that Wilson had become
a Knight of Columbus.
Mr. Watson's activity for Roosevelt
likely carried two Votes to the polls for
Wilson yesterday to every one it car
ried for Roosevelt.
And to that extent Mr. Watson
helped the Cause of Wilson—unwilling
ly and unconsciously, of course—but
certainly, nevertheless.
Then, too. the negro question was
used to browbeat many a weak-kneed
Bull Moose here and there.
It was pretty cheap, and it was un
worthy. but in some phases of the fight
it worked.
It had a humorous twist, too—it got
many a good, if more or less unwilling,
laugh in places.
Here in Atlanta not a few voters ap
proached the polls with Roosevelt tick
ets in hand, only to be gibed and guyed
with, “Have a piece of chicken, Brother
Washington,” “Booker, pass the pie,”
and similar chaste salutations
Every once In a while one would see
a voter drop his Progressive ballot,
grin a sickly sort of grin, and leave the
polls in disgust—or ask for a Demo
cratic ballot.
It all figures backward and forward
to the one proposition the Democrats
had to tackle —the getting of the vote
In the ballot box.
There never was any question about
the Democratic votes being within the
state—there was considerable question
of their going into the ballot box.
A commendable circumstance was
the faithfulness and aggressiveness of
the Underwood men in yesterday’s tri
umph of Democracy.
The state did not go for Wilson in
the preferential primary—and Georgia’s
delegation to Baltimore only voted for
him on the lasi ballot.
Nevertheless, the Underwood men
plunged headlong Into the fight to land
Georgia in the Wilson column, gener
ously and unmistakably, and they stood
to the guns to the finish.
There was no sulking, no backing, no
bushwhacking all hands joined in a
common cause!
And the answer—
Georgia for Wilson by a tremendous
majority.
It was inevitable,
Doubtful States Carried
by Governor, While
Taft and Roosevelt
Men Fought for the
Second Place.
By L. F. WOODRUFF.
Woodrow Wilson today has the dis
tinction of having been accorded the
greatest electoral vote ever polled for a
candidate for president, and the honor
comes because President William H.
Taft ceased to be ‘‘My dear Will” and
Theodore Roosevelt lost the title of
“My dear Theodore.”
Washington, Adams, Jefferson. Madi
son and Monroe had almost the same
unanimity of triumph of the Princeton
professor, but they were returned win
ners in the days when political parties
were more or less unknown in these
United States and the voting strength
of the nation was decidedly smaller in
quantity than it Is today.
No Longer His
“Dear Bill.”
A Democrat was really elected presi
dent when Colonel Roosevelt retired
from the white house and turned the
keys over to his secretary of war. whom
he called “Dear Will.” His triumph
was made certain when a boat docked
In New York harbor and a famous sha
kira landed to find that his policies had
been kicked around. Frotp that mo
ment the "dear” was changed to a
word beginning with the same letter,
and it meant that for the first time
since Grover Cleveland retired from
Washington and William Jennings
Bryan became a national character,
there was opportunity for a patient
Democracy to reap its reward.
Political seers have said —and there
are none to gainsay their declarations
—that Wilson, or any other progressive
Democrat, could have won os soon as
the word “dear" was metamorphosized.
Era Dark and Dreary
For Democratic Hosts.
Up to the time of this change, the
Republican party had been the most
compact organization that American
political history had known. Demo
crats had seen the oratory of Mr. Bryan
thrice fail to put patriots in postmaster
positions. The conservatism of Alton
B. Parker availed nothing in the en
deavor to place persons of Democratic
persuasion in the jobs as collectors of
internal revenue. Tlie dark and dreary
era seemed to be aS lasting as the glory
of the sun until Colonel Roosevelt and
Mr. Taft stopped calling each other
“dear.”
But in the meantime Colonel Roose
velt forsook politics to become a faunal
naturalist. At the same moment
Wood row Wilson abandoned the clas
sic shades of Old Nassau to lead a
forlorn hope for the free and unflan
nelled Democracy of New Jersey. Ho
led it successfully, and became a na
tional figure because it was reasoned
that any one who coult overthrow the
rock-ribbed Republicanism of New Jer
sey could overthrow anything else, even
to the machine that had its making in
the master mind of Mark Hanna-
Schedule “K“ a
Thorn For Taft.
President Taft was not idle in the
meantime. It is recorded that he was
acting as first aid to an injured Democ
racy. The G. O. P. had gone on record
for a revision of the tariff. The G. O.
P., under the direction of President
Taft, revised it upward instead of
downward, which was contrary to the
general idea the people had of platform
pledges.
In the tariff bill was a schedule called
“K.” which was peculiarly obnoxious
to the Western farmers, and when this
schedule was passed, failing to put wool
on the free list, they arose in their
wrath and demanded the scalp, hide and
everything else but the smile of Wil
liam Howard Taft.
And then Theodore Roosevelt re
turned with a shipload of slain var
mints and a sincere belief that per
sons of predatory wealth had pulled the
wool over "Dear Will’s” eyes and lie
was no longer a person to endow with
endearing epithets.
T. R. Didn’t Lose
Any of His Time.
He began to start things right away.
At the same time Woodrow Wilson be
gan to assail bosses, predatory persons,
and a protective tariff.
Political wiseacres had it that on this
account Taft could not be re-elected
president, and postofiice jobs being soft,
easy seats, the G. O. P. sought one of
their rank and file who could turn the
trick.
Primaries were held, and whenever
the Republicans were given a chance
to express their idea, they picked Mr.
Roosevelt as the one man who could
rescue the party from Its dire distress.
This didn't please “Dear Will.’’ It is
commonly believed that he sent word to
postmasters throughout the broad land
that they would quit drawing pay un
less they saw the states from which
they haled safely instructed for a fat
man from Cincinnati. And it is like
wise recorded that they heeded his beck
and call.
This peeved Colonel Roosevelt. In
fact, when the G. O. P. met in conven
tion assembled, he informed the dele
gates that it was nothing but common
robbery. But the delegates liked post
master pay. President Taft was renom
inated. Colonel Roosevelt decided to
start a new’ party of his own. and
Woodrow Wilson was thereby elected.
When Democracy met in Baltimore to
choose a candidate, Governor Wilson
w r as a second choice, but his campaign
was handled In masterly fashion. He
was nominated and assured of the
election when lie received the two
thirds of the fervid Democratic vote.
WTE IN FULTON
BREAKS RECORD
Moose Activity Stirs Demo
crats, Who Give Wilson 7,-
304 of 9,684 Ballots.
Carrying every city ward and coun
try precinct with majorities ranging
from three to one to six to one, Wood
row Wilson swept Fulton county with
the heaviest vote ever polled in a na- I
tional election.
Out of a total vote, unofficial, of 9,684,
Wilson received 7,304 votes. Roose
velt’s total vote was 1,706, Taft 530,
Debs, 112, Chafin 22. Roosevelt’s re
puted strength failed to materialize,
and except in the Fifth ward he was
literally swamped in every voting pre
cinct. In the Fifth ward the Bull
Moose candidate received 133 votes out
of 480 votes.
The heavy Democratic vote in Ful
ton undoubtedly was due to the activi
ties of the Roosevelt supporters. Per
sistent assertions that Roosevelt would
carry the city stirred the Democrats to
greater activity than heretofore seen
in a national election. The heavy vote
and the clean sweap for Wilson was
the result.
The. vote by wards and districts was
as follows:
FULTON COUNTY VOTE.
Wards. Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft.
First 368 158 81
Second 1,108 276 78
Third 968 233 42
Fourth 706 186 115
Fifth 297 133 29
Sixth ~..1,069 230 78
Seventh 650 115 16
Eighth 802 87 29
Ninth 381 78 18
Tenth 167 39 10
Districts:
Adamsville .... 23 7 0
Battle Hill 17 7 3
Bryant’s 37 4 1
Buckhead 47 21 4
Blackhall 37 4 11
College Park ... 106 17 4
Collins 71 13 3
Cook’s 43 9 ii
East Point .... 123 45 2
Edgewood 58 9 3
Hapeville 79 10 4 I
Oak Grove 32 7 (
Peachtree 33 1 0 ’
South Bend .... 82 17 s
Totals 7,304 1,706 536
Rhode Island in
Wilson Column
PROVIDENCE, R. 1.. Nov. 6—Gov
ernor Wilson carried Rhode Island by
more than 5,000 plurality, and with him
were elected two out of three Dem
ocratic candidates for congress George I
F. O’Shaughnessy, from the First dis
trict. present member, and Peter Goe
let Gerry, of Newport. Speaker Am
brose Kennedy, Republican, won in the I
Third. The legislature will be Repub
lican by about thirty on joint ballot.
Governor Pothier apparently is re
elected for a fifth term by 2,000 plural
ity, and Sumner Mowrey, Democrat
probably has defeated Roswell B. Bur
chard, Republican, for lieutenant gov
ernor
Wilson First, T R.
Second in Maryland
BALTIMORE, Nov. 6.—Governor Wood
row Wilson carried Maryland by a plural
ity of 25.000 over Colonel Theodore Roose
velt, who Is second In the running.
Baltimore gave Wilson a plurality of
about 15,000. Roosevelt ran second and
Taft third. The colonel polled 17,534 |
more votes than Taft and Wilson led
Roosevelt by 14,604 votes.
He sat still in the boat, saying pleas
ant things while Messrs. Taft and I
Roosevelt called each other names and
made hint votes. Last night he heard
the returns and continued to say pleas
ant things.
Incidentalyl, it may be remarked that
Woodrow Wilson was born on the sa
cred soil of Virginia, which produced
Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson
and was natured in the red hills ol
Georgia, which produced many men whe
followed the Virginians through fout
years of strife.
Professor Wilson is, accordingly, the J
first Southern man elected to the pres
idency since Zachary Taylor. And sot .i
all of these reasons there is jubilation
today in the land where cotton grows,
and the Democratic ticket is as suc
cessful as John D. Rockefeller, no mat
ter who is elected president. f
“Broadway Jones,” a thrilling
story of ‘ ‘ The Great White Way, ’ ’
based on George M. Cohan’s play
now running in New York, will
begin in Friday's Georgian. It is
well worth reading.
“Broadway Jones,” a thrilling
story of ‘ • The Great White Way, ’ ’ |
based on George M. Cohan's play
now running in New York, will
begin in Friday’s Georgian. It is
well worth reading.
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