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American Jewish History; Sep2000, Vol. 88 Issue 3, p325, 15p
Paragraph from scholarly article (notice the footnotes): Early in 1914 United States Senator Augustus O. Bacon died, and Governor Slaton appointed William S. West to serve until a special election could be held. When West chose not to run for the remainder of the senatorial term, Slaton and two of Hoke Smith's political associates, Congressman Thomas Hardwick and Attorney-General Thomas Felder, along with two others competed for the office. In the ensuing bitterly-fought election, Slaton won a plurality of both the popular vote and the more important county-unit votes,(3) but because there were no runoffs in the primaries at that time, the election was decided by the convention of the state Democratic party. At the tumultuous party convention, held in Macon in early September, Hardwick was nominated on the 14th ballot.(4) Given the weakness of the Republican party in Georgia at that time, nomination by the Democratic party was tantamount to being elected. After being defeated, Slaton vowed that he would again run for the United States senate. Footnotes/Reference (sources cited) (3.) The election results were as follows, with the popular vote given first (and the county unit vote in parentheses): Slaton--61,857 (146); Thomas W. Hardwick--55,469 (124); Thomas S. Felder--30,820 (84): G. R. Hutchins--21,654 (18); John R. Cooper--9,675 (none). Walter G. Cooper, The Story of Georgia 4 vols. (New York, 1938), 3:440. (4.) Lucian Lamar Knight, A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians 6 vols. (Chicago, i917), 2:1155-7. For a first-hand account of this often riotous convention, see Allen Lumpkin Henson, Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer (New York, 1959), 49-58. Author contact info:
Stephen J. Goldfarb holds a doctorate in the history of science and technology from Case Western Reserve University, and is on the staff of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library in Atlanta, Georgia |