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one senator only, Augustus 0. Bacon. In the 62nd session Hoke Smith took his seat 

 as United States senator. He was succeeded as governor by Joseph M. Brown, who had 

 been governor in 1909-11. Brown's term ends July i, 1913, and the Democratic 

 primaries on August 21, 1912 (by 104,857 votes against Hooper Alexander 39,037, Joe 

 Hill Hall 24,856) named John M. Slaton (elected in October) to be his successor and 

 re-nominated United States senator Bacon for the term 1913-19. Local politics centre 

 around the : liquor question, which splits the Democratic party. The newly elected 

 state legislature will be nine-tenths (or more) Democratic. In November 1912, 12 

 Democratic congressmen were elected formerly the Georgia delegation was 1 1 ; and the 

 state was carried for Woodrow Wilson by 93,171 votes to 22,010 for Roosevelt, 5,190 for 

 Taft, 1,028 for Debs (584 in 1908) and 147 for Chafin. 



On December 18, 1912 the state protested (memorial of Aug. 19) to Congress 

 against the adoption by a two-thirds vote of the quorum (and not of the total member- 

 ship) of each house of Congress of the measure to submit to the states the constitutional 

 amendment for popular election of United States senators. 



In 1911 there were 20 lynchings in the state, all negroes but one a negro at Vera 

 for murder (Jan. 29); two for murder at Warrenton (Feb. 25); three accused of murder 

 (taken from jail) at Ellaville and one for rape at Lawrenceville (April 8) ; one for threaten- 

 ing to kill, in Bullock county (April 22); one for murder (May 14) and one for killing an 

 officer (May -21) at Swainsboro ; one for murder at Crawfordsville (May 22); a white man 

 for rape at Monticello (June 18); a negro for rape at Social Circle and one for suspicious 

 loitering at Monroe (June 27); one for murder at Baconton (July n); one for rape 

 at Dublin (Oct. 5); one, on no definite charge, at Vienna (Oct. 7); one for attempted 

 rape (taken from bailiff) at Irwinton (Oct. n); one for. murder at Washington (Oct. 

 28); and one for murder at Donaldsonville (Dec. 23). In 1912 three negroes and 

 one negr.ess were lynched at Hamilton (Jan. 22) for murder; a negro was lynched at 

 Cordele (Jan. 30) .for rape, one was burned at Macon (Feb. 4); one was lynched at 

 Cochran (March 21) for murder; one near Jackson (April 26); one for murder at 

 Columbus (Aug. 13); one on suspicion of aiding a murderer at Gumming (Sept. 10); 

 one for assaulting a white woman at Americus (Oct. 5) ; one was taken from the court 

 house at McRae and was lynched (Nov. 30) for assaulting and shooting two white 

 women: and on the same day one was lynched at Cordele for murder. Anti-negro 

 night riders terrorised northern Georgia in December 1912. 



Augusta was put under martial law in the last part of September 1912, when street 

 railway employees rioted and tied up car-lines; three were killed on the 27th and on 

 October i about 30 soldiers were put on trial for murder. The strike ended October 

 17, when the company granted a wage increase of one-eighth and shorter hours. On 

 October i, 1912, the Georgia Railroad was paralysed by a strike of conductors and 

 trainmen, but on the i.2th they returned to work, agreeing to arbitration. 



Bibliography. Laws (Atlanta, 1911 and 1912) and official reports; Georgia Code of 1910 

 (2 vols, ibid., 1911); Georgia Annual (ibid.); The Alexander Letters, 1787-1900 (Savannah, 

 1910); O. Wegelin, Bibliography of Georgia (1911). 



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Population (1910) 325,594 (101.3% more than in 1900). The greatest relative 

 increase was in Lincoln county 610.5%. Density 3.9 to the sq. m. The Indian and 

 Asiatic element constituted 1.7 % of the total (in 1900 4.3 %) ; foreign-born whites 12.4%; 

 and whites of foreign parentage 23.1%. There were 12 (in 1900 only 2) places with 

 2,500 inhabitants or more, including 21.5% (in 1900 only 6. 2%) of the total, as follows 

 (1900 figures in brackets): Boise, 17,358 (5,957); Pocatello, 9,110 (4,046); Coeur 

 d'Alene, 7,291 (508); Lewiston, 6,043 (2,425); Twin Falls, 5,258 (inc. 1908); Idaho 

 Falls, 4,827 (1,262); Nampa, 4,205 (799); Moscow, 3,670 (2,484); Caldwell, 3,543 

 (997); Wallace, .3,000 (2,265); Sandpoint, 2,993 (inc. 1907); Weiser, 2,600 (1,364). The 

 pop. of smaller incorporated places made up 18.1% of the total (15.7% in 1900). 



'See E. B. xiv, 276 et seq. 



