The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-21
aWAITING FOR THE VERDICT.
speoulations Upon n Result OF tn
Elections In the County.


Speculations Upon tho Result OF
Elections In the County.
The slow moving minds Of the Radical
officials who, by unhappy fate, have been lett
In charge OF the election returns Of Charles
ton County have not yet grasped the Idea 1nat
this whole community is possessed OF q livery
interest In the result of the late election, ana
they have not therefore deemed 1t worth thelr
while to take any steps for the Immediate
qualification of the very laudable curiosity IN
the public mind. Every scrap Of Information
vet furnished to the public thus far has been
obtained through the enterprise of the press
and mainly Of The NEWS, and the only thing
that the officials have so far done Is to promise
that they Will, on Tuesday next, shake OF
their lethergy. and condescend to oun the
votes.
The returns, however, furnished by The
NEWS, are already very full and accurate, and
from them a close approximation ofthe actual
result can be made. Ofcourse 1t has an ele-
ment Of delightful uncertainty, but 1t Is the
best that can be done, and If the. politicians
have not lied egregiously, and the officials do
notcook the vote, 1t will be found about cor
rect.
The complete vote In the city for each can
dIdate, and In each precinct, has been given
in THE NEWS of last Friday and Saturday. That
return showed that, 90 far as the city was con-
cerned, every candidate on the "Hobson's
| Choice" ticket had been elected, and
| every candidate not on that ticker
had been defeated. This would have
been the result If the city had but constituted
| the whole field of battle, (only, In that case,
mn "Hobson's Choice" would have been pre-
sented. because the Conservatives could have
| elected their own men, but, unfortunately,
| Charleston City is saddled with Charleston
County, which is peopled with a densely igno-
rant but actively voting population OF sea
island negroes. The result in the county was,
as was expected, totally different from that IN
the city, for there the party lines were drawn
closely between Bowen and Mackey, with the
former largely ahead, and With no possible
show for q combination ticket, the voting oil
which would Indicate the possession OF some
small amount Of reasoning faculty on
the part of the voters. The count was found
to have given Bowen and hls straight ticket a
vote of about 1881, and Mackey and his
straight ticket a vote of 2703. To fairly esti.
mate the vote of each candidate. therefore, 1t
is necessary to add to his vote In the city the
vote in the country received by the ticket
upon which he ran. This calculation being
made, 1t furnishes the following general re-
suits, which are as near correct as can be un-
I'll the commissioners are gracious enough to
tell US the story officially:
Bowen Is elected sheriff bya majority OF
about 400.
Jacob whitman has been elected clerk Of
the court by about 1000 majority.
aaron Logan has probably been elected
coroner by a majority over ]. A. Washington
of about $50.
B. d. Heyt has perhaps been elected school
commissioner over P. P. Hedges by l20 ma
jority.
All Of the Gobson's Choice candidates for
County Commissioners are, fortunately for the
oounty's finances, triumphantly elected. Cum
nlngham's majority over Mclaughlin Is fully
1900; Dunneman's majority over Thompson Is
about HOO, and Fields has beaten Bonum by
aoout 100 votes.
The s~enatorship will be found to have been
won by Jervey by about 900 votes.
OF the representatives, about thirteen OF tne
Hobsonites have been elected and five defeat
ed. or the thirteen, eight are Bowenltes and
five are MackyItes. There have also been
about five of the Bowenites elected who were
not on the HobsoD ticket, aDd five Bowenite'
and eight Mackeyites who were similarly un-
fortunate have been defeated. James +.
Greene has been elected by q clear majority
over all competitors. The other candidates
who are reasonably sure Of their election are
O. r. Levy, B. A. Bosemon, Tim Hurley, G.
J. Andell, z. B. Artson, G. F. North, N. I.
Spencer, George Cannon, James Brennan,
Jno. E. Clyde, Stephen D. Russell and Stephen
Brown. The candidates who have certainly
been defeated are Ames Bljen, Abram Smith,
Thomas q. Jones, Robert J. Mesrs, Robert
Simmons, Robert W. Brown, Francis 8. Lee.
Frank @. Miller, ]. L. Walker, G. d. Wander
horst and E. J. Adams. The candidates whose
election is still debatable are as follows, and
their chances stand In about the order Of
their names: Edward Petty, B. W. Turner,
". A. Grant, Henry @. Mlnott,
J. j. Grant, J. vauderpool, Richard
Bryan, William G. Pinckney, A. P. Ford,
Julius Tingman and Isaac Prioleau. 1t will
be observed by those who are acquainted With
these names that the least Objectionable men
on Doth the Radical tickets have been elected,
and the most Objectionable ones have been
defeated, and that all the white men on both
tickets have been elected, with the exception
probably of Frank @. Miller.
AS far as the vote of Wednesday can be ana
lyzed with the Incomplete figures now at
hand, the strength of the various parties In
the city was in round numbers, Mackey 5000,
Bowen 1900, Hobson 1000, Sigwald $50, Arnau
$50. The strength of the Hobson's Choice
ticket would evidently have been insufficient
to have turned the ecale for any of the tickets
as a taohole, but pumped upon certain indI-
viduals selected from the two strong tickets IL
has proved eflcacious In preventing
the election of the worst men on
both tickets, and in securing In the next
delegation from this county to the General
Assembly a larger proportion of white men
than ever has been sent since reconstruction,
and 8 more decent class of men than could
have been obtained In any other way. The