The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-25
FLoRIDA's VOTE IN FULL.
What is Shown by the Official Count at
Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 24-The official
election returns from all the counties of the
state are in except Dade, Brevard and
Madison of the Second district, and Her
nando and DeSoto of the First con-
gressional district. The vote stands as fol-
lows. with the above five counties to hear
from officially: Cleveland, 1899; Harri-
son. 2564s; prohibition, 379. Cleveland's
majority over all 1922. For governor
Fleming, dem, 81 1855; Shipman, rep, %
600; Flemings majority 1885. Both the
congressional districts of the state are
democratic, as follows, with the counties OF
DeSoto aad fernando in the First district
to hear from; the vote is: Davidson, DEM,
Is, IA; Benjamin, rep, 9,2S5; Davidson's
majority 9,459. In the Second district,
with the counties of Dade, Brevard and
Madison to hear from, the vote is: Bullock,
dem, 1S,713; Goodrich, rep, 1851; Bull
locks majority 1852 Tie coun les to hear
from will increase these majorlties several
hundred.
As soon as all the counties have sent in
their official returns the state canvassing
board will pr, coed to ascertain the vote
officially. The board primarily consists of
the secretary Of state, the attorney general
and the state comptroller, with provision
for calling in one or more
of the other members of the cabinet to
act in the stead of any one or
more of those above-named who may be
absent or disqualified. AS the present sec
retay of state and the comp
troller were both candidates at
the recent election. neither Of them
will act on the board, but in their
place there will be besides Attorney General
Cooper, State Treasurer Grill and Com
missioner of Lands and Immigration c. l..
Mitchell. These will meet at
the proper time in the office
of the secretary of state to court the vote
The maiorities for the democratic nom
inees are three times as large as they were
IN 1884. This is accounted for by the large
increase of the white population and tle
action of many negroes in the black
counties who now vote the democratic
ticket. There is no ground for contest III
the two congressional districts of Florida,
which can be readily seen by the immense
maiorities received by the congressman.
The state ticket is led by Hon. John l..
Crawford, who is Overwhelmingly re-
elected secretary of state after eight years
service in that office. His opponent was
the only negro on the republican state
ticket, and his vote compared with the
others shows first that white republicans
will not vote for a negro, because Chand-
ler's vote is smaller than others on
the same ticket and lowest in the
counties Wnere Jnere are mosb "ulte re-
publicans, and second the large majority of
DR.. Crawford shows that he was the strong
est man on the democratic state ticket. All
the cabinet officers run pretty well together,
but it is a noticeable feature of the returns
that with a few exceptions the candidates
run behind the ticket in their own counties
Taken all in all, this is grand victory for
Florida democracy, and she proposes to do
the same or better every four years. The
state officers assume the duties of their
various offices Tuesday, Jan. 8.