The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-06-08
CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS,
There AFRO Nine Seats In the New House
In Dispute.

fhere AFRO Nine Seats In tho New House
In Dispute.
| WASHINGTON, June l.-Clerk Kerr.
OF the House "f Representatives., has, in
pursuance with the law, notified con.
testants over disputed seats IN the House
TO appear before him personally, or by
attorney, at The opening of tho sealed
packages OF testimony in those cases
which have reached him. The object Ia
TO have the parties to the contests agree
upon The parts Of the testimony which
they desire TO have printed rs a part OF
the records OF the cases. The middle OF
June Is liked az the date Of the cete.
mOnY.
This notification closes the prel,mipa.
TICS Gl inc contests Tor seats in the
llou'e. There will be nine of them, and
they VIII be more than usually iutt rest.
nY. They will, for one thing. furnish =.
reflex OF the political mixture which
caue To the suriace i'll the last Conyres-
sional election.
For the tirs 1 time since tte Republican
and Democratic parties were shurply ar
rayed in contest there will be contestants
Tor seats in The House who belong TO
other than Tic sc two parties; aud for the
rst time since the Democrats regalned
control OF affairs i'll The Southern States,
there will be no Republican contestant
from South Caroline.
Georgia furnishes a case IN which n
noisy aud more or less pestierous Young
! man, who was member Of the last
| House, Is The cOnlCSLant. lie was
elected to lhc Fitty.sccond Congress as
a Democrat. but after he got to WASH
! 'nGtOn became the leader of the Far
mers' Alliance contingent. His name
| Is Thomas f.. Watson, and he wants
Ihe seal oi j. 4. &. Black, rho got H..
| ~ votes as the Democratic candidate.
willie Watson received only 1888 as
inc IUpuIlst candidate. 1t was Wat
son who gave the country the query:
NWhcre am | att" lie will pl obablv
| know when the House gets through with
| his claims to a seat in that body.
10 tic popuIist party the Hon. b. A.
Enlce OF Tennessee, is indebted for the
contest that is TO be made for his scat.
l.. III. Thrasher, who ran against him as
The candidate of that pa ", will be his
opponent. Mr.. Enloo got l3, ,O3S votes
and Thrasher II, ,920.
Kansas furnishes an entry on the other
side of the ledger. There man who
ran rs the POpuist and Democratic cau-
didate ls contesting the seat ola Re.
publican. The Republican is T.. III.
nston-Farmer Funston, of .be f)s.
horn voice. He got but S3 votes more
than his opponent, II. l.. Moore.
In Virginia The Popuilsts come TO The
front again. J. Thomas Goode, who,
as the candidate of that party, got 7,482
votes, is contcsLing the seat of j. E,
Epes, who got as the Democratic can
dldatedl0, $50. The contest from North
Carolina Is on straight party lines.
Thomas Settle, the Republican holder
OF the seat, will have to prove his title
against the claim of a. III. A. Williams.
Settle got l4,360 votes and Williams
Is, 74G. Populist and Prohibition can.
dldates drew 1892 votes from Williams.
IL was close fight anyway, but the in
Iuslon into 1t OF the P0pulist and Pro-
hibitlOu elements rendered il more in
teresting.
Illinois furnishes straight fight be-
tween a Republican and Democrat.
Robert A. Childs, the Republican holder
or the seat, got but 20,872 voJes TO 90
S35 for Lewis Stewart, the Democrat.
| Missouri provides a contest between q
Republican and q Democrat. Charles
=. Joy, Republican, holds the seat, and
john j. O'Neili, Demt cratic cx.mem
Der, ls the contestant. Joy got ii 900
votes and O'Nell 1902. There were
| few Populst and Prohibition votes,
but not enough TO change the result,
From taroff California comes q con-
| test the closest but one Of the whole
batch OF nine. 5. G.. IIilbOrn, Republi-
can, had plurality OF 33. He got 49,
lG3 votes to l3, l30 for w. B. English.
Democrat. There were 3, 500 votes cast
Tor a Populst candidate and 278 tor
Prohibition candidate.
Alabama comes up with q contest. OF
course the Popullsts figure in II. James
E. Cobb, whom Tom Watson char. ed
with using the celebrated inquiry,
"Where am | att" holds the seat. lie is
Democrat, and received l3, 357 votes.
Martin w. Whatley wants it. He is a
lopullst and got ll.3lS votes.
The closest contest is from Michigan.
George II. Richardson, a Democrat,
holds the certificate Of election, and
Charles E. Belknap, Republican, is
The contestant. There is only ten votes
difference between them, Richardson
having 80, ,O05 votes to 20,085 for Belk-
nap. The amu8lng feature of the con-
lesl Is that II l}elknap had not demanded
recount he would have got the certifi.
cate, as he was elected on the first
count.
Ii will be noticed that most of the
votes IN the c0nterted cases were close.
Ihls facf, together with unusal ele-
mcnts entering intO the contests com
pine TO make the settlement not Onlv |
interesting, but strongly to emphasize a |
remarkable epoch in the history of Con.
GrGSHlOnal elections ,Olum hio Stoto
Car I.o Id of Gorks
COLUMBIA, S. g., May 26.-There Is
no longer any doubt about the expecta.
ton Of the Dispensary doing a corking
business. The corks for the Dispen ,ary
were received yesterday and footed up
a total weight Of 1900 pounds. Think
of IT. Ore shipment of twenty-five
hundred pounds of cork, more than
has ever been shipped into this State
during one year before. Things are
ev cry day assuming better shape around
the Dispensary. The force of convicts
are busy putting in the machinery and
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