The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-04
CHATHAN'S BIG MAJORITY.
Mr.. Atkinson Helped Along TO the
Tune Of Nearly 5000 Votes.

Tune Of Nearly 5000 Votes.
The Largest Majority of Any Recent
State Election-Only 3,O55 Votes
Polled-One of the Quietest Elections
in Years-No Excitement and the
Police Make no Arrests-The Popu-
lists Show Their Weakness-They
Fail to Catch the Negro vote-The
Latter Very Light, and Chiefly Cast
With the Democrats.
Yesterdays election was not the
quietest Chatham county has had in
years, for the simple reason that the two
preceding state elections were even more
quiet, but it was about as quiet as it well
could be- 1t was great deal Quieter
than there was any necessity for, and
little more life in it would have been very
satisfactory to the party workers and
campaign managers.
Chatham, as usual. returns good round
majority for the democratic ticket, but
the ma ority could have easily been in
creased by LOCO votes 1t was very evil
dent that there was considerable apathy
on the part of a considerable portion Of
the democrats.
The total vote polled was 3, O53 votes Of
which Mr.. Atkinson received 2.s9O and
Hines 14l a majority for Atkinson of 2, 149
votes. Gov. Northen's majority two
years ago was 1859 and four years ago
only pa.
This shows that even if the election was
a little dull Chatham county is keeping
up her record and increasing her demo-
cratic majority with each succeeding cleo
ton. Some of the old war horses asserted
their belief last night that Chatham
county would give Mr.. Atkinson the
largest majority Of any county in the
state.
HINES VOTE al.
Candidate Hines received al votes,
which was the highest vote received by
any candidate on the populst ticket.
This is less than half the vote received
by the populists in Savannah two years
ago This is due to the fact that great
many negroes voted the populist ticket
two years ago. 1t was a fact frequently
noticed and commented on yesterday that
very few negroes voted the pop. ticket.
II is greatly TO be doubted if over fifty
negroes voted it. Not more than
$50 negroes voted, and of these fully
200 voted the straight democratic
ticket. Nearly every negro VINO came up
TO vote selected a straight democratic
ticket and quietly handed it in, and then
went away. This they did quietly and
without solicitation. OF the negroes who
voted the populist ticket, it is pretty well
known that some did so because of their
employers being populists A careful
analysis of the vote will show the
strength of the populists in Chatham
county to be not over seventy-fve white
votes. Nearly all of these are from
Pooler, Bloomingdale and other country
precints.
ATKINSON SCRATCHED BY A FEW.
Perhaps half a dozen democrats, so
called, voted for Hines. Mr. Atkinson
ran thirty-four votes behind the highest
candidate on his ticket. due TO a few dis
satisfied democrats scratching the head of
the ticket. The number who did so, it
will be seen, was not nearly as great as
was anticipated by some would be the
case. The managers were surprised in
fact, when counting out the votes to find
that there were so few scratched tickets.
Nearly all the tickets on each side were
straight. The principal scratching was
on the ratification of the amendments to
the constitution, and this was not as great
as was expected. Occasionally a ticket
would be found with the name of one of
the candidates for the legislature
scratched and very rarely ticket with
the name of Mr.. Atkinson or one of the
state house officers scratched.
GALATIANS COUNT.
Chatham county,s vote is as follows:
FOR GOVERNOR.
W. Y. Atkinson ....... ...................2.s 800
lanes IJipas