The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-11-14

bins and Underwood have good ma
iorities. In the fifth, Cobb defeats
! Goodwin, leader of the populists.
A Galveston special says: The wealth
err throughout the state is fine and
heavy vote has been polled. The Gal
weston NeWs predicts the usual demo-
cratic majority for state officers and
the legislature, and also the election OF
democratic congressman in all the dis
tricts, with the possible exception OF
the ninth and tenth districts. Nothing
definite is yet known.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Chairman Pou, of the North Carroll
ma democratic state committee, has adj
vices of democratic majorities of 1000
in Wilson county, 600 in Wayne, 400
in Buncombe and 800 in Alamanceo
The democrats are gaining in Frank
lin, where the negroes are voting sol
| idly for that ticket. The democratic
state and judicial tickets are, no doubt,
elected by reduced majorities. The
legislature will be democratic by
good majority. The democrats will
carry seven districts certain-proba-
bly, nine. The democratic vote was
cut down everywhere.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The election in South Carolina was
the most exciting in years. In addl-
ton to the congressional contests there
has been hot fight between the reg
ular democratic candidate for govern
or, John Gary Evans, of Aiken, and
DIR. Sampson Pope, of Newberry, 1nde-
pendent candidate, supported by white
men who have left the democratic
party because of their bitter feel
ing toward the present state admins
tration, backed by the negroes OF the
cities and towns. In addition to all
this the state has been agitated over
the question of holding a constitu-
tional convention, which, if held,
would disfranchise the negro and
eliminate him from politics. This
aroused the negroes, and on this ques
ton they have been supported by the
independents, who wish to use the ne
gro in the future.
In about half the counties indie
pendent tickets for the legislature were
run in the hope of getting a sufficient
number of members in the Legislature
to re-elect Senator Butler over Cover
nor Tillman, the democratic choice for
the senate. The indications are now
that these tickets will fail of election
in nearly every county. 1t was the
last chance of Senator Butler.
LOUISIANA.
A New Orleans special says: Six
democratic congressman are elected
from Louisiana. The vote was gen
orally light throughout the state, only
small proportion of the negroes vot-
ing, and in some of the parishes none
at all.
VIRGINIA.
When the roll of the next house Of
representatives is called eight, and
perhaps ten, democratic congressman
will respond to their names. This, in
brief, is the result of the election in
Virginia Tuesday as shown from the
latest returns.
The Walton election law, passed by
the last general assembly, which gratis
the Australian ballot on the Anderson
Mccormick system, and adds the
special constable feature, which
all the opposition parties have
raised such vigorous objections
to, was given it's first general trial. So
far as the democrats are concerned, it
worked most satisfactorily, though
there is no doubt that it kept many
who feared the constable or shrunk
from exposing their illiteracy to re-
frain from voting. The republicans
and populists are loud in their denun-
citation Of the system. The vote was
small as a general thing, bat demo
cratic maiorities IN most districts are
large, the tariff having been the one
issue on which the canvass was made.
The result is construed as an emphatic
endorsement of the legislation of the
last session of congress In the matter
of reform.
FLORIDA.
The vole was light all over Florida,
although the weather was fine. Spark
man, democrat, had walkoyer in the
first district and may run ahead of the
vote for Mallory, democrat, in 1892.
In the second, Cooper, democrat, is
opposed by Atkinson, populist. No
republican nomination.
ARKANSAS,
Returns from all portions of Ar
kansas show that all the six democratic