Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-04-12
JEFFERSON FOR JOHNSTON
Terrific Forces Used Against
Him in the County.
OTHER RESULTS ARE MIXED
Cunningham Leads for the Senate, 0'Brien
and Burgin foremost in the Race for
Sheriff.

One of the hottest contests in the po-
aitical history of jefferson county was
held yesterday. 1t was a contest OF the
plain people on one side and the money
power, coupled with corporation dicta-
ton, on the other. The contest ragged
warmly in this city especially, where ev-
cry influence was brought to bear to COM
pass the defeat of Capt. Joseph f. john
ston. But, in spite of it ALL Johnston
carried every beat in the city, except
bne-the rolling mill beat-which deelar-
ed for Clarke by only 80 votes. The
managers have declared the election in
Clarkes favof\in two other city beats
Monroe by majority of votes, and
Madison by a majority of l yote-but
these results were brought about by
throwing out certain Johnston ballots
with the names of Johnston delegates in
other city beats, which were
voted for Johnston in Monroe
and Madison through mistake.
But for these errors both Monroe and
Madison would show up in the Johnston
column. Besides, sufficient Illegal votes
were cast for Clarke in these two beats
to change the result. Notably this is
true in Madison beat, where the maJori-
ty for Clarke is only /, and that by mis-
take. One boy was allowed to vote, who
Twill not be q in August next, and one
man who lives in Chattanooga and an
other who lives lin Nashville, all of which
were received against the earnest pro-
tests of the Johnston challengers. So,
An fact, Clarke won IN only one city beat,
and that by the narrow margin of 80
votes.
In Madison beat two Of the managers
and both of the clerks were strong
Clarke men. The Johnston men ask I'd
tor one of the clerks, but failed to get
bne.
The list of candidates was 50 large
that the process of counting required no
little time and labor. AT some of the
precincts the count was not completed
this morning and was adjourned before
the State Herald went to press until to-
morrow morning.
Below are given the results as far as
ascertained up to adjournment.
Result on County Ticket.
The race on the legislative ticket was
very much mixed The ticket generally
was so complicated that the counters
themselves were overwhelmed with the
task, not being able to complete 1t at
abe last hour this morning. The figures
given below, with fourteen voting places
counted, showed in the race for state
senator
cunningham .'.'.. ...''..' .''''' 49, i i931
Porter 80. ............ .......,....,.,.l LOO
In the contest for six candidates for
the lower house, with eighteen aspirants
and fourteen voting places counted the
Altman. ............. 1901
Rrown ............. 1858
Eurlee ,............3 1896
navidson ..... 65S
Greene ,. .... 906
Harlins .......... ........ TIA
Houston. -........ $50
Tuev. ................. 721
tJobn ,........... 731
Inscomb. .............. 1888
McOueen ...,,.. ............. 1872
Miles. ... ........... 465
D,Keefe .,,............... 64S
ovens .,.... ............ S25
strange ,................. 511
wade .,,....... 800
White .,. .......,...... ........ 402
1t will be seen from the above that the
leaders in the race for the chosen SIX are
Altman, Greene, Brown, ovens Mcqueen
md Harl<inS