The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-02
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This shows a totalvote of 1926 for the
entire State as against ~ ,743 given in the
State of yesterday. The States figures
and Chairman Tompkins' also gave the
com animation $50 votes more than Evans
y yesterday morning. On the final count
it is shown that there is 393 votes in Ev.
ans favor. This discrepancy is account
ed for almost entirely in the figures tor
Marion and Pickens given yesterday
morning and marked complete but not
"official' as all the others were. The re-
mainder of the differing votes turned
up on return sheets filed. There were
slight changes made in several counties
as compared with the figures received by
wire from county chairmen by Chairman
Tompkins and marked "oficial New
berry made such change, giving Evans
upwards of 100 votes more. But these
little matters are shown by the figures
given in the table above.
Now that the second race is deemed a
certainty, it also seems certainty that
Governor Evans is going to be defeated.
Yesterday good many leading Reform
ers from various counties we're seen, and
they were all talking about the outlook.
One of the men who has been identified
most thoroughly with the Reform move
ment since its inception stated that he
was glad that the race had come out as it
had. He said it had shown the Conserva.
tives who had remained away from the
polls and let the fight be fought out with
in the movement that there wero honest
Reformers in South Carolina. He stated
that Evans would be unable to pull out
his full strength again in several ofthe lar
gest counties as the vote came out for 9th
er candidates. He cited the vote in Col
Teton, for instance, saying it had come
out for Cooper. 1t was folly, in his opin-
ion, he said, for people to say that Dun
cans vote would 60 to Evans, for
that vote represented the extremists of
nifcant thing about the first primary, he
said was the fact that only in very few
counties was any organized fight made
against Evans in anybody's behalf The
only work done was in Evans favor. It
was the vote Of the men who stood around
and thought saying nothing at al to any
one else, which has gone to Earle and
Duncan. He knew several men In his
County who had voted for Evans because
they did not think there was any chance
for any one else, but now intended to pull
off their coats and work for Earle. He
said it was folly to talk about Earle's
election hurting the Reform movement
In 1890 the Reform movement had fought
agrinst just what they are fighting against
now. It is we'll to remark that this talk
came from q member Of the executive
committee who resides at considerable
distance from Columbia. Several other
leaders of the different counties talked
very much in the same vein.
OF course speculation is rife as to what
is going to be the outcome Of the second
primary. No one can tell what the result
will be, but nearly every man you meet
will tell you, view it as you may, that
Earle appears to have the best chance.
Whether Senator Tillman will have any,
thing to do with the fight remains to be
seen. Many of his friends think he will
stay out of it. But he is expected here
to-day, and then "we will see what we
will see." It is pretty family row now
and those who are not members otthe Re-
form household are watching the fight
with great interest and not little amuse-
ment.