Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-23
HARDLY WORTH COUNTING
At DadeWIe Only Forty-fve Straght-Haired
Men Went to the Polls.
APATHY HAS SEIZED THE PoPULIsTs
Nobody Outside the Candidates Takes In
terest in the Result-The olored
Candidate for Coroner Says They
Slant Count Him Out.

Dadeville, June 22.-(Special.)- 1.-The
pop-rep primaries in this county passed
off quietly last Saturday. A very light
vote was polled. At this Dadeville) beat
only forty-five white men voted. One
hundred and thirty-three negroes voted
at this box.
At Camp Hill the vote was about two
negroes to one white man.
Less than half the heretofore white
populite strength was developed in Dade-
vile, Camp Hill and Alexander City
beats. The same, or nearly the same,
was the case all over the county. But
for the negro vote there would hardly
have been enough to count. One thing
noticeable was that, after all the kicking
made before and about the time of the
democratic primary in this county, none
of the men who voted in the democratic
primary voted in the election Saturday
The pop-rep committee met in the court
house here today to canvass and CONSOLE
date the returns. Following are the nom
inees:
For sheriff-W. B. OBrien. NJ.
For treasurer-E. B. Leach.
For tax ASSESSOR. l.. Reeves.
For tax collector-R. l. Sewell.
(There are no such offices as the two
latter to be filled in this county. A COM
missioner appointed by the governor is
doing both the assessing and collecting. }
For county superintendent of education
Ben Walker.
Walker had no opposition, Mr. w. r,
Grimes the present incumbent, who
would have been renominated had he SO
desired, having Withdrawn from the tick
ct and party last week.
For members of the lower house of the
general aSSRmhlV-Tera DEnniS nd
Meadows.
AT this writing no announcement has
been made as TO the vote for coroner, the
office for which the negro, Mercer Ferrell,
was running. 1t is reported on the streets
that the committee will for the time be-
ing lay their principle" which they say
Is fair elections and honest counts, on the
shelf long enough to throw out or sup
press the Ferrell vote. Ferrell is here.
He came In early this morning, and as
serts that he will contend for his rights
and insist on being declared the nominee.
Without doubt the once giant populite
party of this county has lost its hold. The
bottom has certainly fallen out. There
was very little interest taken in the mat
ter Saturday, and your correspondent
has frequently seen more stir, excitement
and interest taken in an ordinary justice
court case, and more people from the
country in attendance because of it, than
are to be seen here today on an occasion
which two years ago even broughl half
a. thousand people to town. If you asked
q man who the nominees of the pop-reps
were he would either ask If they had had
q convention or say he had not thought
to ask and no one had told him.
Only the candidates were interested,
and some of the nominees seemed not to
feel certain but that they had already lost
by winning.
Tauapoosa county Is headed for the
democratic column in August. Mark the
prediction! The thing has died a natu-
raj death, superinduced by fusion and an
overdose of bichloride of negro hyper
dermically injected.