The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-09
WAKE COUNTY
REDEEMED BY
FIVE HUNDRED
MAJORITY:
Majority May be Double This
Number When All the
Returns are in.
THE FUSIONISTS HAVE
GIVEN UP IN DISGUST
TIEY HAD CONCEDED TH--R
DEFEAT BY FIVE HUNDRED
MAJORITY EARLY
LAST NIGHT.
GREAT REJOICING AMONG THE PEOPLE
Bonfres Lighted and Horns Blown by In
ihusiastc Democrats. Returns Even
Better than Had Been
Hoped

Hoped
Wake county has been redeemed.
The gang that has so long dlsgraced
the court house and the Legislature from
this county must now get out.
1t is now simply a question of ma
iority. All the returns are not yet IN.
and will not be till sometime to-day, but
enough is known to be certain that the
entire Democratic ticket is elected by
a majority of from 500 to 1000.
Raleigh township gives n majority OF
from 300 to $50 and the country pre-
cincts will double this, or perhaps treble
it. The Fusionists concede it by 500 ma
jority. Chairman Jones claims it by 700.
Until the official returns come in it
will not be known who is right.
The returns already in and the pre-
cincts unofficially heard from show
heavy Democratic gains everywhere
except in Outside West, south divi-
sion. where the Democrats lost II votes.
This was due to a change in the admin
istration of the penitentiary.
This institution was closed up all yes
terday tight as Fusion caucus, the con-
victs locked in cells and the employees
given a day off to vote and work for the
Fusion ticket. They did as they Were
ordered, but it availed them nothing be-
yond their own votes.
xOf the precincts so far heard from,
Swift Greek takes the cake in the mat
ter of gains over the 1896 vote. The
official count there shows a change OF
112 votes since last election. Other
places showing remarkable changes are
Apex, Auburn, Harris Store, Cary,
Cedar Fork and some of the Raleigh
wards.
If the rate of increase shown by the
precincts, whose returns are already in
is kept up in those not yet heard from
the Democratic majority may possibly
reach 1000.
Raleigh has never held a more quiet
election. The day was as clear as a
bell and the boys began work early, voted
rapidly and by ten o'clock more than
half the votes had been polled. The
polls at each voting precinct were sur
rounded by workers for each ticket. The
negroes were very orderly, and several
Of them openly and boldly voted the
straight Democratic ticket.
Before noon it was plainly evi
dent that if the country made gains as ex
pected, the Democrats would sweep the
county.
Before twelve o'clock good news came
in from several Of the country precincts.
Garner was the first to report; with its
claim of a gain of fifty votes. In a few
minutes Apex, Cary. Auburn. Wake
Forest and other precincts reported large
Democratic gains. These reports sent
the enthusiasm of the Raleigh Demo
Gratis up still higher, and the fusion
crowd showed plainly their discomfit-
nre Carriages, buggies, and other We
hicles were going in post haste from
ward to ward bringing in the voters.
There was quite good sprinkling OF
scratchers on both sides, but as rule the
votes went in just like they were printed
Atwater ran right along within a
few votes of the others on the ticket,
only a few scratching his name at the
different polling places.
1t was Democratic day, a bright,
balmy, sunshiny day. Business was
practically suspended and everybody hard
at work for their respective tickets
There were but very few bets offered OF
taken. The Democrats had bet the Flu
sionists to a stand still the night be.
fore. and they had no sporting blood left
The polls closed at shutdown, promptly
and the counting began. AS the re
turns came into the News and Oh
server office they were displayed by ster
eOptican to the assembled crowd. Yelli
went up from hundred Of voices as thu
good news was read. In a few minutes
the reports were coming in from some O
and by by wire. The gains reported sOoi
settled the question so far as Wake coun
ty was concerned and the boys were
figuring up the majorities.
Early in the night it was reported tina
Dan Young conceded the entire ticket b!
300 majority, and Jim Young was quoted
as saying the whole State had ''gon
a-hellin.'"
The returns from the other counties
come in rapidly. The News and Obser
ver's splendid service enabled us to Civ,
reports before eight O'clock, which
clearly showed that as Wake county hat
gone, so the State had gone.
The boys went off to buy horns. bells
&c. and for two hours they made tn,
wekin ring. The Fusionists began dis
.appearing-they were beaten, wiped en-
tirely off the slate, defeated. dishearten
ed. depressed. Bon-fres were lighted III
and down Fayetteville street and tn,
city organized itself into a regular jollifi