The age-herald., 1898-08-02
OLD JEFFERSON
 IS IN THE VAN A Housing Democratic Majority of About : JO'
 E. 2 A. M' MAJQ 2 WAS 2'23O The Two Larsf'ss~- Ay Boxes Not Yet
 z olted. RETURNS WERE SLOW COMING IN Chairman Gray Was IubiIant Over
 the Outcome. RESULT DUE TO HIS EFFORTS
Chairman Gray Was JubiIant Over
 the Outcome.
RESULT DUE TO HIS EFFORTS
One of the Surprises of the Day Was Small Negro Vote--Only About 70 Exercised Their Fran
 chise in the City.

Ysterday was a glorious victory for the democratic party in Jefferson county. The returns up to o'clock this morning show the majore. -2f votss which the state | ticket will have, will be at least 4,OoO and | the majority for the county ticket ;pJc. the same.
 | At that hour nineteen boxes had been heard from, and s,oS2 votes had been cast in the probate judge race. Of these Stiles a democratic majority of 2,23O. The other contests were in nearly the same propor- tion.
 Very little scratching was done and the whole ticket went through with a very even vote. Even some of the popular leg isative candidates on the citizens ticket failed to make anything like the inroads into the democratic strength that their
 
 friends predicted.
 The returns were very slow coming in, was a foregene conclusion, and few troubled to send the returns in from the country. The count at the city hall had not been finished at 2 a. m. and the indi- na at lime that a agers and clerks would be counting until morning.
 Yesterdays election was perhaps the qui- etest general election ever held in this county. So far as could be learned no disturbances of any kind occurred, except little spat at the city hall, when the box was first opened yesterday morning. Dr. Grove, chairman of the populist campaign committee objected because there was no populist fixer allowed to be present. He went away saying he would get the assist | ance of the law. He held long consulta- tions with Lewis Parsons, Robert Chisolm, Wm. H. Smith. Jr., and other of his law yers, but anyhow, nothing resulted of it during the day.
 The remarkable part of the election was that so few negroes voted. In the city. There were between 400 and 800 registered, yet only about 70 cast their votes. Of these five or six voted at the Southsde market, about thirty at the ice house, twelve at the court house and thirty at the city hall
 There were some of the customary cleo ton hacks on the streets, but not enough of them to attract much attention. All of the democrats, who were a large per cent. the voters, went quietly to the polls and voted, and at no time of the day were the boxes crowded. Usually the voting boxes are characterized by long line of voters waiting for their turn at the booths.
 Chairman Gray Jubiiant
 Henry B. Gray. chairman of the cam paign committee and in whose hands the paign has been, was particularly jubilant last night. and delighted with the great victory he has won.
 "The size of the majority that I have been talking about" said Mir Gray, has materialized and will probably be close to 5,000 It is the biggest the county has had in over ten years. and 1t will put an end to .independentism," repubicansm popu- lism, and all other 'isms' for many years to come I hope and believe.
 ITO many who have been active in the campaign, the result is no surprise con- tinued MT. Gray. flor we have known for some weeks that we had no opposition. -~~-~---------~~--~~
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