The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-02

port of the other members Of this. cam
mittee.
THAT do concur in the report made as
to the nominations of T. 5. White. Hugh
Morrpw, J. P. Tillman, L. c. Bradley and
R. Hesssolb. 3
And I further report that in pursuance
OF the direction of said resolution apon the
count of the ballots as found in the boxes,
| supplemented by the face of the refurns in
the absence of the ballots IN the boxes of
| the various precincts of the county, the
| Hon. r. J. Lowe received on this count
1904 votes and the Hen. r. G. Hewitt re-
| eeived 2,120 votes. e
"That upon the face of the returns With
out counting the ballots the Hon. r. ].
Lowe received 2,118 votes and the Hon. II.
G. Hewitt received 2,119 votes.
"Your committee further report that I'M
| der the instruction of the said resolution
upon the count of the ballots and the face
of the returns where there were no ballots
as we'll as upon the face of the returns
alone the said r. G. Hewitt has received a
majority of the votes cast in said primary
election over the said r. j. Lowe, and,
therefore, entitled to the nomination for
the sixth place the ticket, and I, there
fore, recommend that he be declared the
nominee of the democratic party for the
said sixth place of the ticket"
Claimed Lowe Was Defeated
Mr.. Kennedy stated in explaining his re-
port, that the face of the returns from
Cedar Grove box showed that Lowe had
only thirteen votes, while the committee in
setting tho figures down on the tabulated
sheet gave him fourteen votes at the box.
This, he claimed, made Mr.. loves total
vote tie Mr.. Hewtts, whereas If the cor
rect figure for Cedar Grove We're taken
Mr.. Lowe would be one vote behind Mr..
Hewitt. He then made motion that the
Cedar Grove box be brought in and the
correct figures obtained.
This motion was debated for nearly two
hours all the time getting more and more
exciting.
Hewitt, Thach and Jerry Fountain each
made statements explaining why they had
made the majority report; that the recount
which they had made of the votes although
1t showed Hewitt to be about &c votes
ahead, was an inaccurate one and was not
to be relied upon. 1t was told how in the
dead hour of the night when the committee
was worn out with counting, that they
found themselves making repeated mis-
takes, and after the count was over they
found nine ballots on the floor where they
had been accidently dropped by the tired
counters. All these facts compelled them
to rely upon the face of the returns, which
they say, showed Hewitt and Lowe to be
tied and for that reason they favored the
plan of having another primary They OBJ
jected to Mr.. Kennedy's plan of bringing
out the Cedar Grove box by itself, for If one
of the boxes where there might have been
Irregularities was to be re-opened, all of
them should be treated alike, and an en-
tirely new count made
Mr.. Kennedy and VIM. A. Walker, who
represented Mr.. Hewitt both made spirited
speeches, saying that if the face of the re-
turns showed that Mr.. Hewitt had ono
more vote than Mr. Lowe, that he was the
nominee of the party just as if he had re-
ceived thousand majority. They argued
that only one objection had been found TO
the count of the official returns, and that
could be readily ascertained by the ex-
animation of the Cedar Grove box. But
they were continually interrupted by their
opponents who claimed that there were OBJ
jections to other boxes, and that If one box
was opened again, they insisted that all of
| them should be re-opened. s -.
Finally Mr.. Mitchell made a motion
| which he had been putting off from time to
| time in order to continue the debate, to
| table Mr. Kennedy's motion, that the Cedar
Grove box be opened The clerks were just
getting ready to take the vote on tho
Mitchell motion, when Mr.. Hewitt made the
speech which is quoted above.
After appointing the committee of five to
manage the new primary, and fixing the
date. the committee adjourned until Tues
day, April Is, at which time the votes will
be canVasSed.
The meeting adjourned at 2:30 o'clock and
Immediately afterward the committee or
five met and made the arrangements for
| the primary stated above. They also decid-
| ed to refund to each of the twenty candi-
| dates who had taken part in the primary
| two weeks ago of $40. Each of them
| We're assessed $25 with which to pay the
primary's expenses, but B. A. Thompson,
| who had charge of this department of the
| primary, succeeded in saving each of them
| $40.
| The Official Vote
The following is the vote which each of
the candidates received, according to the
| official returns:
| Beddow, 2,O29; Bradley 2,464; Burruss, l.
| Dos; Conner, 1905 Davidson, 126S; Grady,
| 1876; Hewitt, 2,119; Jones, 706 Kolb, 1880;
| Lipscomb, 759; Lowe, 2,119 Morrow, 1868;
| Shugart, 1924; Thach, 755; Tillman, 1881;
| Ullman, 1,705; Weakley, 725; Weatherly, l.
| 1892; White H. H. 21S; White, F. S., 1859.
Good Card at Clinton
| Little Rock, Ark, April bright sun
| shiny weather and a good card attracted