The age-herald., 1900-04-18
Race Between Miller and Gray
 Yet Undecided.
TWO MORE BOXES TO HEAR FROM
According to Returns Received MT. Gray Is in the Lead by a Very Narrow Margin-Echoes
 ofthe Campaign.

l John w. Tomlinson yesterday withdrew | from the race for governor, and in a state-
 ment given out by him during the day an-
 nounced his preference for the Jefferson
 county man, General Shelley.
 MT. Tomlinson received about 6500 in the
 county, or within 700 or 800 of his success l full opponent He assured of the sup port of number of delegates from other
 counties, but in view of the fact that his home county had given General Shelley a.
 majority of the votes cast in Saturdays primary he deemed it advisable to get out
 of the race. His statement given out yes- terday is follows:
 Committees from three beats in the | county visited my headquarters yesterday
 and demanded that I contest those beats, | furnishing afidavits which to base a 1 contest I would make the contest as Ter l quested in those beats if I thought 1t | would change the result, but returns out-
 side of those beats will give General Shef- l ley small majority in this county. There-
 fore, no purpose can be served by making | these contests.
 | "The official returns show that I have | received in this county more than half of l the highest number of votes ever cast in
 a primary in the county heretofore. re,
 turn my thanks to the more than 6500 | voters in the county who gave me their votes and support We made the fight | against big odds and against methods that i! ought not to obtain in contests between democrats.
 | "As to the contest in the rest of the | state, have carried a number of coun- ,tol, the county conventions meet on the Fist,
 but, having lost Jefferson county, do not
 think my chances for the nomination suf-
 fcient to ask my friends in these counties
 to any longer keep up the fight for me.
 when they might better their political for
 tunes by forming alliances with other can-
 didates, and I, therefore, withdraw from
 the contest for governor.
 "AIl my interests are in Jefferson coun- ] ty. I came here as young man, cast my fortunes with Jefferson county people and
 l expect to live and die in Jefferson coun- | ty. Now that find that I cannot win the
 nomination myself, I would be glad to see | a Jefferson county man nominated.
 My withdrawal from the should be | no Encouragement to those who believe in l the principles of the Chicago platform, which I have endeavored to keep to the | front during the campaign, but which, to l large extent, have been overshadowed 1 by the personal contest for the senator- | ship. However, I am confident that Ala
 bama will send a delegation to the na-
 tional convention in thorough sympathy
 with MT. Bryan in the great fight that he | is making in the nation."
 General Shelley Confident
 General Shelley seems confident of the I gubernatorial nomination next Wednesday. He stated yesterday that he would go to
 the convention with about one hundred | delegates and that he felt sure of drawing
 enough votes from other candidates to give l him the nomination. In the conversation l he said:
 | T will have one hundred delegates in the
 state convention There will be no nomina-
 ton on the first ballot and I believe my
 chances are very good. I have conducted
 my campaign a decent and dgnified
 basis, and notwithstanding the influences
 that were brought to bear against me-
 got through, for which I am indebted to
 the thoughtful and responsible people of
 the county, and I appreciate their devotion,
 and if successful in the state convention | I will strive hard to keep them from be- ing disappointed"
 l General Shelley stated that he had fig-
 ures to give out relative to the counties l which he expected to send delegations to l Montgomery for him, but he was confident l they would be there in sufficient numbers
 to place him at the head of the state ticket. Il Closer at the Finish The question of the nomination for coun- ty treasurer has not yet been decided, not wthstanding all but two voting places In the county have been heard from. Brad | ford and Locust Fork are yet to report, and 1 on their vote depends the nominee of the | democratic party for treasurer of Jeffer- | son county These two beats probably did | not poll more than 75 or 80 votes, but | plurality of 31 for Miller in these two beats will give him the nomination. The vote so l far as reported gives Gray 4,S46 and Miller | 4,s16, making Gray's plurality 30. It is l hardly probable that Miller will get thirty more votes than Gray in Bradford and Lo- | cust Fork. However, the official count will | be necessary to decide positively the suc- cessful candidate. The figures above were 1 obtained from Mir Gray, but it is under- --~-~-------------------> ! fCopcludad ou Sepond PaQAl