The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-04-19
MORGAN WINS
in ALABAMA.
Saturdays Primaries Decided the
Senatorial Contest.
GOYERNORSHIP IS STILL OPEN.
Day Was Replete With Exciting
Interest and Surprises
Were In Order.

Saturday at which the Democrats OF
about half of the counties voted their
choice for United States senator and
governar, and in about one-fourth
more selected representatives and dele
gates wao will be authorized to vote
the chs;ce of their constituents. The
other one-fourth of the counties have
already acted.
Tie United States senatorship has
been tie overshadowing issue for the
first time in the history of the state,
obscuring the contest for governor.
The candidates for the Legislature
were selected almost entirely with
their preference for senator. Senator
Morgan and Governor Johnston are
the only candidates for the senator
ship, while Messrs. Stallings, OF But
ler, Sanford, of Lee; Waller, of Hale,
and Shelley an. .Tomlinson, OF Jefer-
son, are candidates for governor.
As a result of the voting Hon. John
T. Morgan has been renominated for
United States Senator by surprising
majority. The returns make it appear
thst he will have something like 100
OF the 120 votes in the Democratic leg.
is:ative caucus. Hon. W. j.. Sanford
made phenomenal race for governor.
Senator Morgan who has repre-.
septed the state with great credit in
the senate for twenty-si1 years, and
Joseph F. Johnston, the present gov.
ernor, whose administration has been
signally successful, are undoubtedly
two of the ablest and most powerful
men in the state, politically, and the
contest between their friends has been
full of ginger and acrimony. The
campaign opened last summer and
has not Jagged for a day.
Ten counties with fourteen members
of the assembly voted prior to Satur'
day. Nine of the members from these
counties were instructed for Morgan
and five for Johnston. There are alse
sixteen hold-over senators, of which
Morgan is understood to have nine
and Johnston seven.
SOME LATER NEWS.
News received by The Montgomery
Advertiser up to Sunday midnight in
dicatedstbat Morgan has carried fifty
five of the fifty-six counties holding
The returns from the five or 81,
counties in Alabama which were omit
ted from the first reports only add th'
more to Senator Morgan's victory. l
all of the Democratic nominees should
be elected, the senator would hav'
about 116 or 118 members of tho two
houses of the assembly, but probably
dozen Populists and Republicans viii
slip in and this will subtract sonewha
from the figures stated.
Colonel Sanford has secured abou'
200 votes in the state convention. HI
needs enly about fifty more to win
but there is talk of q combination
against him. Mr.. Waller, who rar
second in the gubernatorial race, ha'
a we'll organized support of about III
or 40 votes, and is the second choice
of many another delegation. Genera
Shelley has sixty or seventy votes II
the convention and Mr.. Stallings hal
the remainder of the 504 convention
votes. Good generalship, therefore,
will have considerable to do with
naming the next executive.
The surprise of the campaign is Mr.
Stalling's light vote throughout the
state. Stallings ran third, Shelly
fourth and Tomlinson fifth. The sound
money men in the state supported
Morgan and Sanford.
The returns from the counties IN
the second district show the nomina'
ton of Colonel A. A. Wiley, OF Mont
gomery, as congressman.
The returns from the counties II
the sixth district confirm the re-nomi'
ton of Hon. John, H. Bankhead te
congress. He had no opposition.