The age-herald., 1900-04-14

Decepti, Tickets | During the day the Morgan people got | possession of several ballots for beat dele l gations bearing the names of two Morgan men and the others Johnston. On these l the name of a Morgan man had been print l ed at the top and another at the bottom l of the ballot, with the names of Johnston | men coming between. This was done, the | Morgan people claimed to fool the Nor | gan people into voting for a majority of | the Johnston men, and thus enabling them | to elect their tickets. In Madison subdi- | vision of beat 21, which is entitled to eight | delegates, two Morgan and six Johnston l names were printed. At Bessemer simi- l lar ticket was prepared, and the same is | reported from other beats in the county. 1 T. s. Smith, candidate for sheriff, retired | from the race yesterday afternoon. It IS | understood he came down in the interest 1 of George w. Sherling.
 1 Secretary Nell's Claims Captain Frank S. White, chairman of the
 Morgan state campaign committee, was
 out of the city yesterday, and a statement
 from him could not be had. Secretary Mel
 of the committee, who has kept himself in- i formed of all the moves in the campaign,
 made the following statement: "Of the sixty-six counties in the state of | Alabama, the following have acted in the 1 senatorial matter: Clarke, Coffee, Colbert, l Crenshaw, Dale, Jackson, Limestone, Ma
 rengo Marshall, Walker and Winston. ''These eleven counties have IA of the 100 l representatives in the lower house, and of l the II votes Morgan has 10 and Johnston ] A. Butler and Escambia counties, each l with one representative, do not pass upon
 the senatorial contest tomorrow, the former | Ia if of fl,a ,,ri,, ri ttnt I.1,,a
 g. and the latter having declared for a
 free for all fight in August. l "One senatorial district only has acted l the Fifth, composed of Jackson and Mar
 shall counties, Governor Johnston being l successful in securing the nominee. This | leaves sixteen districts to act tomorrow 1 So 1t will be seen that tomorrow's election l will have to do with only 100 votes. There are 16 hold-over senators, which, | added to the 14 representatives and the l | seantor already chosen, make 31 votes of | the 133 in the general assembly, Of the 1 hold-over senators, Morgan has g; John | ston, 8; doubtful, 8; populsts, 1. Add to 1 these the 10 above stated for Morgan and | the for Johnston, and up to date the fol- | lowing is the standing:
 Morgan... ... ... e. .., ,,, , l9 i Io.oi,''''' J,.si ..' .'' =. ..S DouptIul. ... ...... .... | 1opuists'.. ... =. 1 3
 "Of the one hundred votes which will be | acted on tomorrow Morgan has 6S assured. | and by that I mean absolutely certain; l but of the 6S I count that possibly will
 be defeated in August by populists and re- | publ1cans, leaving Morgan 61 votes that | will go in the democratic caucus which | added to the 19 givenabove, will give to the 1 senator so votes certain in the caucus. T calculate that there will not be more | than thirteen populists and republicans in | the general assembly, leaving 12O eligible members of the democratic caucus So 1 with 80 certain for Morgan and a splendid | chance of dividing the remaining 40 there Is not a possible contingency that can arise which can bring Alabama the dis grace and the nation the calamity of los ing in the senate of the United States the peerless Morgan" The Johnston Claims | Chairman B. F. Roden of the Johnston campaign committee stated to an Age Herald reporter that he considered Jeffer- son county absolutely safe for the gov ernor. He said this belief was based on the most reliable information that came to him from different sources.
 Governor Johnston came to Birmingham yesterday morning and will remain in the city until after the primary. He was seen in his headquarters in the Florence hotel | yesterday afternoon and made the follow ing statement:
 l 1 elected; that's what I started in for. I will carry Jefferson county by an over whelming majority, and also Montgomery
 and Mobile counties, and plenty of the balance of the counties to elect me United States senator"
 Chairman Greene Confident Dan A. Greene, chairman of the county Morgan campaign committee, last night gave out the following statement: "A careful estimate. based on renOrtS from every beat in the county, justify me in saying that John T. Morgan will carry
 Jefferson county by large majority We
 certain of at least 155 delegates in the
 county convention. In addition to these
 there are 59 delegates which we are req
 sonably certain to elect, making it more i
 than likely that Morgan will have 214 of l
 the 265 delegates and the others not |
 conceded to Johnston.
 ''The Johnston forces have used every |
 method known in politics, and also some |
 that are novel, but they have been unable
 to check the overwhelming sentiment in
 favor of Senator Morgan. Failing in every i
 endeavor to change the voters, I am in- |
 formed that they are now attempting to |
 deceive them by having tickets printed |
 with the first and last names of the Mor-
 gan delegates and the others Johnston |
 men. Every voter is urged to scan his |
 ballot carefully and be sure that it is the |
 stright Morgan ticket.
 '"The subcommittee, for no good reason 1
 that can learn, removed the polling place l
 in Davis beat from the city hall where 1t |
 has always been and placed it in First |
 avenue between Thirteenth and Four
 teenth streets, away from the population
 and business center. I can see no object |
 in this unless they thought the business
 men would not take the time to go such i
 a distance to cast their votes. The mer-
 chants are urged to vote themselves and | give their employees an opportunity to cast
 their votes
 ''The box in Hill beat was removed from
 the southside market and placed in the
 lower end of the beat, in the face of an
 almost unanimous protest in the shape of
 petition from the voters of the upper
 end, and of nearly one hundred in the
 lower end of the beat.
 "But in spite of such methods, and the
 earnest use of money, and unlimited dis
 tribution of beer, Jefferson county will go for Morgan"