The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-04-20
Saturdays Primaries Decided the
Senatorial Contest.
GOVERNORSHIP IS STILL OPEN.
Day Was RepIete With Exciting
Interest and Surprises
Were In Order.

Primaries we're held in Alabama
Saturday at which the Democrats Of
about half Of the counties voted their
choice for United States senator and
governor, and in about one-fourth
more selected representatives aud dele
gates who will be authorized to vote
the choice Of their constituents. The
other one-fourth of the counties have
already acted.
The United States senatorship has
been the overshadowing issue for the
first time in the history Of the state,
obscuring the contest for governor.
The candidates for the legislature
we're 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
Ter, Sanford, of Lee; Waller, of Hale,
and Shelley and Tomlinson, of Jeffer-
son, are candidates for governor.
AS result of the voting Hon. John
7. Morgan has been renominated for
United States Senator by surprising
majority. The returns make it appear
that he will have something like 100
of the 100 votes in the Democratic leg
islative caucus. Hon. w. J. Sanford
made phenomenal race for governor.
Senator Morgan who has repre-
sented the state with great credit in
the senate for twenty-six years, and
Joseph +. 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 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 also
sixteen hold-over senators, of which
Morgan is understood to have ninC
and Johnston seven.
SOME LATER NEWS.
News received by The Montgomer.
Advertiser up to Sunday midnight in
dicated that Morgan has carried fifty
five of the ffty.six counties holdin
primaries.
The returns from the five or 81
counties in Alabama which were omit
ted from the first reports only add tn
more to Senator Morgan's victory.
all of the Democratic nominees shout
be elected, the senator would hay
about 116 or 118 members of the tw
I houses of the assembly, but probably
: dozen Populists and Republicans Wi
:, slip in and this will subtract somewhs
from the figures stated.
r Colonel Sanford has secured aboU
: 200 votes in the state convention. q
: needs only about fifty more to VIII
but there is talk of a combinatio
; against him. Mr.. Waller, who rs
i second in the gubernatorial race, hG
: we'll organized support of about 13
II or 140 votes, and is the second choiC
: of many another delegation. Gener,
! Shelley has sixty or seventy votes
y the convention and Mr.. Stallings hi
IS tue remainder of the 504 conventio
e votes. Good generalship, therefor,
l. will have considerable to do wit
:. naming the next executive.
The surprise of the campaign is M
!" Stalling's light vote throughout IL
Is state. Stallings ran third, Shell
fourth and Tomlinson fifth. The sour
money men in the state supportC
Ie Morgan and Sanford.
Is The returns from the counties
no the second district show the nomin
= ton of Colonel A. A. Wiley, of Mon
y gomery, as congressman.
$. The returns from the counties
T. the sixth district confirm the re-nom
ID tion of Hon. John H. Bankhead
. congress. He had no opposition.
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