The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1900-09-14
GOVERNOR M'SWEENEY WINS
THE RESULT OF TIE SECOND STATE
PRIMARY
McSweeney'H Succ"Ha Began to be Evident
EARLY In tho Dal-fho Contest for Lieu
tenant Gnv"rnor K. "u,ttd In the Elec-
tlOn of Coz Jam,'s ~. TiiIman and
MIR. WhtrtO On WAS Elected Ita,i.
road Commissioner Instead
OF Mr. w. ". Evans.


primary election for State and coun-
ty officers for 1900 is happily over.
Tho State ticket stands at present: {:
For United States Senator, Benjamin
IL. Tillman. For GoYernor, Miles b.
McSweeney. For Lieutenant Gov.
ernor, James II. lil'man. For At
torney General, q Duncan Bellin.
ger. For Secretary Of State, Marion
IL. Cooper. For Superintendent of
Education, Jopn j. McNTnhan For
Adjutant General, j W. Floyd For
State Treasurer, R. II. jennings.
For Comptroller G~neral, J. p. Der
ham. For Railroad Commissioner,
j. II. Wharton. For Congress-
First district, William Elliott; I'd
district, w, j. Tllbert; 3d, A. G.
Latimer; 4th, Joseph II. Johnson;
5th, D. e. Finley; 9th, Robert B.
Scarborough; 7tb, S. Wm. Stokes.
Tho second primary, which was
red hot, shows tonight strong lead
for McSwoenoy over Hoyt; James II.
Tillman leads Col. John II. Sloan
for Lieutenant Governor and j. II.
Wharton, Of Laurens, has a decided
lead over Railroad Commissioner w.
D. Evans. Tho Gubernatorial race
has been settled all along, and his
figures we're given this morning in
this correspondence, and there now
seems no reason to change from tho
figures givon that McSwcency would
lead by $4,000 or $4,000. at mid
night the News and Courier's figures
had McSweeney 1902 in the lead
out of G0,404 tabulatod. There is
no possibility of Col. Hoyt pulling
up, because there will hardly be over
$4,000 more votes to tabulate. When
the report came in that Columbia
had gone overwhelming for Nc.
Sweeney, whereas last time 1t went
for Hoyt, and that Charleston kept
its large McSweeney proportion the
Hoyt people saw how the jig was
going for McSweeney, and 80 it was
no surprise when at midnight the
totals of the News and Courier show:
McSweoney 1862, Hoyt 2704G.
McSweeney's lead ut midnight 1888.
During tho night it could be seen
how the tide in the Gubernatorial
race was going by the result in Ches-
ter county. First primary gavo Hoyt
570, McSweeney 800. Yesterday
Hoyt's loss was -, McSweeney's
gam 1873, with two thirds full vote
polled. YorL's total voto was: Nc
Sweeney. 1874, Il gain of 1lS; Hoyt
1902, a gain Of lI0. The city of
Columbia, first primary, gave Hoyt
majority of 81. McSweeney carried
it yesterday by 422, Richland Coun.
ty, except three precincts, gives Nc
Sweeney Il majority Of G4t. Mari.
boro gave McSwe' ney 1907, a gain
of $40; Hoyt 7lS, a gain of only 60.
Sumter, twenty three out Of twenty
four precincts, CAV" McSweeney 02l,
a gain Of 45G; Ho!t $50, loss of 53.
Abbeville, first primary gave Nc
Sweeney 007, Hoyt 500. Today
McSweeney received 07G and Hoyt
t $780, $50 All precincts excepe five.
rUSsaggnEn rUnSsgnEn ELECTION DETAILS.
ColumbitS,s it September 11.--Tho
present State campaign, which has
just closed wifi ir0N$ second primary,
has been about as lsa,Senaa srg'spa campaign
as has been held ia'acals State in
many years. 1t has betsGn.,oo full of
underhand tricks and moan a@jngs
and shows that tho primary systSm
is just running down at the heele
The county to county campaign idea
is breaking down the patience of the
people, and the style of making such
canvass is naturally keeping ont of
politics many good mon who would
no doubt be in such races if they did
not have to be dragged through the
miro by such mon as cannot be kept
out of freessfor all race.
Naturally Governor McSweoney
and Col. Hoyt cannot be held respon-
sible for all that their Jealous friends
have done, and they themselves have
tried to keep tho primary up to the
high standard that ought to be main
tanned, but they have both no doubt