The age-herald., 1900-04-15
THE CITY FOR MORGAN
Johnston Carries But One Beat
 in Birmingham.
euBERNAIoRlaL CONTEST CLOSE
son Has Carried the County Over His Opponent = The
 Other Contests

The contest in Jefferson county yester- day resulted in a complete tidal wave in the senatorial contest for Senator Morgan. Senator Morgan carried every beat in the city but one. and great majority of the beats in the county.
 At 2:3O o'clock this morning thirty of the forty-six beats had been heard from, showing the Morgan vote to be 7s43 and the Johnston vote 3,299. Thus the victory of Senator Morgan over his opponent in Jefferson is overwhelming. :
 The GubernatoriaI Contest
 In the gubernatorial contest the counts ing of the ballots has been slow and few of the larger beats had been heard from at 230 o'clock. Only the counting of the votes in one of the city beats had been completed. A few of the smaller county beats had been counted, but the counts in the larger beats, like those in the city,
 
 Pratt City, Bessemer, Brookside and Blossburg, had not been completed. | General Shelley has carried the beat in 1 the city in which he lives and several of the smaller county beats. MT. Tomlinson carried Adger beat by an overwhelming majority, and Gate City, oxmoor and Pa. los by large majorities. He has also cars rier Warrior.
 General Shelley has carried besides his resident beat Jefferson, North Highlandss Pinson, Hueys, Dolomite and Pump House. These beats, with the exception of the first two, are small
 hour that the contest will be so close that neither candidate will have so much fines of the city limits. The indications, however, are that Tomlinson will carry burg, Adamsville and other large outlying beats by handsome majorities and win the county by a good, safe majority,
 Mr. w. H. Morris, chairman of the Tom. linson campaign committee stated at 2:So o'clock this morning.
 "Tomlinson has undoubtedly carried this county. The beats heard from today in- cludng what the city beats will show, from the count made to this hour. indicate al- most a tie. But when the votes come in from the mining town beats, where Tom- linson's strength is great, his majority will show up to be at least one thousand. am absolutely confident of the correctness of this claim''
 Colonel J. J. Altman, chairman of the Shelley campaign committee, stated about l o'clock this morning that he had heard from twenty beats, and he claimed the county for Shelley by a safe majority.
 A Peaceful Day
 The election was one of the most orderly ever held in the county, and with the ex-
 
 ception of little furry in Davis beat in the morning and an animated dispute at the Bessemer voting place, there was no trouble.
 The voters were good natured and joked each other as they cast their ballots or stood around the polls.
 The day was ideal, the weather being almost perfect, which tended to bring out a full vote. and while the senatorial con. test absorbed the chief interest, the friends of the various candidates for other offices were not backward in presenting tho claims of their favorites and the voter, as he presented himself at the polls, was besieged with solicitations to vote for this and that man for the respective offices The Morgan and Johnston tickets, which were separate from the regular tickets were of different size and color or at least shade of white. and were easily distin- guishable, and it was easy matter to keep tally on the senatorial vote At most of the polling places the Morgan managerb kept tally and there was not moment from the time that the polls opened untn s---~~~~-~--~-~-~-~-~-~ ~-~>->------------~----~~~