The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-21
FULL STATE VOTE
 IS NOW COUNTED Conner Received the Highest
 Vote Cast DOWDELL COMES SECOND Wiley Gets the Largest Vote of Any Candidate for cOnsress-New
 Supreme Court Organ
 izes Tomorrow.
DoWDELL COMES SECOND
BY HERvEY w. LAIRD.

Montgomery, November 2O.-eSpeclai1- The vote of the state and county elections having been counted. the results In the state contests were announced by Acting Governor Cunningham in proclamation Saturday. B. B. Conner, nominee for president of the railroad commission, re- ceived the highest vote cast, so'4S'' The next largest was that of Associate Jus tice James R. Dowdell, his being @,OSo Hobson received the largest vote Tor elector, 79.857 while Congressman A. A. Wiley of the Second, was eompnmenteo with the largest vote given to any con- gressional candidate, his being 1O,177' with Hefiin's, in the Fifth, 10,105. Chief Jus tice Thomas N. Mcclellan ran behind his associates, showing the loss Of the lobS votes given his socialist opponent, James James Beeson. T. B. Foster, socialist, re- ceived ssS votes.
 The votes for presidential electors indi- cate the strength of the parties in the contest, as the vote for MT. Conner seems to show the maximum of the democratic strength with an especially popular is- sue. These were Hobson, democrat, 7s,- S57; Goodwin, populist, 5O4O; Daniel pro- hibitioh. SIP; Montgomery, republican. 22- 474; Maxwell, socialist s39. The total vote cast for electors was, therefore lOs,- S22, compared to 81,S63 in the state elec- tions of 1902 The total vote in 1900 for Bryan was 97,131 and for Mckinley, 55,- 512 making a total of 152643. Bryan's vote in 1896 was 13O,9O7 to 54,737 for Mo Kinley, the total being 1S5,044.
 Vote for Congress.
 Congressman Wiley of the Second; Tay 1 Tor of the First, and Clayton of the Third were without opposition this year. Their votes were 10,177, 6s36 and 9102 respective ly Wiley, who led the congressional ticket, beat Heflin of the Fifth, only 75 votes though he had no opposition and Heflin had 3095 against him. The largest | vote in opposition to any democratic nominee was in the Seventh where Pow all secured 7756 to 9S19 for Burnett. l Congressman Bowie received 70S7 In the | Fourth to 2201 for his republican oppo- nent compared to 6sS0 vs. 304S two years ago. The oposition to democracy in the Sixth seems to have maintained its hold | the vote against Bankhead being 271S this year to 279S two years ago.
 The Full Returns.
 The full vote of the election of Novem- Der 8, as counted today was as follows: l Railroad Commission president, Conner, democrat, S3,497; Foster, socialist, SS3.
 Chief Justice Supreme court-McClel- Ian, democrat, Sl,224; Beeson, socialist, 1O53
 Associat Justices Supreme court all democrats-Anderson, S1,9S6; Denson, Sl,- 9SO; Dowdell, S2,O3O; Haralson, s1,9SO; Simp- son, S1,994 Tyson. s1,9s7
 | Electors for President and Vice Presi- l dent-Hobson democrat, 9,S57; Goodwin, populist, 504O Daniel prohibtionist, 612; Montgomery, republican, 22,4A; Maxwell socialist, S39.
 Congress, First District-G. W. Taylor democrat, 6S3S; Second, A. A Wiley dem ocrat, 1O177 Third, Henry D. Clayton, democrat, 9102; Fourth, Bowie democrat, | 70S7; Kitchens, republican, 2201; Fifth, Heflin, democrat, 10 0105; Walker, repub lican-populist 3O95; Caldwell, prohibition ist. 4S; Sixth. Bankhead, democrat, SS73, | Crumpton, republican, FITS; Seventh Bur nett democrat, 9S19; Powell republican, populist, 7756; Eighth, Richardson, demo- crat, 9S9S; Roberts, republican, LAG; Ninth, Underwood democrat 9615; Blake more republican, 1775; Waldhorse, social ist, 373.
 | Chancellors, all democrats-Northern division. W. H. Simpson, 17441; north eastern division, Whiteside, 19 41S north western division. Altman, 11.794; south
  ern division. Smith, Is, 434.
 l Circuit Judges-First circuit. Lackland, | 3S39; second Richardson 4509; third. Evans. 5O77 fourth. Miller. SIP; fifth Brewer, 6535 sixth. Sprott 5414; seventh. Pellum, ITO; eighth, Speake 7496; all these are democrats Ninth, Haralson, demo- crat, ZAP; Nicholson, republican, 1852; 1 tenth, Coleman. democrat. 6721; eleventh, | Almon, democrat, 1909; twelfth. Pierce, democrat. 769S; thirteenth. Brown, dem ocrat. 4442; fourteenth. Lacy. democrat, | 2423; fifteenth, Sayre, democrat, 5S6l su- pernumeary, Aston, 7O.9O5
 | Solicitors-First circuit, Gray, 3S61 sec | ond Bricken, 4466; third Sanford 5061: fourth Thompson. 5096; fifth Bowling, 65c7; sixth Oliver 5434; seventh, Burr, 6S36; eighth Almon. 7445. In the ninth circuit Hunt democrat, received 1917. and Sloan, republican. 4596. The balance are democrats Tenth. Mc%ueen, Gill; l are democ. ats. Tenth. Mcqueen, 6711 eleventh, Sawtelle 4SO6; twelfth, Parks. Blanton, 24o3; fifteenth, Holly, 2s6s.
 New Supreme Court. | The new supreme court will be organ ized with the new judges next Tuesday morning, Judges Simpson, Denson and | Anderson having been notified to be here | on the morning of that day to receive | the oath of office. The only member of | the old court to retire will be Justice | Sharpe. who did no- stand for reelection | and will return to Birmingham to prac- l tice law. Judge Sharpe went on the i city court bench of Jefferson county twenty years ago and stayed there until | he came to the supreme court six years | ago.
 The new men come in as result of the law allowing two more judges and to take the place of Justice Sharpe. Justice Simp- son Is a well known attorney of Florence having represented some of the large cor. porations in that part of the state. He is regarded as one of the best lawyers and most upright citizens of the state. Jus tice Denson comes from Lafayette and | has been on the bench of the circuit court l for some time. He is noted as possess ing all the essentials of a just and eff l ficient judge. He is a brother of Col w | H. Denson of Birmingham and he and Justice Dowde are from the same town. Justice Anderson is also fresh from the