The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-16
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1855 WON FOR SHERIFF. BY A
BIG VOTE
CHARLEY GOODWIN WAS SWAMP
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(AIorgantown. Post)
The Republican primary election
held at the twenty-six precincts of
the county Saturday; resulted in the
election of the following ticket:
State Senator-Joseph H. McDer-
mott
House of Delegates-zimri Am
mons and A1tha Warman-
County missioner-Willianl H.
Phillips.
Sheriff.. w. Barker.
Prosecuting gAttorn ey-C. w. Cra-
mer.
count ty surveyor-George W. John
son.
Asse tEast side>, George E.
Eangild Ter
Assessor-(west side), Peter r.
Core.
The primary aroused more local 10
terest than have many Presidential
elections. There was a screen thrown
out in front of the postofhce, and a
large crowd stood in the streets until
two o'clock Sunday morning watching
dent that McDermott had a lead tl.at
Grant could not overcome, though Who
would be selected, for the -LegisIa-
ture, the county comm issionership and
for prosecuting attorney was stu a
5 question with a big question mark at
{ ter it.
Early in the evening it was cTi-
dent that Barker was running ahead OF
his ompetitors for the snrievalty and
that Vangilder and Core were way
ahead for the East and West Si.le
assessorships. Johnson for surveyor
had no opponent, so very little atLen-
ton was paid to his vote.
According to the latest unofficial
returns McDermott received 1887
votes to Grants 965 for the Senator
ship. This gives the former In;t-
jority}of 632. Captain Garrison is next
with @757 votes, 20s behind Grant Ge-
reau Brings up the rear with 26.
80 That Captain Garrison did not c'>1
larger vote is a surprise to many
who picked him for the winner.
<.Grant and IcDermott will divide the
!. city and Garrison will carry the CD ~
ty,' was a prediction that was gl:en
r WlQSE ECulISuCS OSloiS Liz PA iAi1oiS' -
was also said that Garrison being in
the race would tend to cut McDer-
IN ott, total, but that also seems to be
a fallacy 1t looks much more as If
Garrison had cut Grants vote than
that the reverse is true. Geresus
small vote was not unexpected. there
being several bets at heavy odds that
his total would not reach 100.
In the race for sheriff, Barker had
things all his own way. His vote was
{ 4 ,4SO. Morgan came next with 52s;
Arnett had 5O7; Coombs 396 and Sine
sa141.
Cramer and Snee for prosecuting at
torney ran the closest OF any candl-
dates on the ticket (which was the
winner was not evident until Saturday
afternoon when the last precinct was
heard from. Cramer polled 1,033
votes to Snee's 1922 John dtfeater
I Goodwin, the votes being 572 and 55
respectively.
Although he was sick in bed and
unable to canvass Vangilder received
the largest vote poled- Twenty-Five
hundred and th1rty-seven ballots werc
cast for him and S65 for Hawkins, his
competitor for the East Side assessor
ship.
Core easily won out on the assessor
ship for the West Side, his vote being
1898 to i ,324 for Martin and 2Ss for
Morris.
There was a good deal of drunken
ness in the city and more or less in
the county Several small fights oc-
CURED, but none of them very serious.
z At. the polling places good order was
maintained.
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