The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-21

The primary is over but it cannot yet
be told who will be sheriff as it will
have To be left to a primary to be held
on Friday, and the same is true Of
register Of deeds. In the second pr
mar COwan and BiddIe will be in the
rae and for register Of deeds Haar and
Everett. For a long time it was
doubtful as to whether BiddIe or James
would have to go in the second pri-
mary but the very large majority of
him the choice for this. Horne
made a splendid run and surprised
every II In the Fifth ward he was
ahead by a big majority and carried all
Of the country precincts but where he
lost was in the down town wards and
here was where Haar got most of his
strength.
The old board Of commissioners re-
ceived a majority. They are Messrs.
ID. McEaChern, W. f. Robertson, Nj. w.
Divine, w. F. Alexander and H. l..
VOllers. Mr.. II. Mel. Green defeated
Mr.. Montgomery by a big majority and
Constable Savage defeated Mr.. William
Sheehan BIS an enormous majority. DR..
c. D. Bell will be the next coroner,
having received a big majority in the
primary and Colonel George l.. Morton
received Il very large majority over
DR.. N. NJ. Culbreth. Mr.. George H.
pnlIo 49, MO tGn @~Jr m rIiIntN fr-
the senate and he received a vote which
was MOL than a majority of the total
vote cast. Colonel John ID. Taylor, re-
CeiVed q very tiattering vote for clerk
of the court.
ln-thiS mornings paper it is imp0ssi-
bic to give a complete return of all the
votes cast for there were several rural
precincts that were not heard from last
night more han as to n or two can
didateS. The city count cannot yer
be given in full as the registrar and
Judges of election in the Fourth ward
did not complete the count as to the
executive or magistrates but about 10
O'Clock gave in what had been counted
II went TO their homes. The eXecu-
tive committee thought very strongly
about requiring the judges of election
in that ward to return to the ward and
complete the count for the law says
that the count shall be Immediately af-
ter the polls are closed. Captain a.
l.. DeROsset, Judge of election in the
fourth ward, said it was a physical i'm
possibility to get h vote counted last
night. Those who had been assisting
him were Captain w. p. Oldham and
Mr.. Tom Pickett. The Fifth ward
was one Of the first to make a full re-
port of the returns and in that ward
was cast the largest vote of any ward
in the city.
The election was extremely quiet
and there was o the slightest diSOr-
der during the entire day. No drunk
enneSS was seen around the polls and
it is to be doubted if there was ever a
more orderly election held in the city.
Plenty of hard work was lone but
every one seemed to go about 1t in a
good natured manner. The vote cast
was light, being only little more than
1900. judging from the total vote for
sheriff. There were some surprises,
the principal one being the run made
by Mr.. Henry Horne for register of
deeds. He is a young man who lives
on MaSOnbOrO sound and there were
but few who had any idea that he
would make any kind of run During
the entire day and until after 9 o'clock
last night friends of Colonel 7. c.
James were very hopeful that he would
be in the second primary, something
that the Cowan men did not care about
coming TO pass. Until the vote for
sheriff was counted in the fifth ward it
was very doubtful about who would pc
in the primary with Cowan. Biddle
did not get a large vote in the down
town wards but polled an enormous
vote in the Fifth ward, as was expect
ed. Colonel Morton defeated DR.. Gull
breth by an overwhelming majority
but in the outside wards DIR. Culbreth
made a better run han many expected.
With a little more than 200 votes
COwan would have been nominated
on the first round. For Biddle to win
it will be necessary for him to get
about 400 of the James votes and Cow
an may win by getting something over
200 of James votes. That is, of course,
provided that practically the same
vote is cast on Friday as yesterday,
which will in all probability he the
case. There is not a very la"ee diff
ference in the vote received by Haar
and Everett for register of deeds and
the race. it is thought, will be a very