The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-25
NOEL'S ELECTION
 SEEMS ASSURED His MajoritIeS Too Great for
 Brewer to Overco ne BREWER DOES NOT GIVE UP
Candidate Will Not Yield to the Argu- ment of Nearly Twenty-Five Hun dred Votes Majority Ac-
 cording to Returns.

Jackson. Miss. August 24-(special)- There Is no doubt of the election Of Ed mond E. Noel of Lexington as governor of Mississippi. Brewers campaign mana gers here will not admit it and like drowning men are clinging to a straw. which they hope will carry them to shore when the state committee meets but 1t cannot, the figures being too decided in Noers direction and verified. They give Noel forty-one counties and majorities aggregating S94s votes, to Brewers thirty seven counties and maJorities aggregating 6561. This Is difference of 2397 in favor of Noel, and the count of the state com mittee cannot change them.
 In the election of Ed Noel and John Sharp Williams. Mssissippians are con graduating themselves on the return to sane and safe politics, these gentlemen being the antipodes of Brewer and Varda- man.
 Luther Manship the lecturer story-tell- CT and foremost negro o-dialect artist In the south, defeats ex-Attorney General Nash for lieutenant governor by a large ma jority.
 The race has been close and exciting one from beginning to end, and the finish has been of the whirlwnd order sure enough. No enthusiasm was engendered in the gubernatorial contest till the sena- torship had been settled and was out of the way, but when it did open up after the 2d of August there was something doing all along the line every day in the week-Snnday not excepted.
 The people have made their choice, and even those who supported the defeated candidate will readily admit that the state has made no mistake-tnat it would have been no mistake had Mir Brewer been the successful candidate
 It was "Hobson's choice" with a great many voters-both were looked upon as good and able men. and few joined in with or endorsed the personalities that were indulged in by the candidates and their campaign managers during the clos ing days of the contest
 R. S. McLaurln Dead.
 Telephone messages were received here last night announcing the death of Hon. R. s. McLaurin, at his home in Brandon. Sylvester McLaurin was a brother of United States Senator McLaurin, and Vt about 49 years of age. For twenty years, nearly. he had served his district as prosecuting attorney but at the August primary was defeated for re-nomnation. He has been in bad health for several months, suffering with rheumatism of the heart. 1t is said. He was the fifth of the original eight McIaurin brothers. and is the second one to die. A wife. for merly Miss Jack, daughter of Hon. Ed Jack, a lawyer and for many years su- perintendent of education of Rankin county, survives him. They have been married several years, but no children ever blessed the union.
 Plans for College.
 The diocesan college committee having accepted the proffer of a site of twenty acres from the city of Vicksburg, is now busily engaged in the preparation of plans for the building, which 1t is pro-. posed to erect at once, the same to be ready for occupancy before the first of October
 Confederate Reunion.
 In a few days Gen. Robert Lowry, commander of the Mississippi division of the United Confederate veterans, will issue a formal order directing attention to the fact that the annual reunion Is to be held in the city of Meridian on the 18th and 26th of September. No doubt the reunion will be well attended, as the longer the men who wore the gray sur vive the more anxious are they to meet and mingle just one more time" with their comrades of forty-odd years ago.