The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1905-1908, 1907-08-15

1 Claiborne (proxy by Leroy Percy OF
3vasbIngton): c. 81. Whitney, JEFF
ferson Cproy by z. H. Reber). H.
IJ Wilson, Copiah, vice 81. 3. Lock-
wood, resigned.
Eighth District IL B. Stirling,
Kinds; 3. W George, Yazoo; r. ".
tstewart. Madison.
+ There was no disposition for exec
tutive session or to exclude the pub
lie from the chamber, and beyond re-
serving the front rows OF seats for
the committee members and the rep
resentatives of the distinguished can
didates, the outside members and
watchers were given the run OF the
hall, and never was better order or
I Idecorum observed without the offices
/ of sergeant-at-arms.
All being assembled, there was no
time wasted in preliminaries, the first
motion adopted being one that the
committee first take up the vote for
senator, since so many gentlemen
were present who are so deeply inter-
ested in that race. more SO than in
any others, and it was desirable that
it be gotten out of the way.
The batch of returns that had come
in by mail and express were then
opened, and the canvass of the sew
enty-eight counties was begun, which
consumed the time up till II o'clock,
after which a recess was taken to
allow subcommittee to retire and
tabulate the totals.
Without taking up the other Of
fees in contest, the committee recess
ed until 2:3O p. m, when the returns
in the race for governor were taken
up. Only slight changes were noted
from the tables of the unofficial re-
turns already published.
The result of the canvass c. the
gubernatorial vote is that Noel leads
with 29,3S0, Brewer is next with
2S,111, while Scott has 26,941. Mr..
Scott was dropped out and there will
be no contest.
After devoting all the forenoon
session to finding out the status of
the two candidates for senator and
so declaring, the executive commit
tee resumed session in the afternoon
and with little loss of time proceeded
to ascertain the result Of the voting
for governor. While there were only
three men whose standing could be
affected by the committees research
it was of course necessary to go all
through the list of the six after get
ting the figures from all but three of
the counties, which were Grenada,
Kemper and Smith, and taking the
unofficial figures for them the three
leading candidates consenting to this
procedure, the committee found that
the candidates stood as follows: E.
F. Noel, 29,3S0; Earl Brewer, 28,
III; Chas. Scott, 26,s41; T. q Sis
son, 20,107; JEFF Truly, 1851; and
E. n. Thomas, 1884.
This result was reached by a sub
committee selected to sum up the
tabulated columns. and when the
result to the committee for action.
The feature of the evenings sit
ting was the address of Chas. Scott,
who, in frank, clear-cut terms, ex-
pressed himself as willing TO accept
the committees findings and would
not wish to delay them with their
work on account of techniealfties;
that he was willing to waive ali in
forma1ity and leave the matter in the
hands of the committee without con-
test or pickering. Like the proce-
dure had in regard to the race be-
tween Mr.. Williams and Gov. Varda-
man, the committee proceeded to
carry out their duty.
Then followed a long task. that of
calling off and tabulating the figures
after the name of each gubernatoria1
entry, which occupied the committee
until five o'clock, and then came the
tabulating, with friends of each of
the three leading candidates present
and helping.
Having disposed of the matter of
the gubernatorial entry for the run
off on the face of. the returns, the
committee recessed for supper and
returned TO the capitol at s o'clock
to resume their work. 1t became
necessary to take up the Offices of
lieutenant governor, auditor, treas
urer, superintendent of education, in
surance commissioner, railroad COM
missioner and penitentiary trustees.
to the task with will. It had be-
come necessary for Engineer McDon- |