The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-19
oUuET IN CUNNINGHAM.
Rainfall Reduced Number of Voters II
 The County.

Rainfall Reduced Number of Voters Tn
 The County.
 Birmingham, May 1s-(Special-rhe Democratic primary election in Jeffer- son County passed off quietly and but for the rain which fell after II o'clock nearly all the afternoon a very large vote would have been cast
 Tn accordance with instructions or rather A request by the chairman of the county Democratic Executive commit tee. the state ticket was taken up first by the managers when the ooAes closed tonight and 1t Is not oelieved that anything like definite news or the results will be known until :omor- row.
 On the first face of the reforms the indications are that the country eo6es in the county have S"ne for Bryan but some of the city and town boxes have given strong vote TOT SoVerhor Johnson of Minnesota.
 John w. Tomlinson, President of the Alabama Bryan Club. before noon to- day admitted that the Johnsonltes nal made A hard campaign. He saii they had expended quite large 4bIount or money and had sent out large amount of literature but with all that he was confident that Jefferson County would return a good majority for Bryan and the bIdl6 WOhAu OV AOA OH S0N " - -0N healthy majority.
 The first telegrams that arrived at headuuarters of both the Bryan lead CTS and the Johnsonites in Birmingham indicated that the claims of the Bryanites would hardly be sustained though some sort of majority was in sight. Much stress was placed on re- ports which came from Mobile and Montgomery counties that a large vote had been cast for Governor Johnson.
 Among the earlier voters at the box in the eighth ward. in the city. was Governor Conner in fact he was the fortieth man to place his ballot in the box He gave the intimation strong ly that he had voted for William Jen- ninEs Bryan. short while later. Lieutenant Governor Henry B. Gray. (No 9s) voted at the same box. He stated also that he had voted for Bryan Walker Percy one of the John son leaders. and John W. TomlinsoA. President of the Bryan Club Of Ala bama. voted in the same ward, seventh Mir. Tomlinson was leased some by men standing around the box, being asked if he had voted for Bryan and replying in the affirmative.
 Local conditions In the county the race for two positions on the city court bench, the election of five members Of the Board of Revenue. sixty-e eight can didates being In the race, the race TOT Superintendent of Education in Jeffer- son County, with three candidates in the contest and the coroners scramble, three men being interested with the no-han nded encumbent one of them. brought about a larger vote than was anticipated.
 In some places the ballots gave out. This was caused. stated the Chairman of the Jefferson County Democratic Executive Committee. by many of the candidates getting tickets and marking them to hand out to tn cir friends.
 There were quite a number of men around headquarters of the Johnson !tes tonight to get all possible news of the results of the election today. When reports came in of a Johnson victory a smile of satisfaction was mo- ticed. Chairman Smith was confident the earlier part of the evening that the returns would show that some eHectNe work had been done in behalf of the | Minnesotan He had strong hopes that many of the counties that would be heard from late would report majori- ties for hls candidate. Others express 1 cd the belief that it would be morning 1 before anything definite could be heard John w Tomlinson at no time had l any doubts that the State had not slN- | en A good majority for w. J Bryan Ballot Box Is stolen. Birmingham May S-tSpeciaL )-A report reached here early tonight tha