Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-19
POLLED A LARGE VOTE
Alabama Primary Result Looks
Good to Johnson.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
He Carried the Three Chief Cities
of the State.
BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS
Draws Much Comfort From Outcome
of Election-Politics in Other
Fields.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
BRYAN GIVES HIS VIEWS

MONTGOMERY Ala. May 19.-Re-
turns from the state democratic primary
continue to come in slowly today. Mont
gomery has received the count in but
eleven out of her twenty-five precincts.
and other cities are similarly slow. At
noon today the indications are that Will
liam ]. Bryan has carried the state.
though Gov. johnson is giving him a
close race.
The Johnson forces piled up a large
vote in southern Alabama. and they car
ried perhaps half a dozen counties in
the state, according to present indica-
tions. but not enough to indorse the Min
nesota governor.
The returns from country districts in
dicate a Bryan victory.
MOBILE. Ala. May 19.-The extraordi-
narily long ticket used by the democratic
primary election in Alabama made it next
to impossible to secure today an approx
mate idea of the result except that Gov.
johnson of Minnesota poled a large vote
in unexpected places.
Johnson appears to have carried Mont
three chief cities of the state. He polled
large votes in south Alabama. notably in
Coneuch, Baldwin and Monroe counties.
Out of the meager returns 1t developed
that James ]. Mayfeld of Tuscaloosa mas
been nominated for associate justice of
the supreme court, and that Judge H. T.
Simpson and Judge A. H. Alston are run
ming close for the second place, with Judge
Bilbro fourth in the race.
Returns received from ffty-one of the
siXty-seven counties in the state show
that out of a total vote polled of 100000,
Mr.. Bryan has received $4,000. Johnson
developed surprising strength in the larg-
er cities and has carried several counties
including Montgomery and Mobile. On
the state ticket Charles Henderson of
Troy was nominated for president of the
railroad commission and j. A. Wallace
of Huntsville for state game and flsh
commissioner.
Mr.. Bryan's Opinion.
PHILADELPHIA, May 19.-William m
Jennings Bryan. who last night delivered
an address before the Pennsylvania peace
conference. in session in this city. when
asked today his views concerning the out
come of the primaries held in Alabama
y,
victory for the control of the national
delegates to the Denver convention. said:
Alabama was claimed by the opposi-
ton, and while the vote is not a surprise
to me. it attracts attention because the
returns answered the Misrepresentation
which have been sent out. The primary
system enables the voters to express
themselves. In this respect our demo-
Gratis in the west have had an advantage
over the democrats of some of the east
ern states. where the method of selecting
delegates does not give the rank and file
of the party such complete control"
Continuing. Mr.. Bryan said:
Il appreciate very much the fight that
has been made by my friends in Pennsyl-
vania and in Alabama. for In Alabama
they had the steel trust TO fight. and in
Pennsylvania they had not only the steel
trust but several other trusts. In fact.
do not know of any other state in which
our people had SO much to overcome as
they had in Pennsylvania. The vote which
! received here at the recent primaries
answered the Misrepresentation that the
eastern papers had made in regard to
the sentiment in Pennsylvania, and the
same may be said of Alabama"
Mr. Bryan left this afternoon for Balti-
more. where he will address the Methodist