The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-30

The State Democratic Executive Committee. with Chairman H. s. D. Mallory in the chair. met yesterday in the Council Chamber promptly on the noon hour to canvass the vote for can didates on the State ticket during the recent primary and by o'clock in the af1crnnon the exact vote or every man had been ascertained. There were no contests. and hence there was sign of friction during tn entire proceed Ings. .. .1. nnatical affair that the State Commit tee has handled in the history oL Ala- hama politics. It was due. Of course, to fhe. remarkable length of the ticket Tsed in the primary. For the nrst $,n1a in the history of the Democratic Party in the State, the names for dele gates and electors were voted TOT oy the people direct, as were also me can didatea for the SPresidential nomina- ton, .s .,;. stafe-at-I5aree by the figures of the Isresidential nomination race. So.Sot voters went to the polls May 1s. TniS is the nearest approximation CT Lbe total vote cast in the whole state Ss Is ,.ovomoniy believed that because tha strenuous interest in the race for cnrntv Assessor and other minor of- t,esa snvarshadowed the interest in the state ticket, the vote for the President- iaI asoifants falls several thousand short of indicating the total army or voters who went to the polls m tne primary. . oe5riaIlv announced late yesterday af- ternon by the Committee. was as Lol- lows: Bryan, 54.391; Johnson. So.Sze. This shows that Johnson receiVeo AANnA fraction more than thirtyysix per cent of the total vote cast.
 recapitulation was the small margin of vote which separated Judge j. J. D, TSavAeld from Justice R. T. Simpson for Assocfate Justice of the Supreme Court. rhesa two candidates led the ucKes Inv a handsome margin, but the nnaA summing up showed that Maynet1 s pau. ralitv was but o23. Justice simpson ran him A close second with just that nunoher of votes behind. The total count for Judge Mayfield was 37,S97 and mat for Justice Simpson was So'4I4.
 JudRe J. A. Bilbro came third In the Supreme Court race. polling total or 2T,177 votes. .L. Fifth District, led the race for dele- gate from the State-at-large 70 the National Convention by compliment ary plurality. His margin was o'sSes his total vote in the State being OS'oSs. The committee declared the following 4o be the nominees for delegates-at- large: Hehin. Clayton. Tomlinson ana CunninRham The candidates ran Tn the order named. Cunningham's plu- rallty over E. W. Booker being b.62z' pr. Cunningham was the only pro- Johnson delegate In the State to be elected.
 The count of the State Committee was
 oP atyh committee of five who transcribed the enormous mass of figures which had been received from the county com mfttees and made the additions on adding machines. The committee of five verified their totals, checked them over again and revamped them, so -to sneak and when they had concluded that everything was in shape the re- port was made to the State Committee
 Promptly at noon the members of che Committee assembled in the Coun- cIl Chamber and were called to order bv Chairman Mallory. of Selma. He stated briefly the purpose of the com mittee being called together, which was to canvass the vote cast in the state primary. He made the sugges. 4ton that the work of the committed would be expedited by leaving the 'serind" of mathematics to smaller subcommittee who should make thC tnbuiations ana aod the Notes TOT tne several oflces.
 J. C. Milner arose and made mo tion that 6 committee of five be ap- pointed by the chairman to receive the figures then in the custody of th' chairman and make the count, report t' be made at 8 o'clock, if possible Thii motion received a prompt second and was carried Those who made up thu ub.committees were J. c. Milner Chairman; J. C. Wood. B. A Thomp son. Henry steagall and T. ". Crump ton. They did not make their repor at 5 o'clock, however. as their tasl was of such magnitude that 1t coult not be completed until after o'clock shortly before o'clock the report O the subcommittee was made ant adopted.
 The report of the committee showed that the following vote was east:
 For nomination for President: Bryan BAsS1; Johnson. s0,s26.
 For Delegates-at-large to Denver Booker, ss.0T7; Clayton, 5s,402; Gun ningham, 44ess: Hedin, 64,S2s; Kyle 19.f00; Moody, 23,526; Tomlinson. 64.1Oe
 For Alternate Delegates from State a&-large to Denver Conventions. B Brown s2,1ss; Jamss ?. JenaA. eIiseS