The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-17
Highest E1ector Received 74,374 Votes. REPUBLICAN, GAIN IN
 ALABAMA WAS 3,8lf
Prohibitionists Lost Much Ground
 and Socialists Gained.
vs.. Counties Repusiiean--srysn's plurality 4s,oss In 1898 it Was ss,4ss, and h 1900 it Was
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 In the offciaI count of the vote for ail parties during the general election, as compiled by the State canvassing Board Monday. 1t Is shown that the highest vote for Democratic Presiden- tial elector was 74,sz4. which was 2 decrease of k.4S3 from the total poll of the highest eIector for Alton B Parker in 1904. On the other hand the Republican highest elector received a total in the State of. 26.30s which Is 2,Ss6 in excess of the highest vote se- cured by Republican efector in 1904.
 The plurality for Bryan and Kern is 49,068. The Parker and Davis plurality was 5o.ses. The total vote for President and Vice. President was only f04.7s1 or 4.0s4 less than in 190t. Bryan's vote in 1900 was aT.i31 and in 1896 it vas i07.1s7.
 If to the Republtean electoral vote is added the total vote secured by the highest elector of the so-caited pA- vidson faction of the Republican Far ty. it will appear that in all tneir ranks the Republicans, boiled this year s.Si1 more votes for Taft and sherman than did Roosevelt and Fairbanks in 1904. The highest vote for David son elector was SIS.
 The official count also shows that the good roads amendment to the Consti- tuition was carried by a handsome ma. jortty, and that the biennial sessions and new county amendments were lost by heavier nnajorities than were first thought. The majority against the new counties amendment was 4,e02. while that against biennial sessions was 9.tss. The total vote cast upon the new county amendment on both sides was s5 $50. which shows that this proposition was apparently more agitated than the question of Presi- dent and Vice. President of the United States. as there was q greater express sion of the people,
 The total srota for the good roads amendment was S6,794 and against 25.- Sae. giving majority for the amend ment of iaassss Tho total poll for the biennial sesstena an8s s7s et5s and 5a,sei agatnst. TMN now E@unfteS amend- Tnent received an affirmative vote of 40.35s. while zs,2sI votes were cast against this.
 Proelamssson ss Goveraer.
 These results and others requires by the law were rnadespublic Monday tn proclamation by Governor Conner. He also Issued proclamation deciar- ing Hon. O.. c. Wiley elected as the successor. during the short term, Of, his brother, the late Congressman A. A. Wiley. of the Second District This was a special election called by the Governor for the same day as the gen. eral election. and the returns were handled by the same machinery. Hon. S.. Fl. Dent, IT,, was proclalmea as elected to succeed the late Congress- man Wiley for the long term.
 The Republicans carried for Taft and sherman five Alabama counties as fol- lows: Chiffon Cullman, Franklin, shelby, and Winston, They. almost Fe- ceived plurality in Cherokee, Maj shall and St. Clair counties. In St. Clair 1t is known that every county office was won by the Republicans with one exception. The Democrats carried Cherokee for Bryan and Kern by only seventy-nine votes.
 Congrassman oscar Underwood, reelected from the Ninth District, re- ceived the highest vote of Alabama resentatfyas He. pol1ed total vote of 11.2ss, and was followed as close second by Hon. S. H. Dent, IT, who received a vote of 10,754. Third in the race was Hon. H. D. Clayton. whose vots was S,99s- of the State canvass was the heavy falling oR in the Populist vote for President this year. Whereas, in 1908 the state gave to Tom Watson total vote of 5,051 this year, the same can- didate received in this state only 1.S6S. These figures represent the vote re- ceived by the highest eleetor in each election. This Is a decrease of 3,4SS.. The Prohibitiopists showed slight gain. polling 666 votes for President, or 54 in excess of the i904 record. The Socialists showed a considerable gain over their vote for 1904, polling, this wear t,sss as against s53 cast in 1904, showing a gain of 54e.
 The independence League received for President 495 votes. this number being cast for A. r. Brock, the cleo toraI nominee, who, however, ran way ahead of his fellow nominees, who re- ceived scarcely more than 10 votes
 The total vote for Congressmen from the nine districts was as follows. the vote of the Democratic candidates be- ing mentioned first: From the First District, c. W. Taylor, 7.45T; from the second District, S. H. Dent, Jr., 10.754; from the Third District II. p. Clayton. s.g93; froEn the Fourth District. w, B, Crane. s.23s. and J. 0. Middleton (Re- DubIIcan -Populistl, 3.341: from the Eiftb District, ]. Tom Hefiin, s.024. and VI W Wadsworth Republican,, 1.543; from the Sixth District. R. F. HobSon, d 21i. and H. T. Nations (Republicsn), 7s93: from the Seventh District, J. L. pyrne.t s.s72. and N H. Freeman (Re- pubiican), 7,046; from the Eighth Dis frict. william Richardson, s.esf, and Here Murphy, (Republican). 2o2s; from inc Ninth District. oscar Underwood i1.2ss; T. M. Rainey undependenceg 4s; T. B. Sloan CRepubitcanl, 2.SS1 and W. C. Emiel (socialistl, 3i1.
 Iucian Gardner received 1s.763 votes Tor the office of Chancellor of the southeastern division. The judges for the various judicial circuits voted upon recetved the following vote: Tenth A. os Lane. s.sss Fourteenth, J. ]. Ray, 2.4s0; Fifteenth. W. W. Pearson, s,2s6: Sixteenth, J. W. Inzer. S.736. The Solicitor for the sixteenth Judicial Cih emit is J. A. Embry. who received s.7e0 votes as against M. NJ. Davidson's 2,40Ss .aa-
 Vote for state Ofaca~.
 The vote for President of the Rail road Commission was as follows: For Charles Henderson (Democra), 76,275; for J. A. Hurst Republican,. 22.91e; for J. M. Crawgord Davidson Fac tion), s0l. For Associate Justice of he fulI rrFua