The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-14
ALL CARTER GOT IN TERRFII

Nv siS EtlIIILZ
centered in the Acknowledgement
question, and even in that If was
not pronounced. Disfrancbisemen
received a majority in the county of
554 votes, 479 being cast for and
z45 against it. Eightv-seven of
those who went to the poIIs were co
inulHerent that they did not vote on
the question either way, either not
marking their tickets at all or
scratching both for and "agaipst"
the amendment.
AT the Dawson precinct % of the
80 negroes who voted put in the
straight democratic tickets. presum-
ABLY through mistake. They failed
10 mark either of the disfrancbise-
ment paragraphs, and their ballots
therefore did not count either for or
against this proposition.
Scratching Was Heavy.
A surprising feature was the ex-
tensive scratching of all of the can
dldates. The pencil was used freely
on every one of them, and especially
ala the local candidates fall far below
the TOTAL number Of votes that were
polled. For the state house officers
and judges and solicitors the votes
ranged from 1853, the lowest. tn 100
the highest, which was received by
secretary OF State Cook. The num-
per OF votes received by the local
candidates ranged from 562 for J, R.
irwin for senator to 587 for Ordi-
nary w. B. Cheatham, who received
the highest number of votes of anv
or the home candidates. All of them
fell considerably more than 200 be-
low the full vote. 1t is partly ac-
counted for by the fact that the re-
publican tickets did not contain the
names of any of the candidates for
county Offices.
Carriers Race a Farce.
The candidacy of Yancey Carter
for governor, as was expected. turned
out to be a farce so far as Terrell
county was concerned. He received
only 81 votes in the entire county
and 16 of these were at Parrott and
2 at the Twelfth district precinct
The other two turned up in the box al
Dawson. He did not receive a sin.
gle vote at Brentwood, at Dover, al
the Third, at the Eleventh and the
Forks precincts.
Joseph M. Brown, the democratic
candidate, received a total of 59e
votes, his majority being 567. There
were ITO who did not vote for gov.
ernor at all.
Almost a Clean Sweep.
]. w. Lindsey, the present incum.
bent, made almost a clean sweep fol-
pension commissioner. He received
632 votes, and B. L. Hearn came in
at the tail end with only 1. w. A.
Buchanan received So, A. ]. Nc.
Bride 8, T. J. Lumpkin 5, A. B.
Stansell 8, and w. w. Wilson 2.
There were 81 voters who failed
to vote for either of the candidates
| for this Office.
How the Local Candidates Ran.
! The total number of votes received
I by the local candidates is as follows:
J. A. Laing, solicitor-general. 765
J. R, Irwin, state senator. $780,. .561
I M. H. Marshall, representative. 58G
w. B. Cheatham, ordinary -. .587
w. s. Dozier, court clerk 49,. .58t
M. G. Hill, sheriff. ...........5 $50
l.. G. Pinkston, tax receiver. i. 585
c. w. Gunnels, tax collector. -. 585
B. B. Perry, county treasurer 584
]. E. Waller, county surveyor. 582
c. T. Buchanan, coroner. ...584
Owing to the length of the ticket
the managers at the Dawson precinct
did not finish counting until IL
o'clock Thursday. They counted IN
til midnight Wednesday night, and
then quit until next morning.