The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-07
FINAL COUNT
 MADE PUBLIC Some Confusion With CanvaSsing Board. BRYAN'S MAJORITY WAS 2,5SO Tom Watson Avoided Frost by
 Getting One Vote. Good Roads Most Pop1lar of Amend ments, Biennial Sessions Sec ond - Canteiou Is Declared
 Elected.

Several hours of good strenuous work were entailed by the task of making an official count of the ballots Tnesday's election, and in declaring the nominees. Sitting in judgment over the figures on the ballots, the county officials worked and puzzled ing the count of the longest ticket eyer cast tn a Montgomery county election.
 By the oficlal count. the Democratic field, Emmet o,Neal getting 2.622 votes, Pugh, Hybart, Haralson, Jones. Edmondson. Cornelius, Brown, Fuller, Brickell each 2,621 whilo Cowart re-
 Seventy y-nine votes were cas-. for the Republican electors of the Thompson faction, while the Davidson men got three votes. Bryan ran ahesd of Taft,
 Mir. Eugene Victor Debs, Socialist, drew votes from Montgomery coun- ty, while Hisgen, Mir. Hearsts pro. tege, got none.
 One vote was cast for Watson. the Popuitst candidate. while but two were cast for the Prohibition ticket.
 The amendments were all good, so far as Montgomery county is concern ed, drawing large majorities. The biennial session amendment received 1,1T5 affirmative votes,g while 342 voted against it. For good roads amendment, 1,531 ayes were cast. to 511 noes. The new county. amendment received 1.s7s votes with .307 dissenting.
 Charles Henderson received 2.629 votes for President of the Railroad Commission J: A. Hurst; the regular J. Nj. cranford. for $the Davidson fac- tion, getting 3.
 For Associate Justices of the Su- preme Court, Mayfleld and simpson, the Democratic nominees, received 2.62s and 2.627 respectively while c. J. Curtis and Julian Sternfeld. RepublI- can nominees, received 61 each. r. c. Davidson ticket. received votes. and W. s. Ree3e. running as an indepen. dent candidate, received 1.
 For State Game and Fish Commis- 2.621 votes. B. F. E3ritnell getting et. and John H. Standifer, [.
 GlImer Led Ticket.
 Morgan S. Giimer, Democratic cam ticket. with the largest number of votes his nomination being ratified by 2646 votes. It is likely that W. B. Whiting. candidate for county treasur- CT, would have received an equal num- Der, had 1t not been for the f@st that the election officers of one beat neg. lected to make a return of the vote on treasurer. With tnis vote on' Mr. o. c. Wiley received 1.794 votes, as congressman. 8: H. Dent JEs, EetttEtg. z,644 for the long term For chan- cellor of the Southwestern Division, Lucien D. Gardner received 3.e36 votes, while Judge W. ". Pearson, candidate for circuit judge, was elected. by 8 vote of 2.634. s2t
 Several times during the count. a hitch was encountered, as when, here and tn ere, returning officers neglected to make returns of a certain vote. Thus. in Beat 2, no return Was made of the voteeon the Good Roads Afnends ment; in Beat Is. the returns on tha amendment vote were in such form as to be adJudged unofncial. and were thrown out of the count. Tn Beat IS, no returns were made of the votes on the three amendments. while in Beat 20 no returns were made of the vote on the Good Roads and Biennial Ses-
 Outside of the city, there was no sop-e pisition to the amendments to any. extent all being carried by large InaS jorities Here and there, in one or two beats the vote was against one amend, ment but the cases were rare. Tn one btat, IA, as an example. the forty votes cast were solid for the Democratic ticket and for the amendments. the only ,variation being whenN one voter cast his ballot against, the naw coun- ties, making the count on that issue