The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-11-18
Official Vote.
GOVERNOR


4. A. Lipscom5 ...............1 1895
[. N. Moore ................... 1902
Hardy Shelley ..................1 1896
Total Vote 440l
The above is the official vote OF
Maury county in one of the most mem
orable contests of it's history as can
vassed officially by the commission
ers of election at the court house Mon,
day. The results were announced
Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock, certif-
icates of election were duly signed
and delivered to w. T. Galloway and
A. A Lipscomt as Representatives
from Maury county. If their titles to
seats in the House are questioned 1t
must be in the House. Certificates
of election duly signed by all of the
commissioners now repose in their
inside pockets
There was little change in the vote
as officially canvassed and that an.
nounced by The Herald on the wight
Of the election. AT that time the ma
jority of Taylor was given by The Her
aid at 292; it was officially 294. The
Herald placed Greers majority in the
county at twenty-nine, it was twenty
four. The Herald gave Lipscomh
ninety-one majority. it was npety-six,
that of Galloway was given at 1888; il
was 14S The vote was close between
Enloe and Thomas, the latter getting
majority of onlg twenty-seyen.
The total vote of the county \ as
shown by the tol lists was 4,4O1. The
total vote received by the three can
didates for Governor was 4,140, there
being 261 who did not vote for Cover.
nor. The total vote for railroad com
missioner was 1858 there being some
seven hundred voters in the county
to whom the claims of none of the can
didates appealed. There were 675 vot
ers in the county who could not swal
low either Brown or Greer, largely
more than enough had two-thirds OF
them been cast one way to change the
result. In the Congress race it was
even worse There were no less than
1,751 voters in the county who
scratched on Congress, the combined
vote of Padgett and Yount being 1851
out Of total of 4,4O1. The highest
vote received on the Democratic Leg
islative ticket was that given Gallo
way of 1850; the highest on the Pat
terson ticket was that OF Moore, 1902,
the total of the two leaders being
$3.50, there being evidently several
hundred voters in the county to whom !
the Legislative ticket did not appeal
with any great force.
Galloway led the temperance ticket. !
His vote was 100 more than that OF |,
Hooper. 1t was fifty-two more than
Lipscomb received and 175 in excess
of that of Greer. Had Greer received
the majority that Galloway did he
would nave been elected. Moore
led the Patterson ticket with 1902;
Shelley came next with 1880 and
Brown behind with 1851. Galloway
led Moore i4S: Lipscomb defeated
Moore ninety six. Galloway distanced
Shelley 100 and Lipscomb beat Skel-
ley 1OS. The average majority for
Galloway and Lipscomb was 122 over
the highest candidate on the Patter-
son ticket.
Although Hooper received seventy
four more votes In the county than
Judge Beard who led the independent
Judiciary ticket, he lost the county by
294 while Beard carried 1t over the
highest man on the Patterson ticket
by 555. Taylor received 923 more votes
In the county than Cooke, the Patter-
son leader in the August election,
Hooper received only seventy-tour
moro than Beard.
Galloway, the leader of the tenn,
perance ticket, got 204 more than
Beard, while Moore received Gil more
votes than Cooke In August. It is evil
dent from those figures that the Pat
terson strength did not vote In Are