The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-08-12
RETURNS
GIVEN BY HERALD
N GREAT SHAPE
NEVER BEFORE WAS A STATE
ELECTION Better HANDLED
m MAuRY.
THOUSANDS CALLED OFFICE
sIa Throngs Heard the Bulletins
Read, But Patterson Supporters
Left Eariy-lndependents Were
Highly Enthusiastic.

AS usual the ONCE Vi AhS A1S
was the mecca for all election news
seekers last night From the time
that the polls closed at 4 o'clock until
the ONCE closed at 1880 o'clock this
morning an eager throng read the bull
letins or stopped in the office to IN
ouire the latest news. In addition
both of the telephones in the office
were kept in requisition all the time
by anxious partisans wanting the
latest from the front
The ballot was long, complex ana
difficult to count. For that reason the
returns from the county did not begin
TO arrive until long after the aocus-
toned hour 1t was nearly 6 O'Clock
before Rock Springs, SCOTS Mil and
other small precincts began to report
and Mt. Pleasant did not send in the
result until after IL o'clock and It was
almost that late before the depot pre-
cinct of the Ninth district was heard
from. The officers at the Court House
hoy did not finish their count until
- o'clock this morning, having been
engaged altogether 81 hours in the
task of holding and certifying the re-
suit.
From the very first it was apparent
that the county had gone for the free
and untrammeled ticket. The small
precincts all reported good gains and
when Santa Fe, Sawdust Valley, Parks
Station and other alleged strongholds
of the enemy reported, the magnitude
of the victory for law and order IN
Tennessee commenced to be apprecl-
ciated.
when the crowd first assembled at
The Herald Office it was mixed one
politically, a number of the Patter-
son partisans having accepted the IN
yitation to hear the returns. HoWev-
or nv 10 O'Clock there was not a Pat
terson man in sight. After conced-
ing the county many stayed with the
hope that the State would do better by
/ their candidates, but after East len
nessee and few of the West Tennes-
see counties had been heard from
they all admitted defeat and sadly
and sorrowfully walked home.
i In marked contrast to the ruf1anlsm
displayed by the Patterson people two
years ago when the mastiff defeated
his opponent, there was no unseemiy
demonstration last night Inc IN
dependents cheered the result that
/ forever freed their State from the OPP
nression of a constituencies and de-
prayed machine, but their attitude
was more one of prayer than OF ex-
ultation. Many were the terVent
words of thanksgiving that ascended
to the eternal throne from Maufy
county last night. Tears streamed
down the cheeks of many when tney
realized the full significance AMI the
tremendous Importance of the victory
that had been won.
After the election was all over and
the OPPOSITION had conceded defeat
there was no parade over the city
The yictors having satisfied them
selves that victory was sure, quietly
went to their homes feeling that lie
and property had value in Tennes-
see that it had not had in two years.
The Herald received full returns
from the State. ITS first bulletins
over the state wire began to arrive
at abouts7 O'Clock and from that time
until the circuit closed at 1880 O'Clock
this morning the good news came III
steady stream. First 1t came from
East Tennessee The counties OF
that splendid section of the mountains
where liberty is perhaps priced more
highly than in any other section o.
Tennessee, were inspiring. Then the
Middle Tennessee counties began &c
report. The Middle section had beer
conceded the Patterson stronghold
but as county after county rolled int
the free judiciary column the full mag
nitude of the anti-Patterson cyclone
commenced to be appreciated.
obion was the first West Tennessee
county to report. 1t gave about loO'
for law and order. Weakley and GID
son and Madison and other Gioral
6 tars of Democracy added their thous
> ands to the ever increasing column
. and at 10 o'clock Attorney Genera
a Gates, manager of the Independent
a campaign committee, stated to Tn
4 Herald that the majority in the Stat
a would be not less than $4,000 Al i
a o'clock the Nashville Banner issued
q statement claiming victory by 4O,OO'