The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1912-08-31

street all Tuesday afternoon and even
Ing waiting to hear the election re-
turns come In from the various pre-
cincts over the county and the results
o.. the state vote In the gubernatorial
r,lce.
The Jones people were we'll pleased
With the vote In the county In the
gubernatorial race, while the Blease
people are not badly disappointed.
Some of them stated that they ex-
pected Jones &c have big lead In the
four town boxes and one Of them said
that he had expected q much bigger
Flease majority In the county pre-
clncts.
With the returns all In at IL o'clock
last night the fears and the anxieties
sf the candidates were set at rest for
the time being. the uncertainty being
a. least settled at that time. The re-
suits showed Stoii to have a lead Of
about goo votes In the county for So
licitor; for the legislature Epps and
Dick were elected and Belser and Nc
Elveen will have to run over; in the
race for clerk Of court which caused
n great deal Of interest L. /. Parrott.
the incumbent. az vas generally ex-
pected. y In tie lead with II. L.
. Scarborough 14s votes behind. and ].
r. Sumter considerably behind the
other two candidates. PARROT and
Scarborough will have to run over
in the second primary. In the race
for sheriff. which was also watched
with the greatest interest. Chief j. X.
Bradford ran away from his three
opponents. showing even greater
strength than was expected. He was
elected on the first primary with
handsome majority. The race for cor
oner was closer than most people
seemed to think. but resulted In the
reelection Of coroner s. +. Flowers.
The crowd on the street Watching
and working In the election all day
long was large and intensely inter.
ested one, but that which began to
Father on the streets at sbout
o'clock and continued to Increase un-
I'll about 3 o'clock at night, at
which time the results Of the election
were coming In rapidly and were be-
Inc posted at sibert's Drug store as
fast az they came In The bulletins
from the News and Courier came In
every few minutes and were read
aloud and then posted outside where
everybody could see them. Along to-
ward the first part Of the evening the
bulletins giving Jones majorities wero
received with cheers by the expect
ant crowd. but later when the bulle-
tins were not 90 farovable the cheers
old not come. Late In the evening
there were a number of Blease mon
on the street who were jubllant over
the changing prospects and their
cheers could be heard from time to
time. 49,,
The crowd. however. seemed to be
an orderly one and there was no
fighting and very few drunk people
to be seen on the streets. The crowd
was keyed up to a high pitch Of in
tere3t though and as the bulletins
came In there was a rush to the
front to hear or see what changes had
been made.
The race for solicitor Is still un-
certain. with Tatum slightly In the
lead. The vote received at this Of
nee up to noon today gives Stoil 81
24s and Tatum 3.449. with boxes in
Clarendon. 3 boxes In Lee and tox-
es In Williamsburg still to be hear 4
from. Stoli received majorities IN
Sumter and Williamsburg counties
and Tatum led In Lee and Clarendon.
In the race for clerk OF court l.. /.
Parrott. the incumbent. led with .S1
votes. although his lead was not quite
as large as was expected. III. =. Scar
bc-cugh came next with S4: votes.
i4s votes behind. and j. II. Sumter
came last with 445 votes. showing
less strength than was expected. The
second race. which promises to be a
warm one. will be run between Scar
borough and PARROT. and the pre-
dictions are that 1t will be extremely
close.
Chief J. X. Bradford came first In
the race for sheriff. with a big lead
between him and his nearest opponent.
sheriff Epperson made stronger race