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

Second Primary--Carter Wins.
Columbia. Aug. 29.-With the vote
cast Tuesday so large as to arouse
protests of illegal voting. the total
ballot for governor having reached
the enormous total Of 1884, with
many precincts yet to hear from. Cole
l.. Blease. governor of South Caro-
lima. on the face of the returns has
majority Of 2296 for denomination
over his opponent. Ira b. Jones. 1t
was veritable flood Of votes When
the first nights reports ran heavy Il
was first ascribed to unusually fast
work on the part Of the managers but
as the ballots continued to pile In, the
conclusion began to force itself upon
the observer that South Carolina had
broken Its own record by some 5000
votes in the race for governor.
Allegations Of illegal methods were
not wanting to stir up citizens. Into
the office of the state chairman, John
Gary Evans. in Spartanburg. there
poured. according to dispatches from
that city. numbers Of kilograms and
telephone calls from the up-country.
In Spartanburg when the executive
committee meets today to tabulate
the vote. protest on the result will
be presented. 1t will be pointed out
, that the increase In the vote since
the last election is out Of all proper
tion to the increase in population.
In Anderson county. which polled
| a tremendous vote. there were rumors
that the executive committee will
probably order recount today.
The vote for governor. which alone
showed any remarkable increase.
stood late last night as follows. there
being about 80 more precincts to hear
from: Blease 10000; Jones 65.ss6;
Duncan. 2,o1s. Blease's majority
stood at 2.2s6.
In the race for the United States
senate B. r. Tillman. the incumbent
continued to run strongly. with the
indications that he would go In on
| the first ballot. He more than dou-
bled N. B. Diars vote and lacked but
little Of gaining a similar decisive
| advantage over w. ]. Talbert, his
other opponent. The vote: Tillman
61.7oo. Talbert S1.17S. Dial 23.563.
Tillman's majority: 6.s61.
For attorney general J. Fraser Ly-
on the incumbent was running we'll
In front. but lacked the necessary
majority. and 1t was apparent that ne
| would have to make a second race
with Thos. ]. Peoples Of Barnwell.
Mr.. Lyon was nearly $4,000 votes
ahead OF Mr.. Peoples. but the votes
of the other two candidates more
than made this up. The vote stood
Lyon 52.411; Peoples 1921; John r..
Earle 12.200; b. b. Evans 10,S23.
For State treasurer. S. T. Carter
kept up his remarkable run. bringing
his vote up to 72.657. to 1895 for his
opponent. d. w. McI.aurin.
John G.. Richards, Jr.. seems likely
to go into office for another term AS
railroad commissioner without having
the trouble of going into a second
race. At a late hour Mr.. Richards
was leading the race by big margin.
and had enough lead, If held. to do
| away with the necessity Of q second
race. Mr. Richards majority over
Doth his opponents is 1.166. Later
returns. however. may cut this away.
feature of the primary was the over
turn in many counties that went to
Blease in the last primary. Notable
| among these were Orangeburg and
Charleston especially the latter.
which In 1910 gave q majority to
Blease of about 1900 and this time
gave Jones about 700 majority.
Orangeburg. which went to Blease by
| a small majority in 1910, gave Jones
"a majority OF almost 1000.
| Richland county. where the fight
| ragged hot all the time. gave ma
jority TO Blease. but ii was far less
than that by which the county went
to the governor I'm the last primary.
| Dorchester went for Jones by a
small majority as did Calhoun. but
Dillon swung into the Blease column.
along with Marion. Darlington was
| ence the race was close. with Jones
finally getting the advantage by a
few votes.