The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-09
OLD MACHINE GANG
HAS EASY VICTORY IN
MAURY PRIMARY
M'MlLLiN RECEIVES ABOUT
TWICE THE VOTE OF THAT OF
HIS COMPETITORS.
REGULAR JUNEBUG VOTE CASE

nLuULHn JUNLDUu IUlL UHUi
Total in the County Will Not Elk
coed Fifteen Observation-Disclosures
ent Lines Remained Firm and Un
broken All Over the Dimple.
With eighteen of twenty-seven pre-
cincts reported in the county IN the
gubernatorial primary McMillin has
received about double the number OF
votes cast for all the other cand1
dates. The following are the TOTALS
in the precincts mentioned: McMil'
lin 9O1; Preston, 256; Tyne, l65;
Faulkner "a, and Crabtree, 16.
This makes the total vote in the
precincts mentioned slightly over
1900. 1t is thought that the remain
ing precincts will bring the total vote
in the county to 1900 or little more.
This is about 200 more than were cast
in the famous Junebug primary Of
two years ago. However, if all the il
legal votes were deducted from the
total the aggregate would be much
less. A number of voters repeated
in this district, voting at both boxes.
A member of the primary board, Hon.
w. S. Fleming. Jr., is authority for
the statement that the whole affair
was loosely conducted and he be-
lieved that many fraudulent votes
had been cast.
The vote in the primary is dis
tinct disappointment to the regulars
who had counted on vote of $500 or
upwards. Considering the fact that
there was hot fight in the county
for justices OF the peace which, in
many sections brought out record
vote, the primary vote was very light.
1t is estimated that there were about
$500 votes cast in the general cleo
ton, so that the primary vote was
only about one-third of the total.
Two years ago it was 1900 in the
Junebug primary.
The independents almost as one
man refused to vote. The lines held
fast in almost every section of the
county. In Columbia some few for
personal reasons voted for Preston
or Tyne, but they declared that they
would not under any circumstances
vote for McMillin 1t is safe to say
that McMillin will not break the in
dependent lines in this county. 1t
is the same old machine and the
same old line up, McMillin and Pat
terson and Dibrell, the back tax, the
liquor and the pardon brokerage ma
chine
The most interesting feature Of the
primary was the action of the regular
leaders in repudiating an agreement
made between the managgehs OF
the several candidates on a ticket
for delegates to the state convention.
Several days ago the managers OF
the candidates for governor agreed
on a list of twenty three delegates to
be voted for On this list there were
the names of five or six former indie
pendents and others who had not
been rantankerous regulars.
On the morning of the election an
other ticket appeared which contain
ed in place of the some times indie
pendents the names of rank and bit
ter. old guard regulars. Among
those who were eliminated were
Hicks Richardson and John L. Mel
son, of Culleoka; Edgar Haynes and
William S. Fleming, Jr., and
Judge ]. T. Mcknight, of Columbia,
and C. A. Ross, of Hampshire. The
strictly regular ticket was elected by
a big majority. The old guard legu-
lars simply would not allow former
to get on the delega-
ton. They were opposed to any con-
cessions whatever They were salts
fed with their crowu and it was not
going to be added to if they could
help it.
William S. Fleming, Jr., strict
regular, but who for some reason was
is bitter in his denuhcia-
ton of those responsible for this
treachery and double dealing. While
a regular Mr.. Fleming is not offensive
to the independents, on the contrary
he has many warm friends among
that faction and 1t is believed that
his close association with the indie
pendents placed him under suspicion
and for this reason he was slaugh
tered in the face of a solemn agree
ment to elect him.
Mr.. Fleming made the following
statement this morning: 1T was a
dirty. despicable trick, the elimina-