The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-08-09
.CLAUD GOODWIN FOR
SHERIFF LED TICKET
IN COUNTY ELECTION
POPULAR SHERIFF RECEIVED A
TOTAL OF 1927 OUT OF POLL
OF 1920.
M'FALL, TRUSTEE CAME NEXT
Less Than Half of the Voters Eek.
pressed Preference for Judge of
the Court of Civil Appeals-officiaI
Canvass Is Completed.

Claude Goodwin lead the ticket IN
the election last Thursday in Maury
county. The popular sheriff rcceiv
1927 votes for reelection. Although
without an opposition and his race
was therefore devoid of interest he
received fattering majority of all
the votes cast in the county.
w. Spence McFall, candidate toI
reelection as trustee, was not very
far behind the sheriff, receiving a to
tai vote in the county of 2,11i. J.
Ben Cowley, running without an op
ponent or reelection as assessor. re-
ceived total vote in the. county OF
1918.
While McFall and Goodwin received
a good majority of all the votes cast
Cowley did not do so. There were
1920 voters who cast their ballots in
the county last Thursday as shown
by the poll lists officially canvasse'l
by the commissioners of election. A
majority of this number would be
1861, so that the genial young asses.
sor was forty-three votes short of a
majority.
Goodwin received 366 more than a
majority of all the votes cast and
Spence McFall got 1853 more than j
majority of the total poll. Consider
ing the fact that no one of them had
opposition and there was no interest
in the matter and that all the voting
was under the Dortch law they all
have a right to be proud of the vote
they received.
Goodwin received the highest per
cent of the total vote cast at the
court house box where he got 40 out
of a possible 1856. McFall was not
far behind with total of 1872.
The people generally passed UP the
contests for Judge. For Judge of the
supreme court A. S. Buchanan, who
had no opponent, received a total OF
only 1872. In other words there
were 2,72S voters in the county who
did not express a choice for Judge Of
the supreme court. Less than one
third of the total poll cast a vote for
this office.
Although there was a fight on for
Judge of the court of civil appeals be-
tween Moore, democrat, and Cate, re,
publican, the total vote for both an,
didates in this contest was only
1892. In other words 2,22S voters
did not express any preference in
the race. Only about forty out of ev-
cry one hundred voted for judge of
the appeals court.
The vote of the county was large,
but it was generally cast for local Of
ficers. The total vote of 1920 is
about a good average for the county
In November, 1910 there were 4,401
cast Two years ago the total was
about 1000. The November vote is
usually larger than that in August.
The commissioners of election, Jas
H. Ramon, John B. Brooks and JOS
H. Courtney, met at 10 o'clock this
morning and resumed the canvass Of
the vote. 1t was completed by noon
and the results certified to the sec
rotary of state and governor. The
commissioners then issued cerrif1
Gates to the members of the board OF
education, the advisory boards, the
constables and the county officials
elect and adjourned. No material
changes were shown in the official
vote as compared with the unofficiY
poll heretofore published.