The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-12-24
CARMAcK'S COUNTY
HITS EX-GOVERNOR
ANOTHER KNOCKOUT
OLD MAURY JOINS MkELLAR
RANKS BY MAJORITY OF AL
MOST 500.
WINNER GETS SEVEN DISTRICTS WILL REPAIR TORN STREETS
While Only Three Remain In the Pat
terson column-NotabIe Victory Is
Achieved at the covrs House Box.
Vote Of County.

Achieved at the cour. House Box,
Vote Of County.
Again Maury county rebuked M. r.
Patterson at the polls. Having con-
sistently voted against Patterson in
every race that he has ever made the
county on ednesday made its oppo-
sition TO him more emphatically
known than ever before considering
the light vote polled. In a total poll
of 2, 100, Mcclellan carried the county
by $50, the totals being Mcclellan
1878; Patterson 1923.
Mcclellan carried seven of the ten
districts of the county, He lost only
the first, the seventh and the eighth
districts. Paterson's largest majority
was in the first district where he re-
ceived majority of thirty-two. He
carried the eighth by twenty-three
votes and the seventh by four votes.
The ninth district was McKellar's
banner district, giving him nearly
two-thirds of his total majority in the
: county. He carried this district by
287 votes.
The vote OF the districts was S fol-
lows:
F1rst-McKellar, 112; Patterson,
las.
Second-McKellar. 95; Patterson,
"a.
Third-McKeliar, liz; Patterson,
90.
Fourth Mcclellan, 81: Patterson,
20.
Fifth-McKellar, 1e6; Patterson, Al.
Sixth-McKellar, 80; Patterson, 1s.
Seventh--McKellar, 1O7; Patterson,
Ill.
Eighth-McKellar, AZ; Patterson,
&
Ninth-McKellar, Sill; Patterson,
224
Tenth-McKellar, 81; Patterson, II.
McKellar's banner district was the
court house box in Columbia, the
4 home of the late Edward Ward Car
mack, where he received 462 and Pat
terson got 1853, or majority of 304
for the winner. Mcclellan received
just three to one at this box.
In proportion to the vote polled
Bigbyville takes high honor among
the Mcclellan precincts, giving that
candidate seventy votes to nine for
Patterson. 1t was apparent from the
first returns that the Lea vote went
almost solidly for Mcclellan.
In the first primary Patterson re-
ceived 1,049 votes in the county, his
vote Wednesday being 226 short of
that In the first primary Mcclellan
got SIS in the county which he in
creased 74S. In the first primary Pat
terson beat Mcclellan 524 in the coun-
ty, making change of nearly 1000
vote.
In the first primary Lea carried
Fly's Store, Santa Fe, Theta, Spring
Hill, Rally HILL CaldwelPs Store,
Rock Springs Parks, Culleoka, Bigby-
vile, SCOTS Mill, the Court House
and Hampshire, all of which went to
Mcclellan. The only precinct carried
by Lea that went to Patterson in this
lection woe Neiron.
No election was held at Sandy
Hook, in the seventh, Taylors Store,
in the tenth, or Southport, in the
sixth. With total vote Of 1876 the
ninth district pelled more than one
third of the entire vote cast in the
county
Rally Hill, with big lead for Nc
Kellar, was the first precinct to re.
port From that time on 1t was APP
parent that Mcclellan had carried the
county and the only question was the
size of the. vote. At Ave minutes be-
fore o'clock or fifty-fve minutes
after the polls closed the count at the
court house was finished and The
Herald posted the total vote of the
county and wired ~ the
papers of the state. Patterson lead
ers conceded defeat in the county be-
fore the polls closed and by 6 o'clock
they gave up the state.