The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-05
CLEAR MAJORITY
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county and Goochiand and Powhatan
On the face Of returns received last
night, DR.. Hening, the dry candidate
against Watkins, has majority OF
twelve. There are nine precincts miss
Ing. Two Of these are small precincts
In Chesterfield, and may so for Wat
kins. The other seven are In Cooch-
land. which are claimed by Hening as
his strongest precincts. A canvass OF
them just before the primary Indicated
that they would go for Hening, anu
friends Of the latter are now claiming
that his total majority VIII run In
Goochland as high as IFS. while Iney
think the watkins majority IN Cnes-
terfield and Powhatan win not go above
its present mark. Watkins now nas
q majority of 10 In Powhatan WIN
all reports In, while in Chesterneid'
with two precincts out. he has ma
3ority of Sc, the two totaling rs for
WATKINS. In Gooch1and Hening has
run up a majority OF 80. which gives
him IL votes more than Watkins. and
with the present outlook Hening Will
win. At any rate, the race Will be the
closest In the State, being the only one
in doubt this morning.
Against strong Opposition.
DR.. Hening's race has been made
a~ainst strong opposition. and rather
remarkable despite his record. Watkins
has received the support of several
weli-known dry leaders.
The difficulty in getting returns is
due to the prostration of all lines of
wire communication In the district by
the storms. Communication Is only by
mail or messenger. and thus far all
efforts to secure the missing returns
have proven unavailing. The Hening
supporters are confident that DIR. Hen
ing has been nominated. and feel that
he has made a most remarkable fight
against great odds
Powhatan gave Watkins 10 majori-
ty. all precincts heard from. Chester
field gives Watkins Sc majority, two
precincts missing. Goochland gives
Hening So majority. with seven pre-
cincts missing.
In Chesterfield, Sheriff Gill. Treas
urer Walker and Commonwealth At |
sition.
The vote In Chesterfield follows:
Oak Grove: Watkins, IL; Hening.
30. Bon Air: Watkins, IS: Hening. Z. !
Midlothian: watkins, Al; Hening, i3.
Winterpock. Watkins. Is; Hening. /. |
Skinquarter: Watkins, 80; Hening, 10. |
Winfree's Store: Watkins. 50: Hening. |
8. Matoaca: Watkins. A: Hening. 10. !,
Ettricks: Watkins. So: Hening, lo7. |
Isler's Store: Watkins Is; Hening, 8. |
Courthouse: Watkins az; Hening, 25. |
Two small precincts missing
Brock Loses Every County.
Complete returns from the Twenty |
eighth Senatorial District show that
the majority of Allen over Brock is |
above 500. and that Brock lost every
county in the district. The virginian |
predicted on Monday before the cleo |
ton, that Brock would not carry a /
county In the district. Prince Ed |
ward. his own county. gave a small
majority for Allen. while the other
four districts gave over a hundred
each for Allen. Amelia and Lunen-
burg, which were not heard from
completely yesterday. each gave good
majorities for Allen.
Barham Winner.
Sidney p. Barhann, Jr., defeated A. {,
r. Hobbs, the result being made GER
tain when Prince George. Hobbs home
county. gave him less than 200 ma
tority, while Barham had secured over
400 majority In Surry. his home coun-
ty. Hobbs carried only one county.
Aubrey e. STROBE defeated Bland
Massie. A. T. Robertson beat Paxton
and Price In Bedford. C. T. Bowers
beat s. ". Newhouse in Culpeper. n.
A. Mcintyre was defeated by r. c. |
Pitcher, because A Kelley took just
enough dry votes from Mcintyre to
elect Pitcher. Julian Gum defeated |
w R Ware. w. II. Jeffreys defeat |
ed ]. D. Eiam. Blackburn Smith was
defeated by II. II. Downing.
Fought ON street.
Tom Grace and j Maioney were ar