The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-10

used to any appreciable extent, and in some boxes not more than a half dozen voters took advantage of this feature of the new election law. It may play some small part however. in one of two of the races should they become very close.
 Jefferson county, by an overwhelming majority, joined the ranks of the progress sive sections which have decided in favor of tick eradication. All the beats which reported on this matter last night brought up big majorities in favor of eradication It appeared last night that the campaign of the opponents of eradication had been unable to make any impression on the voters of the county
 SOME UNUSUAL SCENES
 Never in the history of Birmingham and Jefferson county has there been such an election as that conducted yesterday. The polling places, despite the general ad- vertising of their location, and their ex- cessive numbers, could hardly be located. There was no crowd, no candidates no soliciting. no excitement and absolute quiet prevailed in the polling places. A savings bank in a country town a, quiet day could not have been more peace full than the big voting places in the city of Birmingham. The candidates generally remained in their homes or offices. The change in this regard, while in a way expected, proved to be the cause of gen. eral comment around the polling places.
 The counting of the ballots was excep- tionally slow. At some boxes it required three minutes to count each ballot, and the indications were that it will be or o'clock this morning before many of the boxes are completed. The length of the ballot and the second choice feature increased the difficulty of counting al- most enough to overcome the saving wrought by the increased number of boxes. At some of the boxes, it was stated that at least four minutes time was required to complete each ballot. BASED ON COMPLETE RETURNS
 At o'clock this morning 21 country precincts gave Burr 652, Smith 699.
 Twenty-Five country precincts gave Huddleston 115s Judge 25s. Rice 1S
 Twenty-two country precincts gave Carnley 1ss, Kennedy 46e, Merritt S64.
 Twenty-two country precincts gave Goodwin Gil, Wallace 715, Ward 2o3
 Twenty-Five country precincts gave Aird 313, Benners 557, Kelley 223 Lock 595
 Twenty-four country precincts gave Arnold 65, Davis 6S7. Heflin 718, Williams 35
 Twenty-four country precincts gave Boyd 514 Crow 435, Daugette 297 Will kinson 73.
 " Gwin 791, Jackson 431.
 Seventeen country precincts gave Drake 1E, Ferguson 404, Hummer 54, Roach 113. Snyder IF. Strange 6S, White 22
 Twenty country precincts gavel McArthur 537 Miller "A
 Twenty-three country precincts gavel Howard 55S, Waldrop TBS.
 Twenty-three country boxes gave Gil lespy POP, Henry 397. Randale g, Rogers 4S7 Scott 1S0 Shahan 32
 Twenty-Five country precincts gave Bowers 65S Hawkins 90e
 At 4 o'clock this morning nine city boxes had been tabulated in The Age Herald office. This included the Five Points pharmacy box in Birmingham. | Northside fire station and others in ! Ensley and Bessemer. These boxes | showed the following complete totals 1
 Burr 699. Smith 6S6
 Huddleston 1075, Judge 263. Rice e6 |
 Carnley 7S7, Kennedy 43S, Merritt 1 TAP
 Goodwin s21. Wallace 619, Ward ITO. 1
 Aird PIP, Benners 45S Kelley 9S 1 Locke 654
 Arnold 1ss. Davis 6s7, Heflin 57s | 20
 Boyd s26 Crow s5s, Daugette POP Wilkinson 271.
 McArthur 100. Miller 742
 Howard TOP. Waldrop TAI
 Gillespy 1S5 Henry 349. Randale 37. l Rogers 535. Scott $50, Shahan 12
 Bowers 654. Hawkins 71S.