The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-11
Smith Leads Burr by Over 750 in JeffersOn-Merritt Ahead of Kennedy About 2OOO Votes
HEFLIN AN EASY VICTOR OVER DAVIS
 IN SPIRITED RACE
Boyd Defeats Crow by
 Nearly 10O0-Rogers and
 Henry Close-Bivins and
 Fowlkes Close

The count in every box in Jefferson county of the vote in Tuesdays primary was made yesterday, but the official can vass, which begins at noon today, will be necessary to settle the question of who is the winner in one or two of the close races. Due to the failure of some of the returning officers to bring tickets show ing the count, in addition to the tickets sealed in the box and the ones mailed to the state and county chairman, there was still some doubt last night as to the successful candidate in the very close contests. Considerable difficulty was also had in obtaining accurate and correct re suits of the state races in this county in cases where no ticket was brought by the returning officer.
 The race for judge of the first division of the circuit court was still in doubt last night, the returns in some cases not having been kept other than the tickets which could not be secured. Hugh Locke on the unofficial votes received, with some small boxes not figured apparently had a slight lead Unofficial figures which may be changed by the canvass today gave the race to Locke, with 5027 votes as against 4901 for Judge Benners. This vote, however, took no consideration of the second choice, which will probably be sufficient to at least materially alter the figures in this close fight.
 ROGERS AND HENRY CLOSE
 Unofficial but complete and compara- lively accurate returns last night gave the race for county treasurer to Cleon Rogers, the incumbent, by more than 160 votes. An effort had been made to figure the second choice votes in this race and it is not expected that this new feature of the election will have a ma terial bearing on the result of this con- test The unofficial returns gave Rog- CTS 4795 and Henry 4633. Scott and Gil- lespy, the third and fourth men, were considerably in the rear. It was an- nounced last night that the Henry forces did not concede defeat and that they ex- pected to win by more than 100 votes on the official court.
 For board of revenue, it appeared that Bivens won the fifth place, and Hewitt landed the fourth. The lead CTS in this race were Gwin with 447S, Vines with S627, Lovelady with 3457, Hewitt with 3035 and Bivens with 229S These returns were not complete and there was some dispute as to the exact accuracy of the various figures Fowlkes was less than 100 votes behind Bivens Pennington had POPS and Spain 1851
 HAWKINS WINNER
 Rives won by a considerable major lty for coroner over Fox, according to the unofficial count. Hawkins had practically 400 more votes than Bowers with only one or two very small boxes to hear from. Stiles ran away with the race for probate judge and Wal drop defeated Howard on the unoffi- cial count by fair majority.
 J. w. Minor, with 3696 votes from 52 boxes, was leading for board of edu- cation, and with J. w Moore, Mrs Floribel Brown Ohme Charley West and Nathan l.. Miller. seemed certain of election. Although there were a number of other boxes to hear from in this race. the final results are not ex- pected to make any changes. The vote for the leading candidates in the returns received was Minor 3696 Moore 3557. Mrs. Ohme 3542 West 3305 Miller 3211. Byars 2654 Clarke 2561 Rogers 2529.
 Judge Miller won substantial vic tory over McArthur, his majority be- ing practically 1000 Judge Ferguson easily lead his six opponents in his race for reelection as judge of the eighth division, and his plurality on the unofficial vote was nearly 1000. Judge
 
 and James Russell, Judge Gwin was reelected judge of the Bessemer court by approximately 2000 majority over William aJck son.
 Captain Boyd displaced Judge Crow from his position on the bench of the fourth circuit, Boyd receiving practi- cally 1000 more than the incumbent Wilkinson and Daugette were consid- erably in the rear
 HEFLIN WINS EASILY
 Judge Heflin triumphed over David J. Davis by majority of 1900. While tt had been expected that Heflin would be reelected, it had been claimed that Da- wis would run a very close race and the big majority given Heflin was very grat- flying to his friends.
 J. E. MatlociI was elected constable of beat 21 and J. D. Carlisle was chosen con stable of meat 37 It is expected that with the abolition of the fee system in connection with the sheriffs office these positions will be very important and much interest attached to these elections which, were spiritedly contested
 A number of the state tickets were missing but the boxes received showed that White, Rushton Denson and Car michael had been given majorities for the four places as delegates to the demo- cratic national convention. Smith defeat ed Burr for national committeeman in Jefferson county by 750 majority Hud- two opponents, Judge and Rice it being