Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1921-11-30
PRESENT OFFICERS ALL
NOMINATED, EXCEPT ONE
Walker, Hendley and Hedgecoth Win
by Safe Majorities; Burnett
Wins for Trustee.

The Republican primary eleNtioiI
held in this county Saturday brought
out an unusually heavy vote; vote
so heavy that it has never been sur
passed, unless it was in the preSl-
dental election last fall.
All the present officers were cand-
idates to succeed themselves except
in the case of T. F. Brown, present
trustee. There were three candidates
for that place. There were two cand-
idates for Circuit Court Clerk and tor
County Court Clerk and three tor
sheriff. S. c. Cline, present register
was unnoposed.
No one has been able to secure
even an approximate estimate OF the
vote for all candidates b yprecinctss
nor will it be definitely known unul
the subcommittee meets next Sat
hrday at noon to canvass the returns
by precincts Enough is known how
ever, that we may confidently state
that the following are the nominees;
Geo. w. Walker, Sheriff,
John Q. Burnett, Trustee
S. c. Cline, Register,
H. c. Hendley, Circuit Clerk,
w. D. Hedgecoth, County Clerk.
Tt is estimated that the majority
for Walker over his nearest oppon-
ent Dillon Shaver, will be between
20 and Is votes. John Q. Burnett
over his two opponents, Mrs. Grace
Reed and f. B. Jones, $50 to 200 votes
Mrs. Reed and Mr.. Jones are expect
ed to run close together. h. I. Hend-
lev is expected to have a majority
over his opponent, J. F. Brown, OF
possibly over 600 votes. w. D. Hedge
Goth is estimated to have defeated
his opponent, T. S. Randolph, by 500
votes or more.
CALL FOR YOUR PAY
So soon as the vote is canvassed
the secretary, S. c. Bishop, will make
a list of the officers who held the
election at the various precincts ana
he will then be ready to pay II each
Of them one dollar for their services:
Please do not call for your pay until
we have prepared the list as we
must decline to pay any one untl,
our list is made up in order TO a'olu
confusion.
TO CANVASS VOTE. i
The sub b,commlttee, consisting OF
7. w. Dorton, Chairman; {. B, Iur-
ner. Judge S. N Smith, Jere Morrow
and D. w. Lundy, will meet in the
court house at noon Saturday, Decem-
Der z, and canvass the vote. =,
Next week the tabulatcd vote Will
appear in the Chronicle showing the
vote cast for each candidate at each
nrecinct and also tne total vote AT
e.ch nrecinct and the total vote cast
in the county. 81
The main reason why no one couid
get any approximate idea OF the cleo
tion was that the Gainesboro Ieie-
phone Company would not render
service. Even before dark severai
persons over the county tried 10
oct information, but the central or
flee at Crossville would put the peo-
p1e off under one pretex or another
and would not help them to secure
information. After dark numerous
persons tried to get certain points
over the county and they would be
met with such replies as We can
not get them or "they are not done
counting there yet" or any kind OF
a frivolous excuse that any sensible
person would know was not the truth
After a while people ceased to try
and no one was to any reasonable
degree informed as to the outcome
of the election. The action OF the
Gainesboro Telephone Company was
no surprise to any person who IS
familiar wi h their dirty methods OF
doing things.
The Mecca theater had telephone
put in an threw such information as
they were able to secure on the screen
but their information was more lim-
tied than is usually the case on the
night following the election