The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-08
SEAPORT APPROVED IN THIS COUNTY BY SIX ID ONE RATIO
Second Amendment Trails Along, Victorious With Smaller Vote, and Demo-
 crats Win Everything

Jefferson county and the city de- clared for the Alabama seaport Tues day, First returns compiled struck ratio of six to one in favor Of the improvement project and the last ballots to be counted near the brea k of day were maintaining that same percentage. The other amendment approved in a smaller total of bal lots. was carried similarly and the democratic party swept a ne wslate into office with only trifling opposl- tion
 The first 70 boxes tabulated re- vealed a veritable old time land slide for the port project. Of the 604s ballots recorded, 5.175 were for Il and only S73 were In the negative This indicated a vote of 76.6 ballots. as an average, to each box.
 In Jefferson county ISe polling places were in use. Computing on the 76.6 average, q total vote oi 13,941 ballots, was foreeast-ll.9ly for 1t and 2,O22 against it. a ma jority of 9,s97 in the county.
 Figures gathered on amendment number two which applied to nine towns only, Jasper, Cordova, Dora Oxford, Talladega, Citronelle, Gifard Albany and Tuscaloosa, indicated that 1t had been carried on the same basis. but by a smaller vote.
 William W. Brandon, Tuscallosa county probate judge and the demo- cratic nominee for chief executive oi the state, led a victorious ticket. Re- turns from the same polling places gave him total of i,644. while Arlie Barber, Birmingham, socialist guber- material choice. raced past O. D Street, republican designee of Mar, shall county. Street had 59 votes and his socialist opponent 73,
 George Huddieston. the prevailing party's choice for Congress, had re ceived 1884 votes, and c. l.. Lemon republican. S5.
 Predicted sensations in the count, board of education combat failed miserably. and the democrats agair were placed in office with only nomi, nal opposition. Totals from the same boxes were. J. D. Moore, 1881; Gun ningham Wilson. 1858, both demo crats, and A. c. Gamble, A. and Mrs Emma P. Montgomery, 42. both so' cialists.
 Election officials said that these instances were typical of the result apparently, at all points in Bir- minRham and Jefferson county. They laid stress upon the paucIty of vot- CTS and at several polls 1t was said the vote was one of the smallest ever recorded.
 An aggressive campaign by sup porters of the Alabama seaport com mittee's proposal to make a seaport of the Mobile water front had edu- cated the people to the worthiness of the project and forestalled a repeti- tion of the defeat of 1920. The vigor of this campaign had aroused great public interest and it had been ex- pected that this would be manifest at the polls. The decided affirmativ ballot was the recognition given the weeks of work.
 The second amendment had faced a doubtful fate. It had not been ac- corded the publicity that the port had received. and while vitally im- portant in the affected regions. t lacked the general appeal of the other proposition. Despite this han dieap a victory was indicated by the earlier returns.
 Absentee voting was minor fac tor in the election. In the primary contest more than 300 had voted by mail but for this election only s1 ap- plications were received.