Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — RESULT IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

RESULT IN ALABAMA.

Democrats Claim the Governor by 40,000 Majority. According to an Associated Press dispatch sent out on the night following the Alabama election, Johnston, the Democratic candidate, won with a majority of about 40,000. Elections in the State of Alabama are conducted on the Australian plan, and no definite figures as to the result can be given until the official count is completed. The Populists kept n close watch on the proceedings, one of the “spotters” placed to count the number of voters who went into the polls used peas, transferring them from one pocket to another. At another polling place the Poptrtist “spotter” marked Democrats entering to vote by white peas and Populists by black beans. He contends that several hundred more votes are returned from the box than there were voters who went inside the ropes, and he says he had in his pockets many more beans than Goodwyn received votes. The vote was heavy in almost every part of the State. Difficulties occurred in several sections, hut none so far rb*

ported serious. At Sylacauga and Ironaton there was no election on account of quarrels. From reports received indications ard G»nt Johnston a.nd his full ticket will be elected by 12,000 more of a majority than William C. Oates received over Reuben F. Kolb. Counties which two years ago gave Kolb good majorities show signs of having gone Democratic by small majorities. Colored voters who were considered solid for Goodwyn on account of bis vote in Congress for Murray. the negro contestant from South Carolina, seem to have divided in many places. Timothy J. Daey, pne of the oldest and most widely known residents of northern Illinois, whose life for the past thirty years has been devoted to tibe sale pf ngimeulfurA] implements in Woodstock, wa» struck by a limited train and died a few minutes later.