Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — RESULT IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

RESULT IN ALABAMA.

Democrats Claim the Governor by 40,000 Majority. According to an Associated Press dispatch Bent 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 ns to the result can be given uutil the official count is completed. The Populists kept a 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 Populist “spotter” marked Democrats entering to vote by white peas- and Populists by black beans. Ho 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, but none so far re-

ported serious. At Sylacaugd and Ironnton there was no election ou account of quarrels. From reports received indications are that Johnston and 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. Cojored voters who were considered solid for Goodwyn on account of his vote in Congress for Murray, the negro contestant from South Carolina, seem to have divided in many places. Timothy J. Dacy, one of the oldest and most widely known residents of northern Illinois, whose life for the past thirty years has been devoted to the sale of agricultural implements in Woodstock, was struck by a H ratted train and died a few Canutes later.