McLean Carries Johnston By 750 Majority
Vote In Democratic
Primary Today Light
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The vote in the Democratic County primary today was
light, probably clue to General Green who has invaded the
cotton patches during the past rainy season, and the vot
ers were perhaps more interested in their crops than can- j
didates. It has been impossible to get complete returns
from all of the seventeen townships and probably inac
curacies in the reports occur, but we are giving the best
report possible as they come in.
Perhaps not m years nas m-=i
terest in the county ticket been
so divided, and the vote was
close for clerk of the court,
judge of tfre Recorder’s Court
and sheriff.
The vote as casts in the different
townships follows:
BAILEY CARRIES PINE LEVEL
Bailey carries Pine Level township,
receiving 89 votes against 42 for Mc
Lean. Ward beat Rose by 41 votes,
Ward receiving 81 and Rose 40. Ad
ams had the lead over Hall by 99
votes, Massey lead Fuller by 71
.votes; Noble lead Martin by 36
votes; Johnson won over Bass by
19 votes; Pou received 129 votes
against Person’s two.
POU HAS 960 MAJORITY
IN SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP
The Congressional vote in Smith
field township resulted in 985 votes
for the present Congressman, E. W.
Pou, with 25 votes cast for his op
ponent, Person.
BEULAH TOWNSHIP
Beulah gave McLean 143 votes
against 48 for Bailey. Massey re
ceived 119 against 71, for Fuller;
Ward got 126 votes and Rose 65; No
ble won over Martin by 29 votes and
Johnson over Bass by 34. Adams car
ried the township by 177 majority.
WILSON S MILL TOWNSHIP
The gubernatorial vote in Wilson’s
Mills resulted in 90 for McLean and
35 for Bailey, a lead of 45. Massey
88, Fuller 35; Ward 85; -Rose —37;
Noble 76; Martin 46; Johnson 40;
Bass 83; Adams 110; Hall 15.
WILSON'S MILL .TOWNSHIP
(Later Returns)
McLean carried Wilson’s Mills by
a majority of 55—McLean received
90 votes; Bailey 35. Ward won over
Rose for Clerk; Adams received 93
majority over Hall for Register of
Deeds; Massey received 88 votes for
sherh. and Fuller 35; Noble won over
Martin for Judge of Recorder’s
Court by 30 votes; Bass beat John
son as solicitor by 43 votes.
MICRO TOWNSHIP
'Here township gave McLean 81
voCs and Bailey 29, a majority of 52
Noble won over Martin by 77 votes;
Johnson beat Bass by 50 majority;
Massey and Adams beat their oppon
ents by 83 majority; and Ward won
over Rose by 38 votes; Chamblee and
Sanders lead for the House of Repre
sentatives and the Commissioners
leading are Stephenson, Corbett,
Grantham, Whittington and Fitzger
ald.
SELMA GIVES
BAILEY MAJORITY
Selma gave Bailey a majority of
33 votes for governor. The vote was
McLean 174; Bailey 207. The vote on
the County ticket gave majorities to
Rose for Clerk who received 196 j
votes against 166 for Ward; Adams
Returns Indicate Victory
For Massey Over Fuller
281; Hall 80; Massey 220; Fuller
138; Noble 236; Martin 107; Johnson
223; Bass 10. Chas. F. Kirby and P.
B. Chamblee led for the house of
representatives. The following led for
commissioners: Fitzgerald, Woodard,
Corbett, Gulley and Oliver.
PLEASANT GROVE
TIES FOR GOVERNOR
The vote in Pleasant Grove gave
the same number of votes for Bailey
and McLean. Those receiving ma
jorities on the County ticket are,
Ward for Clerk; Adams for Regis
ter of Deeds; Fuller for Sheriff; No
ble for Judge of Recorder’s Court;
Johnson for Solicitor. Those ahead
for County Commissioners are Whit
tington and Stephenson both of
Pleasant Grove, Grantham, Wood
and Fitzgerald. An official report of
the vote is not available, because of
the fact that the report was sent
sealed for the Board of Elections
and may not be opened untin this
Board meets.
BOON HILL TOWNSHIP
Boon Hill township gave Bailey a
majority of 26 for governor. The vote
stood Bailey 175 and McLean 149.
Massey led the county ticket in his
home tovmship receiving 338 votes,
against 30 for Fuller. The other vote
stood as follows: Rose 125; Ward 220
Hall 47; Adams 293; Martin 181;
Noble 144; Bass 208; Johnson 119.
Chamblee and Sanders are ahead for
j representatives. The following Com
missioners are in the lead: N. B.
Grantham with 313 votes; J. W.
Woodard with 250; Chas. A. Fitz
gerald with 239; D. B. Oliver with
207 and Whittington with 207.
CLEVELAND TOWNSHIP
At a late hour last night Cleveland
had made no report on the votes for
governor. Ward ■won over Rose by 21
votes. Adams received 144 and Hall
13. Fuller was in the lead by 27 votes
Other votes were as follows: Martin
71; Noble 77; Bass 53; Johnson 91;
House of Repriesentaflives, Sanders
73; Kirby 35; Thurston 102; Charab
lee 62; McCullers 26; County Com
missioners, Gurley 65; Stephenson
79; Wood 115; Corbett 73; Grantham
93; Whittington 111; Woodard 65;
Oliver 89; Fitzgerald 59.
BENTONVILLE GIVES
ROSE MAJORITY
McLean received 116 votes in Ben
tonville township while Bailey re
ceived 21. Herschell V. Rose carried
his home township by a big majority,
receiving 133 votes while Ward re
ceived only 5. Hall polled 69 votes
to Adams 65. Massey received 77
votes and Fuller 46. Noble carried the
vote by 16, receiving 72 votes to
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MARTIN AND JOHNSON LEADING
First Vote Cast
By W. L. Ellis
When the minute hand of the
registrar's watch pointed to four
forty-one, the hour of sunrise
yesterday morning, W. Louis El
lis cast his ballot in the Demo
cratic primary here. He w^as the
first one to cast a vote, George
Ross Pou being a close second.
Both of these men voted for A.
W. McLean for governor.
Massey, present incumbent, de
feated W. L. Fuller, of Smithfield,
I for sheriff, by a margin of about 1500
j with a few more votes to be counted
jin Smithfield township at six a. m.,
' and also three other small precint.s
| to be heard from. These precincts
I are thought to have gone for Massey.
MARTIN HAS SMALL
MAJORITY OVER NOBLES
For Judge of Recordorr’s Court,
| Martin is slightly in the lead over
| A. M. Nobles the present incum
j bent, with three small precincts, who
; at 7 o’clock this morning had not j
been heard from.
Ward with a majority of 447 and
with only three small precincts to be j
heard led his opponent, Herschell V.
Rose Rose for Clerk Superrior
Court. Three precincts are to be
heard from.
ADAMS WINS
For Register of Deeds, Adams the
present holder, won over Hall, of
Clayton, by 2101 majority.
I -
JOHNSON IN LEAD
For Solicitor of the Recorder’s
Court, Harry P. Johnson has a lead
of 203 votes over N. R. Bass. This
is up to 7 o’clock this morning, with
only three small precincts to be
heard from.
For County Commissioners, Gran
tham lead the ticket with 2288, Oliv
er 1504, Fitzgerald 1484, Gulley
1467, Woodard 1418.
SANDERS AND CHAMBLEE WIN
Sander lead the ticket for House
with 1611 votes, while D. J. Thurston
who was asking for a second term
lost to P. B. Chamblee by 339 votes.
Chamblee polled 1436 against 1097
for Thurston. Kirby came next with
901, Honeycutt 340, McCullers, 327.
Smithfield Township Pulls Something
New In The Way of Counting Votes
Smithfield township pulled off
something entirely new in the
primary here today, when EL S.
Abell, Chairman of the Democrat
ic Executive Committee, suggest
ed the idea of having the women
participate in the counting of the
votes. It has been intimated that
in previous elections there has
been unfairness in the eount, and
Col. Abell’s idea made an imme
diate hit.. Accordingly it was ar
ranged that the following persons
should have charge of counting
the votes:
State bo*: N. L. Perkins, Mrs.
George Ross Pou, T. H. Brooks
and T. C. Young.
County Box. St. Julian L.
Springs, Mrs. Lee E. Sanders, N.
M. Lawrence and C. A. Creech.
Congressional Box: W. D. Av
era, Mrs. J. A. Narron, H. P.
Stevens and W. H. Lassiter.
Quite a nnmber of ladies were
present in the Court House dur
ing the count.
A. W. McLEAN WHO ESTABLISHED LONG LEAD j
IN EARLY RETURNS FOR GOVERNOR I
Candidate For
Legislature Dies
On Eve of Primary
Rutherfordton. June 7.—For
mer State Senator Solomon Gal
lert, 57, candidate for the Dem
ocratic nominat'on for represen
tative, died sudcj nly yesterday
on the eve of the State primary,
while campaigning, on the road
six miles from here, f’hvsicians
said he had over-exerted himself
in efforts to (ret his aotomob'le
out of the mud in which it had
become stalled.
Mr. Gallert had served many
terms in the Legislature and was
well-known throughout the
State.
MECKLENBURG FOR WOMEN
Charlotte, June 7.—Indication
that Miss Julia Alexander will
be nominated for house of rep
resentatives.
LINDSEY WARREN WINS
Lindsay Warren, of .Washington
was nominated in the .primary .as
Congressman in the First District.
He was opposed by Mr. Adylette of
Elizabeth City.
mm saves
Johnston county gave A. W. Mc
Lean a majority of around 750 votes
for governor in the Democi'atic pri- |
inary yesterday. After the count
was made the vote stood 2380 for
McLean and 1634 for Bailey. Clay
ton, Elevation, Selma, Boon Hill,!
Wilders and Pine Level townships
gave Bailey majorities and it was
Smithfield’s vote that saved the day.
In this township McLean received
801 votes and Bailey 110. At this
writing, Cleveland, Oneals and
Meadow have nto been heard from.
TOU NOMINATED IN
FOURTH DISTRICT
The home county of E. W. Pou
candidate for reelection for Congress
| man from the Fourth District, gave
him a majority of around 4,000. Two
townships, Wilson’s Mills and Ben
tonville were solid for Mr. Pou. He
carried the district byt a good ma
jority, winning over his opponent,
Mr. Wiley Person in every county in
the district except Franklin, Mr.
Person’s home county. Returns from
Franklin did not show as big a major
ity for Person as two years ago.
CRAIG IS REPORTED
TO BE SINKING FAST
Asheville, June 7.—Former Gov
ernor Locke Craig, who has been
critically ill for the past 48 hours,
early tonight was reported to be
sinking fast. Physicians hold out
little hope that he will live another
24 hours. All close relatives of the
former Governor are at h,s bedside.
BAILEY’S F
Mill STRENGTH
WILL GOME LATER
Dismally slow returns from Sat
urday’s State-wide primary, the first
quadriennial Democratic contest in
which women participated as voters
gave Angus Wilton McLean a two to
one lead over Josiah W. Bailey for
the gubernatorial nomination. Two
hundred and eleven precincts out of
1,721, representing scattering returns
from 35 counties, with only Cabar
rus complete, show McLean, 16,878;
and Bailey 8.121.
Indications at midnight approach
ed indicated that the tabulation of
complete figures would rival in
difficulty, if not surpass the primary
four years ago, when with Robert
N. Page eliminated the anxious cal
culators sat down to a task of days
to determine the lead between O.
Max Gardner and Cameron Morrison
W'ho later ran off their battle in a
second primary.
While there are no second pri
mary complications involved in the
governorship race, the task of
counting returns, with many county
contest adding to the problems,
assure a long drawn out siege of
mathematics.
Friends of Mr. Bailey contend that
his strength will not appear until
the rural precincts are brought to
light and see nothing discouraging
in the early trend toward McLean.
Mr. McLean’s friends, on the other
hand see vindication of their claims
^hat their candidate will sweep the
state by a majority of around 50,
000.
With seventy two scattered pre
cincts reporting T. C. Bowie, of Ashe,
was leading in the race for Lieuten
ant-Governorship, though the margin
was slight, Bowie’s vote was 1,953; J.
Elmer Long, of Durham, 1,720; Bob
Reynolds, of Asheville, 1,168.
For State Auditor, James P. Cook,
in the same precincts, was leading
Baxter Durham, incumbent. Cook’s
vote was 2,338; Durham’s 2,206.
For Attorney General, Dennis G.
Brummit, Oxford, was leading with
1,912 votes to 1,868 for Charles Ross,
of Lillington; and 796 for Frank
Nash, assistant attorney general.
From the time Mr. Bailey an
nounced his candidacy until the
State convention, friends of Mr. Mc
Lean, who had been long credited as
a contender for the successorship
to Morrison* had not seriously con
ceded that the Raleigh man would
scratch the surface in the primary
race. <
The State convention was a revela
tion, they contended, of the solidar
ity of the State for Mr. McLean. It
was a McLean convention and when
the Bailey delegates started d small
demonstration for their candidate,
it was so weak in comparison with
the noisy demonstration for McLean
that preceded it, a hearty gurraw
rolled over the crowded auditorium.
From that time on, though, Bail
ley strength was apparent. From art
attitude of derision, McLean sup
porters shifted to one of concern
and the past week has seen the uni f
ficial estimates of McLean majority
drop from 50,000 to as low as 10,000,
though the Lumberton man’? bead
quarters would never admit less than
49,000 majority.
Telegraph reports from over the
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