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roth Sides Claim Victory,
But Returns Are Iusuffi
cient to Determine.
Ithe chances NOW FAVOR DAVIS
Jackson County Gives Davis
I a Narrow Call and Keel
a Close Shave.
CLOSE RACE FOR SHERIFF.
Boyce. Neal, Lockard. Smith and Con
| ditt Probably Winners in Their
Respective Races.
The result of the state primary
in so far as the nomination for
governor goes, hangs in doubt.
Not a sufficient number of coun
ties have reported to insure the
election of Judge Wood or Gov
enor Davis, not because the re
turns have been favorable to
him, bnt rather for the reason
that Davis is strongest in the re
mote sections that are not quick
ly reached by wire.
Little Rock, Mar. 27-5 a.m. —
Special—Judge Wood has carri
ed Sebastian, Phillips, Jefferson,
Pulaski, Arkansas, Drew, Ind
ependence, Crawford, Craighead
and Lee bounties.
Cavis has carried Green, Gar
land, Cleburne,Cleveland, White,
Washington, Monroo, Lonoke
and Prairie counties.
Independece county has rolled
up a good majority for Wood,
hntVi Rntesville and Newark re
turning big majorities.
In Jefferson county and Pine
Bluff, it was a veritable land
slide, Wood carrying the county
by 900 votes. Craighead, too,
gave Wood a big vote, while ’the
majority in Pulaski county will j
hardly fall below 700.
On the other hand, Davis car- j
ried Greene by a good margin!
and Garland county by 1500
through the efforts of the Wil
liams machine.
PULASKI FOR WOOD
Little Rock, Mar. 26, 12 a. m.
-Special to Independent Returns
continue to come in slowly and
the result of the primary for
state offcers and congressmen
cannot be conclusively announced
Both candidates for govenor make
confident claims.
SWvis asserts that he has the
onlyshow and does not concede
I"* ilaski county to his opponent,
le friends of Wood are confident
3m the returns at hand that he
11 have a handsome majority.
The contest for govenor over
adows all other contests. A
avy vote was polled in the large
unties, and the counting pro
esses slowly by reason of the
igth of the ticket.
D&vis has probaly carried White
•noke, Garland and Washington
urines, winch are among the
'gest in the state.
Judge Wood has carried Pul
ki, Crawford, Clark and Wood
ff, also large counties. Probably
veral days will elapse before
e official results will be known.
In the First congressional dis
trict, R. B. Macon leads his op
ponent, Eugene Parish. In the
Third, nothing definite has been
received on the race between
Floyd and Dinsmore.
Robert L. Rogers leads in the
race* for attorney general and
early indications point to his
nomination.
A. E. Moore leads for auditor
and nothing definite has been re
ceived in the contest for supreme
judge.
Twenty-two precincts in Jeffer
son county give Wood 1379, Davis
448.
JACKSON COUNTY RETURNS
From a majority of over four
hundred cast for Davis two years
ago, Jackson county will give the
Govenor one of less than a hund
red, if he be so lucky, as to carry
it at all. Complete returns from
ten precincts out of seventeen
and the partial returns from
the city of Tuckerman give Wood
a lead over Davis of 138 votes out
of a total of 1186. Union township
alone shows an increase of about
70 votes and nearly every precint
reports a like gain.
Tne fate of John Keel hangs
trembling in the balace, as Hill
house, on the same number of
precincts as above, has a margin
of 146, and this, together with
the fact that Ard is polling a
very good vote in the country
precincts, and will thus divide
Keel’s natural vote in Grubbs,
Richwoods, Cache and Cow Lake,
will make* Hillhouse hard to
catch.
The totals secured on the coun
ty returns include the vote of
Elgin and Centerville and those
in the table; also 105 votes at
Tuckerman, and show the follow
ing results in the other county
races:
Boyce has defeated Scarborough
by an overwhelming vote, hav
ing to his credit 796 against 413,
though the remaining precincts
are the strongholds of the latter:
J. D. Neal stands 657 com
pared with 523 for Jones, a lead
he will probably maintain in the
remaining precincts.
G. A. Lockard has undoubted
ly been elected county clerk,
Geo. L. Robinson being second
man and Waterman and Weast
in thp order named. Their to
tals are Lockard 559, Robinson
360, Weast 79, Waterman 173.
One of the closest races in the
county is that for sheriff, with
the chances slightly favoring
Simmons, who has 616 votes to
590 for Bandy. If Tuckerman
should give Bandy a good vote,
he stands a chance to win, but
the other territory is probably
for Simmons by a safe majority.
Dr. F. G. Smith has 785 votes
to 413 for Joyce and is undoubt
edly the winner of the treasurer’s
nomination.
Conditt and White are running
close thus far for assessor, the
former having 549 to the latter’s
513 votes, but Tuckerman, the
home of Conditt, is yet to hear
j from, and it is also probable that
he will carry most of the east
ern townships by easy majori
ties.
CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICE.
One thing we feel like crowing
over is the probability of Bour
land’s defeat, for while a few
precincts have reported on state I
officers, Rogers will carry the
county from these indications.
The vote is divided between
Eoff and Moore for auditor, Hill
and Robertson for chief justice;
McCulloch has evidently carried
the county over Moore.
Oldfield has again proven him
self a runner and Thornberry
Gray didin’t show up as some of
his supporters thought he would.
EARLY REPORTS MEAGRE. ]
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Little Rock Polls Record-Break- j
ing Vote—Wood Carries City
by Majority That Cannot
Be Overcome In Coun
ty—Crawford and
Drew In Line
For Wood.
Little Rock, March 26, 10 p.
m.—Special to Independent.—
At 10 o’clock tonight the re
turns are too meager to an
nounce results in the state. The
poll throughout the state has j
been heavy, only a few isolated
places reporting less than a nor- j
mal vote. The vote as thus far
reported veers from one side to
the other.
Lonoke and White counties
gave news favorable to Davis.
The Wood men, however, find
much comfort in all reports from
Pulaski, Crawford and Drew i
i
counties. : i
In Pulaski county the total j
vote is more than six thousand, J |
which is a record-breaker for a
primary election. Wood’s ma
jority in the city is so large that
it will overcome any possible lead
Davis may have secured in the
outside townships. All indica- J
tions are that Wood has carried J
Crawford, as he now has a lead
of 390 over Davis and is thus as-1
sured a safe majority. j
. At El Dorado, Union county, j
the Davis men held a separate
township convention and elected:
a delegation to the county con
vention.
In White county Davis has a
lead of 237 in seven precincts
that have reported and is con-;
ceded the county by John Hicks,j
formerly of Searcy.
In Lonoke county Davis leads
Wood 225 votes, while in Drew,
Wood holds the lead. He has
also carried Caldron township,
Faulkner county, by 200 votes,
and fourteen Wood delegates
were elected to the county con
vention.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
Guy Smith and Forrest Dillard
have been nominated for justices
of the peace in Union township
and W. H. Carouthers defeated
R. M. Laird as constable. Fol- j
lowing is the vote by wards:
J. P. 1st Ward 2nd Ward Total
Smith 177 87 254
Mortensen 127 57 184
Dillard 168 116 284
Constable.
Laird 151 76 207 |
Carouthersl56 74 230
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