Montgomery County AlArchives News.....The Vote in Alabama August 23, 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kenneth Stacy klstacyfamily@aol.com January 2, 2007, 11:45 am The Huntsville Weekly Democrat August 23, 1883 The Vote in Alabama -------------------------- Montgomery Advertiser According to law, returns of votes for Superintendent of Education are sent from each county to the Secretary of State and are opened and counted by the Governor, Attorney General and Secretary of State, within fifteen days after the election. This duty was performed yesterday and the result will be found in another column. The results from Baldwin were not received. The entire vote may be taken as the vote cast for Governor, as there was very little scratching of tickets. The result shows 104,170 votes for H. C. Armstrong, Democratic nominee, and 47,133 votes for Ira G. Wood, Republican Greenback coalition candidate, making Democratic majority 57,033. According to the census, the total vote of Alabama is in the neighborhood of 260,000, so that about one third of the voters remained at home on the 7th of August. The Opposition will have two members of the Senate. They do not profess to have any Democratic inclinations. In the House, there will be 79 regular Democrats—that is, Democratic nominees or Democrats elected in counties where no nominations were made. The members elect for Madison three, Walker one, Winston one, Cullman one, DeKalb one, and Colbert one, are avowed Republicans. Those from Jackson two, Limestone two, Lawrence two, call themselves Independent and Greenbackers, though they are, no doubt, more Republican than anything else. The other seven profess to be Independent Democrats. We believe that one of the House members from Madison, Cochran, calls himself Independent. The others are Radicals. Ed. Democrat. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/newspapers/thevotei1236gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb