Show o ALL EYE ERE ON j ALABAMA YE TERDAY Wild and Foolish Claims ot the ii Populists jl DEMOCRATIC GAINS S NEARLY EVERYWHERE OATES ELECTION IS BEYOND AM DOUBT One Wire Says the LcBisInture Is S Dcmbtfnl But Other XOITO Does Not Put Such a Color on the Situation Situ-ation Sayre Election LaW a Modified Mod-ified Form of the Australian Was S Put in Operation and Worked S Smoothly S S Washington Aug 6The outcome of the Alabama election today has excited ex-cited great Interest here as It is regarded re-garded > as the preliminary skirmish to S the congressional elections this fallS Most Alabama men in Congress have gone home to take part in the election Chairman Taubeneck of the PopulistS national committee about midday while the voting was going on but results could be known with no certainty received re-ceived the following dispatch from the S I chairman of the Populist state committee com-mittee of Alabama S We will carry every county in the northern part of the state except one We will carry Jefferson county including y includ-ing Birmingham I they do not repeat the frauds of 1892 in the sixteen black belt counties we will carry the state by at least 3000 majority I think we will have a majority of five or ten in the S lower house W H SKAGGS 4 Chairmar |