Show 7 returns comina ly nut but in suren bairen Demor ralle e birmingham ala aug 3 at it t tonight william vaughn chairman ot of the republican state central committee made the follows following ng tale state I 1 ment the news of the election in this state is meagre and nothing like an ar ac c cerate arate estimate can call be made but it is evident that the returns will g gac vc joseph ejohnston FJ democratic candidate for governor a majority of some the usual count out has evidently been retorted resorted to in fit order to defeat congressman A T goodwin good in the candidate of the populist lists anil and republic republicans ani for governor by this means the democrats democrat t vill mill probably secure tile the state leiis legislature lature 1 the jhc G goodwill state ticket has doubtless carried a considerable majority of the cou antes where the whiter whiles aie in the majority aind end the democrats a it majority of the black counties incomplete returns froni roni about labout half the counties received up tip to midnight show that johnson certainly carried five counties that were populist two years ago while six others of f the same game class are so BO close require the official count 10 lo decide tile the democrats have riot not lost a county so faa as heard front roni but the light fight in fit this county Is close the count is aicon incomplete plate at midnight stica and will raft not be fini finished until tomorrow twenty seven seten boxes jn jai this county outside of birmingham D give goodwin a majority ot ol 3 88 S thisie thi it is said raid will be overcome by birmingham bessemer and Pratt City two years ago the dem socratic majority in this county was sixty silly captain reuben J kolb claims good wina election by majority which is 16 regarded as ab a weak claim lie ile charges fraud in ilie the black belt |