RUN-OFF CONTEST
IN MISSISSIPPI
Whitfield Leads In Governor's
Race With Nearly 80,000
Votes With Bilbo Second
HI liLKTI.V
JACKSON, Miss.. August <t.—Tabu
lation by the Clarion Ledger at S: 15
p .m. tonight of the complete vote
for governor from SI of the S2 coun
ties in the state showed a total of
243.617 divided as follows: Whitfield
82.324: Bilbo 61.751; Conner 46,671;
Franklin. 36,600; Bell, 16.266.
The missing county was Issaquena,
which in the senatorial primary last
year with women participating,
polled a total < . 105 votes.
An effort tonight to obtain the Is
saquena vote was met with the re
sponse that "we didn’t count govern
or; we have so few votes it makes
no diference in result.”
JACKSON, Miss.. August 9-—With
candidates who sought nomination
for state offices in Tuesday's dem >
cratic primary still holding the rela
tive posit ns they had attained by
midnight Tuesday, the contestants
and political observers here tonight
regarded the races as settled and in
terest had switched t<* what ma
jorities the final official figures
would show.
The Jackson l>aily .News late to
day had tabulated 239,967 votes cast
for the five gubernatorial contest
ants, the return- representing com
plete figures from 72 and nearly
complete returns from eight other
counties. Two counties were sti'l
missing, but they, together, polled
probably less than 5,000 votes and
the gap between the leading candi
dates was too great to be overcome.
Of the total. H. Jj. Whitfield was
credited with 7S.S90; Theo <’«. Bilbo.
