The Russellville Democrat., 1880-05-20
THE poyER CONVENTION.


 the day selected by the county centra committee for convention of the Dem ocratic party Of Pope county to be heit at Dover, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State conventiot afit for other purposes.
 Compcsine the delegation from thil (fllinois) township were the following persons; l.. ". Davis, J. B. Erwin W. P. Woatsn, Alva Russell, Jas. NJ. Harkey, Jas. M. Luker, Jas. Potts. H Ciabe Howell, Twiggs Brown, N. D Shinn, c. ". Reed and the DEMOCRAT representative.
 Arriving at Dover we found dele gates from all the townships in the co,,nty, with the exception of i've Allen, Bayliss, North Fork, Lee, and Moreland.
 At one o'clock D. ffa. the convention was called to order by Mir. B. F. Bay liss, chairman of the county central committee.
 The election of . chairman being in order, the names of Win. Reynolds. of Wilson township and Caleb Davis, oi Valley township were put in nomina- tion. Ths ballot stood, Reynolds 12, Davis 12, and chairman Bayliss cast the deciding vote in favor of MT. Key. holds. Mir. Reynolds on taking the chair expressed his thanks for the honor conferred, and announced the election of q secretary next in order. Mir. B. F. Bayliss was elected Secretary.
 Mir. Shsrrili, Was admitted as . dele. gate from Moreland township.
 A delegate from Martin township represented that the vote of that town- ship was s3, and therefore entitled to another vete In this convention, which on motion was granted.
 Tho delegate from Valley township presented petition from S3 democrat ic voters asking for an increased rep resentatiun. On motion ono addition al vote was allowed that township.
 A delegate from Holly Bond town. ship asked that his township be allowA cd an additional vote, for since the last general election territory had been added to his township from Illinois and Galla Rock and they felt that they were entitled to larger rep rssentation than had been allowed them by the central committee.
 Delegate Bayliss, of Dover township stated that while the county central committee had based the representation of townships on the vote for governor Miller, it would have been better to have based it upon the vote fUr repres- entative, and in that event the repres- entatlon of Illinois township would have been about 6 votes.
 Delegate Mccain. of Liberty town. ship, said he was in favor of taking:ons vote from Illinois township and giving it to Holly Bend and fixing the vote et illinois at votes
 Delegate Harkey. of Illinois, protes- ted against such action, and said he was willing to give Holly Bend towh- ship another vote, and would vote for 1t if sonie one would make . motion to that effect, and then he would sec whether tho vote of Illinois township could bc reduced or not.
 Delegate Embry, of Wilson town ship, said that intsrminable difficulties would arise If the attempt was made to change the repfesentation of townships as fixed by the county central commit tee, and made motion that the whole matter be tabled, and the regular order of business Do proceeded with. The motion carried.
 Delegate Embry, of Wilson township, spoke in favor of an uninstructed dele- gation to the state convention and moved that this convention send it's delegates to Little Rock uninstructed. The motion was lost.
 The following persons were elect cd delegates to the State convention: :: B. T. Embry. H. c. Howell, R. B. Hogins and E. l.. McCracksn. AL ternates--w. E. Young, W. Nj. Peelet, Jas. Potts and James NJ. Harkey.
 The delegates were then instructed by the convention to vote in the State convention as follows:
 For Governor-A. M. Wilson.
 |" Sec. of 5tste--Jacob Frolich.
 |" Trcasurer-Wm E. Woodruff.
 |" Auditor John Crawford.
 "Land Commiss toner w. D. Lear.
 |" Atty. General-S. R. Cockrell.
 |" Supreme Judge--S. W. Williams.
 |" Bupt. Pub. Ins.-J. l.. Denton.
 Chance llor-D. w. Carroll.
 |" Chansery Clerk-J. W. Galloway.
 On motion . primary election was ordered.
 The second Saturday in August, tho t4th day. was the time selected for hold ing tile primary election.
 A county central committee was elected to serve the ensuing two years, as follows: Caleb Davis, of Valley township, D. W. Mourning. of Wilson township, and James N. Harky, of H.