The Forrest City times., 1892-04-01
 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.

Meeting of the Madison Township Con-
 yentiou ssturday-Deiegates Elected.
 The republicans of Madison town ship met in primary convention at the colored Masonic lodgeroom Saturday afternoon.
 The convention was called to order by T. 0, Fitzpatrick. J. U. Jackson was unanimously elected temporary chairman. He took the chair and thanked the convention for the honor conferred upon him.
 ]. II. Blount was unanimously elected temporary secretary. The chairman then read the call for the convention and declared the meeting open for business.
 On motion of INV Winthrop the tenn porary officers were made permanent.
 The chairman stated the object of the meeting WAS the election Of dele gates to the republican county con vention, which meets in this city on Saturday, April ,.
 On motion of R. F. Mead. a commit tee of five WAS appointed to make nominations for delegates to the c0un- ty convention, and the chair named the following as the committed: E
  Bunton and " l.. Purfay.
 Pending the report of the committee, il was suggested there was prodigal in the house who had wandered from the republican fold into the uUionlabor field, hnt who had repeuted Of his error and desired to return to his first love. A T. Newell rose and pleaded guilty. lie said, in effect. that he had been disappointed. and would hencefOTth tight nnder the republican banner for republican principles. This declara- ti0n was received with applause.
 T. 0. Fitzpatrick, responding to calls. explained the principles of the Republican party and urged the neces sity of united action among It's adherents in order to effect the objects of that par ty. which, he claImed, had so success fully managed the governmental affairs of the country. He pleaded with his hearers and all other true republicans to renOUnce the nion-Labor party, the Third party, and every other party to which they had lately yielded fealty in the hope of improving their c0ndi- tion and return to the Republican party. He asked them what they had gained by their political adhesion to these par ties. He related that 1t was the GUS tom dl the Cnion-La boT party to make the proposition to the republicans that the Cnion-Labor party would furnish all the officers if the republicans would | furnish the votes, or. II this didn { suit. the republicans might furnish a majority of the votes and the Union ! Labor party would furnish the officers. | The speaker arraigned the UGion-L | hor party in scathing terms for it's treatment of the republicans of this county, and urged the latter to stand | bv their coi0Ts, even if defeated; for defeat. while upholding and fighting for the true principles of republican, ism. was better than compromising victory gained under the banner of a party which had no principles tC back it, and whose chief stock-in-trade was d play upon the fears. passions and preiudices of the c0lored people of thi; section. He declared the ideas pro- mulgated by the Union-Labor party were chimerical in the extreme. anC no government operated upon such ideas could exist.
 The nominating committee returned at this juncture and reported the fol lowing as the names selected as dele gates to the county convention:
 T. o. Fitzpatrick. J. U. Jackson, W L. Purifoy. F.. Booze, k. r. Mead, J II. Blount, J. $. Bunton, E. Stewart H. S. Davis, II. E. Newell, A. B Blackwell, A. Farmer. l.. J. Walker II. W. Suggs. If. Altman, Pat Banks John F. Hodges, V. Granbury. JohI Anthony, Abe Davis, J. Nelson, J Richards and ". l.. GunthrOp.
 The report was adopted and on mo tion the convention adjourned.