Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-24
JUDICIAL CONVENTION.
A Deadlock Reached and Battle Roy
al Promised.

Judicial convention, now in session al
Little Rock, continues undated and
the proceedings of that body are ca
gerly read. The deadlock, which was
reached early in the proceedings Of
the convention, continues, and the
several factions among the delegates
stand like stone walls, unwilling to
yield one inch of the ground upon
which they stand and determined moi
to surrender one cintilla of the rights
oftheir respective fayorites. Upto the
hour of opening the convention today
forty-eight ballots have been taken by
the delegates in their efforts to reach
a decision in the selection of one OF
the several candidates whose names
are now before the convention, and
although five of the nine candidates
have Withdrawn from the race, the
remaining four stand in relatively the
same position as they did when the
contest was begun.
Each one had his friends among the
delegations whose fsvorites with,
drew, and all are now fighting as zeal
ously for their second choices as they
did for those they battled so vigor-
onsly for at the outset, all efforts at
a compromise having failed of sue
cess. Caucuses meet, and the oftener
they meet the more determined the
lawyers are to stick to their friends.
Some of them possess such staying
qualities as to openly assert that they
intend to fight it out on the lines they
have picked out if 1t takes until cot
ton picking time for a majority of the
delegates to agree with their way of
thinking.
The candidates that were with
drawn yesterday and last night were
Messrs. Powell, Brown, Gatewood,
Pindall and Phillips. The four candi-
dates in the race are Messrs. Wood
Fletcher, Cravens and Riddick.
Immediately after the opening of
the convention yesterday morning the
tenth ballot was taken, with the fol-
lowing result: Wood, 1856; Fletcher,
81; Cravens 80; Riddick, 4S; Powell,
SO; Brown SO; Gatewood, 8; Pindall,
8, Phillips, z.
At the taking of the thirty-sixth
ballot, just prior to the close of the
days session, it was found that the
result was practically unchanged, the
ballot standing as follows: Wood, 1856;
101; Cravens, IS; Fletcher,
60; Powell, SO; Pindall, 8.
The convention reassembled at $50
o'clock p. m. and the chair instructed
the secretary to call the roll for the
forty-frst ballot.
AT this point w. F. Pace, of Boone,
arose and in a short but appropriate
speech withdrew the name of Hon. r.
II. Powell.
The announcement was greeted
with loud and prolonged cheering.
Mr., Rodgers, of Desha, then with
drew the name Of X. J. Pindall.
The secretary then proceeded to
call the roll of the counties.
The following were the changes
that occurred: Arkansas and Ashley
gave four and five votes, respectively,
to Wood; Desha gave one vote to
and Fulton gave its four
votes to the same candidate. Inde-
pendence presented Riddick with
nine votes and Little River gave its
three votes to Wood. Marion county
hoCked to Wood with four votes and
the convention went wild with ap-
plause. The six votes Of Nevada
wheeled into line for Wood and New
ton gave three votes to Cravens, the
announcement being greeted with a
jubilee of applause. Sevler county
had Its four votes recorded for Wood
and Sharp swelled Riddick's total by
giving him five votes, followed by
Prairie, which presented him with
five more.
The balloting continued without
change, the forty-eighth, and
final ballot before the close of the
night session, st anding as follows:
Wood, 1853; Fletcher, SO; Cravens, 80;
1875.
LATER CONVENTION NEWS,
The latest telegraphic news from
The convention, received at Q O'Clock
this afternoon shows the situation to
be unchanged. The relative strength
of the four candidates now before the
covention being practically the same
as on the last ballot given above.
Incompetency in Office.
The cry which continually goes up
from the masses for reformation and
change in the manner of selecting i'm