Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-31
HIS TALE OF WOE.
l. Facts ip Regard to the Resignation
 of Wiley Jones.

. she 97th inst, there was published a aamewhat remarkable paper over lie signature of Wiley Jones, and ,a,rporting to be his resignation as amember of the County Board of Eaaction Commissioners, As it is q gaet well known in this community that Mr. Jones is almost wholly illit- arate. can barely sign his name, and is iswbolly incapable Of writing such a ff,Inmunieation, we must conclude thai he is a mere figure-head, and fhat in resigning he simply obeys the orders of those shrewder than Himself who are thus able to use him as material out of which to manu- laetnle little campaign capital.
 As to Jones himself, he is very clever man and fairly good citizen, and the GRAPHIC regrets that among other blunders he should have been led-0r rather his name used in such gross breach of propiety as was 
 committed by giving his alleged let ter to the press before it could pos sfbly have reached the State Board fu whom it was addressed, How eyer, as the real author did not sign t. we aust treat it as coming from Ienes
 The burden of Jones' com phint is that "AIessrs. X. B. Grace and s. Y. T. Knox, who constitute umaIorlty of said board, refused to grant me the privilege of naming one election judge in each voting place In the county The nerve" dis played in making such q demand rises above the ordinary limit of even negro-Republiean gall and is almost admirable for it's sublime im= pudenee The law provides that sthey, the county board of election cnmmissioners, shall appoint three Iadges of election for each voting precinct in the county" Further, it sags; Each commissioner shall have one vote, (not appoint one iudge) sWo shall constitute q quorum, and the concurring votes ofany two shall deeide all questions before them The board as board, is required to Aet, and there is not line in the iaE from beginning to end which would authorize the commissioners to delegate to any one of their num- oer the unqualified right to select ule-third of the judges or one jndge. ar to perform any other duty Witch fhey are required by law to perform. Io do so wonld be nothing more nor 'ess than a violation of the oa,h of aliiee which each member of the ppard took when he accepted the pesition.
 Again Mir. Jones(?) asserts 'hat his claim is supported by
 rule and construction of 1Ae election law that pre- falls in all other counties in the state. The GRAPHIC has been at sVlie palns to get the facts on this sn'leet' and we state it upon the nghest authority that such a rule "pes not prevail in any county in the stile. On the contrary the major ~ appoints all the judges in every seuhty either with or without the s"hseht of the minority. There is no ploVision of the law to construe or ys'ort into any such rule as es(?) evolves from the depths of hls Imagination.
 The GRAPHIC is informed that Alr "s'hes presented to the board a list a e"ehty-iour names-one for each eVilict' as having been recom- '''oed by the Republican conven-
 a' oh examination if appeared .. seven of the twenty-four had ala no poll tax and were not auali- voters, and hence ineligible. Mr.
 ''' opellnan also sent in to the '''l'ahssloners list of persons re- ' 'lillehaed for judges by his faction
 'he Republican party. After con '4.tdtlon 1t was thejudgment of tn , p"ioflty of the board that neither N''on should bt given the prestige
 ,eeognltion as against the 6ther Nd both lists were 5iscardad srba a'ofitS then appointed the judges,
 e'ihg In nearly every instance \ aefe It was practicable to do so the
 ae lniges who were appointed by
 ais' Langford, Mccain and Jones
 wars ago. In thirteen out of
 eH'S townships one or more-in
 instances all three-of the old " were reappointed, and in
 " cases the same Republicans 6s,a ae commission Wiley Jones 3En n.i-ahgford and McCainl signed <5IajnI,s. s.ars ago was selected. Ger {bis nothing could be fairer than pr. simple fact is that the radical es s'.lhily- y-white-sorehead combine ds ,le Handwriting on inc wall. if he f,es, sertain defeat staring it in |rapa,, nss and is preparing to howl athin. aS ail excuse. 'sOnly this and
 more Let 'em how'll