Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-24
Facts are Stubborn Things.

the GRAPHIC pointed out last week that the report of the committee on credentials in the late Democratic County Convention was adopted by the votes of the uncontested delegates of the convention, the Press Eagle reiterates it's charge this morning that "eighteen eontesting delegates voted to seat themselves in the conven- tion. J This is utterly untrue. Not a eontesting delegate had a vote up on the adoption of the credentiaI committees report where his seat was contesteds Our contemporary has evidently confused the vote cast ia the temporary organization with the vote subseq uentiy cast on the adoption of the report of the com mittee on credentials. Ia the tenn porary organization, with the Chair man of the last Democratic County Central Committee in the chair, each contesting delegation was al- lowed to vote, whereby each off set the other. But before the report of the committee on credentials was submitted the convention adopted the following rule governing the  vote on the same:
 Resolved, that the following rule be adopted in voting upon the re- port of the committee on credentials: That NO delegate be allowed to vote when his credentials are contested, this prohibition to apply until the contest against the delegates is set tied, and that when a whole dele gation is contested, that until said contest is settled the ward or town ship so contested be not called. That when any delegate is reported by both delegations, then such un- disputed delegates be allowed to vote like any other delegate in the convention
 lu this connection the Press Eoate also says:
 General White introduced a reso- .lation designed to permit the con- testing delegates from the Third ward to vote in favor of seating the contesting delegates from the First ward, who, vixen seated, were to return the compliment by voting to seat the bolting and contesting delegation from the Third ward, but while this resolution was passed, under a decision of the chair, it was not adhered to, and the con- testing delegates from the Third ward, nine in number, were per mitted to vote taoelpe votes for seat ing the cortesting delegation from the First ward.
 This statement is untrue, as was pointed out in the GRAPHIC last week,
 The vote was taken exactly in ac- cordance witE tbe rule adopted for the government of the same, and was strictly adhered to by the chair. When the credentia committees re port came up for adoption recom- mending the seating of the contes. ting delegations from the First and Third Wards, Mr. A. B. Grace called for division of the question, the First Ward belng first voted upon. In the adoption of that part of the report, no part of the contesting delegations from either Ward was allowed to vote, the Third Ward casting onlg three voices, the un- contested votes of Messrs. Adams, Jordan and Drew White, who were members of both delegations.
 h voting on the adoption of that part of the report relative to the contesting delegation from the Third Ward, the Third Ward again only cast three votes, the three un- contested votes above mentioned. It will therefore be seen that instead of the Third Ward being permitted to cast t,oelre votes, under the ruling of the chair, as stated by our con- the Third Ward did in tact, cast but three votes upon the seating of the contesting delega.