Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-09-04

the subsequent contests in the con vention and before the Central Com
 nittee.
 At the conclusion of his speech MT. Crawford was vociferously cheered.
 HoN. s. M. TAYLOR
 Hon. $. NJ. TaYlor vas the uext speakerintroduced. He said in part:
 "On september 9th, which is next Monday, as a democrat, will be denied the right to vote for the nominee of the democratic party for sheriff of Jefferson county. I will be denied that right because the Central Committee have denied that man Edgar BrewsterI hls right to be certified to the election commis- sioners as the nominee.
 Fellow citizens, I had thought that during this campaign would not say one word before the public but, for fear that some man might even suspicion that intended, or thought, or even dreamed of casting my vote for H. A. Mccoy in this election, I come before you to re- pudiate this thoughtaHf it exists in the mind of any man.
 s'If they Mccoy, Grace and An drews] have any Democratic fol- owing in this county, why was it that in appointing their election judges, they had to go into that Central Committee and take from that comnittee men to serve next Monday. who couEted out Edgar Brewster? Who are they? Mi. Jesse Core, from Bolivar township. Did you ever hear of Mir. Core before? There is the sworn testimony lying over there, and has never been d.s puted on oath by the voice of inor- tai man, sworn to in the presence of Mccoy, that in the first primary cleo tion. men were voted in Bolivar township who never came to the election. MT. Colburner, or some other kind of a burner was upon that Central Committee. He WAS placed there by Grace and Andrews as election judge, a man who had crats as ever the sun shown on who had voted for Brewster Here are young Mir. Dixon, of the Young Mems Christian Association, who was helped to be counted out by that man Colburner, and Mir, San ders, true poor man, but a good Democrat, Democrat by birth q young man who is q harness maker here, who voted for Ere wster, but the Colhurner gang had to count his vote out too. Colburner is an election judge. Who else? Whiskers Bro own | field, from Richland wnship, who was on the famous Central Com mittee. These men, not finding a l following suitable to them in Rich . land township, go and get Whiskers ] Brownfield. Who else? Mr. J. E.. lI who sat on that commit tee and held proxy, is selected for fudge in the Fourth Ward. Ahl gentlemen, there are questions to be propounded to those gentlemen that must be answered TOW, or they must be answered later. These gentlemen claim to be Democrats. l They asked the governor of the state to recognize them as honest Demo- crats. He did. Now 1 want to ask these men why 1t 1t is that Capt. :. NJ. Galbraith, the master of the shops, who was recommended by the Republicans to serve as election fudge in hi S ward, a man who is tn soul of honor, a man who is loved by 300 employees at the shops,-why is it that he was turned down and refused and an ignorant beer driving negro put in his place. The question is, Mir. Grace, the question is, Mir anuTeWs, Il you lueduI eo pe hcHCst | if you meant to enforce the law and have a..fair election where there arc no candidates running but Demo crats, where the man you are trying to down is as good a Democrat as either of you ever dared to be ol 1. ever will be on this earth, why is il , that Capt. Galbraith was not homes enough. and did not have capacity ]. enough to be an election Judge, ant
 why is it that this ignorant beer
 driving negro had to be appointed in his place? That question cannot
 and never will be answered.
 1 I was present, as I said, through
 out the Central Committee meeting
 and stood there and looked ur, a