The Green Forest tribune., 1900-05-31

D. James proxy.
 After we had begun the count of the votes and had several town ships counted from the face of the returns, MT. c. D. James arrived and filed his written proxy for James Morrow, member of the committee. And he, as such member and as the representative of c. G. White, candidate for County Judge, stated that MT. White desired recount of the entire vote of the county, and in- sisted that we stop and make the recount, which the committee by a unanimous vote declined to do until the townships and precincts were all counted, when they were willing to take the subject of re- count up and discuss and vote upon the proposition.
 But, after we had completed the count and made an abstract of all the votes cast for each can- didate, except in Clifty township, the returns of which were in Eu- reka Springs and not here, MT. James had changed his mind. AS member of the committee and representative of Judge White, he moved that the committee pro- ceed to recount three townships for the office of County Judge, to-wit: Polo, Kings River, and Clifty. (Poll- books from Clifty township were not here.)
 MT. Reid Goudelock moved as a substitute to MT. James, motion that the committee proceed to re- count all the townships and pre- cincts and to throw out all illegal votes and to set a certain day in the future to hear contest and ev- idence as to illegal votes. The vote was taken on the substitute and resulted as follows:
 Yeas.-Reid Goudelock, Chas. Bedding, G. N. Norris by T. H. Fancher proxy, J. P. Fancher.
 Nays:-G. R. Mccall, c. M. Golden, James Morrow by c. D. James proxy.
 The vote first stood three yeas and three nays, and I, as chair man and member of the commit tee, united the vote by voting yea. So the substitute was adopt ed. Professor, you know and see that you have misrepresented me when you said that 1 voted twice at any time or place on any prop osition. And you see and know, further, that the committee was willing to recount the votes of all the townships and precincts, and to throw out all illegal votes upon proper contest being filed, notice given, and proof introduced on day in future set for that purpose. No contest was ever filed and has not been yet, as required by the law regulating contested elec- tions.
 Mr. James insisted continuous ly upon the recount of the three townships mentioned, ,-"Numer- ical count" What he meant by numerical count I do not know, but I do know that Clifty town ships poll-books and tickets were not delivered to the committee, and the vote was not and could not be counted, and, of course, could not be recounted. For some mysterious, suspicious cause or reason, the poll books of Clifty had been held at Eureka Springs. The committee had in- formation, which they thought then and still think reliable, of a conspiracy at Eureka Springs to count MT. White in by means of the Clifty township vote, which was still held back.
 Ido not accuse MT. White of having anything to do with this; do not accuse any one. Evi- dently it was done and purposely; but I do not know who did it. If necessary, I can give the source of my information. Besides this, a majority of the committee thought it unjust to any contend ing candidate to recount two or three townships, asked for by an opposing candidate, and not re- count all the townships. l know no precedent for such action, so the matter was settled as far as the committee was concerned. It