The Green Forest tribune., 1900-05-17
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
Prof. Burney Discusses Recent Action of County Organ.
 May 5, 1900.
H. P. Burney,
 Green Forest, Ark.

May 5, 1900.
 H. P. Burney,
 Green Forest, Ark.
 DEAR SIR We hear much comment on the action of our Central Committee and the Coun- ty Convention held at Berryville last Saturday. We want to know, and we think every Democrat has the right to know, all the facts connected herewith, and inas- much as our papers have not seen fit to give us this information, we ask you, as member of that Convention, to write what you know about the action of the Com Smittee and of the Convention, and &to furnish each of the county pa- Spers with copy with our request &to publish.
 MR. EDlToR:-In compliance Rwith the above request, signed sby 1O9 Democrats of this and Mother townships, the names Kof whom will be furnished if de- ksired, I herewith hand you the facts asked for, as far as l have sbeen able to learn them. What l Sstate of my own knowledge, ] shall be ready to prove beyond Ssquestion; what l shall state on sinformation, l believe to be true, and the parties furnishing the in- Formation are known to be cred- ible. They stand ready to face any one who may deny. If, how ever, in any instance my inform Nation is shown to have been false, Fl shall be happy to make proper corrections and amends.
 THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
 3 In issuing it's call for the late primary the committee used Sthese words, "Said primary elec- lion to be a legalized primary as Provided for by the law regulat- 16ng primary elections and the pseneral election laws of the state xof Arkansas" :" This statement Was published in the county pa- pers. The impression that it was legalized prevailed in every part 8of the county except where, for sp pecific purposes, it was privately sscorrected. At my box it pre- Mailed till noon on the day of the primary. I then learned that t was not legalized, and so stated .Sfo our judges. G. N. Norris, a < anaember of the Central Commit fke, was present and he said to he judges: "It is a legalized p2imary and you hold it as a le-
 alized primary
 Now, if the committee had SSleclared 1t "legalized" and in-
 {vidual members were so in- ssfucting 2 part of the judges, MIN was it not 8 "legalized pri-
 Rry p Simply because the r3fp per certificate was. not fiIed Witn the clerk 20 days before the
 ection as the law directs. But W33y was the certificate not filed ?
 tn told on good authority that < iSyEas intrusted to the chairman o the committee, and that he says he forgot to file 1t. Ii that isl&orrect, what 3 wonderful mem - xv A memory that can look SI6sely after all the little details, aspecially those that further his 0Nn ends, and yet, and yet, and xet FORGET the ONE important mater that would secure justice < xo all the candidates. Because ot that forgetting the candidates who were stuffed out of the nomi- = naMons (and there are more than on6of these), and those against Whom fraudulent, boastly major itias were piled up are helpless, Having. submitted their names to < dile primary, they must abide the le3lt without 8 murmur.
 the primary had been legal 5z any candidate, feeling or be-
 ing himself -defrauded, would 'l4Ne had the right of contest, and
 be discovery and proof ot the wrong would have been ted, but, as it is, the illegal |l the repeater, the false
 ter, the ballot- box suffer all laugh in our faces and Yes, we did all these things
 hereby got our men in, but
 nn't help yourself. There