The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1900-07-05
NECK OR NOTHING
cLARDY-cARTER BOLT,
ARTICLE III.


din. officer with cagerness. Having
been seated ipr business, and MT for
pleasure, he waived making q speech
and muticrcd out that the meeting was
open ior the programme, or some
thing Of that sort.
Then, quick and In 4 squcaky voice,
cadaycrou, looking louI asked Mr.
Chairman 10 ATPuiSr four delegates
To the County Convention. Assurcdly,
hs dbl not understand, OF be WAS duped
into acting fool, or was serving the
plo,ters 10 steal the delegation from
that precinct. lis efforts tiLkled, and
i. ". Jones, >. j. IIensley, James
Ilighlcy, James McCTeegy aud j. ID.
lluncy were appointed rs q oommittec
to select four mcn to b5 voted on for
delegates. The committee retired and
could not agree; Il parleyed and divi.
ded, and !. W Jones, It's chairman,
brought IN two reports, a majority and
minority. Three OF the committee
selected Dr. J W Hurley, Jas High
ley, Jas. McCreeycy AMI j. l.. COD,
sud two ui tho committee selected DIR,
J. ". Turley, I'll. fc'lcy, }. W.
Jones aud ". -. Auuill.
Both sets were reported by Chair
man Jones TO the meeting, aud he
promptly moved to submit the reports,
the minority first, to vote as to which
Sc, should 90 as delegates TO the Conn-
y Convention. lis motion was not
entertained. A vote was demanded
and cIamorcd Cor by the anti-Bigg,
mnn, bm 10 no puFposc. GOH was
playing the puppel; be was the obsc-
quiDus tool 81 uthera The call Of the
Central Committee aud the unwrillen,
immemorial custom among Democrats,
weighed not a feather with this re.
doubtablc knight Of honesty With
two reports pending TO be voted on,
and agains, all precedent, be, on his
'bwu motion. declared the meeting adj
jlurnci, and adjourned Il, VITA 40
INJECTION, aud with the names Of seven
different men before the meeting, No
action was taken. M vote was bad, no
delegates were elected, and the turnkey
who prevented a vote labelled himself,
lis POLITICS CAST IN TRUSTED.
Here follows the proof; read il, and
then assert Is you can, aud hOhl yOnr
respect for honesty and truth, that there
were elected four delegates from that
precinct. and that they were Jas Ill
ghlry, Jas. McCrcoyy, j l.. Con aud
Dr. j. W rurlcy. Here is The hflllL.
vit Of 4. J clay, \ merchant Of D,S
loge, truthful and highly respectable /:
~. cray hrIug sworn. on hiR oath say z
that hsliycs In Randolph township aud l. =
legal Democratic voter therein that be- at
tended tho Mass Precinct Meeting Cailed at
B-s,ugc by tho Democratic county Central
Committee. one at the precincts IN Kan
dnlph township. on saturday, April =Stn,
IN. for the purpose of clcciingidrleght-s
tp tn" Dome cratic county Convention Ia
convene ON Monday. April Ath, To-.
NJ Pennington, Missouri, said dole
gates In county convention TO elect dele.
gates to the various state Conventions
that such precinct mass meeting was
called to order ablut2 O'Clock by Frank l..
Thomas. County Central committeeman for
that township, that III : Tctley was noni-
mated for Chairman ON one side, and J. l..
ton on the other side that ON the rrst vote
Trtlcy received n majority ~ tie votes that
Committeeman Thomas refused tu deria n
hlm elected. but waited TN other voters
came 10 m" meeting. und thcn 0nler"d n
Eccpud vote o. b. takyn. at which time Con
hy Including Republicans, received major
ny and was declared elected that thercupOn
SOMEONE representing tho Gofr Side moved
that the chair appoint four delegate to tho
county Convention an amendment was Of.
Erei to this motion that the chair appoint n
cummittcc of nvr 10 select delegates to tte
voted ON at the meeting 10 ~ TO the County
Convention this motion prevailed, ana the
committee was appointed. Tie committee
retired 10 max. its report The majority
nf the commit" made q report ana recon
tnsuded ~ delegate, James illghlry. Dr. J..
W. Hurley. James McCrcevy ana !. l., con
the minority brought In a report ana selcc
tel ]. W. Janrs. Eis Trtlyy. Dr J. W.
Turlcy ana w. II Munili. motion was
made u substitute the minority Tor the mn
iprtty rrpOTt. whrrcupOn there WIS a wTan'
IN either report and nffiant believes that
the minority report would have becn adop
ted on vots had It hcen taken hut the
Chair, withnu, waiting for any vote to bs
taken. declared that James IIlahlcy. Dr. \.
" Hurley. James MrCrravy ana l., con
would he the delegates 20 the Convention
aud OK Ha owN MDTioS adjourned tho
mass meeting lslgnedl \. j. CLAY.
subscrilsr,I and sworn to before up, this
z5th day of May. IJ1.
islgnodl J. D. TURNER, J. T..
This AFFIDAVIT, In the very words,
oOhieXi aud intent, was made by thirty
other living, loyal, independent Dem.
oorats, whose names are G. J. Tho
murc, John Sullivan, Waltrr Taylor.
Jesse n. Eaton, W. Is. siprrfl, Fred
MurTill, Kenneth Long, A. V, Praltn,
Marion Thurman, ]. A. Green. W. z
Belkuap, John Thomure, j. W. Mur.
nil, u. A. Pyle, Howard Woo'lside,
Frank AuBuehon, John W. Scott, j. r.,
William Shaner, Alex ]. Sanders,
H. l.. Keith. Edgar Clark, s. A. siEs-
more, Francis l.. Clifford, james Cole,
" =. Tetlcy, Thos. T. Cook, Di. j.
g Tnrley, Dr. John W. TURKEY aud
George Csriee.
Thee OF these men voted for GoH
Cor Chairman, but knowing the senti.
ment Of the meeting, and that Ii was
MT for Bigxs bat fot Wood. ADD that
u was not with tho .ricksters, who
were for Biggs, they were willing TO
swear that on fair vote they believed
n Wood delegation would have been
elected.
Tbssc afiil,vits prore; Let That
Ed :. Tetley was elected Chairman;
2ni--that J. l.. GoH was made Chair
man by fraud; 3rd----that knowing II,
s~.. "a a