The Green Forest tribune., 1900-06-07

ICtdIy oOuuc1oCh D IIlOtlOu lOI which Chairman Fancher voted, clearly asserted the power
 1. To pass on the legality or
 illegality of every vote cast.
 2. To throw out all votes ad-
 judged to be illegal.
 3. To hear and declare con-
 tests.
 4. To compel the attendance
 and testimony of witnesses.
 The second quotation emphati- . cally denies ANY and ALL of these powers. Which is correct? ? Just here is where the failure to file that FORGOTTEN certificate be- comes momentous. If it had been filed, Goudelock's motion would have been in full accord with both Flaw and precedent" but for want of that certificate, the last quotation truly expresses the powers of the committee. In the light of the facts about the pow CTS or functions of the committee, stated by Chairman Fancher him. self, what must we think of Sec- retary Goudelock's motion ? What of those who voted for it |? Would one be fit subject for the lunatic asylum if he meekly thought that it was a bold game of bluff ? But did the committee make the recount ordered by this charming motion ? Let Secretary Goudelock answer: "To this (to set day to make the recount) MT. James objected and the ma- jority of the committee believing that no result would be changed by going over the returns again, and MT. James having abandoned the conflict, simply allowed the matter to drop, and there it was resting when the convention took it up.o And there it is resting today, undisturbed by the May storms that howl above it's lonely grave.
 Chairman Fancher justly claims that I do him an injustice in my representation of the vote on that motion. It is we'll known that I was not present when that vote was taken, and spoke from information, believed to be re- liable. He did not vote twice, but did give the casting vote. l am sorry for the misrepresentation and hereby tender to him my apology. Error number 2.
 il. I said, "They" (the fore going facts) ''just happened this way, or they were done with a design .'' That proposition is alternative. One or the other clause must be true. l did neither.
 Chairman Fancher, nor Sec- retary Goudelock says ''they just happened that way , but both say "they were not inten- tional. We'll, l did not say they were intentional, but it seems that the conclusion was so plain that neither of them could escape it. They have admitted the pre- mises, they must accept their own conclusion, and I must give them credit in this instance for being good logicians.
 12. said. eff done with de- sign, that design was to defeat certain candidates, and, that by them Morris, Butt, and perhaps others were defeated" In an- swer Secretary Goudelock con- tends that the result was not changed by any act of the com- mittee.
 Chairman Fancher says, "Mr. Butt received at Eureka Springs and throughout the country one third more of the Republican votes that were cast than MT. Phillips received and that by throwing out those votes that Mir. Phillips would have his majority increased more than 100 more.
 Now, to prove this statement, l challenge Prof. Burney or any one else to come to Berryville and we will get the Central Committee to open the tickets and compare them with the poll-books and count the Republican votes.
 Come Professor and we will count. On reading this I i'm mediately wrote and mailed the fOllawino O. letter.