The Green Forest tribune., 1900-05-24
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
Prof. Burney Discusses Recent Action of County Organ.
 NUMBER II.

ised to tell you how, by Quay Platt- HI anna methods the Democ- racy of the county was made to endorse the work of the Central Committee, and the result of the late primary.
 That promise I now redeem.
 When, in obedience to the call of the Central Committee, the convention had assembled in the court house at Berryville, April 28th, and been called to order by U. R. Fancher, the committee pre- sented the name of J. P. Fancher for temporary chairman. Hewas 50 Elected. Claude Fuller was elected temporary secretary.
 The Chair then appointed w. A. Broad, Reid Goudelock and E. C.. Cooper a committee on creden- tials. Did the Chair know that not d single member of this com- nlittee was himself entitled to a seat in the convention ? Did he know HOW they had obtained their credentials ?
 seThe futures great veil our breath fit fully flaps,
 < sAndbehind it broods ever the mighty PERHAPS
 In giving, below, the names of th6 delegates and proxies report ed by this committee, I shall tell, with each, how he got into the convention.
 The story is long, but interest ingto the highest degree. Here
 Beaver.-M. w. swope, per proxy, W. A. Broad.
 No delegate from Beaver was elected by the people. How, when, where and by whom was MT. Swope elected ? Will Mir. Swope or Mir. Broad tell us !? l have failed to find any one at :sss :a aayer who can give any infor- 'xHEi86ion about 1t. 1 did learn, ' However, that it has not been X n18ny winters since MT. SwOpe Wae member of the REPUBLI- GAN Central Committee; that he voted for Bryan in '96; that he voted in the Democratic primary May '90, and that he voted the SIlkAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET in E8ptember '9S. EXCELLENT MAJ 9ERIAL, certainly, for this bogus e0flvention, and EXCELLENTLY
 EsENTED by his proxy.
 arrollton. Charles Bedding 3 md James Cooksey, elected un- the call of committee. sross.-Asher Worrel, elected
 Her call of committee.
 Kings River.-G. R. Mccall,
 &ted under call of committee. @ M Eureka Springs, 2nd Ward 8N. Golden, Wade James, elect edbnder call.
 Ninona. - Claude Arbuckle, $ ted under call.
 Liberty.-Jack Griffith, Bob @lips, per proxies, Reid Goude-
 Who elected Griffith and Phil lifs ? Atleast 75 of the 88 Demo- HIS of Liberty know nothing
 6ut it. But the story as l have lSxfned it is this:
 MT. J. O. Collier, of Berryville,
 ma business or pleasure trip 6kpugh the county met Messrs. 13fiffith and Phillips; mass c0Avention was organized; Grif- AGh and Phillips were elected del- e&ates; the proxies secured for G0ndeloch, and the convention 8djourned sine die. Where this o9nvention was held, l do not
 Ipw, but there are good reasons @ believing that it was held, not @ Liberty, but in Green Forest,
 & that the proxies were written
 in Berryville with only the
 hks to be filled and signatures
 ained. If these things are not
 P, let Messrs. Collier, Griffith
 Phillips speak out and tell { how the thing WAS done. The
 ple of Liberty are very anxious
 know how their two votes were
 Fled into the convention and
 CONTRARY TO THEIR WISHES j EVERY PROPOSITION.
 ney.-Names of delegates
 known, but proxy sent to Reid
 pdelock by Mr. Collier. l am