The Green Forest tribune., 1900-06-07

J lips, you challenge me to come to Berryville and count the vote, you promising that the Central Committee will give us the privilege of so doing.
 beg to say that I most gladly accept your challenge on the following conditions.
 1. That you and the Com mittee, or custodians, of those tickets make affidavit that the tickets we shall count are the tickets that were in the Primary and that they are numbered and marked at the time of our count just as they were when cast April 21st.
 2. That I be allowed the privilege of verifying those tick cts by the testimony of parties whom the poll books shall show to have cast them.
 If you accept these simple con- ditions, and you readily see that without them the recount would settle nothing, you may fix any day that suits your convenience not earlier than June 18th. 1 would perfer an earlier date, but 1 leave this week for h. stitute work in Newton county and may not return earlier. l 1 # x,O,,n p, on de
 Your most obedient and obliged servant, H. P. BURNEY.
 Ihave learned that Mr. Fancher is now in Louisville Kentucky. l shall expect a reply immedi- ately upon his return.
 But let us accept his statement as true and see how the figures look. He says our count will increase Phillips majority more than 100. To do this and pre- serve Fancher's ratio you must take more than 200 votes from Butt and more than 100 from Phillips. Here then according to Chairman Fancher himself are more than 300 Republican votes cast in Democratic Primary to select the leaders of the party.
 Is the Democratic party indeed sunk so low? Is it so wanting in honesty, wisdom, and patriotism that it cannot choose it's own standard bearers? Is the flag that has for 100 years been "wreathed around with glory" thus to be trailed in Republican dust? Is the beautiful and sa- cred shrine at which we have so fondly worshiped thus to be de- spoiled and desecrated? Nay veri- ly! Despite this Goudelockized- Fancherized -Republicanized Pri- mary, the Democratic party will maintain her independence and her purity. But is the com mittee responsible for this Republican vote ? Chairman Fancher says not, but puts the blame on the judges. Read what he says, "They (the judges) should not have allowed Republicans to vote who would not support the nominees. Such were the printed instructions in all the county papers. Now if the judges failed to comply with these instructions-and some of them did, I am informed and be- lieve, but not many of them. y (Enough by his own figures to receive over 300 votes.) ''This I do not endorse, but condemn as much as any one." What not willing to endorse the work of his own judges whom.he and his Sec- retary have selected with so much care and labor :? and whom he thinks such sterling Democrats?
 Again, /" Some of the Judges perhaps bid allow quite number of Republicans to vote. This was wrong and not in accordance with the instructions of the com mittee. :" Here in the different parts of his article we have his own words condemning these Judges whom throughout his article he has tried to make be- lieve I think dishonest, though I have not called in question the honesty of a single one of thems Now let us hear what the Judges say about their instructions. A letter directed to one of the Ber-