The Green Forest tribune., 1901-02-23
FOREMAN A WINNER.
Contest for United States Mar.
 sha1 Practically Settled


 sha1 Practically Settled
 As the time draws nearer for the indorsementf for United States Marshal, assurances are made doubly sure that Hon. B. M. Foreman will win out easily.
 Up to last Saturday the fol- lowing county central committees of the district had taken formal action on the matter and the count stands as follows:
 For Foreman-Sevier, Little River, Howard, Hampstead, Miller, Nevada, Lafay cite, Ouch ita, Columbia, Calhoun, Newton and Union.
 For Stahl-Crawford, Boone, Pike and Sebastian.
 It is noteworthy fact that Stahl and a number of his deputies have attended meetings of the committee where action has been taken, while Mr. Foreman has been present at none, save the meeting of his home county committee of which he is a mem- Der.
 MT. Foreman took the position at the outstart that all committees should be left free to express their choice in the matter without the personal interference of either applicant. Notwithstanding the fact that his opponent and five or six of his deputies are always on hand ready to employ any sort of means that will win, MT. Foreman still refuses to attend any committee meetings.
 It is indeed very strange that if Stahl has made the wonderfully brilliant record that he has por- trayed to the public, that in order to be reimbursed for the position he must take his gang to hound every committee meeting in the district, when his opponent is bringing no such pressure to bear in any instance.
 As Stahl and his friends begin to see the ''hand writing on the wall" they grow more desperate and make all sorts of misrepre- sentations. In the face of the standing of the indorsement as stated above, the Rogers Re- publican of last week gloated over Stahl's indorsement in Pike county as follows:
 "Hurrah for Sathl! the Ben ton man is in it. They're all trying to get into the Stahl band wagon.
 is with pleasure that we an nounce this week that Marshal s. F. Stahl was unanimously endorsed by the Republican Central committee of grand old Pike county in their meeting in Pike City last Saturday, and his friends in the western dis trict and especially Benton county are rejoicing over this victory, more especially that Pike county is in Forem ans congressional district. It is very easily understood why that paper thus vents iself, when the fact is explained that the pa per is owned by w. c. Chyno- weth, Stahl's chief deputy, whose job of S1600 a year hinges on Stahl's success. The paper does not enjoy the respect of 10 per cent of the Republicans in the town in which it is published. Commenting upon the claims of the Stahl organs the Texarkana | Courier says:
 "A fortnight ago the friends of United States Marshal Stahl, the present incumbent of the office to which Ben M. Fore man aspires, assured the Ar kansas public that the battle l had been fought and won, and that Stahl's brow was ready to 1 be encircled with the olive wreath indicative of victory. They seemed to be of the opin- ion that all was over but the shouting and the ceremony att 1 tendenton the political burial of their heartily despised en- emy. Stahl's organs, and he has three of them, ransacked their cases for blood and -thun- 1 don AQ nnint diCnlau hnalS