The Green Forest tribune., 1902-05-03
TWO TICKETS PROBABLE.
Republican Factions May Each Name a Candidate for Governor.

President Roosevelt has off cially given out that he positive ly will not reappoint H. M. Cooper marshal of the eastern district of the state nor H. l.. Remmel to be collector of inter- nal revenues. This decision on the part of the president is one of the things accomplished by the late fight upon the state organi- zation of the republican party by Messrs Foreman, Auten, Greaves and others.
 While many things were alleg- ed by the so-called insurgents which questioned the integrity of both Cooper and Remmel, the admission upon their part that they had capitalized the salary of the two offices during the past four years perhaps had much to do in provoking the displeasure of the president. The office of marshal pays S5000 year and that of internal revenue only S3,- GOO. Both Cooper and Remmel sought the appointment of mar shal, and compromise was reached whereby Cooper should pay to Remmel 5000 a year and the latter take the collectorship. The president regarded this as a criminal abuse of the law and de- clared he could not tolerate it. He turned their applications for re-appointment down, notwith- standing the fact that their cause was urged in the strongest sort of resolutions by the state com- mittee and a personal visit was made by General Clayton to the president in their behalf.
 The fight against the state or- ganization is now well defined and an effort is going to be made by the insurgents to control the coming state convention which meets at Little Rock, June 26. Already anumber of county con- ventions have passed resolutions condemning the state committee and asking for new deal.
 The insurgent leaders declare that the compromise between Remmel and Cooper on salary is only one instance of the dirty work performed or permitted by the state organization; that a similar arrangement has been made with regard to a large num- Der of post offices. In fact, those who oppose the state organiza- tion accuse the men who have yielded the destiny of the repub- lican party in Ark ansas since the war of most anything but things honorable in their practices in the distribution of federal pa tronage and the object of the re- formers is to reach the rank and file of the republican voters and have them pass upon the merits of their cause.
 It now seems probable that two candidates for governor will be placed in the field, one represent ing the party organization and one opposing it. The machine candidate will probably be Hon. Harry l.. Myers, register of the Little Rock land office, and the insugrent forces will probably name Hon. c. D. Greaves, a gift ed young lawyer of Hot Springs. This is an ideal plan for settle ment of the question of state leadership and one to which no honorable republican will object.
 The idea of two state tickets is said to have grown out of a sug- gestion made by the president himself. He advised the leaders of the fight against the state or ganization to submit their griev- ance to the republican voters and if they can succeed in building an organization representative of the rank and file of the party in the state he stands ready to rec ognize it.
 As evidence of the strength of