The Forrest City times., 1902-05-09
THE VOTE OF WOODRUFF.
Mr. Maoon's Rejoinder to Certain
 Newspaper Publications.

published in Augusta, Jonesboro and Paragould, bave reiterated the statement that upon recount ofthe vote of Woodruff county for con gressman, It has been discovered that county had cast her vote for Eugene Parrish of Jonesboro in stead of R. B. Macon, of Phillips county. Today Mir. Macon gave out the following statement in reply:
 'In regard 10 tn csc claims being made by Mir. Parrish and his news. papers in the upper end of the district, 1 can only say: That where they show ono seeming ir regularity that works in my favor, my friends can show two that work for Parrish's interest. In Augusta, where they claim an er- TOT whereby will lose a hundred votes and Mr. Parrish gain hun dred, one judge of tbe election will make an affidavit in favor of Parrish's contention, while the other two will swear that the vote as certified to the county conven- ton is correct. The election judge who is now giving Parrish hls in. formation, signed the certif cate in the first place that l had received 280 votes in Augusta. against 6o for Mr. Parrish. If there was an error in the report, why did this judge not find lt before he swore that the report was correct? But this is not all. In one small town ship, where the combined vote for three candidates for circuit clerk amounted 10 only twenty four, Parrish received more than hun. dred votes as against nine for me, an1 about an equal number for Judge Taylor. In previous elec- ,iaas tAe vote in this township has only averaged about fourteen votes, yet Mr. Parrish gets over 100 votes there in the primary In another township, where the total voting strength is 113, Mr. Parrish is given H. 1 am given 66, and Judge Taylor several moro. In still another place, I am advised, certain person, who was interested in the county candidates only, claims to have cast 100 for negroes, scratching off every name down to and through the vote for prosecuting attorney, but the entire lot were counted for Mr. Parrish, notwithstanding the fact that they were run in for the benefit of the county candidates.
 "The fact that Parrish and his newspapers have been doing all the blowing is not a sign that they have all the case, and they need not think so for single minute l have not written anything for print, and l have not asked my newspaper friends over the dis. trict to write anything about the Woodruff county tangle in my be. half. l am simply depending upon the honest conviction that 1 car. red Woodruff county by III votes as declared by the county conven. tion, which counted and destroy ed the votes, and winch examined, l presume, the tally sheets as fur. nished by the several judges oi election throughout the county. The convention instructed the delegates to the congressional con, vention 10 vote for me, and if my friends stick 10 me there will be no trouble in Woodruff. I do not desire to get into any newspaper squabble with Mr. Parrish nor with any of his friends, but these are few of the facts as | have them, and believe that my claim to the eight votes of that county is just one and will be recogni. zed by the convention.
 q do not desire public office by fraudulent or dishonest means, and l am prepared 10 say to the delegates from Woodruff county