Newport weekly independent., 1902-07-25
ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.
Selected Friday By The State Board For All But Three Counties In The State-Gov. Davis
 On Hand.

The state board of election com missioners met at the state house in
 Little Rock Friday and selected elec- tiOn commissioners for all but three
 counties, selections in the latter being
 deferred to await recommendations
 Gov. Davis, Attorney General Mur-
 phy and Secretary of State Crockett
 compose the state board and all were present at the meeting.
 The feature of the selections made by the board is the recognition ac- corded the insurgent wing of the re- publican party as to minority repre- sentation on the county boards. In each county two democrats were ap- pointed and the third commissioner following the law, was named from the minority party. In nearly every instance it happens that the minority commissioners named by the state board are insurgent commissioners. There was some doubt as to whether Gov. Davis would attend the meeting Friday. He had set July 25 as the day for the board to meet. Gen. Murphy was anxious to meet before that time in order that he might be free to meet H. H. Myers, regular re- publican nominee for governor, on the stump. Gen. Murphy and MT. Crockett, constituting a majority of the board, agreed to meet Friday and
 go ahead with the work of selecting the commissioners.
 When the board met Gov. Davis ap- peared on the scene and announced
 that he would go ahead with his col leagues under protest. As chairman
 he had designated July 25, as the day
 of meeting, believing that date would
 be satisfactory to all. Recommen-
 dations had been sent in from the
 counties for appointment and in a
 great majority of cases these recom-
 mendations had been made by chair
 men and secretaries and not by the
 committees. He had been writing to the various counties to ascertain whether the recommendation sent in were satisfactory. In reply to a suggestion from Gen. Murphy that appointments could be made where there are no contests, Gov. Davis said Senator J. K. Jones has had the democratic organization the last two years and some of the extreme Jones
 men had said that they would not vote for him (Davis). He felt in- terested and wanted to know where the commissioners stand.
 Gen. Murphy favored harmony, but
 he could see no reason for not pro-
 ceeding now with appointment of commissioners.
 Gov. Davis declared he was not
 ready to go ahead at this time, but
 that he would do so under protest. Chairman H. l.. Remmel and Sec
 retary w. s. Holt, of the republican
 state central committee, appeared be-
 fore the board in behalf of recognition
 for the "regular' republicans for mi
 nority representation as against the insurgents" They recommended
 George Mclean as minority com
 missioner from Pulaski county, but
 the board appointed Scipio A. Jones,
 colored, who is an "insurgent."
 MT. Remmel wanted to know if the
 republican state committee was to
 get nothing.
 Gov. Davis replied that they could
 have the privilege of reading the list
 of appointments by the board. Messrs. Remmel and Holt then filed
 a protest against the action of the | board.
 The following were the commis-
 sioners chosen for this, Jackson cOuntv. Walter Davis ChaS Will