Newport daily independent., 1902-07-19
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 acr 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 %, 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- lore Du6 UOdIQ III U0udll Ol 1OOOEnltlO 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 sinsurgent."
 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 protest against the action of the board.
 The following were the commis- sioners chosen for this, Jackson county: Walter Davis, Chas. Will mans, Milt Russell.