The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-14
THE GUARDIANSHIP
Mr.. W. B. Snow Denies
Report of Defeat,
Claims Majority.

A published report that Mr.. Armi-
stead Jones would receive the votes of
two-thirds of the County Executive
Committee for chairman was emphati-
calIy denied last night by w. b. Snow,
Esq. who is a candidate for the posi-
ton.
Said Mr. Snow yesterday:
"Of the new precinct committee
men who were elected on Saturday,
the large majority are in favor of my
candidacv The mistake that Mr..
tones friends are making is that they
infer that the various precinct COM
mitteemen who were elected a June
will all vote for Mr.. Jones. mat Is Il
mistake which they will discover in the
course of time. With the votes that l
already had among the committee
men elected in June, those faVorin@
mo who were elected on Saturday and
those who were instructed at meetings
of the precinct committees held last
Saturday and by expressions or the
voters taken at the polls during Satur-
DAVIS primaries in several precincts
which had elected committeeman in
June. | believe that L will have fair
working majority for the county chair
manShip.'
The method of Selection of a county
understood by the average voter. Each
precinct elects each year an~eXecutive
committee of five, which names one OF
it's number as chairman. The various
chairmen OF the precinct committees
thus named constitute the county eX
ccutivc committee which, in turn, Sc
ects it's own chairman.
Under the rule of Democratic organ
ization, the precinct committees are
Of "a 1Vin c
precincts at the first primary held af-
ter January 1st of the year of a county.
campaign. This rule has not been fol-
lowed in Wake, however except par
TALLY last June. So that, after resolu-
tons in the last county convention,
such precincts, as did not elect in June,
elected their committeeman on last
Saturday.
At the time the precincts elected in
June there was no contest apparent for
the county craftsmanship. 1t was un-
derStOod that Mr. Jones would not act
again, and Mr.. Snow had not then an
nounced himself. So that the commit
teemen elected at that time could not
be said to be either Jones" men or
"SnoW" men.
The matter of county chairman hay
ing assumed the proportion of a con-
test however, several of the precinct
committees which had been elected in
June, met on Saturday and instructed
their chairmen how to vote for county
chairman; and at several other pre-
cinctS the people took a vote on how
they desired their committeeman to
act AS Mr.. Snow states, several of
these meetings of the committees and
test votes at the primaries resulted in
his favor. so that the presumption that
all the old committeeman will vote for
Mr.. Jones will very possibly prove to
be a fallacious one.
Mr.. Shows friends, several of whom
were talked with Yesterday state that
the result of the primary makes him
the logical man for county chairman.
They point out that he was the chair
man of the movement which resulted
N the overwhelming victory for the
opposition board of County Com
missioners and that it was largely due
to his work of organization that the
primary resulted as it did. The can
didates, they say, the nominees for
both Senate and House, as we'll as the
candidates for Commissioners desire
him, and that their wishes should be
regarded
Against this, the friends of Mr. Jones
point to his long experience in county
politics and say that, although his
friends were beaten in the primary,
the result did not indicate a lack of
faith in his ability to perform the
duties of chairman With the same de-
gre of satisfaction that his admins
tration has given to the people in the
past.
The old board of the county will
meet Wednesday to receive the official
returns of the primary, including those
of the newly elected committeeman,
who will organ re and elect their
chairman at their convenience.