Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-01-05
All Candidates Shown to Be
Elected by the Original
Returns of Thursdays
Primary.
SUSPICIOUS BOLIVAR
Only Slight Changes Made-GencraI
Result Is Not Aifected-Central
Committee Met Saturday and Can
vassed the Returns-The Totals.

The Jefferson County Democratic
Central Committee met Saturday at
ternoon at the county court room
in the court house and after can
vassing the vote Of the primary cleo
ton held January ., declared the
nominees for the various county
and township offices. The official
count did not change the original
result, although some slight correc-
tions were made in several town
ships, which only in an unimport-
ant way affected the original re-
turns as publ shed. None of the
men who were shown to be nomi-
mated by Thursday nights returns
were displaced.
A canvass OF the vote revealed
some irregularities in the recent
voting in Bolivar township. The
Central Committees rules were ap-
parently d sregarded there, as is
shown by the tally sheet. The sub
committee appointed to canvass the
returns, found that 38 persons had
been voted in that township, while
in realNs there were only 2S poll
tax receipts issued in that precinct
and the poll book contained the
names of onlv--twenty-eight legal
voters.
This was the only township that
was not found to be thoroughly
correct in the recent primary, the
general opinion being that the cleo
ton Of Thursday was the fairest
ever held in Jefferson county. When
the matter came up before the COM
mlttee proper, }. w. Bates, F. II.
Walker and others urged that the
Bolivar box be thrown out in the
final official returns. The omission
of the box would not have chang
ed the results in any one contest.
'
elected central committeeman al
most unanimously from Washington
township, contended that the box
be thrown out He said that Wash
ington townships box had been
thrown out on one occasion when
there was not as much evidence OF
fraud as that suspicioned in the
recent returns from Bolivar. He
wanted fairness and impartial treat
ment for all townships, he said, and
he declared that his friends in
Washington were as honest and up
right as any voters anywhere in
the county Mr.. Bates did not wish
to reflect upon any Of the voters
in Bolivar, he said, but he said that
for the future welfare of candi
dates he believed the Bolivar box, if
it contained unfair returns, should
be omitted.
Some of the committeeman OBJ
jected to this procedure, in view OF
the fact that its admission or omis-
sion would effect no change A
resolution was adopted. after Mr..
Bates was finally induced to with
draw his motion for it's omission,
stating that regardless of the fact
chat the Bolivar box had suspic-
ious appearance, that it would be
ACCEPTED because it would not at
feet the results either way.
A resolution was adopted thank
ing j. +. Alexander, A. B. Jones
and F. H. Walker, the sub commit
tee which conducted the election.
It was the sense of the committee
! as a whole that the election Thurs
day was the best and fairest ever
held here The manner in which it
was carried out was also fayorably
commented upon. The attendance
at the meeting of the Central Com
mittee yesterday numbered 10 ou'