The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-30
NOMINATION OF
MINOR WALLACE


Congressional convention helC
here on that day, is full of sen
sational statements, and not the
least startling is this: Minor
Wallace announced that he hao
received tie official certificate OF
nomination from the chairman OF
the Congressional Central Com,
mittee." Minor Wallace never
said such a thing, but it is a fact
that he he has received the GER
tifcate of nomination from the
chairman and secretary OF that
committee, who were at the
meeting of said committee, reg
ularly called, after due notice to
every member thereof. and at
which quorum was present,
duly made the Canvasing Board
of said district.
This wss sent to every paper
in Seventh district and a copy
thereof was mailed to every mem
Der of said committee. This
Canvassing Board met three
weeks after the primary election,
and after duly canvassing the
returns of the said election certi-
fed to said board, declared the
result as above stated, and their
action was right and legal and
fully in accord with the rules
adopted at said meeting of the
committee for declaring the
nomination made at said primary.
Under the rules the candidate e.
ceiving the highest number of
votes cast at said primary was to
be declared by the board the
nominee for Congress. Minor
Wallace received the highest
number of votes, as certified to
the board, and was declared to
be the nominee. He not only
received the highest number of
certified votes, but he received
plurality of all the votes cast,
certified and uncertified, and the
Goodwin outfit knows it, and
that is the reason they have nev-
er certified their vote to the board.
1t was LETT for Col. E. l.. McHan-
ey. Goodwin's campaign mana
ger, and the colossal joker of the
campaign, to do the most re-
markable stunt, as revealed by
the Gazette special. This bloom
ing jay, after travestying every
act of the convention, said of
the nomination.
we knew nothing of the rules
made by the committee govern
ing the canvassing of the vote
until we met here today Well,
if Col. McHaney, the doughty
Dalgetty of the convention, did
not know of the rules, how did
he know when the primary cleo
ton was to come off, when and
where the congressional conven-
ton was to be held, or the num-
Der of delegates each county was
to have in the convention, for
these matters were all fixed in
the same resolution by which the
canvassing of the vote was pro
vided for?
If Col. McHaney told the truth
Goodwin and Mc1aney were the
finest bunch of "lnnocents Alb
road" that ever wandered as far
away from home as Camden. II
Goodwin knew no more than Nc
Haney says he knew, he should
not be allowed to run around
loose. much less run fol Congress;
and if McHaney is as verdant as
he claims. he should be confined
in an asylum for mental lmbe-
Giles. He is venturing too far
from headquarters when he at
tends congressional convention.
His long suit is the Arkansas Jas
tice and a sorrel horse pony case
in a J. P. court, where he might
show off to a great advantage
under favorable circumstances.
But these men are not SO guile
less as they would have US be-
heve. The jingle of Goodwin S
coin was heard through all the
late campaign. He had emissaries
and workers in every county, and
the laborer is worthy of his hire;
but when he ssw he was defeat
ed, he professed ignorance of the
rnles under which he hsd made
the race and wanted the conven-
ton here last Monday to do what
the Democrats had refused to do
for him at the primary, nominate
him for Congress. Shame on him
and his methods of campaigning.
The result Of the primary was
a SIGNAL yebuke to him and will