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congressman Who Was Sup
posed to Have Been Beat
en- Turns Up With the Ger
tificate Of the Chairman.
GOODWIN MEN
ARE INCENSED
Bitter Fight Develops at Congress
siOnaI Convention AT Conway and
Charges Of CrOOkedneSS Are Made.

Opments in the GOodwin-Wallace con-
test for the Democratic nomination
for Congress from the Seventh dis
trict came today, when the Seventh
district congressional convention was
held here with full delegations from
each county and when Minor Wallace
announced that he had received the
official certificate of nomination from
the chairman of the Congressional
Central Committee, said to be Joe Gal
loway, Wallace supporter. This an
nouncement came as a bomb in the
Goodwin camp, where nothing of the
kind was expected or anticipated. The
Wallace forces claim that the presen-
tatiOn of the certificate to Wallace by
Galloway was legal, as they declare
that recent rules made by the Con-
gressional Central Committee govern
ing the official canvassing of the vote
leave the counting entirely in the
hands of the chairman, who is empoW-
cred, according to the rules laid down,
him with the official certificate of NOM
nation which Mr.. Wallace now claims
he has. Wallace forces declare that
Galloway canvassed the vote and de-
clared Wallace nominated.
Minor Wallace tonight said: Il am
the Democratic nominee for congress-
man from the Seventh congressional
district. | have been presented with
the certificate of nomination by the
proper source.
At first Mr. Wallace refused to tell
where he secured the certificate but
finally stated that he secured it from
Mr. Galloway He would not tell when
he secured it and would say nothing
further about the matter.
At the convention today the fact is
said to have become known for the
first time in Goodwin ranks that at a
meeting of some of the congressional
committeeman held March . at Arka-
delphia the committee drew up rules
concerning the canvassing of the dis
trict vote to the effect that the entire
vote should be canvassed by the chair
man of the committee, leaving the mat
ter entirely in his hands. instead OF TO
the convention, as has been the custom
heretofore.
The Goodwin forces attempted 10
bring up the matter of nominating
IL, n1
but the chairman. Il Wallace man de
clared such a motion out Of order. il
is said. on the ground that the vote
should be canvassed by the chairman
and the result declared by him, and
therefore there would be nothing for
the convention TO do in the matter.
This and other statements concerning
the convention were given out by
Goodwin men tonight.
E. l.. McHaney, campaign manager
for Goodwin, was highly incensed last
night at the outcome of the convention
here today. He charged that the le2y-
ing of the canvass to the chairman Was
unfair. and also charged that Gallo
way, the chairman, did not receive the
votes from Bradley. Ashley, Chicot
Calhoun, Clark or Nevada counties uN
til today, when the votes We're brought
to the convention by the delegates
from those counties. The Goodwin
forces will likely contest the action
of the committee and the convention
in general before the state convention.
although they have made no state
ments as to their intentions.
The Wallace forces ruled the con-
vention today Wallace men were
elected throughout. 4 permanent Or
sanization was effected and the Con
gressonal Central Committee named,
after which the convention adjourned
The session was a stormy one.
The account OF the convention As
given out last night by Z. l.. McHaney
was to the effect that after converting
with Joe Galloway in the chair As
chairman, the election of a tempo
rary chairman and secretary was call
ed for; that T. W. Hardy of Ouchita
county, the Wallace candidate, receiv-
ed 80 votes, and that S.B. Meador OF
Clark county, the Goodwin forces
candidate, received 43 votes; that Gal
loway, however, ruled that the Union
county vote, consisting of 13 dele
gates, should go for Wallace on the
ground that Union county was carried
by Wallace; that as the result the -
votes changed the election so that
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