Daily picayune., 1908-04-30
NOMINATION OF
 MINOR WALLACE

The Camden SDecldl Io Illt bd- zette of che 10th, touching the Congressional convention held here on that day, is full of sen- sational statements, and not the least startling is this: Minor Wallace announceed that he had received tue official certificate of nomination from the chairman of the Congressional Central Com- mittee. " Minor Wallace never said such thing, but it is a fact that he he has received the cer- 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 a quorum was present, duly made the Canyasing Board of said district.
 This Wss sent to every paper in Seventh district and a copy l 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- fled 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. 1 Under the rules the candidate c. 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 a plurality of all the votes cast, certified and uncertified, and the Goodwin outfit knows 1t, and that Is the reason they have neV- CT certified their vote to the board. It was leJt for Col. l.. 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 1 ing the eanvassing of the vote until We met here today" Well, l if Col. McHaney, the doughty DaIgetty 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 Tn the same resolution by which the canVasSing of the vote was pro Vided for?
 If Col McHaney told the truth Goodwin and McHaney were the finest bunch of Innocents Alb road" that ever wandered as far away from home as Camden. Ii 1 Goodwin knew no more than Me IHaney says he knew, he should not be allowed to run around loose, much less run fol Congres and if MeHaney IS as verdant as he claims, he should be confined lin an asylum for mental imbe- ciles. He is venturing too far from headquarters when he at tends congressional convention. l His long suit is the Arkansas Jas tice and sorrel horse pony case lin a J. P. court, where he might show off to a great advantage under favorable eireumstaces.
 But these men are not so guile less as they would have us be IlieVe. The jingle of Goodwin coin was heard through all the late campaign. He had emissarles and workers in every county, and the laborer is worthy of his hire. but when he ssW he was defeat ed, heprofessed ignorance of the rnles under which he hsd made the race and wanted the conVen- tion 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 T Sipnal rebuke tO him and will