Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-10-12

law 0t the County Board Of Election Commissions in holding legal cleo tions.
 To cover the expense of said pri- mary election the candidates for the several offices are assessed the follow ing fees. which lee must be paid 10 the county treasurer of Jefferson county, Arkansas, not later than fif- teen days before the date of said pr- mary election: candidate for sheriff, Stoo; county clerk, $16o. circuit clerk. $l0o treasurer, $ID0; county judge, $50; assessor. $25; surveyor. $225 coroner. Slo; constable Naugine township. S255; acting justice Of the peace Naugine township, So: non-actiye. $1: all other township officers. $l
 The adoption Of the resolution was brought about without any opposition. whatever. occasioning no little sur prise in that a few of the candidates opposed an earlN primary election in this county. cOntending that the coun- ty election should be held at the same time that tie state primary was pull ed off,
 Declared Out Oi Order.
 Circuit Clerk Edgar Brewster. can didate for she~iff in opposition to Sheriff (. NJ. Philpot. who seeks re, election, introduced a resolution pro- Viding for the election of the iudees by the two candidates for sheriff who after naming one judge each, should select the third judge by drawing the a hat This resolution was approved by W. l. Davis. Of Dunnington town ship, who seconded Mr. Brewstor's motion 10 adopt it.
 Thf resolution of Mr. Brewster fol- lows
 That the sub committee appointed 10 hold this election be instructed to select the judges and clerks in the following manner:
 First The two candidates for sheriff shall be permitted to select enc judge each for each voting pro. cinct in this county.
 Second-The third judge shall he elected for the First and Third wards of the city of Pine Bluff by writing the names Of said wards on two slips of paper and placing them in hat. and allowing the two candidates for sheriff to draw one slip each: and the candidate fer sheriff drawing the slip of paper containing the name of the First ward on it. shall be permitted to name the third judge for the said First ward and the other candidate shall be permitted to name the third judge for the Third ward or vice versa. The judges for the Second and Fourth wards in the city of Pine Bluff to be then selected in the same man. her.
 Third The name of each other Not- ing precinct in the county. at which | ten upon a separate piece of paper, all placed ill a hat and the two can didates for sheriff shall draw alter nate one slip each out of said hat. un- til all are taken and each candidate for sheriff shall name the third judge. for each voting precinct in the county which he has thus drawn.
 Fourth-The two candidates for county judge shall be permitted to name one clerk each for each voting preclnct and ward in the county to serve at said election. Any other candidate not thus represented shall be allowed to have a representative in the polling place and at the count ing of ballots
 Judge Gould declared that the re- solution was direct reflection on the honesty and fairness of the sub committee to select the judges and clerks. MT. Brewster said he merely asked for a flair deal'' and that it was his intention to reflect on no one person or committee,
 He said he had been in politics long enough to know that there were ad- vantages by having two judges to one. He displayed the rules governing the last county primary election, which provided that each candidate for sheriff be. permitted to select one judge each. Judge kerwin also op posed the resolution and argued that