The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-01-07
LEGISLATURE
OPENS MONDAY
VANGUARD OF LEGISLATORS Ar,
RIVE EARLY
SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST WARM
Legislative Politics are Thick Enough
to Culinary Candidates for
Office-Presidency of Senate
in Doubt.


in Doubt.
Little Rock-The Thirty
General Assembly of Arkansas will
convene next Monday The vanguard
OF the legislators has begun arriving
ana a majority of the candidates for
office in the legislature have estab-
lshed themselves in headquarters.
Organization Is now the talk OF the
| hour
Indications are chat the Thirty-sev-
! euth Assembly will see one Of the
hottest fights for speakership OF the
lower branch in years. A large mum
Der Of candidates for speaker and an
apparently determined spirit ON the
part of each 10 capture he coveted
position is expected to result in a race
that may go down in state political
annals as record breaker.
Basing their forecas. on the fact
that there are many candidates Tor
speaker in the field, and that there Is
not even a rumor of deal, politl-
clans who are in touch with situation
declare that they expect long Pc
Rod of balloting before the speaker
is finally elected
There are eight candidates for
speaker. They are: Epps Brown of
Prairie county, a d. DuLaney of Lit
tie River county T. b. Parks of La
fayette county A. c. Martin of Yell
county. J. S. Combs of Madison coun-
~ Oscar VIM Of Pulaski county, W.
b. Owens of Miller county and T..N.
Kendall of Johnson county.
In the race for president OF the sen
ate. there are only two candidates.
Jesse Martin of Russcllviile and Lee
| Montgomery OF Lafayette county.
Charles e. Bush of FL Paso was an
| announced candidate until recently,
when he withdrew on account OF his
wife's poor health. The interest in
the race for president is anything but
| intense.
The candidates for secretary of the
senate are George Trevathan of Bates
Vile, editor of the Batesyille Guard,
who is a candidate for reelection,
and E. /. McHaney of Warren, former
state corporation clerk.
Bruce Greeson of Conway, I. }.
| Wesson of Hot Springs and Perry
| Chappell OF Prescott are candidates
| for journal clerk of the senate
W. f. Nelson and H. Pinson OF Eel
Dorado are candidates for assistan,
secretary. Mr.. Nelson is candidate
| for reelection.
In the house there are three candi-
dates for chief clerk. b. Higgins
of Conway, Ed Lucas of Osceola and
Frank Dodge of Little Rock.
Ed Stanley of Fordyce and J. F.
Caldwell OF Batesyille are candidates
for assistant chief CLERK.
There are three candidates for jour
nal clerk-Ouo Finley of Lawrence
county, Frank Bates of Scott county
and Ebert Smith OF Hampstead
county.
W. T. Hutchinson of Casa and Ed
ward Gordon of Morrilton are candi-.
dates for assistant journal clerk.
Mrs. Ella b, Hurst of Fayetteville,
wife OF Representative Hurst, and
Miss Minnie V Ward OF Pulaski coun-
~ are candidates for enrolling clerk.
Miss Beulah Taylor OF Salem and
Miss Alma Wilson of Hampstead
county are candidates for engrossing
clerk.
Miss Popsy & Matthews of Jeffer-
son county is "a candidate for post
mistress.
Among The candidates for sergeant
alarms are: Robert Williamson OF
Pulaski county. J. f. Johnson OF Como,
j. d. Williamson Of Union county and
George A. Henry of Altus.
There are numerous Other candi-
dates for such positions as assistant
observation-disclosures and pages.