The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-11
NJ 'NEAL.
FORCES
BUCK
vAUNTED HONEST ELEC-
TIONS CONFERENCE
NOTVERY FRUITFUL
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
is STUMBLING BLOCK
\ wever, Democrats Stand By
Resolutions Calling for
Honest Elections
lstan sneciall

(staff speciaD
FL Reno, Oct. l1--TAe honest
elections" conference OF Democrats,
Republicans and Socialists held here
yesterday resulted IN no tangible re-
suits. McNeal had been making a
campaign on an honest count for
weeks. When the conference met his
fear of an honest count slmnerel
down to a re quest to the Democrats
to recede from the grandfather
clause, This, Of cause was silly and
absurd. Resolutions were introduced
Nv Republican committee.
Following the introduction of the
Republican resolution, Mr. Crnce
said:
Statement BY MIR. cruce
This is not convention OF can
didates but d conference of candi'
dates We INST here 10 agree on
plaL for insurgng a fair election and
the proper way 10 proceed is for eaco
candidate to sign the agreement. AS
said in my letter to Mr., McNeal
10 man advocates more strictly than
myself purity in politics, a fair bal
lot and fair count. ] viii never
consent to an arrangement for open
violation OF the law We are met
here in Individual capacities. Tne
democrats represent, according 70 tne
recent primary returns l25,VOO VoteFs'
the Republicans about 10000 voters
aud ihe Socialists less than l0'OOo
voters. ] propose then that If We are
70 vote on the propositions submitted
that we vote a strength apportoned
according to the strength of the three
parties
Judge Doyle declared that the DEM
ocrats would not consent TO a propo'
siiion that contemplated a violation
of the law and he argued that tle
resolutions contained provisions illat
went beyond the law and sought les'
islatiye enactment as wei as en-
forcenent. the Republicans seeking
to arrogate TO the conference the
dual right OF lawmakne and law en-
forcement.
Not According To Law
Attorney General West dewed lilat
the sect N %. Tie resolution wnWp
CHARGED thai Governor lIasl al 20
wil,ully ignored the law in refusing
H. RECON- % tne hst OF persons sun'
mittcf 40 ..m from which to select a
Renuhllcan member of the state cleo
ton board He insisted that tRe rs
was not submitted in accordance WIN
Nv and that the law was not ignoreo
+ r. Cumbie Socialist candidate TOT
governor, declared that the Socialists
would not stand for that section VI
tbe resolution. Mr. West in making
an argument in favor Of the adoption
of the resolution as amended BY the
Democrats said that the party raw
ors strict enforcement not ohly oi
lie election law but of all laws.
Mr.. cruce moved the adoption
no resolution as amended with the
understanding that each cai.aira,s
sign the document. Mr. Doasou
argued that the section onered py lhe
democrats was extremely argument
atlye and doesn't add anything %
vhat we have offered" Mr.. Cruee re,
nled that the section agreed to az
the provisions of the original reso
intion but was more explicit.
we don't know there is snch
tfing as the grandfather clause. dra
matically exploited Z. D. Browniee' ol
the Republican ranks, and he charged
t,,se democrats with seeking 10 nav
the Republicans endorse the ADMIN
istration. Mrs. Winnie Brandstetter
Socialist candidate for commissioner
az charities. said the grandfather rel
orence was not pertinent, and ina
she honed the matter would be deciu
ed in the courts before the elecuoh'
you can't anticipate all the yiee'
that may be used to circument th'
lnw." declared MIR. West In defendihs
the amendment. He referred :
schemes said to be in the mauhl
whereby negroes in heavily Dlaci
communities are preparing 10 violat'
INC Inv bv forcing their was TO tn'
ballot booths with loaded weapons
.This meeting has no right TO pin,
n partv or an individual, he SAID
I'VE cant make or administer a law
We can sign this instrument am
pledge ourselves TO its fulfillmeht an
none of yon are more anxious 70 4
that than I. We have given our iul
n~ewar in writing You nave no
proposed single thing that can les
.a,iy be done, but some of the thing
Won suggest NAV be valuable, No ia'
Y. known nositIyeiv 10 be valid unit
tl.n courts have passed upon Il, but
Is presumed TO be valid when II
adopted
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