Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-03

presidents and secretaries ot the 1 township associations yet to be or 2anizcd The legal committee is com posed If Asa Oracle, Arthur Murray, T. s. James, J. G. Taylor II. NJ. Dial, T J. Collier and F. J. Quattlcbaum. President Collier stated that it
 ot,ld require q great amount Of mo-
 Y to fight the District in the courts and he asked for subscriptions from these present He headed the list with $1h0 and other amonp equally as large were listed. Ah hso. ,aotls- aid dollars was raised to pay cJun- scl and wage the fight. Attorney Asa C. Oracle urged those who had signed the Fridge petition to withdraw their names. He said that the fight re2tcn
 ntircly on the ability of the TaXpay- ars to show Inc court that the Bridge Commission has q less number of signcrs to their petition than those NlD SISii lllt' illl-bl l'lt1t ptlitiuli II ths is shown, he said, there is, no Go1bt but that the Taxpayers can prevent tlle formation of the Free Bridge Improvement district. as pro- vide din the Free Bridge bill.
 Speeches were made by D. w. Royce, J. w. Merriam, Oscar Mckenzie, G E Lytle, D. l.. Tiimble, l. G. Taylor, John M Glacie and others.
 When the tilt occurred between P P Byrd and J. c. Taylor number of the ladies present arose and left the building. OCthors prepared to do so, Eut Chairman Collier urged them to renain and assuled them that there would no rebetition of the incident.
 Extracts From Bylaws.
 The object of the organization shall be to protect the property holders of JeffersCn county against increase or unjust. taxation and unfair legislat- ion and to endeavor to see that all monies raised by taxation shall be economically expended by the various county officials, who shall have been elected to fill county oflices3 and to endeavor to the extent of Ats ability to elect competent, homo btble and trustworthy men to office. The off, eers of the association are to serve two years.
 N An annual meeting will be held the faarth3flay cfsJuly each year at some place selected by the president or exe- 'cutive committee. If the fourth of July is Sunday the meeting will be held the following day. The association shall be strictly Democratic, according the princi- ples laid down by Thomas Jefferson; no Independent candidate shall be pu. out or endorsed for office, and, an en- dorsement by this association shall cnly be for candidates to be nominat- ed in atregular Democratic primary election.
 The officers of the association shall receive no compensation for their ser- vices. There shall be no membership fee and all constitutions to the asso- ciations shall be voluntary
 < The association is unqualifiedly against ballot box stuffing OF any method of fraud used in an election, end will assist in. prosecuting all persons guilty or supposed to be gull fy of such acts to the full extent of its ability.
 This association shall. stand for the protection of the laboring man and small property owner'against an, and all methods of. oppression
 ! Endorsements fo.. offices shall be, made only by the executive commit tee and in voting on endorsements of candidates for office each township in Jefferson county and each ward in the city of Pine Bluff shall be. entitled to three votes, two of which may he cast by proxy by either the township or ward president secretary CT treas. urer, and ill case of a tie vote, the deciding vote is to be caet by the president. s3is r
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