Judsonia weekly advance., 1913-07-02
PLAN ID COMPEL
 CONTEST HEARING
MANDATORY DECREE ASKED FOR BY COL. BRUNDlDGE FOLLOW
 ING RUMOR.
WAS COMPLETE SURPRISE
Judee Hays Answers Formal Notice in Remarkable Statement and Union
 County Is Heard From.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 Little Rock.-Hon. Stephen Brun- didge sprang a surprise in his appli- cation for mandatory injunction to direct and compel the Democratic State Central Committee to hear and determine contest of the returns of the gubernatorial primary election. Official notice of this intended action before Chancellor Martineau was serv- ed on Judge Hays as follows:
 Honorable George ". Hays: You are hereby respectfully notified that the undersigned will present to the Honorable John Martineau, chancellor Of the First Chancery district of Ark ansas, at chambers, at the hour of 9 o'clock on Monday, the 30th day of June, 1913, petition for a mandatory injunction to direct and compel the Democratic Central Committee of the state of Arkansas to hear and deter mine a contest upon the returns of the primary electio1 held in this state for the nomination of the office of gov ernor by the Democratic party on the 21st day of June, 1913, which said con test will by me be filed before said committee on said Monday, the 30th day of June, 1913,
 Respectfully,
 (signed> s. Brundidge.
 By Hal L. Norwood and Joseph M. Stayton, attorney"
 Col. Brundidge was said to have de eided on this course as a result of ru- mors in circulation that an effort would be made before the State Cen tral Committee to table his contest pc tition.
 Members of the State Central Com mittee are: A. J. Walls of Lonoke, chairman, w. G. Hutton of Little Rock, secretary: Lewis Barton of Marion, Lehman Kay of Salem, Ben E. Nc Perrin of Boxley, William H. Rector of Fort Smith, J. NJ Courtney of Nor rilton. R. w Wilson of Monticello, J. H. Parker of Camden, P. R. Andrews Of Helena, L. c. Going of Harrisburg, Sam Deener of Batesville, F. F. Free man Of Rogers, J. M Martin of Russell vile, June P. Wooten of Little Rock, Claude Mann of Malvern, J. D. Head of Texarkana, A. D. DuLaney Of Ash down, John w. Richardson of Warren, w. F. Coleman of Pine Bluff, John W. Howell of Fort Smith, c. R. Benson of Camden, J. A. Thomas of. Cljils.. ljl. ts1si,- ti, Ii s. Tssrnbf oesfN A J. Witt of Pc.
 rontas, H. S. Traylor of Conway, aud C. P. Wilmington of Hot Springs.
 Judge Hays Answer.
 Judge Hays received formal notice Of this step and issued this statement to the public:
 Another notice has been served on me today. Two notices of an inten- ton to contest my election had already been served. The notice served to- day is to the effect that on Monday morning at o'clock Mr. Brundidge will ask Chancellor Martineau to make an order on the State Central Commit tee commanding the committee to con sider his contest and give him time to prepare his case. He is evidently grasping at every straw he sees float ing on the surface of the water. Either he assumes, without the slightest evi- dence to support it, that the commit tee will not do its duty, or he knows that his case is so weak that the com mittee will not find sufficient in his charges to justify an investigation. His flounderings would be intensely amusing if they were not prompted by 8 desire on his part to disrupt the has, two or three times recently, de clined to gratify his ambition to hold office. Neither he nor his friends even pretend to hope that he may at any time be declared the nominee for governor by this contest His friends state openly that they know he will not be declared the nominee but they l boldly asserted that the time is so short | between the meeting of the committee and date the nominee will have to be l certified out by the secretary of state I that by their numerous proceedings in courts and before the committee they can so delay the matter as 10 pre- vent my name being certified out as 1 the nominee and force my friends to have my name placed on the ticket along with his, without the designa tion that am the nominee, te which am entitled by the vote of the Demo erats at the primary election last Sat urday.
 My competency is such aha n;y love for and loyalty to the Democratic
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