The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-05
DECLARES HE WILL NOT REST UNTIL PRESENT ELECTION
 LAW IS CHANGED.
WAS AUTHOR OF THE LAW
Charges That Since Law Was Placed on the Statute Books 1t Has Been Used by Officials to Perpetuate Themselves in Office.
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 Pine Bluff, June 4-In an emphatic and as pointed delunciation as could lall from the lips of man, United States Senator James P. Clarke today repudiated the stats election law that he had himself written, charged gov ernors with having used this election law, designed to protect the white people from negro domination, as a means to blackmail commissioners
 into fraudulent actions to perpetuate themselves in office, and stated that he would see that the election law Of today was changed if he had to carry the fight to every corner of the state.
 He said that for the long honor the people of Arkansas had conferred on him he felt an obligation to the oeop Q. and that this obligation would ae met when he had given his time
 O the changing of the election law so that it could no longer he used as a tool but that it would be a safeguard throughout the state for the protection of the voice of the people
 This came in the closing speech Senator Clarke made to the conyen- ton that by a vote of 469 to l63 said that the Democratic State Central Committees finding relative to the Kirby contest should be upheld
 Litte Rock secured the next state democratic convention through the announcing of viva voce vote taken, when it was apparent to many that Hot Springs had the strongest sup port. Leo Mclaughlin made the short speech inviting the next com yention to Hot springs. He had voted throughout the proceedings with the Kirby forces, as had a majority of tho Garland county delegation, after Sen ator Clarke had carried the county. Joe Hardidge of Clarke county, who had carried his forces with the pres ent convention organization asked that the next convention be held in Little Rock
 Chairman Jack Walls of Lonoke was again elected chairman of the state committee He is the personal and political friend of United States Sen ators Clarke and Robinson. Jack Ma loney of Little Rock was elected sec. retary of the state committee over his protests, and after he had nominated for reelection. Bin Hutton of Little Rock, but the chairman put the ques- tion of Maloney's candidacy before the house, and declared Aim elected over his declaration that he did not want the office. Hutton had been an active and aggressive supporter Of Kirby throughout the committees considera. ton of the contest and in this con vention, while Maloney had been Clarke supporter
 On the roll call vote deciding the contest, which Clarke won by the de cisive vote of 4G9 to 1G3, the Garland county vote was declared by Gilbert Hogaboom to he seven for Kirby and three for Clarke. The three who sup ported the Clarke resolution were Judge Gotham, Sorrells and Rigsbee Mr Moore who voted with these on the opening day was absent at the morning session.
 It is pain that as an echo of this convention the lines are clearly drawn for the next political battle in Ar kansas Senators Robinson and Clarke and progressive politics, as against Governor Hays, Judge Kirby. Smead Powell and the others of their following
 It was by vote of tG3 to l69 that the Kirby-Clarke contest was finally disposed of in the state convention al noon, and just previous to the adjourn ment of the morning session. The eli max and the vote was not taken, however, until some lively scenes were enacted on the floor of the con yention.
 Chairman Homer of the committee to decide the contest for the convel- tion, submitted the majority report, which in brief was that the work or the state central committee be taken as final in the matter of he investi- gation of the Kirby charges.
 Allen Windham read the minority report which asked the convention to Iame a committee to go to Poinsett