The log cabin Democrat., 1914-06-11
ELLIOTT D|SCUSTS EVEN CLARKE MEN CHAIRMAN WAS UNFAIR RETURNING DELEGATES DIS CUSS PEACEFUL SCENES AT
 PINE BLUFF.
From Fridays Daily

From Fridays Daily
 That the Democratic convention at Pine Bluff was so farciful and grotes- 1 que that it was humiliating even to the dominant Clarke forces, is the opinion of the delegation from Faulk- ner county, the members of which re- turned to Conway last night and this morning. Chairman Elliott's ill-ad- jvised speech and his arbitrary rulings were so unfair and prejudiced that even the Clarke men were disappoint- ed in him, and the senator himself threatened to throw him out of the chair just before the close of the con- vention yesterday. Judge P. H. Prince, one of the leading Clarke sup porters of Faulkner county, was thor oughly disgusted with Chairman FL liott's performances and said the choice of Elliott for presiding officer was a most unfortunate one.
 From the time he made his opening speech, declaring that it was "a Clarke convention" and that Kirby should keep his mouth shut" until the motion to adjourn was put and carried, Elliott discarded all forms of parliamentary procedure and con- ducted the convention as if the ac- credited delegates who happened to favor Kirby's candidacy were inter- lopers and had no right to take part in the proceedings, according to one of the local delegates. The climax Icame when shortly before adjourn iment yesterday afternoon he defeated w G. Hutton, the popular sheriff of Pulaski county, lo1 reelection as sec retary of the State Sentral Commit tee, after Chancery Clerk Jack Ma loney of Little Rock, Hutton's per sonal friend, had withdrawn his name in opposition to him. Judge w. M. k&vanaugh, Clarke leader and the head of Pulaski countys delegation, pleaded for the retention of Hutton, but Elliott, determined to wipe the slate clean of every sign of opposi- ton to Clarke, declared Maloney elected by exclamation and refused to allow the convention to vote on the question.
 The platform is probably the most crudely written document ever put out by the Democracy of Arkansas. It was evidently hastily written by some one ignorant both of the doc trines of the party and of the Eng IIish language, but was adopted with out discussion or opposition.
 A feature which caused much hu- initiation to Judge Kirby and his
 friends was the manner in which his delegates deserted him when they found that Clarke would control the convention Delegations from many counties which were carried by Kirby voted solidly with the Clarke organ i ization on every point.
 The only man who made real i'm pression on the convention, according to the returning delegates, was for mer Congressman s. Brundidge of 1 Searcy, who denounced the fragrant l frauds which defeated him for gov ernOr last summer and which set
 aside the vote of a majority of the l people Tn the Senatoral race. M IT, 1 Brundidge was appointed chairman of a committee to draft a law for fair elections and this bill will, in all prob ability, be enacted by the next legis- lature.
 Pine Bluff, despite the intense heat, took good care of the big convention it is stated and the city received many compliments on it's arrange ments for the entertainment of the visitors.
 Nearly all of the members of the
 State Democratic Central Committee were rewarded for their stand in ia
 vor of Clarke by being reelected
 June P Wooten of Little Rock, rep l ,ocont;,,o tho Eifth cnnnres sSinnal dis.