The log cabin Democrat., 1914-04-01
THEFT OF PO|NSFTT COUNTY
 GIVES CLARKE LEAD OF 2}I

"The Going certificate is signed by
 Clyde Going, as chairman of the
 county convention, by H. B Thorn as
 secretary of the county convention,
 and who is also said to be secretary
 of the County Central Committee,
 and by J. c. Hooten, as chairman of the new County Central Committee. Rule 35 of the State Democratic Central Committee requires that cer- tificates in United States senatorial races in the various counties shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the old Central Committee and for warded to the secretary of the State Central Committee.
 1t will be noted that, at best, this certificate is illegal, as it does not con- tain the name of the chairman of the old County Central Committee, whose name is Marion Hazel. The names of Clyde Going and J. c. Hooten, which appear signed to this so-called certif- cate are mere surplusage and add nothing whatever to its validity. In fact, it is no certificate at all, in the absence of the signature of the chair man and secretary of the old County Central Committee.
 Sections 34 and 35 of the rules and regulations of the State Demo- cratic Central Committee, as hereto fore stated, require the tabulation of the vote for United States senators and state officers to be certified to the secretary of the State Central Con- mittee. This committee has never yet
 met in Poinsett county; the vote has never been counted and tabulated by the committee, and no certificate. has ever been made. The chairman of this committee states that the com
 mittee has never met. that he has
 never seen the vote that was cast and
 knows nothing in the world about it.
 These are the facts, and the proof is in my possession.
 T desire to call special attenion to the fact that in 1913 for the taxes of 1912 there was paid total poll taxes for the white race in Poinsett county HAP and for the negro race 95. The certificate of State Auditor L. L. Coff- man is as follows:
 ]" Little Rock, Ark, March 31, 1914. State of Arkansas,
 {" County of Pulaski.
 I, L. L. Coffman, auditor of the state of Arkansas, do hereby certify that the annual settlement of ]. c. Hooten, sheriff and collector of Poin- sett county, filed in my office August |12, 1913, only shows total polls col flected from white race, 1,442; total polls collected from colored race, 95, for the year 1912.
 II. l.. CoHman, ]" Auditor for State of Arkansas.' ]" Under the law, only those were qualified to vote in this election who had paid their poll taxes at the time named in the auditors certificate.
 Thus, it will be seen that accord ing to the original report of the vote given by the Gazette's correspondent at Harrisburg, the total vote in Poin- sett county was 1901, which is 459 votes more than the total poll taxes paid in that county by white voters. According to the Going certificate, there was 1871 votes polled in the county, which is 529 more votes than poll taxes paid by white persons in the county, and ASA votes more than polls paid by both white persons and negroes.
 Special attention is called to the fact that this same J. C. Hooten, who made this settlement filed in the aud itor's office, showing the poll taxes paid in Poinsett county in 1913, is the same J. c. Hooten who is now in Lit tie Rock with Clyde Going attempt ing to put over certificate of cleo tion showing 529 votes more than the white poll taxes paid in his county. On the very face of these facts, this certificate, by which it is now at tempted to take away from me an election honestly won, is not only void but fraudulent.
 "It illustrates the tactics that have been and are still being used in order to defeat the will of the people, ex- pressed by their vote.
 T repeat in all sincerity that by the honest vote of Arkansas I have been elected United States senator by the official vote returned and am en-