The Sentinel=record., 1914-06-04
DECLARES LOSER IN A RACE SHOULD HAVE SENSE ENOUGH
 TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.
MANY JET IN BAND WAGON
Test Vote Showed Clark Had 446 Votes and Kirby 160-GarIand County Was Split on the Choice for Permanent Chairman.
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 Pine Bluff, June 3-By the over whelmng vote of 44G to lG0 the Clarke organization was sustained in the state democratic convention here today on the first test vote, which came up on the question of making Judge Elliott permanent chairman of the convention He was the Clarke nominee. F. O. Mahoney Of Union county was nominated for chairman by the Kirby forces The vote was taken on a substitute question, and tested the relative strength of Clarke and Kirby before the convention.
 There were some cries of steam TO ler' and there were some inter ruptiona from the Kirby followers, but the taking of this vote with it's oyer- whe'mlng majority fayoring Senator Clarke. left little to be determined thereafter as between these rival forces.
 A motion later prevailed that Judge Elliott shou d select a committee of seven to investigate the Kirby contes, and make it's report. Judge Kirby sat stoicly silent in a theater box garlanded with Old Glory, and wit messed the proceedings. It was but the happenings Of a few minutes, but it gave final answer to the attitude of the democracy of Arkansas in the matter of the contest that had occu- pied SO much of attention for months,
 The Clarke strength was even a surprise to the best advised of his followers Ouachita county voted with the oT2anization Others fo low ed suit. The main support of the Ktr. by camp came from divisions. The roll call had not proceeded half way through before the result was pointed to-
 When Poiasett was called and Clyde Going announced the solid vote for Fl iott. there was storm of mingled cheers and hsses
 Witlin five minutes after Judge John F. Elliott of Pine Bluff had talk en the sayel as temporary chairman of the convention. selected by the state central committee, he had made such a declaration of his position that it was no longer misunderstood. Judge El iott is a man of firm voice, and in addressing the convention he could have been heard distinctly by the crowd that packed the Elks thea tre from pit to dome but for the in terruptions from the Kirby forces.
 The man who wins a victory is en- titled 10 his honor" Judge Elliott said. and the Lord have mercy on the loser Sometimes it happens that the loser is the winner, and the win ner is the loser, but 1 say here" and turning direct to Judge Kirby, who oc- cupled box on the left of the stage, "the loser should have sense enough to keep his mouth shut" This was the signal for a long Interruption from the minority forces. "This is Clarke convention" shouted Judge Elliott. amid the confusion, and then to add to the interruptions, there was a fist fight in the rear of the house between Dr. Alexander and Judge Phlpott, both of this city.
 In speaking of United States Sena. tor James P. Clarke, Judge Elliott pronounced him the "grandest old Roman of them all' and called atten- ton to the fact that Judge Kirby had been given sixty days within which to prove the charges he had made against the Clarke forces, and still he was here with no proof.
 The theatre was decorated with Old Glory, and when Senator Clarke took his seat in box adjoining that of Governor Hays on the right, he was given a rousing ovation. Judge Kirby also was remembered by his friends as he was seated on the opposite side Of the theatre Senator Joe Robinson occupied place on the floor of the convention, and cast the solid vote ol the Lonoke egation for Judge El liott for chairman.
 Mr Andrews of Phillips offered the first resolution, in effect that there he no committee on credentials nam ed, but that the decision of the state committee. or the lists as made up by that body. should be accredited dele gates of the state convention. Tht