The Green Forest tribune., 1914-04-03
AT0R|AL RACE WILL BE FORGED
 70 CONVENTION
 d Kirby Ran Neck and
 nd Contest Seems
 inevitable.
 1a1S LEAD ONLY l89  EARLE w. HODGES LEADS TICKET OF OPPOSED CANDIDATES BY
 NEARLY 60,OoO. HOFFMAN AND COOK VICT0RS z
 Tillman, oIdfield and Goodwin Are the Winners in the Congressional ' Fights.
11.S LEAD ONLY l89
EARLE w. HODGES LEADS TICKET OF OPPOSED CANDIDATES BY
 NEARLY 6o,0oo.
HOFFMAN AND COOK VICT0RS
Tillman, OIdfieid and Goodwin Are the
 Winners in the Congressional ' Fights.
rn Newspaper Union News Service. Etla Rock With q dicn11to

Ftle Rock-W1th dispute as to Official vote of Poinsett county, As ciate Justice w. F. Kirby seems to winner over Senator James P Clarke by the narrow margin of 1S9 votes in total of 135,689. The vote was officially counted in all the caun- ties Monday, and the result gave Kirby v total of 67,939, and Clarke 67.750. peculiar condition exists in Poin- sett county, where the County Central Committee canvassed the vote and cer- titled it to the county convention as a Clarke 1,2S6, Kirby e15. The statement fas accredited to L. Clyde Going, hairma' the county convention, lever, lat the official figures were Ike 1,621, Kirby 450, and that they }lld be so certified to the state con- ssntion. Should the Poinsett vote be ertified as Going indicates, it would ve Clarke a lead of little more an 300 in the'state.
 This has been the most remarkable lntest for the Uaited States enate he history of Arkansas pos4ucs and
 etA vote so esose betweens
 Ading candidates that it will
 into the State Central Con-
 Il undoubtedly thence into emocrai State Convention at Huff.
 ator Clarke's majority of several aand on the face of the returns, and unofficial, Thursday morn Ngindied on additional returns un- few hours Saturday afternoon SC Kirby was in the lead, at one me more than 800. Then there began kgame of see-saw, now one ahead, now he other, until the partisans of both Sandidates, save the er-enthusiastic p followed Blaine's policy, "Claim Nthing, concede nothing" agreed Nas anybody's race, and that no bes N tell the outcome.
 The Nturns show that Kirby carried counties and that Clarke carried 34, ich the Kirby partisans contend pld give their candidate the balance power should the contest be forced the state convention to be decid-
 gate vote.
 We're Constantly Revised.
 of the missing precincts
 Acounties, day after day,
 Slrns slowly drifted in.
 te mountain districts
 Sfk townships at the
 k, the vacillating to-
 trke and the Kirby
 btantly revising their
 ty the most imagina-
 lnagers could predict
 any degree of cer- se,lo- sof it all, claims poured rom the headquarters of the two 5andidates in diminuendo, and original Spredictions of landslides for either by maiorities ranging anywhere from 15,- 900 to 30,0O0, diminished to 10000, to 5000, to 500, and even smaller leads, as the facts forced themselves upon Ae the people that it was one of the clos est contests ever known in the state. Will Force 1t Into the Convention. In view of these conditions, it was admitted, finally, that whatever totals might show as reported by the official canvass, the vote would be so close, I that it would necessarily go to the ] Central Committee and then to the resident Wilson Resents Insult. Nashington.-On the eve of the vote