Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-04

Democratic convention.
 By ratifying the action of the stat,
 central committee, tee convention in
 dicated it was very much pro-Clarke
 While it was expected that the tempo
 rary officers would De made perma
 nent, it was not thought that the Clarke majority would be near SC
 large.
 P. R. Andrews of Phillips moved
 that the temporary chairman and sec
 retary be made permanent. J. D Head of TeXarkana offered substi tute, placing in nomination E. o. Ma
 honey, of 'Texarkana for permanent chairman and Sheriff William G. Hut ton of Little Rock for permanent secretary. 9*r
 kirbyites Had Two Candidates.
 Before vote on the substitute mo- tion was taken Judge J. M. Carter of Texarkana addressed the delegates and asked that if the name of Ma of the majority, he would ask that T. c. McRae of Prescott be named as per- manent chairman. He said that Mr. McRae was a Clarke supporter, but was {. man whose honesty could not be squestioned.
 l. Judge Carter said that he went to Senator Clarke's headquarters Tues day afternoon and asked that Mir. Mc- Rae be made chairman. Senator Clarke, he, said, told him that he was one hour late, but asked him to come back in an hour and they would take the matter up again. This, had been done after the temporary officers had been elected, Senator Clarke told Judge Carter that he did not think it fair to those who had been elected to consider another.
 After Judge ,Carter's Speech Senator Clarke said that had MT. McRae's .hame been brought to his attention one hour earlier he would have been glad to consider it..
 Name Contest Committee.
 A petition was presented asking that a committee of seven be appointed to arrange for the contest, ,sof, Judge Kirby against Senator Clarke, for the United States senatorship. Chairman Elliott appointed E. c. Honor of Phillips, Wood Rainwater, Conway; Allen Win ham, Miller; Ernest Neill, sIndepend- ence; Jas. R Gotham, Drew; Isaac Mcclellan, Grant, and T. I. Herrn, Sharp. F 1.-The meeting wal ealled to order at 1925. Secretary w. G. Hutton called the roll Of the setenty-five counties and alls answered. When the county of Poinsett wa scaled Senator Clyde Going answered and met with an ova- 'tiOn which continued for several min utes. .sJuageSW. E!Turby, Frank Pace, Jul ius c. Clary and party occupied the lower right box and on their entrance were greeted with cheering.
 On the arrival of Senator Clarke he was greeted with cheering that lasted for several minutes. He and his party occupied the second box on the left side. The box adjoining Senator Clarke's was occupied by Mrs. J. M. Elliott Mrs. Jo Nichol, Mrs. Sue Trip lett, Mrs. Sam Williamson, Mrs. c. H. Triplett, Jr., Mrs. w. F. Coleman, Miss Julia Houston and Miss Rosalie Phil pot Chas. Triplett and Wm. Nichol
 Senator sJQe T. Robinson's box was given over to his family and friends and he was seated in the parquet with the Lonoke delegation.
 Gov. George w. Hays and his party occupied the first box on the left side. Thf party was composed of Reuben c. Dye. state land commissioner; John T. lBurkett of Camden and Harry Har- ris, state senator from Clarendon.
 A motion was made that the creden- tiais of the state central committee be adopted, which was unanimously done.
 < McCOmbs Wires Regrets.
 Judge E. J. .Kerwin of Pine Bluff and Steele Hays of Russellville were selected as reading secretaries, who read all the resolutions which were presented to the convention. The fol- lowing telegram was read to the con- vention by Judge .Kerwin:
 Meyer Solmson:-Pray extend my best wishes to the members of the state Democratic convention and ex- press my great. appreciation of the honor which the committee has done me and' my affectionate regards for everything that is Arkansan.-W. F.. McC ComDsgc'
 P K sndrews of Phillips presented hissrsport on delegates and alternates to the convention, which was accepted.
 Jadge ElHOtt's Address.
 "Mr. chairman and gentlemen of thehcGnvention:
 Politics has its lights as we'll as it's shadows The man who wins a vic tory in a Democratic election in Ar kansas deserves his honor. May the Lord have mercy on the loser. I am of the opinion that oftentimes the winner is The loser and the loser the winner,l The victor can afford to be and good samaritan, butt the loser should have sense enough ito have his mouth shut. have nd patience with man going around sniffing and complaining with grievance. General Robert E. Le" never paraded his sorrows and the peerless leader. William J. Bryan, never complained.
 Gentlemen of the convention thank the state central committee for the ; distinguished honor conferred upon me, conferred upon the citizens of Pine Bluff and Jefferson county. I kn Loi