The Harrison times., 1914-04-25
WOOD CERTIFIED
AS THE NOMINEE
T. j. RANEY's REQUEST FOR SEC
oND PRIMARY IN ARKANSAS
WAS RULED OUT.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Little Rock-The Democratic Cen
trail Committee decided before adjourn
ment to certify to the various railroad
district conventions to be held at Pine
Bluff simultaneously with the state
convention in June, the result in each
contest. In the northern and south
ern districts there was no controversy
over theresult the names OF j. sam
Rowland for the northern district and
w. f. Mcknight for the southern dis
trict, having been certified as the
nominees without contest
In the northern district Senator T.
]. Raney of Independence county,
sought to have the certification delay
ed pending the result of second pri
mary in Arkansas county which he re-
uuested the state committee to order
owing to the fact that Raneys name
was left off the ballots in several pre-
cincts.
Chairman Walls ruled this resolu'
tion out OF order, on the ground that
the matter rests wholly with the
Democracy Of Arkansas county On
the face of returns which had been
certified to the State Committee 7. e.
Wood Of Mariana, publisher OF the
Lee County Courier and president OF
the Arkansas Press Association, was
shown to have a plurality over Sena-
tor Raney, his nearest opponent, OF
1,754. However, two counties, Jack
son and Mississippi, had not officially
reported on this race, but 1t was
known that Senator Raney had carried
both these counties by majorites
which reduced Woods lead to approx
mately 1,1OO
Woods plurality in Arkansas county
was approximately 700, leaving him
little over 400 head with the entire
vote OF Arkansas county thrown out
His friends took the position that since
Mr. Wood was proven to have had no
hand in the omission Of Raneys name
from the ballots in single precinct, 1t
was hardly fair now to force him to
the expense and trials of second pri'
mary, especially since Major Bellamy
would hardly be a factor in the race
owing to the fact that he was known
to be defeated,
The vote in the precincts where Ra'
ney's name was on the ballots was a
little over 60 per cent Of the county's
total vote, and the total vote in those
precincts where Raney's name did not
appear on the ticket, IL all cast for
Raney, would be insufficient to give
him plurality over the Mariana can
did0te,
with those facts In mind and cog
nl2ant of n petition from more than
hundred representative Democrats Of
Arkansas county praying that no Sec
ond primary be held, the committee
certified the returns to the district
convention and left the Arkansas eoun.
ty matter alone to Arkansas county
Ronoy had a signed request from
the chaIrmon Of the old and new coun'
ty central committees that the roce
be run over In that county, and based
his resolution ordering second pri'
mary on this request Many Democrats
from Arkansas county were present at
the meeting Of tho state central com
mtteo and urged against the second
primary on the ground that the result
would be unchanged and that a full
vote could not be expected with no
other interest than that manifested In
the race for railroad commissioner II
was argued that II was impossible now
to secure q foiror expression, than al
ready existed Of the sentiment Of the
county on this race, as It existed on
March 25th,