The log cabin Democrat., 1914-03-19
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 WHO HOLD ELECTION
STATE RULE FORBIDS 1T
ASSESSMENTS LEVIED BY COUNTY COMMITTEE ARE
 OVERRULED.

levied upon state candidates by the Faulkner County Democratic Central Committee have been found to be in violation of the rules of the State Democratic convention and that ii they were collected the entire vote o1 the county would be thrown out, these fees have been abandoned and there will be no funds with which to pay the judges and clerks who serve al the state primary election March 25
 The county committee at it's meet ing some weeks ago adopted resolu- tion that the officers of the primary election should be paid $1 each for their services and appointed sub- committee of Chairman A. L. Nichols, Secretary George Shaw and Treasur- CT Frank Farris to assess the candi- dates a sufficient sum to cover this expense. The state candidates were assessed from S10 to $15 each, but Secretary w. G. Hutton of the State Democratic Central Committee has called attention to the rule of the state convention which makes it ille- gal for a county organization to at tempt to collect more than S1 each from state candidates for this pur- pose. This amount is to be paid to the state secretary, who forwarded a check covering these fees.
 The Faulkner subcommittee were therefore compelled to recede from their position, but Secretary Shaw and Treasurer Farris said today the amounts collected from the district candidates will be sufficient, with the small balance already in the treasury, to cover the cost of printing the bal lots and furnishing the supplies and also to pay $1 to the committeeman or election judge who brings the re- turns to Conway.
 State Secretary Hutton's letter to Treasurer Farris, which is self-ex- planatory, follows:
 Little Rock, March 10, 1914. Hon. Frank Farris, Treasurer County
 Democratic Central Committee,
 Conway, Ark:
 My Dear Sir-On March 4, 1914, we mailed to each of the chairmen of local committees throughout Arkan- sas certificate of candidates, national, state and district, who had qualified to have their names upon the local tickets, and enclosed check to cover fees for printing names of those who, strictly speaking, are state candi- dates, i. e., those whose names are voted upon in the 75 counties of the state. For Faulkner county we sent the certificate and check to Hon. A. l.. Nichols, chairman, Wooster, Ark. To- day he returns the same, with the re- quest that we send it to you, as treas urer.
 In his letter he says "such receipt upon the check might entitle the par ties to have their names upon the ticket without having paid the assess ment made by our county committee.
 Several of the state candidates have advised us that your county commit tee is attempting to charge them SIC as a printing fee. I enclose you here with coupy of the Digest of Rules
 and direct your attention specifically to Sec. 49, where it provides that moi
 more than $1 per state candidate shal be charged, and if higher assess ment is demanded or collected, th'
 county shall not have representation
 in the convention; it follows that suci
 county's vote could not be counted
 one way or the other. The last stat
 convention emphatically directed tn state committee to make such rule. trust, therefore, you will call the at tention of your committeeman to tn |, rule, and have them correct the mat ter. If you have already collecte anything from the state candidates in my judgment, it would be bette for you to return the checks, becaus the check we send you is intended \ cover all fees of such candidates. Tn ] check covers the two candidates fo ElU. s. senator and the 12 candidate for state offices whose names are vo ed upon in the 75 counties. We lei the county committees to fix the al \ sessments for all other candidates, ! e., congressman, railroad commission \ CTS, judges, prosecuting attorney < state senators, etc.
 ( I enclose you herewith the form ' letter accompanying the check al