The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-05-13
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE
TlECEkT town PRIMARY
HEsf. Frank P. Shields Gives His Yer
sion. Dr.. H. ]. Clark, Chairman,
Also Makes Statement.

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night, Apri! Goth. The convention
YVES called to order by the Chair
! man, Dr. II. [. Clark, and immedi-
ately DR.. Clark was made permanent
Chairman, and Mr.. A. L. Purring-
ton was elected Secretary.
The convention then proceeded to
nominate q candidate for Mayor
Dr. j E Shields being the only per-
son placed before the convention, he
was nominated by acciamation.
The next thing in order was the
nomination Of four town commits
sjoners. It appeared that there were
xix men who had been thought of /
fer commissioners. and in due time
their names were placed before the
convention by DIR. A. c. Livernon
The men were Messrs. r. NJ john
son. Stuart Smith, n. B. Josey, N
&, Winslow, j. H. Kitchin and H.
T. Clark.
Upon motion Of Mr.. A. P. Ktchin
| Ut was decided to have every man go
f; I'D to the front and east his ballot.
At this point the question arose as
! t. what ticket should be used. There
| appeared to be two tickets which had
been scattered through the crowd,
| one having the names Of Messrs. n
! B Josey, L Il, kitchln, Stuart
|. Smith and Il. z. l1insiow. The
! other ticket had the names of ali six
nominees upon it. Mr.. A. P. kltcIlin
| suggested that the voters use either
ticket or tickets, just SO that they
Hid rot vote for more than four per
Il sons-that they could vote for enc,
Two, three and four. DR.. A. c..
| Iivermon endorsed the idea Of Mr..
|! hitcll.n.
4 Mr.. w. II. White was recognized
by the Chsirman, and he moved that
| the ballot containing six names be
/. accepted IS the ballot that the con-
| vsntion would use and that each per-
: son could scratch out two or mere
II 4aanas and vote FL, the others.
/. There was some discussion On this
| / motion.
II At this point the Rev. r. A NJ c
II FarIaud arose and made an earnest
- plea that the convention select the
g strongest men in town as commits
sianers. and that they sI7o:}ld be Sc
iected, no. because they belonged te
any faction, but because they hac
ability ard the interest Of the towr
- at heart, and he strongly advocated
hat the convention should salect ;
ticket. or method IF voting, that n
~. man could question after the con
veafion was ever He referred t
u the, fact that in the primaries il
which ha had voted il Virginia an4
-- Kentucky, that The names of al! tn
c3ndidates were on one ticket. an
ire voters struck cut the names c
ina tae persons they did rot desire t
, g vote for.
at At this point Mr.. A. P. KtchI
asked Mr.. Mcfarland what obje'
ton there was to 3 block ticket.
answer, sir. Mcfarland stated Sc
eral objections to block ticket, b'
ina that he was sure neither side he
ICES t:}arra5 Of these objections wne
getting cut the tickets with fo1
names on them. He emphasize
the fact that every man IN Scot!aI
Neck was capable of fixing up h
ma own ticket ana should have tn
ecu privilege.
When Mr.. Mcfarland took /
seat Mr.. Kitchin arose and SAID tn
MIR. Mcfarland bad implied II
there were voters who were not ca
lima able Of selecting their own tiche
over and went on to eulogiZa the men
ones Scotland Neck.
Mr. Mcfarland Immediately
sDoptlea that iLr. Kitchin had mis-
terpreted hirn-that be only answ
;. ed Mr.. Kitchin's question by st
'ii'a ING some objections to block tt
USED ct. and that he had taken pactl
lar pains to state that Of course
persons getting out the tex
which had been circulated did
;, even think Of these objections.
= = = .n a+ Furthermore emphasized again
f the fact that every man III ocosi
asses Neck was not only capable or ~
his own ticket, but that he sh'
Il have that privilege. Mr.. AS
Dunn followed in a splendid addl
alma advocating the position taken oy
ebead Mcfarland.
} to / At this point the Convention
nanded a vote on Mr.. Whites
II tion. The vote was taken and
convention decided by vote OF
to "A to adapt the ticket with al
: J..., 49, raues o.. it, as the ticket 70 be
ork in the Convention.