The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-07-30
WALLS OPPOSED TO
NEW PRIMARY BILL
State Committee Chairman Won'1
Support Measure That Aims
Blow at the Machine.

be submitted to the voters at the
1916 election is being aroused, since
it has been demonstrated that there
didates.
Stephen Brundidge of Searcy ex-
poets to have his primary election
bill initiated. Petitions will begin
to appear for it's initiation soon, it
is said. Numerous democrats say
they will oppose the bill unless GER
tain clauses contained in the bill
defeated in the legislature are
stricken from the initiated measure.
One of them is submission of pri-
mary contests to circuit courts.
A. ]. Walls, chairman of the
state central committee, declares
the democrats of the state never
will consent 20 such a change.
mo true democrat will support
a measure that transfers a contest
between two democratic candidates
from the state central committee to
circuit court, to be ruled on by
one man." said Mr.. Walls recently.
Democrats have enough faith in
their central committees, county
and state, to allow them to pass
on contests"
Another section contained in the
original bill that will meet opposi-
ton should it be contained in the
initiated measure is that COMPEL
| ing all parties nominating candi-
dates to nominate them through
primaries. 1t is pointed out that
such a law would prevent the re-
publicans and other minority par
ties from putting candidates in the
field. The expense would be pro-
hibitive.
DR.. A. B. Bishop, whose bill
seeking to compel the state to print
and distribute free of charge text
books to the school children of the
state, met such disastrous defeat in
the last legislature, has been quot
ed as saying that he will take the
bill before the people for initiation.
NO MORE AMENDMENTS.
There can be no more constitu-
tional amendments submitted to
the secretary of state for places on
the ballots next election, for the
constitutional limit of three has
been reached One of them, If
adopted, will lift the bar, however
and allow any number to be sub
mitted in following elections. 1t
is a proposed amendment to the in
itiative and referendum amendment
itself. and was initiated by the
Federation of Labor. Another pro-
posed constitutional amendment, in
itiated by the department of edu-
cation, would raise the maximum
tax levy for schools from seven to
twelve mills, while the third, sub
mitted by the legislature on a res
olution introduced by Senator j.
M. Futrell of Paragould, would pro-
vide for the issuance of bonds to
build county highways.
THREE FOR ATTORNEYSHIP.
Lewis Rhoton's announcement
Saturday night that he would be
candidate for attorney general
sweIls the list of aspirants for that
place to three. M. P. Huddleston
of Paragould and j. d. Arbuckle OF
Fort Smith are the other two. 9th
ers have been mentioned but Mr..
Huddleston and Mr.. Arbuckle have
made announcements.
Politicians and state officials say
there is little probability of former
State Senator Yopp of Hazen be-
coming a gubernatorial candidate.
Mr.. Yopp, it is said, has consld-
cred entering the race, and was re-
ported to have been in conference
Saturday night with friends CT A.
J. Walls, United States marshal and
himself probable candidate for
the office.
CONFERENCE QUIET.
eff Mr.. Yopp was In conference
with any of my friends the confer
ence was kept very quiet" Mr..
Walls said yesterday so far as
I know he was not in conference
with any of my friends. | know
he wasn't in conference with me.
I didn't see him at all.
eve are organizing to fight the
expected move of the liquor men to
repeal the statewide prohibition
measure through an initiative petit
ton, and organizations are being
perfected throughout the state,