The Prescott daily news., 1916-06-09

"El Paso, Texas, 5:43 p. m.,
 June 8-16. -Four States Press,
 "TeXarkana, Texas.
 "Terarkana selected; vote ninety seven to forty.
 McELRATH." 7:13 D. m.
 The above message arriving in Tex a sense of the keenest qualification, as showing that over Galveston and Fort Worth, which cities must of necessity have had strong influence working in their behalf, Texarkana, according to the desires of the local press and many of the business men and commercial organizations of the city had been allotted the pleasure and satisfaction of entertaining the Texas Press Association in 1917.
 The fact that with only four dele gates working as direct representa- tives from Texarkana, the sentiment could be so directed through the eff forts of this hard working, hard fighting quartet that clean majority of fifty-seven votes was the result by which Texarkana won over her two competitors is also source of still further qualification.
 The story of the fight for the 1917 convention is one of the most inter- esting that will ever have been writ ten into the pages of Texas Press As sociation history, dating as it does from the Corpus Christi convention ! in 1915, and at that convention one of the grandest battles for the honor of entertaining the Texas press ever staged at the annual meeting was put on, but TeXarkana representatives graciously and gracefully withdrew l from the fight and cast their support to El Paso, when, on virtually the promise of the entire personnel of the association and particularly of the official personnel, the 1917 meet i ing was laid on the platter.as an of Ifering to Texarkana. The represent atives were assured, however, that they would of necessity have to be we'll represented at the Fl Paso con- vention
 Earle w. Hodges, secretary of state of Arkansas, was one of the big figures at the Corpus Christi meet ing, and it was decided that when the Fl Paso session convened Earle w. Hodges should be in the fore front as an advocate of TeXarkana as the host city to the. 1917 meeting. From the moment that Mr. Hodges and the Texarkana delegation got on the special train at Fort Worth, they never ceased booming TeXarkana, and finally on a final vote, after one of the warmest contests ever staged, when the result was determined it was learned that Texarkana was the winner by vote of ninety-seven to forty.
 The TeXarkana contingent went to Fl Paso well equipped as far as data concerning the city and it's capabihty towards entertaining the association is concerned, and this, combined with a spirit of determination that north east Texas should be accorded the signal honor for next year, led to a victory that shows in itself that the delegates worked and worked hard. The interesting feature about the victory is that this brings to TeXar- kama next year two of the biggest press associations to be found in the United States-Texas and Arkansas and the pleasure of entertaining these two organizations is furthered by the possibility of having the Lou isiana association members here for one or more days during the conven- tion, with the possibility of bringing number of visitors from the Okla homa association.
 The Texarkana delegation and the