The log cabin Democrat., 1916-02-17
CADRON TOWNSHIP AND THE PRIMARY
 ELECTION

The Log Cabin Democrat hopes that when the Faulkner County Democratic Central Committee meets select judges and clerks and arrange the details of the state and county primary election to be held on March 29 it will provide for at least four polling places in CadrOn township
 To do this will simply be complying with the statutes regulating primary elections, which provide that the laws applying general elections shall also govern primary elections. But for several years past when split primaries have been held in this county, in order reduce expenses only polling place has been provided for all the of Caron township and the city of Conway No particular objection has been raised to this plan in the past the ballots short and could be counted with reasonable dispatch.
 At the coming primary election expedency well as the law demands that the vote in Cadron township should be divided into the regular polling places The ticket will be yard long: It will contain the names of candidates for president and vice president of the United States, national committeemen delegates to the national convention, governor and all minor state off ces of candidates for congressional railroad commits sOner and judicial district offices; of candidates for all county and township offices and township committee 
 At the county primary years ago ITS votes cast in Cadron township At the special road law eec- ton last March 941 votes were cast. There will be any where from TOO to 900 March 29 next. It will be physically impossible for set of judges and clerks to hold the election all day and then count and ascertain the result without adjournment, because this would mean that they would have to sit up and count all night and probably all the following day to finish their work No set of men would undertake to work "A to 36 hours without rest.
 If the in this city township is consolidated at one polling place. it would mean that the result in every other township in the county and the general suit (uness in the of very close race) would be known throughout the state long before the in Cadron township could be completed. Such situation would afford an opportunity for unfairness in this town ship but if every vote should be honestly counted it might cast an unjust suspicion upon the election ofic als of this township
 Fairness, expedency and the laws of the state all de- mand that the election in this city and township should be held at the polling places in the three wards of the city, and there should also be established at the court house separate polling place for all who reside outside of the city of Conway but within Cadron town ship Under this plan not than 300 at the most would be cast at any precinct and this is all that set of judges and clerks should be called upon to handle.
 The committee should also provide that instead of eectng four committeeman from the township large should be elected from each of the three wards in Conway and from the township outside the city, This is custom which is followed believe, in all other first and second class cities of the state, it should be adopted here.
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