The Green Forest tribune., 1916-10-13
|A1E WILL VOTE
 [RDR J. $. SENATOR
|,ee KIRBY NOMINATED BY P,cMoCRATiC STATE GEN.
 TRAIL COMMITTEE.
|Ns ISSUES PROCLAMATION
,.,nor Designates November 7 as nate for Special Eiection-H. L. RemmeI of Little Rock Is the
 Choice of the Republicans.
Little Roc

Llttle Rock
 n;sregarding Governor Hays ref,I.
 to appear before it, or to make
 own his intention regarding calling
 sneciaI election, the Democratic
 .to Central Committee nominated
 ..ocate Justice w. F. Kirby for the
 ,ted States Senate, and voted to
 his name on the ticket at the gen
 ,, election, November ' The gov
 nor immediately after the nomina-
 on issued proclamation naming
 member 2 as the date for a special
 .ction to elect senator
 The proclamation issued by the gov
 nor makes it evident that there will
 no special primary, and that Judge
 irby will serve the four years of the
 ,eypired term of the late Senator
 ,mes P. Clarke. It also makes cer- ,in that the governor will make no Eppointment.
 While the Democratic Committee ras in session, and before it had animated Judge Kirby, the Executive nmmittee of the Republican State sntral Committee nominated H. l.. semmel of Little Rock as a candidate Tor senator
 Kirby on First Ballot.
 Judge Kirby was nominated on the hst ballot taken by the committee, | he vote standing: Kirby 15, Stephen hundidge z, and c. c. Reid 5. It sas apparent before the committee rss called to order that a majority N the committee adhered to the views Illegal authorities published, that the |pvernor could not make an appoint |nent to fill the vacancy caused by Eenator Clarke's death, and that it |ras the duty of the committee to place the name of a Democratic nom- hee on the ticket in the November lection The possibility of the gov snor making an appointment was lot even considered by the commit lee, and motion that the committee mould not nominate a candidate for he November election lost, q to $.
 Nomination Brings Ovation. It was apparent that Judge Kirby rould be the strongest candidate, at ,ast on the first ballot, when he was by Patrick Henry of Mon- cello, secretary of the last Demo- -atic State Convention. Prolonged pplause from committee members Id many spectators greeted the men, on of the judges name. Both MT. and MT. Reid were applaud when nominated. D. Ward Dun p of Clarksville nominated MT. Reid, rmer congressman from the Fifth | strict, and w. B. Smith of Little | 'ck, holding the proxy Of Dave ock of Wynne, nominated former ngressman Stephen Brundidge of i arey.
 The committee did not consider the | of Governor Hays calling a ecial election. The action of the | in nominating candidate be voted upon in the November | .ction was regarded as purely q measure to insure that candidate should not be cted in November.
 Governor Hays, early in the meet ! sent word that he would not ne before the committee, although H. ( ehael of Little Rock told comln.r,ee that the governor had l him and Chairman J. w. House,
 that he would come before the and that if the commit would nominate candidate who agreeable to him he would fix date of the special election for Fember z, otherwise he would call pecial election. MT House said he not sure that was what the gov or meant. He said in an hours ference he had not been able to I'll exactly what the governor in- dad to do.
 Some Would Delay.
 everal members of the committee pred deferring action until the ernor sent word what he would do, to take no action toward placing name of nominee on the ticket he November election. A motion take no action except to call cial primary was made by W. NJ. den of Malvern. Frank Pace, ling a proxy for Capt. R. R. Rice Warner, and others, including J. Head, chairman of the last Demo | 1e State Convention, vigorously osed this. ( N-->->-~---->-