The weekly soliphone., 1917-04-12
LIGHT OPPOSED
 EARLY PRIMARY
Former County Judge Explains Why He Fought Against Resolu-
 tion Offered Last Saturday.
To The Editor of The soliphone:


 To The Editor of The Soliphone: In reporting the proceedings of the County Central Committee meet
 ing held Saturday this statement Iappeared: ''In the absence of any
 quorum one should be manufac-
 tured whereupon c. T. Brecken-
 ridge was selected to represent Un-
 ion township, J. M. Futrell to rep lresent second ward, and M. P. Hud- idleston to look after the interests
 of Clark township. To this estab- sented and duly approved, providing that a primary election be ordered for Saturday, April the 14th, for
 the purpose of determining who the democratic nominee for public weigher should be- The report goes on: Committeeman Spillman later raised the point /of order that the entire proceeding was out of Iorder; that minority of the com mittee had no authority to select committeeman for districts not rep resented This position was sup ported by former County Judge J.
 L. Light, who made a vigorous ad
 dress. Chairman H. R. Partlow held to the same view
 In this report the Press was
 slightly in error. All the above proceedings were had, 1 am inform cd, but I was not present at the time they took place. I came in just at the point Committeeman Spill man and others moved to reconsider the resolution previously adopted, to be ordered for Saturday, April 14th (just one week off) for the
 purpose of determining who the democratic nominee for public of the effort that was being made to reconsider this resolution that made vigorous" address. 1 made Lthis effort solely from an unselfsh standpoint. Amongst other reasons which l argued that this resolution should be reconsidered and defeated was: The enactment by the General | Assembly creating the office of pub lie weigher for this county provided that said weigher should be appoint ed by the governor and should 4 hold office till the next general election, at which time his success sor should be elected by popular vote, as other county officers are i elected. Any citizen of the county prerequisites of a legal voter may aspire to this office. It's a free for i all contest, where gentlemen may measure lances with each other for the honor, or should be at least.
 Prior to this meeting of the Central Committee several gentlemen made application to the governor for this appointment, in behalf of whom great many letters were written by admiring friends of the respective applicants. Some of the applicants circulated petitions and one applicant hired men to ride over the entire county presenting his petition to the voters asking an endorsement of his application. These petitions and flee; many of the applicants were his personal friends, and each hav-' | ing merit in their cause, the gover- nor found it hard to select among them and decreed that they should run the matter off at the election | to elect delegates to the consitu tional convention, to be held June 26th. Those candidates who had as pired to this office and those who contemplate making the race be-
 came recOnciled to their fate and
 were grooming themselves for a nice, quiet, little run-off at the time | fixed 1 do not know who will as pire to this office, nor do l care a whit. I know this much, however | II make the race, but to do so must have time to place their claims be- | fore the voters they should not be lstrangled by the candidate who has already made his campaign before 1 the resolution was passed. What | show would some man, worthy and well qualified, but who had never made race or held public office and was wholly unknown outside of his own neighborhood, have with a man who had previously sowed the county down with men circulating petitions and soliciting supporters for him, unless this stranger had ample time to meet with the peo- pie? l am for a square deal-giving every man fair and square run