Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-15
LIVELY POLITICAL
 FIGHT FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT ON
Keith, at Present in Office, and CritZ, Candi-
 dates
TWO SLATES ARE OUT
 FOR COUNTY BOARD
Five Members to be Chosen Will Have the Privilege of Naming Superintendent Formerly q
 County Officer

Chief interest in today's election of Jefferson county's first county school board centers in the fight be- 1 tween friends and packers of w. P. Keith, county superintendent, and those of Mrs. Lucy Critz, who also lis seeking office, to name on the board directors who will be favorable to them.
 Twelve names have been listed on the ballots. Five are to be chosen. These five will have the naming of the superintendent, which was chang ed by the act establishing county school board from an elective to an appointive office.
 Two states yesterday were being distributed among voters. The slate favorable to Keith, the present incumbent, is composed of T. w. Moore, N. J. Can't, John T. Will son, J. P Alexander and J. P. Fergu- son. The slate, said to be favorable to Mrs. Critz is headed by s. c. Alex ander and includes D. B. Niven, w. z. Stone, Everette Tucker, T. w. Moore and Dr. R. P. Woods.
 According to Keith supporters yes- terday the S. c. Alexander slate was the first to be sent out. Later mem- bers of the various district boards, meeting at the courthouse, agreed up- on slate said to be favorable to a man for superintetndent-pr MT. Keith.
 Directors on both states yesterday denied that they favored either of the candidates for the post. MT. Alexander was out of the city and could not be reached, but associates declared that the slate he prepared was made up in order that he might put into effect certain reforms in the county school systetm. The ques- tion of the superintendency they said, did not. enter into it as far as they 1knew.
 Two on Neither Slate. J. l. West, a director at Watson Chapel, in a letter to the Graphic yesterday, declared that it was the intention of the Alexander slate to elect woman superintendent, and urged voters not to support the can diates named on the ticket. D. H,O appears on the Alexander slate, said last night that he was seeking the office without any pledges, and that he had made no agreement to sup port anyone for the superintendency.
 Two names to be balloted upon do not appear on either slate. These are w. H. Babcock and G. w. c. Bowden.
 Late yesterday interest in the elec- tion had reached high stage and indications were that the vote would be much larger than was at first expected. The overnight campaign yesterday had practically degenerated into battle between Keith support CTS and those who favor the election of Mrs. Critz.
 Indications are that the returns will be extremely late. and the result may not be known before. Monday Judges and clerks will take care Of the election in the citiy at the usual places while the district school di-a rectors will receive and count the votets outside of the city.
 In District No. 3 (Pine Bluff) there are two candidates for places on the city school board made vacant by William Nichol and E. A. Howell. They are Earl Phillips and J. M.5 Means.
 MT. Vests letter to the Graphic. was as follows:
 "Ditor of Graphic:
 ks q am sending you the substanee' of letter which have received from Mr. S. c. Alexander, .one of the men who is in the race for membership on the county board of education, in which he urges the people to sup- port the following men for that board:
 s. c. Alexander. Pine Bluff.
 D. B. Niven, Pine Bluff.
 w. z. Stone. Whiteville.
 Everett Tucker, Tucker.
 T. w. Moore, Redfield.
 Dr. R. P. Woods, Altheimer. Why should he be so much inter- ested in the six men when there ara six other names of men on the ticket just as much interested in the wel- fare of the rural schools and well qualified to serve as they "I think that a person has per- feet right to solicit support for hins- takes to elect a slate people naturally wonder what his, or their, intentions are if elected.
 In this case think their intentiono are to elect a woman for county su- perintendent of schools. If this is what they have in mind, we in the sev- eral communities with which happen to be in communication do not want woman in that position and will Ap- preciate your informing the people 10 this end. ysS Very respectfully. s 1 J. l.. WEST. A Citizen and Director of Rural
 School"
 | Judges in City. Mir. Alexander's letter to which MT. West referred was brief note lsuggesting that the five be elected from six named for the best interests of the schools. In it there. was no reference to the county superintsnds ent. ss sE5! Judges and clerks in the city are S First Ward-T. ]. Hunt, Ed B HaHs |vev and C.. B. Smith, Judges: !. s 'I Baker and w. |. Meeks, clerks. N;
 Second Ward-T. ]. Brewer, 4. N Lowe and R. L. Galbraith. judges; "
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