The Little River news., 1920-01-28
TO BE NO CHANGE IN
 TmE YKlHNAKI DATE
State Committee Decides it Has Au- lnOrlty IO EIect Delegdtes; Is a
 Question of Policy,

QueSllOn O1 fOllcy,
 Little Rock, Jan. l4.-The date for the state primary, August 10, fixed by the regular sesslon o1 the 1913 legls- lature, VIII not be cnanged.
 This was decided by the Democratic State CenJral Commllee at the meet Ing at the Hotel Marlon yesterday The meeting was called by the chair man, Joe w. House Jr., to determine whether the committee was authorIz- ed to appoint the delegates or whether they should be elected, question that was raised several weeks ago.
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 J. Vol Walker Of Fayetteville, in trojuced resolutions, which were adopted unanimously, declaring it the sense of the committee that it has authority to elect rhe delegates and alternates to the national convention, to Dc held at San Francisco, Cal, June 23. Seth c. Reynolds of Ashdown, Z M, McCarroll of Walnut Ridge, J. H. hawthorne of Johesboro and others. spoke in favor of adopting the resolu- tions.
 The resolutions provide that the secretary of the State Central Con- nittee shall be directed to forward to the chairman and secretary of each county central committee copies of tine resolutions, and requesting the county committees. meet to recommend dis trict and alternate delegates from the congressional district in which they are located, ..'he chairman and secre- taiy of the county committee then will certify to the State Central Committee the names of the delegates selected or recommended. These names will be filed with the state committee by May 15.
 The state committee will meet at the Hotel Marion at. p. m. June |, when the delegates and alternates to the national convention will be named. The list will be made up from those turned in by the county committees,
 as tar as pIacIlcaDle. lmv .ounJy committees were requested not to re- commend delegaoes unless they have eNprcs~,cd al Wlll4nSnoss to aLtcId Lne notlolli,l UOnvenLiun.
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 that LAAe AenloCA aLlc MO,AAen eAeCto. 5 sAouiu De lep4 esenLeG on tue ueAesa- tIon tU tue naLiUAaI GOnventiun. tune r, Woolen Ol Al1o1o -uocK ol- tel eu q SuDS.ltute uIoLlOn LO the eA- rect LhaL Lne Various Cunel oSslOnal ulsCilcLS name Lae ueiegates Lnrous.i Lne county cOmmLLees Wllnln the uls- LllcLs, anu ma he canul0aCes TOT Lne noAor nie pleuseS With the seCretaI y or Ine sIaue cQmnntLee pe4ore Apr1l oV, promising to support the Demo- cratic nominees anu to cast tnelr votes wiln the majority of lne state deiegatlon. Only three memDers of lne sLate comlnlLlee voLeu Ill favor or lLs auOptlon.
 Attorney General John D, Arbuckle at tue request of Chairman House, ad- dressed the committee on the Ques- ton or the advlsaDlllty or advancing the primary date. He said the ques- tion was more of policy than of law. The attorney general declared that if the date were advanced, the candi- dates for state offices would have only three months in which to make their campaigns. He said a systematic campaign, such as is proposed by most candidates, cannot be waged in that time. He also said that hundreds of former soldiers would be disenfran- chised if the date is moved up be- yond the first Monday in July. "If the delegates are selected by this committee, there will not be a con- testing delegation Mfr. Arbuckle said, "and neither will the national convention refuse to seat the delega- tion"