The Mena weekly star., 1920-06-03
COMMITTEE CHOSEN TO WAIT ON COMMISSIONERS AND AS-
 SCISSORS FOR DISTRICT NO. ?.
ALLOW THREE DAYS
 FOR PRESCRIPTIONS
Requests to Be Made Not Later Than June ?, and Expect Decisions on 5th Suggestions Made That Cues
 tion Be Settled by Ballot.

Resignation of both commissioners and assessors of Road Improvement
 district No. (the Mena-Big Fork
 road) was requested by unanimous vote taken at gathering of city and rural land owners held Friday after
 noon in the circuit court room at the court house.
 There was not a voice raised in de- fense of the road project, nor single objection in opposition to the action the gathering of more than 200 men had decreed should be taken. A committee composed of Marion Wimberly of Mena, w. T. McMillan of Board Camp and Stephen Bates of Big No. 2, was appointed to wait upon the commissioners and assessors. Ask Resignation of District Officials.
 The committee was instructed to re- quest the road district officials to sub init their resignations on or before Saturday, June 5. The committee is to request the designations by next We'd nesday and the commissioners and as-
 
 week to decide.
 It was announced that the commit tee will make a full report of it's meet | ing with the road district officers at q farmers gathering to be held at the court house on June 8.
 I In event the officials of district No. 1 2 refuse or fail to resign it was under stood by the gathering that legal" means will be taken to prevent the building of the road. Lenders in the meeting professed at divers times they were peaceful and law abiding citizens, though at times they made direct reference to gatherings else where in the state that were not of that character.
 The Friday afternoon gathering was composed mainly of farmers from
 Mill Creek, Big Fork and Fulton townships. The meeting was called ostensibly for the double purpose of objecting to assessments of benefits for the building of the Mena- Fork road and for the completing of the ticket of candidates of the newly created Citizens movement.
 Not Interested in Political Candidates.
 Joe Lewis. who had called the poli- tical end Of the meeting was late iu reaching Mena, due to delay of the local from Hatfield, he said, and by the time he reached the court room, the crowd was not so much interested in candidates as it was to developing opposition to road building.
 Turnout the discussions and criti- cisms of county. road and other off, cials. no other local road district was Tr seemingly having centered upon Com missioners Petty. Lilies and Looney.
 The call issued for the meeting of nominating delegates and others sun porting the Citizens ticket, as made by Secretary Joe Lewis, contains the following words:
 The Call For Meeting. "THIS IS A GOOD TIME for others to be present who want to get acquainted with the real issues of the movement. There we're over 200 enthused farmers present at our other meeting on the first of May and there will doubtless be many present this time
 THIS MOVEMENT is to a farmer or poor man what union is to a group of industrial workers, namely movement against IN- JUSTICE.
 "RoOSEvELT ONCE SAID that |f Nothing rankles more in the hu- man heart than the feeling of in- justice. It leads directly to a con- tempt for law, disloyalty to the gov- ernment, and plants the seed of aIl- archy in the oppressed FURTHERMORE. Chief Jus tice Olson of Chicago is quoted as saying The poor are not getting justice and their feeling of sense of helplessness incites them to take the law into their own hands, And 1 this is fact as exemplified by a crowd of armed farmers who arose | from their seats in the Chancery Court room of Ioneshoro on the 17th 1 of this month and compelled three highway commissioners to resign | their offices, and then adjourned the | court themselves"
 There was so little interest taken l in the selection of the needed candi-
 dates that another meeting will be held June 8 to fill the vacancies of
 the Citizens ticket.
 Court Room Was Filled. When Former Judge A. E, Wear called the crowd to order shortly after o'clock there were but few vacant seats in the court room. Judge Wear 1 proposed for chairman W. T. McMiI- Ian of Board Camp. who was accepted | by exclamation. .... .3
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