A Ticket Nominated
WED. - MAY 26, 1902
THE DAILY SOLIPHONE - VOL. IV
TRANSCRIBED AND RESEARCHED BY : TINA EASLEY
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GREENE COUNTY REPUBLICANS HELD THEIR CONVENTION LAST SATURDAY
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ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
PRAISES FOR NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEADERS FOR THE " G.O.P" AND A BLACK EYE FOR HUNTSMAN
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THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION OF GREENE COUNTY , IN RESPONSE TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION , AND ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT ASSEMBLED AT THE COURT HOUSE SATURDAY AT 2 O'CLOCK P.M. FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOMINATING A TICKET FOR COUNTY OFFICERS , AND ENDORSING THE ADMINISTRATION AND STATE ORGANIZATION . THERE WERE BETWEEN 30 AND 35 OF THE FAITHFUL PRESENT , MOST OF WHOM WERE DELEGATES , TO DO THE BIDDING OF THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE , AND THE STATE , AS PREVIOUSLY ARRANGED , FOR THE NOMINATION OF COUNTY OFFICERS, WENT THROUGH WITHOUT A SCRATCH OR BREAK.
THE CONVENTION WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTE , CAPT. J.R. SNODGRASS , AND THE SELECTION OF A TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY WAS PROCEEDED WITH. PROFESSORS D.F. MOORE OF MARMADUKE , WAS ELECTED TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN , AND J. HARRY McPHERSON TEMPORARY SECRETARY WITHOUT A DISSNTING VOICE.
PROFESSOR MOORE WAS ESCORTED TO THE CHAIR AND INTRODUCED TO THE CONVENTION BY CAPT. SNODGRASS , IN A BRIEF BUT ENLOGISTIC ADDRESS , IN WHICH THE MANY VIRTUES , STERLING WORTH AND ANSWERYING LOYALTY OF THE NEWLY ELECTED CHAIRMAN WERE LANDED TO THE SKIES , IN A TRULY ORATORICAL MANNER.
PROFESSOR MOORE RESPONDED IN A FEW BRIEF , BUT WELL CHOSEN REMARKS , IN WHICH HE STATED THAT HE HAD NOT ANTICIPATED THE HONOR WHICH THE CONVENTION HAD CONFERRED UPON HIM .
THE CONVENTION PROCEEDED WITH THE NOMINATION OF A COUNTY TICKET.
PATRICK HANNON OF JONES TOWNSHIP , IN AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS PRESENTED THE NAME OF D.F. MOORE OF HURRICANE TOWNSHIP FOR REPRESENTATIVE ,
THE REMAINDER OF THE TICKET WHICH ALSO WENT THROUGH AS PER SCHEDULE WITHOUT OPPOSITION IS AS FOLLOWS:
FOR SHERIFF , W.R. CANNON , OF CLARK TOWNSHIP.
FOR COUNTY AND PROBATE JUDGE , H.B. HILL OF CLARK TOWNSHIP .
FOR CIRCUIT CLERK , E.B. BUTLER , OF CLARK TOWNSHIP.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER , G.B. MEISER , CLARK TOWNSHIP .
FOR ASSESSOR , W.S. STEVENS , CROW TOWNSHIP.
FOR CORONER , J.R. BRANNON , CLARK TOWNSHIP
THE CHAIR APPOINTED AS A COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS J.R. SNODGRASS , A.G. CLYNE AND A.C. JOHNSON.
A COMMITTEE TO SELECT CHAIRMEN OF THE VARIOUS TOWNSHIPS WAS NEXT SELECTED BY THE CHAIR AND WAS COMPOSED AS FOLLOWS : FRANK ARMSTRONG , L.T. WILLIAMS , W.S. STEVENS , E.B. BUTLER , PATRICK HANNON , W.H. THOMAS AND ZACH EATMAN , WHO SELECTED FOR THE VARIOUS TOWNSHIPS AND WARDS THE FOLLOWING NAMED CHAIRMAN , TO-WIT:
FOR CHAIRMAN OF COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE, J.R. SNODGRASS , FOR SECRETARY , HERSCHEL NEELY.
FIRST WARD , G.B. MEISER , SECOND WARD FRANK ARMSTRONG , THIRD WARD , E.S. SWIHART , CLARK TOWNSHIP , ZACH EATMAN , UNION TOWNSHIP , L.T. WILLIAMS , HURRICANE TOWNSHIP , A.M. HALL , BRECKINRIDGE TOWNSHIP , JOHN MCALLESTER , CROWLEY TOWNSHIP --- NEIRSTHEMER , LAKE TOWNSHIP , G.W. PAYTON , MAIN SHORE TOWNSHIP , WILLIAM DAAH , POLAND TOWNSHIP , J.N. STRICKLAND , CACHE TOWNSHIP , R.L. STAMPER , JONES TOWNSHIP , J.C. WILLIAMS , ST. FRANCIS TOWNSHIP , A.G. CLYNE .
THE COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS HAVING ANNOUNCED READY TO REPORT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE WAS INSTRUCTED TO READ THE SAME WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE REPUBLICANS OF GREENE COUNTY , ARKANSAS, IN DELEGATE CONVENTION ASSEMBLED .