| Show DEMOCRATS DISREGARD PARAGONAH PETITION efforts of a group ot of paragonah Para gonah men to oust jess democratic precinct chairman and to take over the party organization in that town find much sympathy the county committee when a petition to ratify that action was considered at a recent meeting the committee said in effect that so tar far as it Is concerned jess is still the precinct chairman and will be recognized as such until his successor is regularly elected this despite the alleged election of R merrall lund as chairman and stanley as secretary to replace and velma edwards respectively was elected during the campaign last tall fall at a meeting called by the county chairman A number of 0 others had declined to accept the office nobody seemed to want it then but since the bartys victory in november there appears to be a changed attitude at any rate art an invitation meeting W was s held there last week without To being invited or even knowing anything about it and alter after selecting lund and tor for the new officers a petition was sent with a copy of 0 the minutes asking the county committee to ratify and approve the action of the meeting though the minutes recite that it was a democratic meeting the petition is signed by a num her ber who are known to have been staunch republicans at least until last tall fall some of them until after the election acting on the petition the county committee directed that the pe titio ners be informed that until a meeting of the democratic party duly advertised and held in accordance with rules of the party elects a successor jass must continue to be recognized as the precinct chairman the motive tor for the attempt to replace seems to have been to control patronage in that section particularly road jobs |
