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 * 1) ELECTIONS—POLITICAL PARTY DEFINED.—A "political party" is an unincorporated voluntary association of persons sponsoring certain ideas of government or maintaining certain political principles or beliefs in the public policies of the government, and is in no sense a governmental instrumentality.
 * 2) ELECTIONS—EXCLUDING NEGROES PROM PARTY PRIMARY.—The Democratic Party of Arkansas, being a voluntary political organization, not an agency of the State, may prescribe rules and regulations defining qualifications of membership and providing that only white persons may become members and vote in the party primaries, without violating the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.

Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Frank B. Dodge, Chancellor; affirmed.

''Jno. A. Hibbler, Booker & Booker, and Scipio A. Jones'', for appellant.

June P. Wooten and D.K. Hawhorne, for appellee.

MH, J. Appellants brought this action to establish their right as negroes and Democrats to vote in Democratic primary elections in this State. The appellees are members of the Democratic City Central Committee of Little Rock., Democratic Primary election officials of said city in a primary election held November 26, 1928, for the purpose of selecting nominees of the Democratic Party for city officials, and the chairman and secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee. The case was submitted to the chancery court on an agreed statement of facts substantially stated as follows: That appellants are citizens, residents and tax-payers of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, are qualified electors, and supported the Democratic nominees in the