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.] primary elections. The acts above mentioned are applicable only in the event the political party does hold a primary election.

It will be noticed that the prohibition in the Fourteenth Amendment is directed against the action of the State, "Nor shall any State deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law." Likewise the prohibition in the Fifteenth Amendment is directed against the action of the United States or of any State, "The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or ablidged by the United States or any State on account of race, color," etc.

The State of Arkansas has passed no law, depriving appellants or any other qualified electors, on account of color or for any other reason, of the right tO vote. The party rule above quoted is merely a rule of the Democratic Party in Arkansas with which the State had nothing to do. A political party such as the Democratic Party in Arkansas 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." Walls v. Brundidge, 109 Ark. 250, 160 S.W. 230, Ann. Cas. 1915C, 980; Grigsby v. Harris, 27 Fed. (2d) 942. As said by U.S. District Judge Hutcheson in Grigsby v. Harris, supra, (Texas): "But the fact remains that the objects of political organizations are intimate to those who compose them. They do not concern the general public. They directly interest, both in their conduct and in their success, only so much of the public as are comprised in their membership, and then only as members of the particular organization. They constitute no governmental agency. To provide nominees of political parties for the people to vote upon in the general elections is not the business of the State. It is not the business of the State, because in the conduct of the government the State knows no parties and can know none. Political parties are political instrumentalities. They are in no sense governmental instrumentalities."