Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-19

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Working Mems Convention.
COURT HOUSE, KNOXVILLE, Iowa, |
d June IA, 1878.
4 Convention met pursuant to call
Iusued By the Executive Committee
by the mass meeting Of
Feb. %.
Organized by calling q. T. Clark,
of Lake Prairie, to the chair. On
motion C. III. Robinson was chosen
Secretary. On motion j. Randall, of
Clay, and A. B. Lyman, of Liberty,
were chosen Vice Presidents.
On motion the editors Of the county
papers were invited to seats within
the bar.
Allen Short offered the following
resolution:
Resolved, That. we will vote for no
man for Office who is not practical
fdrmer.
wv. ]. Millard moved to amend by
adding the words "or manual la
borer."
On motion the amendment was
adopted.
On motion the resolution as amen
ded, was adopted.
j. F.. Greenlee offered the follow
ing resolutions:
WHEREAS, We, the laboring men
of Marion county, in mass cOnven-
ton assembled, cannot too severely
the. railroad rings, monied
'fihUnopoIies and political corruption
in high places, by which our hard
earned substance is being eaten up
by the former or squandered by the
latter: yet believing that sweeping
resolutions against everybody in gen.
eral and no one in particular, are
productive Of little practical good,
and that 20 make them effective, and
reach the point Of reformation SO
much desired, abuses of specific
nature over which aoe have u control
ling influence should be denounced;
and to this end, and in order to show
that we are in earnest in our cry for
.t~n ,<l nsA vnf<Nrtpr
Resolued, 1st. That we demand of
our State and County governments a
more rigid and economical admins
tratiOn.
Resolued, I'd. That we demand that
the salaries of State and County OFF,
cials be reduced to an equality with
that OF their employers-believing
that "the servant Is not above his
lord"
Resolved, Sd. That We most en-
denOunce and condemn
the action Of our County government
In raising the salary Of the County
it being already five hun
dred dollars too high.
ResOlred, 4th. That the abstraction
from the county treasury Of u portion
of the Temporary School Fund, and
its donation to private individual
without any valuable consideration,
Is a breach Of official trust that words
fail properly to condemn.
On motion the resolutions offered
by Mr.. Greenlee were laid Oh the
table.
Robert Crozier moved that all res
olutiOns be referred to a committee
Of nine, to be appointed by the chair.
G. Robinson moved as an amend
ment, that said committee be chosen
by the meeting and be Instructed to
present to this convention all the res
olutions presented to them.
The amendment was adopted.
The motion as amended was
adopted.
The house then selected the fol-
lowing gentlemen as that committee:
Rob's Crozier, /. w. Fisher, J. r.
McCorkIe, III. d. Lucas, w. 4.
w. ]. Wilson, Samuel Breck-
j. Kisner and ]. +. GreeL-,
lee.
The committee was instructed to
report at o'clock p. m.
On motion convention adjourned
until I O'Clock p. m.
b AFTERNOON SESSION.
Convention called to order by the
phair. a
Until the Committee on Ras0lu.1
lion was ready n report the time
wss occupied by di6srent speskefs.
On, return of pommittee their Fes-
platisns xess red. snd % motion