The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-31
U CONVENTION.

The Seattle acknowledgements says:
1t is not true by any means that Seattle
has lost the fight in the matter Of the next
meeting Of the next National Teachers
association. The declaration in favor of
Helena. Mont, was a mere preliminary ex-
preston and not a definite and settled
choice. Last year there was just such an
expression in favor of Chicago, but suhse-
quent action gave the convention of 1891
not to Chicago, but to Toronto; and there
is good reason to hope that the experience
of last year will be repeated with the adj
vantage to Seattle. There were twenty-six
votes cast in the committee meeting on
first ballot, the result being: For Helena,
twelve, for Seattle, eleven; for Saratoga, N.
", three. Upon subsequent ballots Sara
toga gained slightly, while Helena still led
Seattle by a vote or two. At this juncture
the Seattle force joined the Helena men,
and so the day was won for the west. But
this did not settle it. The matter of the
final location was left to q committee who
will visit both Seattle and Helena. This
committee is rs follows: r.. N. Stephen
son, Wichita, Kan; j. w. Greenwood, Kan
sas City; N. M. Garrett, Nashville, and N.
A. Calkins, New York. If after looking
over the situation at Helena and Seattle,
considering the comparative interests of
the two places, the choice is for Helena. we
shall be greatly surprised.
There is a great deal Of misinforma-
ton to the square inch in the Post
lntelligencer's statement. In selecting
Helena as the next place Of meeting for
the association the board of directors,
composed of one member from each
state and territory, followed the prece-
dent that has been observed for years.
Helena was the first choica of the con
ventlon itself, as it was Of the directors.
The convention will come to Helena
next year if the executive committee of
five members, to whom some discretion
airy. powers are left, finds the conditions
satisfactory. If that committee does
not conclude, after inspection, that
Helena can accommodate the visitors it
will report that fact to the board Of
directors and ask for authority to call a
meeting for the place of second choice,
namely, Saratoga, which received six
teen votes on the last ballot to two for
Seattle. Seattle is no longer in it and
will not be considered. If the execu-
tive committee does such an extraordi-
nary thing as to report adversely on
Helena, the next meeting will be in
Saratoga. The acknowledgements
statement that there WAS an expression
in favor of Chicago last year, but that
subsequent action gave the convention
to Toronto, is not true. Saratoga was
the first choice last year, but when the
executive committee came to make ar
engagements it got into a controversy
with the eastern trunk lines over trans
portation, and by another vote of the
directors, taken by letter, Toronto,
which had been their second choice, was
agreed upon. The Post Intelligencer is
as far out of it's reckoning on getting
the convention as is the Cincinnati
paper which says that in the rivalry be-
tween Helena and Saratoga it is proba-
BILE a compromise will be made on the
torrid town in the Ohio valley.