The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-25
Many Candidates For the vacan-
cles to be Filled.
LARGE CROWD ON HAND
John I'll. CrIder Declines to
Stand For Reelection.
G. H. Lamb, of Yates Center,
After Grand Mastership.

Leavenworth, Kas., Feb. 25.-The
twenty-tnird annual session OF the KAN
sas grand lodge. Ancient order of
United Workmen, was formally opened
at Chickering hall in this city at 10
o'clock today by Grand Master Work
man J. H order, of Fort Scott
For the first time in four years the
election of a new grand master work
man Will be among the contests that
usually engage the delegates in the Sc
lection of grand officers. John H Cr1-
der. of Fort Scott, has declined to be
candidate for reelection, and his most
formidable opponent is George II
Lamb. of Yates Center, chairman Of the
law committee.
The only other candidate who has
SHE'D his castor in the ring Is W. g
Chatelie, Of Galena. grand foreman. he
bases his claiEI for election on tue
ground that holding the office next to
grand master workman he should be ao-
vanced to the higher place.
Tha Hobbies Of all the hotels are
crowded with grand lodge delegates.
They are pulling for their friends, ana
all kinds of cauCuseS are held TO secure
the object for which they are iabOrlnB.
Mr.. B. Light. of Winfield, grand re-
ceiver, will have contest Tor re-elec-
ton Kansas City has a candidate IN
the person Of Captain Sawyer, and
Hutchinson in the person or r. T..
Fearle, a representative from Hutchin-
son lodge No. ". Tom Curd1ers the Wen
known Kansan, is here to boom his
me reelection OF George III. Brown,
chief medical examiner, is conceded he
/ has served one year, and 1t is the rule
/ to give the chief medical examiner Two
years in the Office, although it is not the
I law.
For the minor positions it is pretty
difficult to predict the successful cand1-
dates, as this depends largely on the
states and combinations for the higher
| officers.
| Among the most important features
| to be considered by the grand lodge viii
be the holding Of biennial instead Of an
nuaI sessions. Last year Grand Master
/ Workman Order called the attention OF
the grand lodge to the fact that the
| sessions for the past eight years have
cost annually on the average $7,346.34s
and believed that biennial sessions would
result in a great saving to the ofoer.
! The committee at that time recommend
/ ed the subject be referred to the subor-
dinate lodges, with instructions to vote
upon same at the annual election IN De-
cember, 1900, and in the event a ma
| jority of the votes cast shall be in favor
/ of a change to biennial sessions, it shall
| be considered and held to be instruc-
lions to the grand lodge of 1901 TO
4 change the laws in accordance there
with.
/ Grand Recorde Forde reports that out
l of nearly 10000 members, but 4,616 votes
| were cast For the change, 1891, and
/ against biennial sessions 22S5, giving the
| supporters of the proposition a majority
of 1O6. This vote is, according to many
1 OF the delegates, not satisfactory, ana
| will not be deemed instruction sufficient
| to vote for a change. Out of nearly 500
| lodges. So lodges with a membership of
| 1000 made no report of any vote. Only
a little over Is per cent. Of the member
| ship went on record
The annual report of Grand Master
| Workman Crider is an interesting
| paper. Every page is filled with vaIu-
.-tf rr7C
| he retires from Office many Of his rec
| concentrations viii unquestionably re-
| ceive serious consideration and probably
approval He urges in the strongest
terms an fncreas OF the grand master
workman's salary, giving reasons for II
based upon four years experience. Con
GLIDING this subject, ne says:
II am aware of the fact that for all
| this some brothers think $500 and ex-
1 penses adequate perhaps more than adj
! eQuate, compensation. Probably some Of
| these would undertake to perform all
these duties for less money Each one
| Of us could probably name a neighbor
| who would be. willing to assume tine
| duties and RESPONSIBILITIES CT the COVER
| nor Of Kansas for $1,000 per year, or for
! a few thousand annually would assume
| the position of president CT the United
| States. Still, somehow or other such
| gentlemen are never called upon to as
| sumo such pOsitions-possioly to the
| great loss Of the state or nation The cry
| is. The salary is too much: why, he can
| The annual report of the grand record
! er is largely Of a statistical nature and
| abounds with tables and hgures almost
| bewildefing to the individual, and forms
| a good idea as to the amount OF labor
| his office is required to perform during
the year.
The order during the past year gained
in membership Abb, organized twenty
J eight new lodges. giving a net increase
of twenty three; 1854 full-rate ($2,000)
and e.072 half-rate $1,000 certificates
were issued. making a total for 1900 Of
| 1896. as against 1883 in 1899, a net IN
crease OF LOSS. The average age Of new
! members for the full rates was % years,
10 months and 10 days, and for half rates
26 years. months and Il days.
The total expenses Of the order, in
GLIDING the 1900 grand lodge session,
were $50. s64.1 10. an increase over the
previous year OF 50, 1887. The receipts
for the general fund. S57 1855; for the
beneficiary fund. SEAS. 6945S, the total
amount collected in 1899 was $546 IT'S 95.
The per capita tax produced $49. T12. "a /;
fees for beneficiary certificates. $5.15F !;
supplies. 50 1851. and the Galveston
fund $1.167.25 The balance in treasury
January 1, 1901 was $595.3S
The table showing the growth OF the
order since 1879 gives the membership
ON that date at sos, and on aJnuary I,
1901, 36. 467 1t has expended in these
years $437. 596 % for general purposes and
81. 65S. $50 IS for claims to teneficiaries,
with total of 2.374 deaths Tor the entire
period. or Z64 deaths during 1900, calling
for $507 500 in death claims. One MEM
Der died within seven days after joining,
twenty-five years Is the longest
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