The Indianapolis journal., 1903-06-20
Convention sidelights.


Convention Sidelights.
Col. George E. Jenkins. of Fairbury.
Neb.. has been a member Of the Cover
nor's staffs in his State for the past four
ter general of the Nebraska National
Guard. With the Woodmen Colonel Jen-
kins has been a member Of the law COM
mittee for the past four years
Hon. Benjamin d. Smith, the retiring
member of the board Of directors for Min
nesota and who will be appointed as gen.
eral attorney for the society to succeed j.
G. Johnson, of Kansas, who will retire,
is leading Republican politician of his
home State Six years ago ne was offered
the nomination for the lieutenant COVER
norship. but declined.
W. II. Thompson, of Grand Island, Neb.,
who was a member of the readjustment
committee, a Democratic candidate
for Governor of his State last fall. He
was defeated by small majority. Mr..
Thompson has not as yet been heard on
the floor of the convention, but 1t Is ex-
pected that he will turn loose to-day on
the readjustment question.
xxx
F. o. Van Calder. editor of the society's
official paper, does not seem to be doing
much. but he is preparing pages and pages
of fine reading for the next issue of the
paper which will appear the first of next
ject for the cartoonist. He is six feet tall.
weighs about l4O pounds and his shoulders
are bent in the shape Of an Interrogation
point.
Thomas H. Duffy, member of the ap-
peals and grievances committee, has been
city attorney Of Dubuque, Ia. for three
terms. This is the home of Senator Alli-
son and ex-Speaker Henderson, but
ers es like like Duffy that city M has always been been
held by the Democrats with the excep-
tion Of the election Of 1896. when McKin-
ley carried 1t.
James Mcnamara, assistant head clerk
Of the Modern Woodmen, whose headquar-
ters are at Rock Island, is probably one
Of the best posted men in the convention
on the laws of the society. He comes to
every Head Camp with bunch of recon-
mendations which are the result of his ex-
perience in the head Office, and he is
of the busiest men in the convention in
connection with the report of the law COM
mittee.
E. H. McCutchen. of Holstein. Ia. chair
man of the Iowa delegation. just before
coming to the convention was walloped in
his home senatorial Republican conven-
ton, having been seeker for the nomina-
tion. He is a member of the old guard of
Iowa, of which the late Senator Gear, of
by the sa con Of Governor
which is now in power in that State, but
he takes his defeat philosophically.
xxx
c. D. Heydecker, of Waukegan, ILL.,, was
a member of the Illinois State convention
of the Woodmen at Bloomington in May
and was considered one of the coworkers
of Johnson, of Kansas, in his opposition
to the plans Of the administration. How
voted the delegates from his county for
the Endorsement of the administration
DIRECTOR directors from ON % TIlnois The he dissatisfacl is
ton among the ants with Mr.. Heydecker's
action does not seem to worry him largely.
He served for a term as a member of the
national board of directors. retiring at the
convention held in June, 1895, at Madison,
Wis.
Harry Franklin, of Albany, N Y, is
one of the two State deputies in the con-
vention who succeeded in securing the
election at the State camps held in May
a resident of st. Paul. MINI. He is an old
newspaper man, having retained a connec-
tion with the st. Paul Pioneer Press for
several several years, years He was appointed R a State
York and has been very successful He is
one of the best speakers in the convention
and his speech yesterday morning oppos-
ing the appointment of a committee to Sc
lect the next place of holding the Head
Camp, while 1t was in reality in the inter-
ests of Saratoga Springs, n. Y, had much
to do with the defeat of that proposition
The case of ]. H. McKelvey, of Han
cock, Mich, whose expulsion from MEM
bership in the society by the local camp
at Hancock for gambling was appsoved
by the appeals and grievances committee,
took I'D considerable of the time of the
convention yesterday morning. There is
considerable back of the case that the con-
vention did not know anything about. c.
]. Byrnes, state deputy for Michigan and
director-elect, knows the history of the
case but the convention did not have the
patience to hear him. give a detailed ex-
planation. Mr. McKelvey worked as
deputy for the society and organized a
second camp at Hancock. whereupon the
officials of the old camp, of which Mr. Nc
Kelvey was a member. preferred charges
against him for gambling and expelled
him. AS, a few minutes before, the con-
vention had sustained the recommendation
of the appeals and grievances committee
that man who labored shoyeling coal
under a boiler that furnished the power
for the engine that pumped water into a
brewery was a servant" engaged In the
liquor business in-violation Of Section IL of
the society's law IL was not disposed TO
reverse the Judgment of the committee In
the case of a member convicted of gam
bling. Mr.. McKelvey was sacrificed with