Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-07
Interest In Cooperative Grain
Dealers Associations Fight
Against Grain Trust
DEFEAT MEANS DETERMINATION
Association In Iowa Has Enormous
Odds to Contend Against and Must
Gain Strength, to Win-Members Of
tho Iowa Commission to St. Louis
Disappointed over the Exposition.
s,ec,a, to r,mes- Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Molnes, Dec. 7.-Some Of those
who are attending the meeting OF the
iowa implement dealers association
are also interested in the movement to
have the cooperative grain dealers,
association carry on O determined hght
against determination by the grain
trust. They talk earnestly about the
..,cvcment. They firmly believe It is
a life and death struggle for the CO.
operatives and that it was brought on
by the board Of trade people and those
who work with 1t. The present plan Is
10 firing into Iowa one or more good
lecturers and organizers an,l 10 send
taem to all parts Of the state to work
up Etw cooperative companies. There
has been q steady but slow growth Of
these concerns the pas. few years.
Now II Is found that the association
must be stronger II It would win out
as s,!nst the enormous odds. There were
about thirty-fve Of the CT cooperatives
Il, tie meeting where tn. association
wAs organized ut Rockwell. Another
meeting Is to be held In February and
it Is hoped that by the time OF this
meeting there will be at least seventy
five Of the companies in existence.
Some help Is to be secured from llli-
nois where the co-operatives have
banded together and are making great
headway. Meetings are to be held and
much work done during the coming
winter.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
members Of the commission to the st.
Louis exposition from Iowa feel some
disappointment over the exposition as a
whole. Iowa members naturally de-
cline to talk about the subject. They
got fair deal all round, but Of course
they had to fight for 1t. The exposition
was not we'll managed, not well adver-
tised. not exploited as 1t should have
been snd the attendance was too small.
AS an illustration, of the bad manage
mcns might be cited the effort to have
an Iowa week" in the fall. Nothing
was known Of this until within week
of the time. No consultation was had
In advance with the Iowa commission
ers. The exposition officials went
ahead with their plans. They got their
first Information Of the event out about
a week tefore the time. OF course, it
was a failure as an iowa week." and
could not have been otherwise. And
SO all the way thru the affair was not
as well rnanageai as 1t might have been.
$50
It will be recalled that one day last
summer 1t leaked out that there was
some sort of friction between the
national commission and the Iowa peo-
pie in regard to the livestock exhibits.
Now that 1t is all over and dut of the
way 1t Will do no harm to publish the
fact that one day President Francis,
of the exposition, sent a 30O-wor tel
egram to Governor Cummins in which
he virtually demanded that Secretary
Freeman Conaway, Of the Iowa COM
mission, be recalled and ousted from
his office. His accusations were many.
The truth in regard to the matter was
that Mr.. Conway, who made one OF
the most aggressive secretaries on the
grounds, had demanded certain infor-
nation in regard to the handling OF the
livestock exhibits and the payment of
premiums before he should say to the
stock exhibitors to come on. He had
been dallied with good deal and put
off. Finally he made demand that
he receive reply by a certain hour or
he would send a telegram that would
put an end to the Iowa stock exhibits.
Instead of doing so the exposition man
agement sent the telegram to Cover
nor Cummins. The latter merely sent
the telegram to Conaway and notified
the exposition management Of what he
had done. When this information was
received they came down the pole and
replied to Conaway, giving him the in
formation desired. It but illustrates
the way things had to be done.
Governor Lerrabee was on the expo
sition grounds the closing days. He
spoke Of one matter about which moth
ing was printed in st. Louis. "'The
last day Of the exposition" he said.
there was much vandalism. Great
crowds surged thru the buildings and
small articles were either destroyed or
carried off, In the agricultural build
ing this vandalism broke out early.
The guards had been reduced to a
small number and the crowd could not
be controlled. When the crowd start
ed for the horticultural building the
promptly closed the doors
and ended the trouble. But for this
there would have been little left of
the fruit exhibits. The next day the
had lot of regular sold
lers on the ground and there has been
no trouble since"
The members of the iowa Implement
Dealers Association now in session In
his city are doing a great deal Of talk
nk about the trusts as they affect their
business. The harvester trust which
S also the cordage trust. is their es-
oecial object of contempt, and yet they
are hardly in a position to talk mucn
,or the trust has got 'em and will
, r,i.o hlv hA1A IN .ftaHf what they can