Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-30
WRIGHT OUSIED
By DAIRY RING
Ivwa's Commissioner Was Too
Particular and the Ring
Didn't Like 1t
TOOK STAND FOR PURE FOOD
Kept obiectionaI Advertisements from
the Publication of the National AS
socia+ion and Was Turned Down for
His Pains-Another Lively Fight Is
Expected.
ecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, June 3O.-Hon. II. r.
Wright, state dairy commissioners of
Iowa, is not on the executive commit
ee of the National Association of State
Dairy and Food Departments this year
and the printed proceedings of the as
sociation this year contains all the ad-
vertisements and Objectionable feat
ures that were kept out one year thru
his being on the executive committee.
To satisfy the opposition the ring OF
the association put Mr.. Wright on the
executive committee but at the expira-
ton of his term he failed of re-elec-
tion., While he was member there
were warm times, and he opposed the
insertion in the printed proceedings of
the advertisement of any food product
that the state dairy and food depart
ments believed impure. He succeeded
in keeping the advertisements out OF
one publication only.
Inc DElHleu proceedings VI lAS ldoI
convention reached the office of the
dairy commissioner here yesterday
and 1t is seen that the advertisements
Of butterine and oleomargarine and
other imitation buffers are all there
and many more besides. The associa-
tion meets again in a short time at
the Portland exposition and it is prob
lematic whether or not there is anoth-
er fight caused. At the st. Louis ex-
position a great scandal was caused
by the fact that the bottled in bond
whisky companies were held up to pay
$4,000 to enable the national associa-
tion to make the exhibit. AS a result
of their donation they secured the best
display spaces.
The ST. Louis difficulty.rwas aired
somewhat in the newspapers but a
very large part of the other conflicts
in the association have not been told.
When the association went to Portland
some four years ago, the expenses 1t
was given out would be nothing SO far
as railroad fare was concerned. Later
it was discovered that some fare would
have to be paid from Denver. 1t was
afterward learned that the special cars
from Chicago were secured thru the
Illinois railroad commission and that
the money in the treasury was used to
pay the fare from Denver for members
of the Illinois commission and a bunch
of their relatives and later the associa-
ton paid the Illinois commission 81 900
for the use Of the train. This was all
paid for out Of the money secured
n ;eo, fe io fho tut
ed proceedings.
A part Of the internal fight of
the organization is the fight between
the different baking powder concerns
There is a small minority in the orr
ganization of state dairy commission
ers who are making q desperate fight
for purity in the organization and for
the endorsement only of pure foods
instead of endorsements at so much
a page for advertising in the printed
proceedings. State Dairy Commission
er Wright is one of the minority. At
the st. Louis convention the fight be-
tween the baking powder men was 50
warm that in the last proceedings four
of the five members of the executive
committee sign a statement to the ef
feet that the addresses and papers
made at the convention are on the au-
thority of the persons reading the pa
pers only.
1t seems that the minority favor the
alum baking powder men in opposition
to the cream of tartar baking powder
men. The alum people make about 80
million pounds year, while the cream
Of tartar people make about IA mill
ion pounds year. The cream of tar
tar men claim that alum in bread is
very injurious. The alum people adj
NIT this, but claim that in the MAX
ing of baking powder the alum becomes
alu1ninum hydrate, which all author
tiles claim has no effect whatever on
a person and that cream of tartar in
baking powder becomes an irritant to
the stomach, and is injurious just to
the extent that it is used
Mr.. Wright has received number
OF copies of the printed proceedings of
the last convention containing the ad-
vertisements of the impure foods and
imitation butter, but he will not dis
tribute them for the reason that he is
opposed to their publication in the
proceedings The circulation of the
proceedings is again giving a motive
to the opposition to make itself heard
and it is possible that plan Will be
formed to start another fight ait the
Portland meeting.
1t is probable that plan will be
devised in a few days for the cere-
monies that will attend the removal
of the Iowa battle flags from their
cases on the second floor of the state
house to the inches being prepared for
them on the first floor AT the Oska-
loosa encampment Governor Cummins
asked the state G. A. r. to take charge
of the matter and make some arrange
meut for a suitable program for the oc-
ca sion of the removal No action was
taken at that time and since then Ae-
iutant George G. Newman has been