The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-13
STATE INSTITUTE
NOT DESPAIRED OF
Board of Agriculture Has Ulti-
mate Authority.
Personal Convenience Out-weighed
Every Other Consideration With
Committee.
PADUCAH DELEGATES TALK.

Personal convenience OF the major
lty of the executive committee of the
Kentucky State Farmers Institute
who live in the east-central part Of
the state, controlled their vote yester-
day, and although the committee rec
commended shelbyville as the place
for holding the next institute, the Pa
ducah delegates do not despair, and
the probabilities are that the institute
VIII come here next year.
This hope Is based on the fact the
state board of agriculture really has
ortire charge of the institute. This
board was created on Recommended
tion of the state institute after the ex-
ecutive committee was authorized to
select the place. The action of the
committee yesterday at Louisville Is
important only as it has weight with
the board of agriculture yet to be APP
pointed.
The executive committee met in
Louisville and with only two negative
votes decided to recommend Shelby
Vile as the next place for holding the
Institute w. f. Bradshaw, Sr.. W.
l.. Bower, S. A. Fowler and ID. w.
Coons, secretary OF the Commercial
club, went to Louisville as represent
atives of the county institute and the
Commercial club, to press the claims
Of Paducah and West Kentucky to
the next institute. They did excellent
work and made an impression on the
state officials who were present.
The story of the meeting is best
told by Secretary Coons:
"All but two members of the COM
nittee are from Central Kentucky and
they frankly stated that they favored
Shelbyville because 1t is near Louis
vile and convenient for them. To our
plea that West Kentucky needs the
institute, that agricultural interest
needs a stimulus here and that Padu-
cab is much better able to care for
the institute than Shelbyville, they
answered with an admission of the
truth Of our assertions, but chung TO
argument of convenience. Even our
reminder that according to law the
institute must meet at Frankfort--a
few miles from Shelbyville-every
other year, had no effect on them.
at was palpably an injustice to our
farmers-to West Kentucky. The
fact that the institute meets at the
capital every other year gives us the
right to demand that we shall have II
the odd year. McCracken county can
furnish an audience of 1000 easily,
and we can show the rest of the
state Just what the western section
can do in the way of getting up
crowd.
The state institute empowered the
executive committee to select the
place for holding the institute, but af-
ter that the state board of agriculture
was created with authority TO take
entire charge of the institute and the
expenditure of 100000 annually.
The board is not yet appointed by
the governor, but we have the assur-
ance that state officials will lean to-
ward West Kentuek' for the very
reasons that we advanced before the
committee.
Il think West Kentucky should
unite in making a fight for this insti-
tute. The greatest thinkers and
speakers on agricultural subjects will
attend and it would be OF incalculable
benefit to the whole west end OF the
state to have the institute SO close"