Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-02
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF
FARMERS TO HOLD SESSION
IN DIES MONIES.
SIR HORACE PLUNkETT,
NOTED FRESHMAN, TO SPEAK
Will Tell of Co. operative Movement in
His country-Major carper Refuses
to Be Discharged From States EN-
poy and Soldiers Preference Law is
Again to the Fore.
,ecial to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, Oct. 2.-For the first
time in its history the National Grange
will meet in Des Moines. The conven-
ton will begin Nov. 10 and continue
till the business is all attended to,
which will be nearly two weeks. There
was a time in the early history of the
granger movement when Iowa was
strong in local organizations of the
grange There are a considerable num-
Der here now but not so many that
they are heard much from. Ex- Cover
nor c. j. Bell of Vermont, is secretary
of the national organization.
Sir Horace Plunkett of Ireland, the
friend of Henry Wallace of this city,
will be one OF the speakers during the
convention and probably the most
prominent. 1t is also expected that
governors of surrounding states. Un-
tied States senators and congressman
and others Will be in attendance. An
effort is being made to get Secretary
James Wilson and others prominent in
the United States department of agr-
culture 10 attend and speak.
II will be the forty third annual con-
vention of the national organization.
The Slavery will be headquarters for
the gatherings and most of the meet
ings will be held in the big convention
room in the hotel which was formerly
the dining room. The meetings will
open Wednesday, Nov. 10 at II O'Clock
with the address of the national mas
ter, Hon Nahum J. Bachelor, and will
be followed by reports of officers and
state masters.
Thursday there Will be the address
by Sir Horace Plunkett of Ireland on
( the cooperative movement in Ire
land with addresses by other noted
persons. Friday and Saturday Will be
devoted To eNemplification of the de-
gree work of the order. Sunday me-
mo-ial services viii be held and be-
ginning Monday the sessions will be
devoted 10 the business of the grange,
The full program of addresses will be
announced in a few days.
The fiftieth anniversary of the mus
terng in of the Fourth Iowa cavalry
win be appropriately celebrated by the
regiment in 1911. The regiment has
just held its reunion in Mt. Pleasant
and the meetings are usually held ev-
cry three years but because of the If
tieth anniversary coming in 1911 the
reunion will next be held that year at
Mt. Pleasant where the regiment was
mustered in in 1851. General Winslow.
who was colonel of the regiment when
it was mustered in expects to be pres
ent at the next reunion. OF the $50
known living members of the regiment
lis were present at the last reunion.
Maj A s. Carper has employed
Judge S. F. Prouty to represent MS
case and he proposes to endeayor to re-
tain his position in the archives depart
ment The executive council cut d>yr
the force because the legislature ca;
down the appropriation and Maioi
Il Carper was one of the last put on ,hf
force and so was the first TO be ie'
out That is the explanation of mem
bers of the council. The men were dis
charged al the close of the month anl
their services were supposed TO end or
Thursday night. Major Carper on tn
advice of his attorney appeared Il
work Yesterday and continued today
! He viii work till the close of the mon.i
| ana then if the state does not pay hin
his money viii get out mandamus pro
| ceedings. Members of the council
I know that Major Carper is at work u
Least they have been told SO, but h@D'
/ AIKEN no action.
Those who have watched the opera
n ton of the old soldiers preference Law
| believe that Major Carper will be abb
\ retain his position since in the bull
/ 3f the cases where the courts hav
H Deen resorted TO the old soldiers hav
Won.
The action of Major Carper has re
newed the complaint which some in tn
state house make against the old soldie
II and renewed the claim that since IN
passage of the soldiers preference la
II the janitors are not SO industrious a
they We're formerly State officia
claim their desks are never busted an
occasionally state official with a loo
Of disgust on his face is seen hunti-
about for an old rag and later on
seen busting his own desk AT lea
u that is what is claimed by some of t!
state house people. Dignified clerks
| the offices with a due regard for TIL:
Importance as semi-state officia
think it beneath their dignity but sor
Of them are known to have dust ra
III their desks which they claim tn
II use each morning on their own desl
Every one in the state house clair
to be the friend of the old soldier b
they ali claim that with very few e
ceptions the old soldiers have reach
.. the age when thy are no longer use!
and ought to be retired on pension
\ They claim the work of a janitor in
state house If pr operly done it too ma
~, ~ <ho n1d
and that because of their sympathy
the old soldiers there is not the
= sistence on having the work done W
Aes that there would be otherwise. tn
insist that instead Of the soldiers pr
)Oa erence law the old soldiers should
,, be pensioned.