New-York tribune., 1910-05-10
EXCHANGE REBELS" WIN
Two Independent Committeeman
Elected by the Big Board.
THOMAS AGAIN president !
Largest Vote in Many Years.
M. Jarvis Consolidated Elk
change Head.

The annual election of the Ne" hoi ~
Stock Exchange which was beid yestei
dav resulted in a victory for the so-caiiou
..insI,rgents" whose ticket differed from
tbe regular ticket in only TWO Adlie'
They had placed in nomination Aipo, :
Francke. of Francke, Thompson q hooo'
instead of Arthur Whitney, of w H. doau-
by & Co. one of the ten men named oii liio
regular ticket for membership on lhe so'
erning committee for the four-yedi 'ei4h'
and Erastus T. Tefft, of Tefft d oo.' M
stead of Fuller Potter, Of Potter Choate {"
Prentice, as a member of the nominating
committee for the coming year anu
Messrs. Francke and Tefft were electeu'
the vote at this election beng one ol tio
largest for many years.
The opposition to the two defeated reSu-
lar candidates was in no sense PERSONAL IL
is understood but was due simply 10 q,
desire to make the governing committee
more widely representative than IL mas
been regarded by many members OF the
exchange as being in the past.
r. H. Thomas was reelected president
and Henry c. Swords treasurer; and Er-
nest Groesbeck, whose term as a trustee
of the gratuity fund had expired, was re-
elected for five-year term Members of
the governing committee were elected as
follows:
For four years-Stephen H. Brown, Dom
aid G. Geddes. r. II. T. Halsey, Stanley D.
McCsraw, Warren 3. Nash, II. G. S. Noble,
George 3. Post, jr., S. +. Streit, f. H.
Sturgis and Albert Francke. For three
years-C Ledyard Blair and William III.
Remick.
With this election Mr.. Thomas's record
EQUALS for number Of elections to the presi-
dency that of Rudolph Keppler, who was
chosen for five consecutive terms, the last
time in May. 1902 Mr.. Thomas succeeded
Mr. KeppIer upon the latter's retirement, In
Nav, 1903 but declined reelection after one
years service, H. X. Pomroy succeeding
him in office. Mr.. Thomas was again
chosen president at the annual election Of
1907 and has been reelected each year
since then, the present being his fifth cleo
ton as head of the New York Stock Ex-
change.
1t is seldom that any opposition to the
regular ticket develops on the Stock Ex-
change. In 1900 f. l.. Rodewald and R. H.
T. Halsey were nominated for the govern
ing committee against Henry Marquand
and Theodore II. Banks and were elected; {;
and in 1903 Charles S. Bryan was chosen a
member of the governing committee in
place of J. Borden Hartman, who was on
the regular ticket At the special election
in October 1899, for the election of a sue
cessor to George w. Ely as secretary, the
regular nominee Charles Lee Andrews,
who was defeated by William Mcclure,
who ran as ali independent and who held
the office for six years, the secretaryship
being changed to an appointive office upon
his retirement In 1906.
The annual election of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange. also was held yesterday.
Only one ticket was in the field, which was
headed by r. NJ. Jarvis for president, S. A.
Luther for first vice-president and G. II.
Van Buren, for second vice-president. e.
r. Grant was reelected treasurer and Val
entne Mott chairman; and among the gov
ernors chosen for the two-year term were
c. H. Badeau, Ogden d. Budd and Morti
mer H. Wagar, all former presidents of the
exchange.