Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-02
PRESIDENTS POWERS TO PERPE.
rUATE OLD OFFICERS is
TAKEN AWAY,
STATE DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS
TO NAME COMMITTEES
Breaks Out at Opening
Day Of Convention Of Farmers Asso-
eiaton-Warm Debate Over Methods
of Nominating State officers-Dis.
triets Are Formed.

! ency, presaging a red hot election of
/ first pop out of the box" when the
annual meeting of the Farmers Grain
! Dealers Association was called at the
Auditorium The president was de-
prived OF the opportunity OF framing
. up a committee on nominations that
might retain him in office. No public
charges of this sort were made. and
there was no open attempt TO discredit
the motives of President 3. Hathaway.
but assertions We're made that there
had been dissatisfaction within the past
two years at the working out of the
custom of allowing the presiding Off
Ger 10 name this important committee
and there was not dissenting vote
when the unamended question was put
squareiy before the delegates. There
was. however. vigorous effort made
20 sidetrack the insurgent program by
naming committee 10 investigate the
question and report next year. but it got
little support on vote.
President Hathaway had made up his
nominating committee before the bust
ness session began and given it out to
the newspapers and to others Some
delegates suspected it was 50 made up
as 10 insure his own denomination and
while they did no, say SO out in meet
ing, they voted with that idea in mind.
Holman Starts Fight.
The fight was precipitated when r.
a. Holman, of Rockwell who was
named on the nominating committee
as made UP by President Hathaway.
following the call TO order rol! call and
reading of the minutes. offered an
amendment to the bylaws providing
that in future the nominating COM
r1littee shall be chosen by dividing the
state into five districts. based not upon
area, but upon number Of cooperative
elevators therein that are members of
the association. the delegates from
each district TO meet and elect MEM
Der OF the committee. The amendment
provided that there should be a re-
dis,ricting each year, to be made i'm
mediately after the reading Of the min
utes of the previous meeting.
Speaking TO his motion. Mr.. Holman
said that he offered it to preclude any
sort Of factionalism that might creep
IN TO suggest anything other than a
fair division of the offices. He argued
that the districting need not be done
; with any minute precision that 1t made
no practical difference just what coun-
ties should be included in a particular
district. so long as all got approxi-
mately equal representation.
S. S. Harris, of Jolly, led the oppo-
| sition to Mr.. Holman's proposal with
an amendment that a committee OF
three. to be named by the president,
should be authorized to look into the
necessity for such a procedure and re-
port at the meeting a year from now.
| The amendment clevarly conceived
| he defended on the ground that a di-
vision into districts could not be hast
| lily done and that there should be
! plenty Of time taken on so important
, a matter.
| Thomas McManus. Of Dougherty
made the pricipal oratorical effort in
/ support of Mr.. Holman. declaring that
there had been criticism in recent years
/ OF the committee appointments of the
| presiding officers and that he for one
did not want hereafter to feel. should
! ne be elected TO office. it had been done
| in any manner other than fairly and on
| the square
State is Distracted.
| Mr. Holman protested against an
effort to postpone action for a year,
|
same scheme had been successfully
worked on him last year when he pre-
scented similar amendment, on the
ground that there should not be
change made until after the officers
had been elected. His re:narks drew
| laughter I'VE want no gerrymander-
ing he remarked. "and of course no
lone would think Of doing that in max
! ing up the Districts"
| The Harris amendment being put
was lost Overwhelmingly amid ap-
plause from the onlookers not delegates.
The original motion then was put and
unanimously carried, a number, how
ever. not voting.
On motion of Mr.. Holman. Secretary
c. G. Messerole was appointed to d.
vide the state into districts. Mr.. Mes
serole called in two assistants and an
nounced the district to be as follows:
| No. Lyon. Osceloa. Dickinson,
Sioux, O'Brien and Clay.
No. Emmett, Palo Alto, kossuth,
WinnAbago, Cerro Cr,I,io. Hancock,
Worth, Mitchell, Floyd. Chickasaw.