The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-19

/ West was declined.
oscar Payne wanted to know who
I Is a farmer. Whether it meant the
men who actually pulled line over
cd Beck, or whether it Included the
men who own and operate farms
and farm hands. He said II it
meant only those who actually plow
that the Russell bill vas a piece OF
class legislation. He took the
ground that every progressive man
was entered in the farms and that
all present should be allowed to
participate in the meeting. R. D.
McManus said he had talked with
several judges OF the state and with
the attorney general and said they
were not willing to define just who
farmer Is under the Russell bill
A motion made by R. F. Sciyally
which was adopted ended the dis
cussion. The motion gave each per-
son who felt he was entitled to vote
a right to cast his ballot and gavo
any other person who desired to 90
80 the right to challenge.
Secretary West read communi
cation from the Commercial Club
Of Muskogee in which the institute
was requested to elect delegates 10
farmers conference to be held in
that city on the l4th of January
to arrive at measures that would
benefit the farmers of the east side
Of the state. After stating the Mus
kogee proposition Mr.. West told OF
the work done by Ernest Worthy OF
Daum in raising more than two
bales of cotton to the acre, showing
net profit OF $40 to the acre on
land where the state taken as
whole required IL acres to make
the same profit. He then read
bill which he has drafted and want
ed to have the institute indorse it
and ask the representatives OF the
county to offer it to the next iegis-
lature. The bill provides that coun-
ty commissioners in each county
can appropriate as much as $l,0oo
annually to be used in cooperation
with the government agricultural
work.
Walter Colbert passed letter to
the secretary with the request that
1t be read. The letter was from
Senator Russell, author of the ini
tiated bill and asked the institute
to send a delegate who was in
sympathy with the recall of the
old board
A motion and second prevailed
that the institute proceed with the
election 6f delegate. X. ID. Nc
Manus made a speech nominating
Robt +. Scivally. He said Mr.
Scivally as well known all over the
state, that he was well informed
upon the matters tnat lay before
the saltwater meeting. that some
factions existed IN the state but that
all factions could combine upon Mr..
Scivally Walter Colbert placed in
nomination the name of c. j. GILL
He said Mr.. Gill was IN favor Of the
recall, that he voted for the Rus
sell bill, that he was an actual far
mer and a good one, besides being a
good man.
A motion prevailed that the yot-
ing should be done by ballot and
the secretary was to register the
names OF those who voted so that
the motion to apply the challenge |
could be taken advantage of, O, *. |
Darden and Lee Gait were appiont-
ed by the chair to call the vote.
+. Scivally received 81 ballots and
Mr. Gill IS.
Mr. Scivally respondeI with
short talk in which he said he be-
longed to no factions and no cliques,
that he would go to saltwater and
and represent the best interests OF
the state and especially Of his coun-
ty. lie said he had been delegate
twice to these stat" meetings, that
he had be"n patron of the short
courses of the \. and NJ. college and
said those who had not attended
did not realize what they had miss
ed. lie made a good talk for the !
stac agricultural school AMI said
II was the best in the whole south |
west. His speech was heartily |
cheered.
C. II. Davenport moved that an al
ternate be chosen. The motion pre- |
vailed o. X. Darden nominated c
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