The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-31
MRS. POTH'S $2,0OO POSITION CAUSE OF ROW IN c. OF F. OF A.
SECRETARY OF STATE BOARD CLAIMS MISS CORCORAN'S RE- MOVAL IS BASED ON TECH
 NICAL POINTS.
IN COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT PREPARED FOR THE FARMER MISS BRENNAN TELLS OF OPPOSITION TO MISS
 CORCORAN.

The $2,000 position as supreme sec
 retary of the Companions of the For
 esters of America is the bone of con-
 tention in that organization, accord
 ing to statement made today to The
 Farmer by Miss Mary A. Brennan
 secretary of the Connecticut StatS
 board and deputy supreme chief com
 panion of Southern Connecticut. In connection with the recent order of dismissal of Miss Corcoran, follow. ing her dismissal of Mrs. Poth as
 preme secretary-which latter dis
 missaI was not ratified by the execu- | tive board of the national council Miss Brennan has much of interest to
 say.
 Replying to a New Haven dispatch
 in The Farmer of Monday. Miss Bren-
 nan prepared the following statement for The Farmer:
 I desire to reply or correct the ar , sue of your paper. regarding Miss An nie M. Corcoran, Supreme Chief Com
 panion of the Companions of the For est of America. In the first place the meeting in New Haven, Sunday afternoon, Oct 27, was called by the Advisory Committee of the State Acting Officers.
 It is very true that Mrs. A. B. Poth of New; York City. was not extended
 meeting and for the reason that Miss Corcoran was not invited to attend the meetings held in New York recently. held in this city last week, Mrs. Poth expressed a desire to be present at the
 meeting that was to be held in New Haven Sunday, the. .27th, but as Miss Corcoran was not invited to the New
 York meeting, the Companions present
 saw no reason why she should attend the New Haven meeting.
 Despite the fact that but short mo- tice was given for the meeting to be held in New Haven, nearly every Cir cle in the State was represented. Those
 not represented sending their regrets and in most cases their intention to
 remain loyal to Miss Corcoran. There is no intention on the part of Miss Corcoran to interfere with the Treasury of any of the Circles as that l is not her method of coing business,
 She means to fight the case to the Dit | ter end but in a. fair manner.
 The secret of the trouble lies in l the $2,0O0 salaried office of Supreme l Secretary. now held by Mrs. Foth. In
 the late Spring or early summer of 1 the present year, a number of Com
 panions of Circles in New York city approached Miss Corcoran on one of l low them to use her name as a can didate for the office of Supreme Sec
 retary at the next convention in Att | 1antic City in 1913. Miss Corcoran on- ly laughed at the idea and consider ed 1t good joke, but when this ru-
 nor reached Mrs, Poths ears she did see a l it seriously and then the trouble be- IEan.
 Miss Corcoran has been a member Lof the Order for nearly twenty five years and one of it's foremost work
 CTS. Previous to the last session of lthe Supreme Circle held in Albany last filled the important office of Supreme
 Treasurer, and it was at that time she was elevated to the high office of Supreme Chief Companion. She has since that time, tried her very best to 1 be fair and just to every member of the Order. Miss Corcoran can proud that it was forced upon her by Mrs. Poth and it was many weeks before l she would consent to become can didate. Now Mrs. Poth as one mem Der of the Executive Council trys to depose her, and why? Because she fears she may lose the $2,0O0 office. The article further states that an | important cause for the attempted re- ] nova1 of Miss Corcoran as the head of the Order arises from the appointment
 of Mrs. Susie Prince of New York City for that State, one year after her cleo tion when the law read thirty days. not made by Miss Corcoran until it became absolutely necessary to do so for the reason that some of those ap- pointed to represent her were not do- ing so. Miss COrcoran was not ac- countable to the Executive Council for | this appointment, and if they did not think it right it was their privilege to call her to account at the next session of the Supreme Circle in Atlantic City 1 in 1913. The Supreme Chief Compan- l ion is the highest authority in the Or der and is accountable for her actions and appointments only at the next ses- tsion of the Supreme Circle following
 her election.
 Mrs Poth finds fault with the ap- pointment of Mrs. Prince one year af- ter the election of Miss Corcoran. In | January 1911, when secession visited the Order in this part of the country, Mrs. Elizabeth Atwood of California who was then Supreme Chief Compan- ion, appointed Mrs. Poth to represent her in this section, and that was one