The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-07-17
SEE TRICK BY THE HEAD CAMP
Insurgents in Big Fraternal Order Seek
to Have Questions Settled by Courts
or Fought Out on the Floor of the
Next Meeting of the Head Camp.

Word has been sent out from 1nsur-
gent headquarters of the M. w. A.. to
keep out Of the attempted referendum
vote Of the order as being conducted
this month by the head camp. All in
surgents are advised to refrain from
voting. All members will be interest
ed in the circular, which is signed by
Harry 7. Hooper, secretary, and James
v, Beightol, president and is as
follows:
Since The Springfield convention
was held the administration forces
have worked industriously to discover
some method whereby they might weak
en- our forces and strengthen their de-
Tense. They evidently deem it wise
political move on their nart to manu-
facture a pseudo or raise vote on the
rate question. 1t is cunningly devils
d scheme to confuse the voter and
divide the concentrated sentiment
which now exists against the Chicago
rates and general management Of the
order.
4" You are advised by the national
committee of the M. w. A. Federation
to take no part in the vote as set forth
IN the July number of the Modern
Woodman for the following reasons:
''First We do not believe the vote
or in good faith, but with the hope
that those who oppose them in the
course they have taken will scatter
their votes in a maze Of conflicting
propositions while they by reason Of
their oiled machinery can concentrate
their vote in support of their previous
contentious.
Second: They refused to submit to
the membership legal referendum
vote under the Donahue bill and sought
to escape 1t under an injunction,
knowing we'll what the result Of the
vote would be.
"Third: The Head Consul a year ago
emphatically stated to the president of
this association that it was impossible
for the head officers to submit refer
endum vote under the laws of our or
der. If thai was true then, it is true
now.
Fourth: This vote is purposely be-
ing held early after che Springfield con-
vention before the action Of that con-
Vention and our literature has had time
to be published and distributed to the
members of the order.
Fifth; Any voting proposition to
be acceptable to majority of Wood
men at this time should give an oppor-
tunity to vote for or against the prin-
ciples and platform adopted at the
Springfield convention.
Another scheme practiced by the
administration during the last month is
to work out and organize in different
states what they call progressive asso-
Citations, ostensibly standing for a fifty
per cent raise in others. These move
ments are being guided and secretly
controlled by the administration forces
conducted and encouraged in different
localities by state and district deputies.
"Since the Springfield convention
the defense has become thoroughly
alarmed at the situation and the
whole deputy system is working over
time in vain effort to stem the tide.
The preservation of the order and the
prevention of a greater loss in mem
bership is due solely to the labors of
the M. w. A. Federation. The battle
for reform which we are making is
meeting with universal favor in the
ranks and no permanent relief can be
obtained until that work is accom-
plished"