Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-17
lNsURoENT FACTION OF IOWA
ORGANIZATION HoLDe RED.
HOT MEETING.
DEMAND INSURANCE RATES
UNDER FORMER SYSTEM.
Head OFFICERS Condemned Charged
With Extravasanee in Use Of Funds
-sixty-Fivs Delegates Chosen to
Attend National Conference to Be
Held in Springfield, III.

Des MOines, April 11.-FeWer IN
number than at their first convention.
but piping hot in enthusiasm. dele
igates to. the second Modern Woodmen
insurgent convention met yesterday in
Des Moines, organized, appointed
committees, heard their reports
! elected officers and selected their six
ty-five delegates to the national con
Ivention7,at Springfield.
+ The convention was featured by Z
number of hot speeches UNFOLDING the
Iinsurgent cause and condemning the
administration of the society Charles
: w. Lyon. of Des Moines, reviewed the
court fight before Judge Bradshaw last
fall in which the insurgents were VIC
torious in having the raise In rates
forbidden. He urged the members OH
to fight against the head camp.
The temporary officers of the con-
vention were John ID. Porter. of Web
ster City. chairman, and Charles Emer-
son, Of Creston, secretary.
! Resolutions Adopted.
! In It's report, the committee on res
olutions said:
That our first task Is the restora-
ton of representative government lii
the Modern Woodmen, to the end that
all its policies may be determined by
the membership and all its problems
by them solved.
That our second is the repeal OF the
/ illegally enacted Chicago rates.
I'VE believe that all members OF the
NJ. w. A. should be on the same basis,
and believe that only one plan OF IN
surance and only one table OF rates
should be in use by our society. we
accept no change of rates unless 1t De
first approved by referendum vote OIL
,he membership. We believe that the
present officials of the head camp
have outlived their usefulness ana
that the best interests OF the soclet!
demand a change in the officers ana
head camp employees of the orgahlZa-
ton.
1--WE demand revision of the BY
laws decentralizing power and deprlv-
ing the executive council OF the power
to compel neighbors to leave their
local camp and submit to trial De-
fore prejudiced tribunals.
I've demand a thorough investiga-
tion into the financial administration
Of the head office and the receipts and
disbursements OF our benefit and gen.
l.era, funds and conduct and manage
, nent OF the sanatorium, and that ac-
ton be taken to recover funds not
properly or legally disbursed OF
Ialienated.
1--WE deplore the enormous expendl-
ture Of the funds of our society IN an
attempt.r by the head officers, to rolst
Iupon the membership rate and plan
of insurance which has. by every cour'
where the question has been presented
been declared illegal.
I'VE heartily endorse the call 1or
national convention Of Modern Wood
men to meet in Springfield, ILL.,, May
is and Is, 1913, as we believe sucn
gathering of Woodmen Will tend tc
harmonize crystalize and energ1ze TINS
great movement. on the part OF ths
membership, against the action OF the
Chicago head camp and the manner
in which such action was brought
about, together with the system Whict
made such action possible. we tavo1
reorganization Of the head office a
Rock Island and restoration Of repre-
sentative government within the socl'
ETY.. We recognize the success of this
movement as essential to the restor'
] alton of confidence among the member
ship and the perpetuity of this grea
order.
Notwithstanding the fact that thu
action of the Chicago head camp ha:
cost the order approximately 3OO,0n'
| in members lapsed and many thousand:
more because OF the inability of the so
ciety to grow under the new rates an,
new plans Of insurance. adopted at Chi
cago, yet 1t is still the greatest fra
ternal insurance society In the United
States today: and we most earnestl!
urge every member to remain In tn
order and help not only to overcome
the severe Shock which the societ!
received at Chicago but to build a bet
ter, q greater. and more lasting MOI
ern Woodmen of America.
List Of Delegates.
The delegates elected to the nationa
convention, selected in the district eau
cuses. are the following:
First-George Freuling, Fort Madi
son; ]. G. ;Moriarity. Washington; L. y
Smith, Riverside; d. W. Paine. Let's.
Second-C. N. Stoner. Ladora: Cha!
Bowerson. Shueyville; L. H. Bowan
Clinton: A. S. Lawrence. Muscatine; II
E. wickham. Davenport; NJ. J. Bor
man.
Third-John D. Dennison, Dubuque
l., A. wiedener. Dubuque. c.
Bunker. Manchester; d. NJ. Crown. In
| dependence; NJ. E. Huffman. Ceda
Falls: T. W. Purcell. Hampton; F. J
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