The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-23
WOULD ASK ELKS TO
MEET IN RICHMOND
GRAND LODGE. u. n. o. E. READY
no COME HERE UPoN IN
rITATToN.
INTERNAL DISCORD
NAN FROM FLOOR SEEKS no BE
EXALTED RCLER--AGAISsT
PRECEDENT OF THE or
GANIZATroN.
INTERNAL DISCORD

AZ the next annual grand lodge meet.
IEg 81 the order VI Elks movement
wEM be started for the meeting CT the
grand lodge I'm Richmond in 1915.
grand lodge that whenever Richmond
asked for the convention IL could get
f. This expression was made when
she grand lodge assembled Ia Atlantic
CITY ten years ago.
R' ahmond aud Virginia went TO
Atlantic city to get the meeting.
Eiehmond by less than hundred
votes. At that meeting Il was stated
tkae whenever Richmond asked for II
again the lodge would come here.
IN Milwaukee Richmond did not ask
for It. because the secretary OF the
Richmond lodge was candidate for
Erand secretary and the city sacrificed
Eeself in order 20 help the secretary.
AZ the next meeting, Baltimore, the
same condition prevailed. Richmond
Gid rot ask for the convention. be
candidate for the secretarYship OF the
grand lodge Since then there has been
re mention OF Richmond.
But" said Leading Knight Eugene
10 everything that I can TO get the
convention here IN 1915"
Nr oyer matter. Rochester gets II this
year. Then the fight fer the follow
ing year will be made.
"Bui," said Mr.. Brauer again. III
is ready and willing to have the grand
lodge. believe the city can get t.
That means the city of Richmond viii
have 10 take care of many thousands
Of people, for the Elks' convention
brings more people TO city than any
other national convention We can
take care OF the visitors better now
than we could ten years ago when we
made a strong bid for the grand lodge.
BY the time ] mention, there win be
several additional hotels, and with the
ryf hsNsA tha Ygasl
suorabie boarding house. we can handle
any crowd which may come this way.
Local as well as State Elks will as
sist eli they can in the effort To get
the grand lodge 20 meet in Richmond.
X means lot for the city--much more
than amy convention which has met
Richmond lodge. No. As, will next
month elect officers for the year.
The custom has been TO advance all
officers from the various chairs. Some
times the suggestion of taking a man
from the floor is made, but this sug-
gestion never prevails. as the unwritten
custom is to give every chairhoider all
that may he coming to him.
When man is elected to chair.
1T is with the understanding that he
liz capable Of holding the successive
organizations. he is passed along TO the
top. Then an aspirant for the chairs
may get In the running.
II is said that there Is ornething of
conflict In the Elks' organization.
That man from the floor aspires to
the place Of exalted ruler. This aues-
lion Is being seriously considered by
members of No. As.
BY taking man from the floor and
placing him AT the top would set a
precedent and, as some members say,
II would reyolutionize the prevailing
conait ton.
Politics cannot enter into the coun-
sells of thu organization of Elks, SO
* In believed by many mem bers that
fhe man who In entitled to the Office
OF exalted ruler. ny virtue of the fact
that he has served the lodge in all the
preceding chairs. will be the chosen
man.