Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-06
STATE CONVENTION CALLED 70
MEET IN DIES MONIES
APRIL IL.
WILL SELECT DELEGATES
TO NATIONAL MEETING
Each Camp in state Entitled to Repre-
sentation-Plan to Restore "Reprs.
sentative Government in FratsrnaI
society-Insurssnt Movement Grow
ing.

Des MOineS, March 6-1nsurgent
Woodmen of Iowa will hold state con-
vention in Des Moines April 16 to Sc
lect delegates to the national insurgent
convention at Springfield. ILL.,, which is
to be held May Is and 16. At meet
ing in Des Moines Of the executive
committee yesterday the convention
was decided upon and the call issued
to be sent at once to every camp in
the state.
Fifteen hundred or more delegates
are expected to attend the Des Moines
convention as representatives of the
insurgnt sentiment among the more
insurgent sentiment among the more
The Des Moines Commercial Club has
already arranged for the Auditorium as
q meeting place for the convention. The
first session will begin at 10 o'clock,
April Is.
Not only do the leaders plan to Sc
lect delegates for the national conven-
ton at the meeting, but they will also
perfect the organization in Iowa for
strenuous resistance to the head camp
and it's supporters. All over the state
at the present time camps. county
bodies and district bodies are being
organized for the insurgency campaign,
and these will be welded in one at the
state convention.
Call Outlines Plan.
The body of the call issued yesterday
follows:
1.-THE executive committee of the Iowa
Modern Woodmen assembly at meet
ing of said committee held in Des
Moines, Iowa, on the 5th day of March,
1918, after having carefully considered
the question of the selection of dele
gates in Iowa, has come to the con-
clusion, taking all things into cons,d-
Grafton, that the greatest good to the
greatest number Of Woodmen in Iowa
can come by a state convention hereby
issues a call for state convention to
be composed of Woodmen who are OPP
posed to the action of the Chicago
head camp in increasing the rates and
who believe in the restoration of rep
resentative government within said So
ciety and in the reorganization Of the
head office at Rock Island, said con-
vention to be held at the Auditorium
in the city of Des Moines, Iowa, on the
10Th day of April, 1913, at 10 a. m.
The representation to said convention
to be as follows: Each camp with
membership of 100 or less shall be en-
titled to one delegate to said conven-
ton. Each camp with a membership
of more than 100 Woodnen. shall be
entitled to one delegate for each 100
of its membership or MAJOR fraction
thereof.
At said convention delegates to the
national convention at Springfield will
be selected and the general welfare of
Woodcraft considered
Restore Representative Government.
The signers of the call were George
Froehling. Fort Madison; John Fl.
Scholl, Maquoketa; H. C. Littleton,
Clarion; George A. Davis, Fayette; P.
A. Hawley, Marshalltown; Ed Shields,
Eddyville; Charles w. Lyon, Des
Moines; w. NJ. Householder Charlton;
E. G. Tyler, Logan; John Porter, Web
ster City; julius Rohwer, Ida Grove.
"The insurgents are moving to re-
store representative government to the
society, to gain control Of the head
offices, and restore the confidence of
the Woodmen and the public in the
organization said Mr.. Lyon last night.
''The correspondence i have received
as secretary of the national provisional
committee. shows that turnout the en-
tire jurisdiction of the society the
movement is gaining force and that
the Springfield convention will be a
representation of the entire Woodmen
of the country. The in
surgents are becoming more thoroughly
organized than ever before and by the
time of the convention will have ire
mendous power in the society,""