The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-16
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| WI AGGIE BURRDS
At SALTWATER
Situation Wednesday Shows Field
Aligned Against Old Board
Russell obscured.

saltwater, Okla., Jan. l5.-The eau
cussing of the factions represented in
the State Farmers Institute Wednes-
day morning indicated an occultation
Of Senator Campbell Russell as a domi-
nant figure an dthe alignment of the
field against the old board of agricul-
ture, otherwise known as the Brewer
Bryan-Elliott faction, and the cards in
dicate to a certainty that the result of
the election will be the birth of two
boards OF agriculture.
The Farmers Institute proper met at
2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Resolutions.
The report Of the resolutions COM
inittee, which was returned in the aft
ernoon, was adopted practically unani-
nous. AS representing the sentiment
Of the farmers of the state some of the
recommendation in the resolutions
are sensational Following the per-
functory preamaie, the report reads:
1--WE the delegates from the various
counties of Oklahoma, selected and
chosen by the farmers thereof as pro-
vided by law, being duly assembled and
organized as state farmers institute,
as provided by law, at Saltwater, Okla,
this 18th day Of January, 1918, do here
by adopt the following resolutions:
Resolved, that we congratulate the
people of the state of Oklahoma upon
the adoption and enactment by them
of law initiated to remedy abuses in
the management of the affairs under
the control of the state board of agri-
culture, which law makes it possible
to keep the actual control of said board
out of the hands of professional poll
ticians and reposes it in the hands of
actual farmers throughout the state
That law was enacted by the sovereign
people and received a plurality of near
ly 100000 votes, and we demand in
the name OF the sovereign people of
the state that its spirit and it's letter
be observed in the future management
and conduct of said board.
Gig Professional Politicians.
Resolved. that we unqualifiedly con-
denim the attempts of professional poll |
ticians to manipulate the election of |
members of the new board of agricul- |
ture to be chosen by these delegates
at this time, and to so control their
deliberations as to defeat the spirit |
and intent of the law so lately enacted
by the people, and we declare, without
equivocation, that the immense ma
jority for the recall of the former board
was cast because the people wished
that board to be sheared of partisan
control and to be divested of partisan
Resolved, that we declare our pur-
pose and conviction that the members
1f the board Of agriculture to be elected
by these delegates this day should be
not because of party affiliation
or partisan belief, but because of their
ability, efficiency and thorough ca
Dacity to transact the great and inn
portant business responsibilities ra
posed in their hands by law, and we
ook with displeasure upon any person
)r plan which would seek to select un-
worthy men to these important places
through partisan or other motives.
Demand Economy. T.
Resolved, that the great educational
and other public enter
)rises belonging to the people oL-the
state should be managed free from
PARTISAN politics and partisan narrow !
less in conformity to the intent and
purpose of the law under which this {
BOARD is to be chosen and the immense
iums of money voted by the people out
# their pockets for the support of the s
laid board, and the management of l
aid institutions should be economical {
y and wisely spent and administered
or the benefit OF all the people and
heir children, rather than for the bene- i
it of a few who use their public posi- '