Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-07
CONVENTION PICKS COMMITTEE
Credentials Body is Selected After
This Manner.
VOTE SIxTY.Two TO FIFTY.Two
Head Consul Talbot and Others Maxi
Bitter Talks.
NAME DELEGATES DURING MIG
Motion by ObercGIder 20 Che
Them by Districts Ruled Ov
After stormy Session mt
Hastings

HASTINGS, Neb., May Cd
Telegram. THE insurgents won srss-a
blood in the triennial state convention OF
the Modern Woodmen OF America today,
naming the credentisl committee by
majority of ten votes
The first gun of the battle was fired
Tom Allen of Lincoln. standpatter, in
motion to have each district name a
member of the credentials committee.
NJ. L. Corey OF Clay Center. insurgent,
moved as a substitute that w. T. York,
first district; Charles Brown, second; A.
NJ. Anderson, third; c. l. Browser,
fourth; Dr. J. f. England, fifth; A. s.
Moon, sixth, be named by the convention
at large as committee on credentials,
A hot debate followed, in which Allen
charged the insurgents with using steam
roller methods. Corey, replying, said the
insurgents had been taught how to use
the steam roller by the administration in
the Chicago head camp. He said the In
surgents were in the majority and pro-
posed to control the convention.
The insurgent substitute motion carried
by a vote of sixty-two to fifty-two,
whereupon the convention adjourned to
/ o'clock.
Insurgents win in Committee.
The fight over the credentials commit
tee report consumed the entire afternoon
session.
The insurgents yielded on contest from
Arthur county and seated a standpatter,
but the standpat delegation from Cass
county was excluded and the insurgents
were seated, 1t appearing that they had
been chosen by thirty-four of OF forty
eight delegates, while the standpatters
were chosen by the minority Of fourteen.
After much skirmishing and a debate
which grew in intensity, the insurgent
credentials committee was adopted by
vote Of n to IS.
], c. Elliott of West Point. was then
elected state consul and A. II. Murdoch
or Omaha was elected clerk. both for
three years. t
More acrimonious was the debate fol-
lowing resolution by Joseph oberfelder
Of Sidney for the election OF head camp
delegates by congressional districts. The
resolution was objected to under point
of order that the Woodmen bylaws re-
qulred selection by convention. Head
Consul A. r. Talbot made an impassioned
appeal to support the Oberfelder resolu-
ton. and in reply was attacked by NJ l..
Corey OF Clay Center. The debate car
ried the afternoon session until after Z
o'clock
Claim Majority for Talbot.
During the afternoon Tom Allen of
Lancaster said Talbot had received mes
sages showing that the administration
had been endorsed by the camps of Mich
igan, New York. Tennessee, North Caro-
lima Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Maryland,
Kentucky, Oklahoma, New .lexico, Del
aware. District of Columbia, Arizona,
Virginia, Alabama, Oregon. Vermont,
Rhode Island, New Hampshire, sas-
katchewan, Kansas, Alberta, Maine. New
Jersey, Colorado, British Columbia, Penn
sylvania, Mississippi.
Joe Oberfelder said the returns already
received gave Talbot majority OF sew
enty-five in the Toledo head camp. This
claim was disputed by the insurgents.
and the national insurgent chairman, ].
lV. Beghtol, waved bundle OF kilograms
which he said would show that many of
these states and districts were not for
the administration
| The oberfelder resolution was declared
out Of order, and at 7:15 the convention
adjourned for an hour, when another res
olutlon of the same import by Tom Allen
was to be taken up.
Regulars Bolt In Iowa.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, May 6.-The war
ring factions in the Iowa state camp OF
the Modern Woodmen OF America got to-
gether long enough In the opening ses-
sion here today 10 permit the appoint
ment Of a credentials committee, and to
listen to several addresses.
I The regulars bolted this afternoon,
leaving the convention to the 'insur-
| gent" faction.