The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-06-18
HAMMONDPLANSBIG
DEVELOPMENT MEET
Governors Aim is to Unite State,
Making mo North, No South, Just
Minnesota" a"-Interest in Trip.
TO CALL STATEWIDE ASSEMBLY
Plans That Affair Be Held This Fall
and Will Be No Talkfest; But
Strictly Business Gathering.

Bemidji people were disappointed
when it became known that Governor
Hammond would be unable to be
present during the visit of the state
legislators but they are interested
in plan which has been announced
by the chief executive to result in
the issuance of a call for a general
| development conference to be held
in St. Paul. The idea was conceived
| by the governor when he became con-
| vinced by the excellent feeling engen-
dered by the tour of the legislators
| through Northern Minnesota that the
time has arrived for a general de-
velOpment movement embracing all
of the state.
Against Sectionalism.
Governor Hammond, all during the
trip of the legislative party, as far
as he was a member of it, in all Ct
his speeches decried sectionalism in
state development. He urged Sec
tional cooperation instead and
sought to impress on his hearers the
fact that development of any part
of the state was to the interest of
the state as whole fully as much
as it was to the section benefited.
The governor repeatedly refuted the
charges, yelled and unveiled, that
have frequently been made to the ef-
feet that the southern part of the
state was opposed to the state help
ing in the development of the north,
that it's members in the legislature
were hostile to any such move and
that but little except enmity might
be expected from them
Mr.. Hammond felt indorsed when
Senator F. E. Putnam of Blue Earth
at Baudette on Monday declared that
while he had felt that conditions rep
resented as prevailing in the north
ern part of the state were exagger-
ated, he is now convinced that they
are not and that he would support any
move that was legal and right to aid
the north in it's development.
Wants Get-Together Meeting.
The Governor limited in his
speeches that general "get-togeth-
err conference of the four develop
ment associations of the state would
be proper thing, but not until he
was returning to St. Paul did he
voice an intention of calling a meet
ing.
There are several things which the
governor feels that he must have de-
termined before he can issue the
call, and he will ask the advice of
various men in regard to them.
Some of them are:
Of whom shall the membership of
such conference be constituted?
What questions should be brought
up?
What methods of discussion shall
be adopted?
How to restrict discussion to the
questions at issue and keep "crank"
notions out of the convention?
What final action should be taken
by the delegates so that the bodies
from which they come will receive
potent influence?
Conference in Autumn.
On these things the governor will
seek advice, and when he has re-
ceived it satisfactorily he will issue
his call for the conference and an
nounce the dates. 1t is likely that
the conference will not be called un-
til after the present crop shall have
been gathered as farmers belonging
to the various associations could not
very we'll get away to attend such a
gathering, and, at any rate, there is