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Grand Lodge Will Go To City of Gull
ture In I917-New Orleans Man Made
Grand Exalted Ruler.


Edward Rightor of New Orleans,
yesterday was elected Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks at the opening of the
Grand Lodge convention in the Palace
Theatre.
Boston was selected as the conven
ton city for 1917. There was no at
tempt to question that city's title to it
Out of 1875 votes cast. Mr.. Rightor
received $685. His opponent, Lloyd H.
Maxwell, of Chicago members candi-
date" received 3SS. There was only
one ballot. Four blank votes We're
cast.
Rightor's election was a victory for
what have been known the "organi-
cation forces of Elkdom, representing
the conservative majority of the order.
MaXwells defeat was a blow to an in
surgent movement which, the organi-
zation men say, is only the rebellion
of small number of disgruntled men,
bers. The Maxwell supporters, how
ever, made their fight on a platform
the principal plank of which was grea-
ter power for State associations.
All along the line candidates who
represented the stand-pat spirit of
Elkdom won over those who repre-
scented the so-called insurgent faction,
and the division of the vote in each
case followed the general proportions
of the vote for Grand Exalted Ruler.
nearly 3 to l.
Following are the results in the vote
for other offices:
For Grand Esteemed Leading Knight
Of
George H. Johnson, of Boston, ISL;
Henry H. Jennings, IS.
For Grand Esteemed Loyal knight
Robert Ingersoll. of Seattle. Wash.
91S; Henry J. Walters of Philadelphia.
397.
For Grand Esteemed Lecturing
Knight-James NJ. Stanley, of Oak
land. Call, no contest.
For Grand Observation-Disclosures c.
Robinson, of Dubuque, Iowa, no con-
test.
For Grand Treasurer-Charles A.
White, of Chicago, no contest.
For Grand Tiler-Oliver Black. of
Oklahoma, SOL; Thomas Donohue, of
Connecticut. 400.
For Inner Guard-Frank Spriggs, of
ST. Paul. Mimi, no contest.
| For Grand Trustee George w.
Locke, of Rogers. Ark, 99S; Major
John B. Jeffrey, of Chicago. $50.
Col. John P. Sullivan, of New Or
leans made the address nominati ting
Rightor. 1t was coincidence that
Rightor had nominated Sullivan when
the latter was elected Grand Exalted
Ruler at the convention in Atlantic
City. Colonel Sullivan aroused great
enthusiasm by his praise of James r.
Nicholson, the retiring Grand Exalted
Ruler He declared the outgoing ad-
ministration to be one of the most sue
cessful in the history of the order, as
serting that Mr.. Nicholson's remark
able genius for detail and execution
had made him a towering figure in
Elkdom.
Mr.. Maxwell was nominated by ]. U.
Sammis, of Iowa. He pleaded for more
recognition of the State associations
and took occasion to criticize the
Grand Lodge for it's lack of attention
to this principle.
The nominating speeches were quiet
and undramatic, for the most part, I'M
til Fighting Bob" Evans, of Tacoma,
Washington. got upon the platform,
when nominations for Grand Esteemed
Loyal Knight were in order. Evans is
small in stature.
Gentlemen" he shouted, moving his
hand as though to throw back his hair
which. his friends say, used to be long
and lionlike. This was force of habit,
however for he has had it cut lately
The contrast between Evans stento-
ran tones and the quietly delivered
speeches of other nominators electfi-
ned the whiting delegates and thew in
terrupted Evans with a rousing cheer
Fighting Bob" opening his address
with the remark: Where I come from
orevity is eloquence," went on i'm about
Is words to nominate Bob" Ingersoll.
and the cheering started again. Inger-
soil won handily.
jeremiah Hurley put into nomination
the name of Boston for the 1917 con-
Ventlon Hurley, in the old days of
oasepail, was a catcher on tie Chicago
team, for which Past Grind Exalted
Ruler John X. Tener, Ex-Governor of
pennsylvania, pitched. No other cities
were named for the honor. but George
"allace' OF Ell Paso Texas, threw
scare into the convention.
He rose and adpitted oil tho aood
Things hurley nae said about Boston
hei hople history her natural beauties
IHo an that' OUT he declared. down in
the southland there was another city
TO- IL net better than the New
England town in everything that ten
leu " make d convention welcome. The
ielegates began to get uneasy. They
had antici pated no fight on the 1917
convention: they had virtually settled
On Boston. BAx.Mr. Wallace went on
relentlessly.
L
ssates grosned)-"for 1918" concluded
MI. Wallace. and the convention cheer
"a him to the echo.
| While the principal plank in Max
wells platform was greater power for
State associations. neither Rightor nor
Maxwell supporters regard his defeat
|hs a complete defeat for the State as
|5ocia ton idea.
That idea contemplates a greater rec
|ognition of the organizati ton of various
subordinate lodges in a State. Carried
Ito its logical end it means the appoint
|,nent of delegates to the Grand Lodge
from the State association alone, and
mot from each subordinate lodge, as is
tine present practice. This, of course
would cut each States representation
ito the Grand Lodge down to one mem
Der. Opposition to a change as radical
|as this is almost unanimous. 1t is too
|.nonarchical in tendency, the opponents
declare. and tends to a reduction of the
democracy of the order.
This session of 1916 was the biggest
In point Of the number of accredited
delegates in the history of the Elks
|There We're 1,575 entitled to vote, but
all of them. of course, did not vote
There were those among Rightor's
Importers who believe. to a certain ex-
tent. in greater recognition for State
associations. They declared that Max
Welfs adoption of that principle as a
campaign slogan was merely for cam
pa1gn purposes, and that he did not
nave the united backing of the State
association element
On the other hand Maxwell surpris-