The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-04
Hobbs Gives His
Reason for Acts
Says He Was Misled BY Statements
of DR.. White Declares Latter Play
ed Loose With Board.

Possibly it may be of interest to
some of the stockholders of the Twin
Falls Canal company to learn why
proceedings were brought to declare
illegal the work of the special meet
ing on October 9, in which the by
laws OF the company were supposed to
have been amended, and as | have TAX
en- APP art in initiating of these pro-
ceedings, l will state my individual
reasons for participating in this
movement
While | have favored for years some
of the proposed amendments. | was
very much opposed to that part Of
them that would enable one part OF
the tract to choose a director for the
other part, and also enable a design
ing majority faction to obtain a des-
potic sway, and perpetuate itself by
absolutely excluding a minority fac
ton, even though composing as
much as forty-nine per cent of the
votes, from even a representative on
the board; yet | like to see fair play
even with my opponents. and when
in the special meeting on October g.
the question was raised that the meet
ing might be illegal, because the call
for the meeting included only the in
itiatiOn and not the adoption of amend
ments, and Judge Boutwell, stated that
in his opinion it would be necessary
to have another meeting to adopt
them, and DR.. White exclaimed in an
swer to this question, this is damn
able" / naturally inferred that the
board of directors had deliberately
planned to hinder and delay proceed
lngs by inserting the word initiate, and
my sympathies were with the voters
of the meeting, although / voted
against the amendments, and such a
thing as a contest to declare the meet
ing illegal, l could not consider for
a moment, for l do not believe in TAX
ing advantage of technicalities to gain
a point. if it can be corrected with
out causing difficulty
However. in the meeting held in the
commercial club rooms on the even
ing of November %, at which DR..
White was present. and when con-
fronted by some of the members of
the board, and under severe question
ing he admitted that it was under
stood between himself and the board
of directors at a meeting of the board
called to arrange for the special meet
! ing on October 8, that the special
meeting would only propose bylaws
and that it would require another
meeting to adopt them and when Dr.
| White admitted that he had failed to
| inform even his local chairmen of
! this fact, thus proving that the doc
tor is either subject to spells of men
/ tai alteration, or else concluded that
he could ignore the arrangements un-
derstood between himself and the
board of directors and finish the work
in one meeting, and when it dawned
upon me that instead of the board try
ing to take an unfair advantage of Dr.
White and his followers, that he had
deliberately taken advantage of the
stockholders in railroading his plans
through a meeting which he admits
was practically under his own con-
troll, and forcing his bylaws upon the
stockholders without due considera-
ton, then l began to see that we hac
been deliberately misled, and the in
justice and tyranny of the whole af
fair, and lost no time in doing whaf
| could to help secure an order from
the court to prevent the proceeding:
of the special meeting from becoming
effective, and give the stockholders
and to use DR.. Whites own words
"the hard headed, slow thinking far
mer," a chance to carefully consid
err such important matters as amend
ments to our bylaws before they ar,
adopted, in addition to clearing up
tangle of legal questions that soone