Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-10
Board of Trade
Continued from page l

In opening the meeting President
Kay explained the circumstances that
had led up TO this action. "The change
In method" said he s'of nomin ating
candidates for places IN the board of
governors, by a nominating committee
tion-had caused some dissatisfaction.
Upon hearing Of this, the new board of
governors, at their first meeting, after
thorough discussion and due delibera-
ton, resolved to resign In a body and
SO notified me as president of the
board of trade" To right this matter,
therefoIe, the Especial meeting was Inn
perative. Mr.. Kay spoke further. de-
claring that he "felt there was a mis-
understanding about the real situationn
and believed that 'motives had been
u~Djustly questioned" This being q
special meeting, Mr.. Kay trippingly
referred to the fact that there were no
minutes of any previous meeting to de-
lay more important things, and sug-
gested that the board proceed to the
business on hand at once.
On motion of that stalwart member
Of the board Of trade, 8. A. Laning,
and seconded by Commissioner Ryan,
the designations Of the board Of COVER
nors were unanimously accepted, fol-
lowed by a motion to proceed to the
work of nominating in the regular way
from the floor, and each member was
limited to the privilege OF making but
one nomination. Any ballot contain
ing more than twelve names was to be
considered invalid and 10 be thrown
out. Mr.. Laning had demanded foil,
fair and unlimited opportunity for
making nominations, which broad,
beral demand was taken advantage of
and the list ran up to twenty-three
names. A motion 10 keep the list and
the polls open, first for five minutes
longer, and then for fifteen minutes
additional, surely gave the widest
scope for untrammeled action; but very
little was done after the initial rush
that scored the % names mentioned.
Those numerals must have affrighted
some one, whose keen discernment saw
that such "skidoo" figures might have
a hoodo effect. To remedy such a die
condition the name of P. III. Jackson
was sung out and the revised, improved
and amended list of candidates regis
tered the charming combination Of four
aud twenty, all ready now to receive
the suffrages of the electorate.
Prior TO the victory of the free-for-all
champions, a persistent, desperate eff
fort had been made by Charlie Norton
to press to passage his motion TO nomi-
nate the original twelve men, the valid
ity of whose election had been ques-
toned, in a body again, but from the
floor of the house, instead of by a re-
firing committee. All the stock of par
liamentary tact at his command was
employed in this vain attempt. Of
course his methods were plausible, Dip
lomatic. Like a skilled physician he
might have said: "This board of trade
is very, very i'll indeed, and it behooves
us TO act with great circumspection and
skill. I have here prepared at large
expense of time and effort a pill of mar
vellous potency, which if we can in
duce the patient to swallow at one
gulp, the troubles will all be over. To
make the dose less nauseating, my
remedial pill is nicely sugar-coated!"
The motion made by Mr.. Norton to
n inmate the original IL candidates in
a mass, was overwhelmingly defeated.
Only two persons beside himself were
seen leading the "forlorn hope" ("ver-
loren hoop") of a lost cause: Harry
Nickerson and Edward Fox.
Before the balloting began, it was
agreed upon that if a ballot contained
less than IL names, such names as were
on it shall be counted. No ballot was
to be invalid, except only such as
might contain names in excess of IL.
8. A. Laning was judge, H. G. Schlich-
ting and Russell Hamburg tellers. Be-
1OlC "dihlDB tAC Opiiot oiipot OOAuAdAo-
sioner Ryan made a speech intended
to put "a quietus" on "kickers " In the
eourse of which he asked if there were
any members present who were not
willing to bide by majority rule? If SO
he would would like to know who they
were? What punishment he had in
mind for them was not clearly express
ed, but some may have felt by his
threatening attitude as If a big club
was being swung over their heads.
Robert Latimer got in his little Ameri-
can speech, after being goaded and
twitted for resigning from that historic
committee of five at last regular meet
ing. He defended himself most valient-
ly, as he told about a paper being hand
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