New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Rain Beats BrOphy
Easily for Chief
Office of B. p. o. E.
Brooklyn Man Secures Less
Than Half - Many Votes
as Rival; Retiring Ruler
Talks About Prohibition
Special Correspondence

Special Correspondence
ATLANTIC CITY. July s.-Frank L.
Rain, Of Fairbury. Nebr., was elected
grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent
and Protective Order Of Elks here to-
day. Rain polled 1852 votes and Al
Der. T. Brophy. of Brooklyn. 4si. Rain
was the choice Of the high officers OF
the Elks, while Brophy ran ss an in
dependent. The Middle West and the
West swung the election to Rain, who
also broke up the Brophy alignment
in the East.
A eablegrem was received from Gen
eral John j. Pershing, member OF
the order. which read:
Grand Exalted Ruler Bruce A.
Campbell. Atlantic City. N. j.: Thanks
for your invitation, bu. shall be un-
able to attend the convention this
year. Please extend to assembled Elks
my cordial greetings and best wishes
Commander Evangeline c. Booth,
daughter of General William Booth,
founder of the Salvation Army, and
Doctor c. A. Prosser, director OF the
Federal Bureau for Vocational Edu-
cation, addressed the grand lodge
meeting on the Steel Pier before the
balloting began.
First Woman at Grand Lodge
Miss Booth is the first woman ever
invited to attend q meeting Of the
grand lodge. She expressed thanks
for the 100000 given to the Salvation
Army abroad and attributed the army's
success largely to the fact that the
men and women of the organization
had been trained in the hard school
Of experience before they were called
upon to work abroad. DR.. Prosser
expressed thanks for the $3.50, 900
given by the Elks for the work of his
bureau.
Bruce A. Campbell. retiring grand
exalted ruler, in his final report to
the convention declared that Elk lodges
must not seek to evade the prohibition
law. He asserted that each Elk might
consider the matter for himself, but
that the law must be obeyed in every
case. He told the convention that one
lodge which had taken action upon the
liquor question had subjected itself to
the penalty Of suspension Of its char
ter. Mr.. Campbell urged that Bolshe-
visits, anarchists, I. w. VS. and other
radicals be driven from the country.
The election of Rain over Brophy
brought anguish to the latter's sup
porters, particularly to the 100 Brook
lyn lodge members, who came here on
special train to whoop things up for
their candidate. The supporters went
to the Steel Pier and were very much
incensed when informed by the gate
tenders that they would not be per-
mtted to enter the room in which the
balloting was going on.
Meet Next in Chicago
Rain. the new grand exalted ruler. Is
widely known lawyer of Nebraska
He was born in Marshall. Texas, in
1877; was graduated from the Univer-
sity of Nebraska and the University OF
Michigan. He served three terms as
city attorney in Fairbury and -four
terms as prosecutor of his county.
The only contest was over the elec-
tion of the grand exalted ruler The
other grand officers were elected
by acclamation. They are: Grand es-
teemed leading knight, George J. f.
Falkenstein. MeKeesport, Penn; grand
esteemed loyal knight, Walter Book
walter. indianapolis; grand esteemed
lecturing knight, c. c. Bradley, Port
land; grand secretary, Fred c. Rob-
inson. Dubuque. Ia; grand treasurer,
Patrick j. Brennan. Dallas, Texas;
inner guard, W. b. Merrimsn. Green's
burg, ". c.; grand tiler, Frank Hurley,
Birmingham, Ala. William +. Dris-