Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-01-15

oratorical powers and gifts of leader
ship.
Two members of the House this year
are men in the uniform of Uncle Sans
| soldiers-H. E. Davidson of Page coun-
ty, and Will l.. King of Hardin county.
| Davidson is the sort to make good
substantial member, too, and in his
college career was rated a ten seconds
man in a foot race and hard to beat
in the world. King comes as the
youngest man in the House, just Fl
and out of the army after his election.
Douglas Rogers of Manning, Carroll
county, was one Of the last members
of the House to show up. A demo-
crat, one of 16 of that party out of
the 10S members, Rogers last session
exercised more control and influence
than any other one man on either
side. Had his influence been with
the good roads instead of with the
Pitt-Johnson crowd there would have
been no road fight worth mentioning
in the last General Assembly.
Lieut.. Governor E. r. Moore of Cedar
Rapids dropped in quietly Thursday
evening, accompanied by his pal and
lieutenant, Senator w. G. Haskell Of
Cedar Rapids. Governor" Moore,
as he is called here, has the love of
his conferees completely. Calm
friendly, fair and judicious, with
plain business sticking out in his de-
meanor, things "go' smoothly with
Moore in commander else things
will get shaking up. Somebody is
saying they are going to hang the
title of Governor" in fact on Mr.
Moore two years from now.
House Member in Senate.
From the members of the last
House of Representatives the Sen
ate gets five of it's new members at
this session: w. w. Anderson of
Greene county, B. J. Horchem of Du-
buque county, D. w. Kimberly of
Scott county, David Meredith of Jas
per county, and M. B. Pitt of Harri-
son county are the House members
moving across the rotunda to enter
the despised SenateLand be good.
Anderson was power in the House
for many years, and Horchem was
the only new Democrat elected to
the Senate last year, succeeding Sen
ator Shrupp. We notice that Sena-
tor Ball of Jefferson county is still
seventy years old, according to the
herd book, and comes as vigorous
and alert for the peoples interests
as ever.
Hobbies and Special Interests.
Along with the assembling of the
statesmen of Iowa follows the gather
ing in of certain persons, companies
or organizations to look out for their
special interests-and among the first
and foremost of these is "The United
Farm Organizations of Iowa" This
organization is composed of the old
Farmers Alliance, the Grange, The
Farmers Union, the American Society
of Equity, The Farmers Union,
the Non-Partisan League. and the
Threshermen's Association. The dele
gates gathered at hotel here on
Tuesday, held forth with 60 in at
tendance all day Wednesday, ground
away with "a present when they
elected officers Thursday afternoon
and ended their deliberations and de
mands". Thursday afternoon when
their legislative committee and reso-
lutions committee drafted their dec
laration of griefs and independence.
| The election of officers of this
United Farm Organizations of Iowa
became a tangle on which the whole
organization was almost lost Thurs
day morning. A motion made and
carried Wednesday evening that old
officers all be reelected was brought
up next morning on motion to re-
consider that action. Mr.. Dusey pre-
sided during the parliamentary scirm-
mage that followed and it took an
hour to straighten the intricate prob
lens of procedure and get someone
to accept the office of president un-
der the circumstances. Nobody wish
to fight against Ed Nicoll of Carlisle
for the place, and after six or
eight nominations and suggestions of
other candidates the vote was IA for
w. NJ. sutherland Ol dSuluSIOH
county, member of the legislature,
and eight for Mr.. Nicoll. Mr.. Suther-
land reluctantly accepted.
Other officers elected for the Or
ganization were : Secretary, E. T.
Nicoll of Carlisle Treasurer, DR..
Hammer of Des Moines, and chair
imam of legislative committee, Fred
erickson of Guthrie Center. Suspicion
of the Non-Partisan League was con-
spicuous in the elections
Frederickson is a Non-Partisan
Lacquer and denies that his organiza-
ton is wiped out by this merger, but
states that they expect to organize
Iowa thoroughly
Others Interested in Legislation.
Not all the representatives Of other
interests have shown up as yet. but
the railway mems unions will have
their men here as usual beginning
with the session. Then there will be