Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1920-06-04
FARMERS EQUITY
TALKS BUSINESS
Large Number Gathers at Court
House in Annual Con-
ventiOn
PRES. J. N. TITTEMORE
GIVES POLITICAL TALK
Subject of Marketing Occupies Con-
spicuOus Place i'm Interesting
Program

The county convention of the Amer
lean Society of Equity, held in the
court house last Saturday, attracted
progressive farmers from all parts of
the county. Delegates entitled to seats
in the convention were reported as fol@
lows
Weyerhaeuser Local-A. w. Frog
ner, Ole Bjerke, Edgar Hubbard.
Thornapple UniOn-E. ID. Stahl, ].
y. Address, b. \. Pinney, JOS Fac
berg, G A. Beebe, Richard Klopfer.
Flambeau-L. LaBerge, A. A. Had
den.
Pleasant Prairie-C. NJ. Brainerd.
George LerOuX.
Atlanta. r. McNeely, f. Tiegs, II.
B0ves, VIM. Tiegs.
Grant-V. V. Miller, ]. ii. Coin. Ed
Phetteplace Q e. Anderson, Adam
Kahut.
Tony. Il. Diedrich, ISadOr Guns
John MikySka, II. j. Smartabeck. Geo
Leonhard, Ed Hauser.
Bear Lake-Wm. Rathbun, Anton
SOkup, NJ. ID. Campbell
Big Bend-L. Dyer, Anton Kerni-
vern, c. c. Carter.
Rusk Farm-JOm Calkins.
y business meeting was held in the
forenoon. Chairman V. V. Miller had
called the meeting to order and after
the minutes Of the last meeting had
been read and approved, the following
were elected as the officers of the cOun-
ty organization: Il. ID. Stahl. preSi-
dent; ID. j. Summerville, secretary
treasurer
The financial statement was accept
ed as read, and the following were ap-
pointed a committee on resolutions:
c. M. Brainerd, A. A. Hadden, l..
Dyer.
An Equity picnic, to be held at Anna
coy lake, was decided upon as one of
the meeting events Of the summer and
August u was the date set for it.
Arrangements were left to the locals of
Big Bend, ThOrnapple and Atlanta.
Politics and Business
The afternoon meeting was open to
all, and crowd that nearly filled the
had gathered by > o'clock
The makeup of the gathering was one
of determined, fOrward-lO0king men
and women, who realize that they must
depend upon their own efforts in bust
ness and politics to get anywhere.
After Pres. e. ID. Stahl had called
the meeting to order, he read from a
newspaper an account Of farmers
packing business in Minnesota and
called upon j. N. TittemOre, president
of the State Equity, to speak on the
matter if he cared to. Mr.. Tittem0re
advised farmers to invest in no meat
packing business which they did not
control - otherwise they
would do better to invest their money
in Swift or Armour stock.
Later, Mr.. Tittemore, who is a can
didate for the nomination for gov
emOr, addressed the meeting. lie eX-
planned that it was to be largely an ac-
count Of his stewardship as head Of the
State Equity, but it was strongly polit-
ical. He told why he supported Judge
for supreme court justice,
and had no apologies to make; that he
would do the same again. Rosenberg
is known as ''Standpatter" in poll
tics, while TittemOre calls himself Il
He did not neglect to give
some of the progressive leaders, includ-
ing Crownhart and Dithmar, slam.
\ 80, f,I Il
strikes one as being more Of a practical
politician than a farmer. He used to
be traffic manager for a railroad and
his political enemies charge that his
aim in politics this year is to divide the
vote for the purpose of in
Suring the election Of reactiOnary can
didateS this fall His remarks were
applauded He was not
Sparing in his denunciation Of those
who questioned his sincerity, and the
associate editor of the Rusk County
Journal came in for some sarcastic
Mr.. TittemOre referred to the Esch-
railroad law as a God-send
as it will never meet requirements, he
said, and will bring government own
nrShip sure.
Marketing and Credit
Otto Rohm, one of the directors of
the Equity in this state, is a good,
plain speaker, and he impressed his
audience as being regular farmer.
His talk was largely on marketing a
credits and he illustrated his po
with the aid of large diagra"
Rohm believes the farm
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