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Fourth District: John Tilsoii, Johnson County, and E. A. 

 Kobison, Franklin. 



Seventh District: David Wallace, Indianapolis. 



Fourteenth District: Cott Barnett, Cass County, and Joseph 

 Cunningham, Miami County. 



Fifteenth District: R. M. Small, Laporte; C. B, Benjamin, 

 Lake County, and Aaron Jones, South Bend. 



Sixteenth District: James E. McDonald. 



In placing Mr. Wallace in nomination Mr. Robison, the retir- 

 ing member from the Seventh District, said : I would like to say 

 a word in severing my connection with the Board. It is not from 

 any lack of interest or deep-seated love for the work that I do 

 not allow my name to be presented as a candidate for the nomina- 

 tion of member of the State Board. I have been associated with 

 the Board for upwards of seven years, and I have a deep and 

 abiding faith in the members with whom I have been associated. 

 I know that they are working for the best interests of the State, 

 and while their work, to a great extent, is unappreciated by a 

 great many people, nevertheless the work has been done faithfully 

 and well. It has occurred to me that in the minds of the public 

 generally I might not be accepted as a li<.ruy-handed son of toil. 

 I was born and reared on a farm. Lately one of our newspapers 

 suggested that Mr. Wallace and I should set about to see who 

 should be the nominee of the Board in a milking contest of about 

 twelve cow^s each. I would not be afraid to enter that contest, for 

 I milked twelve cows twice a day for ten years. 



I feel that every man who has been connected with the State 

 Board learns to have the interests of the Board at heart. I think 

 members representing the diversified interests should be repre- 

 sented on the Board. Mr. Wallace, as you all know, is in the stock 

 business and can bring to the Board the knowledge that he has of 

 the stock interests throus^h all its varying parts, and I heartily 



