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handle these matters, did not make this correspondence public, 

 but that there may be no wrong inferences drawn, perhaps it 

 would be well to give you two of these letters : 



Kansas City, Mo., January 28, 1905. 



Col. T. C. Love: — We were much disappointed in not having 

 you with us at our Executive Committee meeting, so that we might 

 talk over the matters at the Station in which we are so much in- 

 terested. We discussed the matter fully in all its bearings, and 

 finally prepared the following statement, which we thought best 

 to submit to your committee as an expression of our views, and ask 

 your committee to prepare something along the same line and then 

 send both of them to the Governor if you think best : 



L. A. Goodman, Secretary. 



Col. T. C. Love, Chairman: — At a meeting of the Executive 

 Committee, held in Kansas City, Jan. 27th, 1905, the whole matter 

 of the work of your committee was discussed with the following 

 results : 



It was their unanimous decision that, inasmuch as the Gov- 

 ernor had fulfilled the spirit of our resolution in the appointment 

 of a member of the Board at Mt. Grove who is a fruit grower, and 

 inasmuch as he is opposed to lobbying for any reason whatever, and 

 inasmuch as it seems certain under the present Governor that we 

 can secure all we are asking for in a much more satisfactory way ; 



Therefore, it was the unanimous decision of the Executive 

 Committee that they pass this resolution, thanking him and com- 

 mending him for the appointment of Mr. Paynter, who Is directly 

 interested in the work of the Fruit Station at Mt. Grove, and ask- 

 ing him to continue the same policy in the future, in his appoint- 

 ments to the Board of Trustees for the Station, by the choice of 

 fruit growers for this position. 



It was also decided that our Executive Committee ask your 

 committee to do the same thing, and that these two letters be sent 

 to the Governor, for we believe that we can secure just the results 

 we desire, and just what the Station needs, in this way, much bet- 

 ter than in trying to change the law. And they further l)elieve it 

 would not be wise to try to secure a change in the law while we 

 have a Governor who seems to be willing and anxious to put the 

 right kind of men in this position when there is a vacancy. 



