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of him when he was on the State Fair Board. He is not a candidate 

 to succeed himself I am informed, but the people of my district de- 

 sire me on this occasion to nominate a man who will fill his shoes 

 on the State Board of Agriculture. I am convinced that on the State 

 Board of Agriculture, as in other business, that there are three main 

 elements in every man. I might incorporate them all in brains, but 

 I will say he must be intelligent, he must be honest and he must be 

 courageous. The man whom I desire to nominate today ljas all 

 of these attributes. I have known him from boyhood up. I knew 

 him when traveling between the handles of a plow. I knew him when 

 he was a successful farmer for himself. I knew him when he was 

 one of the best salesmen of that country. I knew him when he 

 organized a little country bank and made a success of that and I knew 

 him when he organized a larger bank in the city of Oskaloosa, and 

 made a success of that. I know him now as Vice President of the 

 largest banking institution in Mahaska County. I know him as 

 Treasurer of the great Southern Iowa Fair of which most of you 

 have heard. I know he is a dependable and honest man, a con- 

 scientious man, and on this State Board of Agriculture will be one 

 of the strongest, most virile fighting forces you could put on. I take 

 great pleasure today in nominating for this particular office, important 

 as I think it is, my fellow townsman, Mr. C. Ed Beman of Mahaska 

 County. 



Mr. Legoe, Keokuk County: Mr. President and Gentlemen of 

 the Convention : I have not taken the opportunity of asking you 

 to let me make speeches here and this probably will be the last one 

 I will ever undertake, but I realize that there are four great natural 

 conditions that have got to exist in order to have a good fair. The 

 first of them is a productive country. We have that. The second 

 is the cooperation of the people. We have that. The third is the 

 weather. We don't always have that, but sometimes we do. And the 

 fourth is the Board of Managers and we generally have that, barring 

 myself, perhaps. I have been a director in this fair when there was 

 not a permanent building on the fair grounds, from that time on to 

 the great exposition grounds that you have. I have seen the campers 

 come to the fair in covered wagons by the hundreds, and by the 

 thousands. I have seen automobiles exhibited there as curiosities, and 

 I have seen them come in countless thousands since that time. Now 

 then I want to say this in reference to proper managers, that I have 

 known Mr. Beman here ever since he was a small boy. He is a gen- 

 tleman of great energy. He is honest, he is upright, he has made a 



