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Mr. KiEFFER : Mr. President, I feel somewhat like the guest 

 did at a banquet when called upon to make a speech. He said, 

 "I feel — I feel — I feel — that I can lick any man in the house." 



I thank you gentlemen for the confidence you have shown in 

 me and I will do the best of my ability to serve you the coming 

 year. 



The President : I have not told a story at these conventions 

 since I have been president, but that story of Kieffer's puts me 

 in mind of one and I want to tell it because I heard it in North 

 Dakota recently. It was an Irishman made that same kind of a 

 statement; he said that he could lick any man in Fargo. Pretty 

 soon he enlarged upon that and said he could lick any man in 

 that county, and at last he included the entire district of North 

 Dakota. A man . took him up and licked him, and when the 

 Irishman was asked about it he said all the trouble was he 

 included too much territory. 



The President: The next office is that of treasurer. Who 

 will you have for your treasurer ? 



Mr. Neitert : Mr. President, I desire to place in nomination 

 for this office a man who has been connected with this associa- 

 tion for many years, who has been a faithful attendant, and who 

 has been the advance agent in its behalf and its best interests, 

 traveling over this State from the four points of the compass 

 for many years He has worked for us at all times and held out 

 the olive branch of peace ; he is always ready to meet you with 

 the " glad hand," no matter how severe the weather or how 

 heavily he may have been taxed by his many friends calling on 

 him at once. He is a man that is faithful, a man that can be 

 trusted, and a man that will bring as much vigor and life to the 

 association as anyone that appears to my mind. In behalf of 

 the best interests of this association, I am pleased to place in 

 nomination Mr. Frank Brown, of Cedar Rapids. 



Mr. Wentworth: I would like to say just a word in con- 

 nection with this matter. I was particularly pleased at the 

 nomination made by my friend Neitert in presenting the name 

 of Mr. Brown. I, too, have been a participant in those olive 

 branches, but it was marked "Cremo" on the box and "Cremo" 

 on the wrapper, and in view of the fact that we are all working 

 for the uplift of this association, I desire to second that nomina- 

 tion, and hope that the brand of olive branches he hands out 

 next year will not have "Cremo" on it. I take pleasure in sec- 



