ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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and let the National take care of it- 

 self? 



No matter what way you do — the 

 National as it is now organized is 

 bound to die. You may prolong its 

 life a few years; maybe only a year, 

 but the National cannot exist the way 

 it is being conducted. 



Now, then, I believe if you are not 

 ready to vote one way or the other, it 

 might be well to leave it to your Ex- 

 ecutive Committee to ponder over the 

 question seriously; get all the informa- 

 tion they can and decide whether they 

 want to send a delegate to the meet- 

 ing next February or not. 



It is going to cost some money to 

 send one there, and if you are going to 

 get some benefit from it send one, but, 

 if you are not, why spend the money? 



These Directors were instructed to 

 do some specific things the past year; 

 they have not done them. If you in- 

 struct them again to do certain things, 

 ar they very likely to have any at- 

 tention paid to these instructions by 

 the Convention any more than they 

 have in the past? 



Dr. Gates — Get a change of Direc- 

 tors, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Moore — I will say right here: 

 There are three Directors to be elected 

 at this Denver meeting, and I think 

 that the chances are that we will 

 probably get Directors in there who 

 will change the policy as elected by 

 the delegates. There will be Directors 

 elected who will have different ideas 

 of things than some of those that are 

 at present Directors. 



You spoke about a Committee on 

 the Policy and Scope of the National — 



Pres; Baxter — That recommendation 

 was the selling of the Reviews the 

 stopping of the selling of supplies. 



Mr. Moore — Committee on Publicity 

 recommended the sale of the Review 

 to the best advantage of the Associa- 

 tion. This Committee or rather recom- 

 mendation of the Committee gave un- 

 til January 15th; then we took up the 

 matter of Constitution. 



Now that took effect over all these 

 Committees' reports. These Com- 

 mittees' Reports were laid on the table 

 and no action taken on them. They 

 were finally discharged and no action 

 taken on the reports.. 



This Constitution as it stands here 

 was to be the policy of the Associa- 

 tion. 



Pres. Baxter — I voted as hard as I 

 could to get rid of that Review and 

 stop buying and selling supplies and 

 they defeated me at every turn, and 

 even after we went into executive ses- 

 sion they declared we would get up a 

 new Constitution and not amend the 

 old one, and Mr. Moore has read here 

 a part of the new Constitution as 

 proposed. 



You see a:t every point the delegates 

 had voted that the policy of those they 

 represented was to dispose of the Re- 

 view and discontinue the purchase of 

 supplies but they would not consent to 

 this because the Directors wanted to 

 continue in the same old tracks. If 

 you leave it to the Directors are you 

 going to be in any better position? 



Did we not try to defeat Mr. Bucha- 

 nan as Director as he was one of 

 the Directors that voted to buy the 

 Review. We took a dozen votes but did 

 not he triumph in the end? 



There were delegates at that Con- 

 vention who did not know what they 

 were voting for, or else they were In 

 league to do certain things. 



I saw just as soon as Tvgot down 

 there and noticed how things were go- 

 ing, right away, that everything had 

 been cut and dried beforehand, and it 

 was carried out to the letter right 

 along, and I believe Mr. Gates will 

 bear me out in this. 



Mr. Bowen — I don't see how you can 

 gain anjthing by arguing. 



Supposing we send delegates to the 

 National Convention, and after know- 

 ing the sense of this meeting they can- 

 not carry out the wishes of the Illinois 

 State Convention? They can do the 

 best they know, and we will simply 

 have to take our medicine. 



Dr. Gates said he was not a lawyer 

 and could not answer a legal question. 

 I tinderstand he is a Doctor, possibly 

 he will find a remedy. 



Our representative hag not beett 

 elected yet. 



Pres. Baxter — Do you want a repre- 

 sentative ? 



Mr. Bowen — Certainly we want a rep- 

 resentative. We want a representative 

 to go up there and, if the National is 

 not what it ought to be, we want him 

 to go there and make it what it ought 

 to be. 



We should have some center throug?i 

 which all Associations can act, and I 

 do not see that we can get it any bet- 



