Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — FARMERS ELECT OFFICERS. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS ELECT OFFICERS.

K.Usssl Congress at Sion* Falls Chooses Mew Regime. Sioux Falls telegram: At the morning session of the Farmers’ National congress officers were elected as follows: President—George L. Flanders, Albany, N. Y. First vice president—Colonel Harvey Jordan, Monticello, Ga. Second vice president—Colonel B. Cameron, Statesville, N. C. Treasurer—Dr. J. H. Reynolds, Adrian, Mich. Secretary—John M. Stahl, Chicago. Assistant secretary—E. A. Callahan, Albany, N. Y. Second assistant secretary—John M. Whitaker, Boston. Third assistant secretary—Joel M. Roberts, Nebraska. Executive committee—Colonel B. F. Clayton, Iowa; Colonel E. W. Wicks, Georgia; W. S. Amos, Wisconsin., Among the vice presidents chosen are: Illinois. R. H. Purdie; Indiana, John A. Brown; lowa, Sal B. Jones; Michigan, Truman Turner; Wisconsin, E. M. Anderson. Resolutions were

adopted favoring liberal appropriations for the Improvement of rivers and harbors, protesting against the encroachments of ranchmen on public domain and favoring “immediate steps” toward the construction of the Nicaraguan canal, to be under the exclusive control of the United States.