There are two more things we have to take care of; one is the election of officers, and the other is the selection of a place for the next convention. I call for the report of the nominating committee.
MR. WEBER: The report of the nominating committee is as follows:
President:—JAMES S. MCGLENNON. Vice President:—J. F. JONES. Secretary:—WILLIAM C. DEMING. Treasurer:—WILLARD G. BIXBY.
(Signed)
ROBERT T. MORRIS, G. H. CORSAN, HARRY R. WEBER,
Nominating Committee.
MR. O'CONNOR: I move the nominations be accepted.
THE PRESIDENT: Just one moment. Up to this evening I understood that the president was to be elected for a year. I do not know much about the condition prior to President Linton. He was elected at Battle Creek at the same time I was elected vice president. There were extenuating circumstances justifying the re-election of President Linton. I feel that similar conditions do not prevail justifying my re-election as president of this association. It is not going to make any difference to me whether I am president or just simply a soldier in the ranks. I want to see this association the success it ought to be and I feel, in view of the wonderful work that has been done in this association and for its best interests at all times by Mr. Jones, that it is due him that the presidency should be passed to him at this time. He is going to the next convention of the National Association of Nurserymen, he and Doctor Morris, Mr. Olcott and Mr. Weber, to get before that convention of nurserymen something more of the history of this association and its ambitions and desires. I know he could appear before that convention in a much more advantageous way for the benefit of this association if he were president of it. I feel that Mr. Jones ought to be elected president of this association here tonight.
MR. OLCOTT: Mr. President, the presidents of this association have been elected for two years and I think it has become an established custom.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Bixby referred to that tonight. I didn't understand it that way. I supposed I was elected last year at Lancaster for one year.