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Show uu - I i iSt if SLL 1 Telegram io be Sent by Members of Du- iuth Convention Duluth, Minn., Aug 24. A long telegram, tele-gram, expressing confidence in Dr. H. W. Wiley, and promising support ot his official acts, which was to have been sept to Washington last night, was held up for further signatures and will be sent to President Taft'this morning by the Wiley delegates to the fifteenth convention of the Association As-sociation of State and National Food and Dairy departments, now being held here Both sides In the convention have prepared a list of candidates- for election elec-tion today. The Wilson men claim they have a large majority lined up for their ticket, while the Wiley men say that, by virtue of an agreement made at the New Orleans convention, r-mivjiutfrf .r. -liy ir, wi xwuuwooae, nu Wiley shte candidate. Is assured of a practically unanimous vote. Dr. W. P Cutler of Missouri", Is the Wilson man for president. ' A report of the committee revising i the constitution will be submitted to the comentlon today. The chief changes made by thecommlttce in the draft which they have prepared i include the disfranchisement of the ! assistants, chemists and others lower down In the employ of the virions state departments and the limiting of the right to vote to the executives from the various state departments and the department of agriculture. Tho suh- J ordlnates and the assistants are left ex-officio members of the national ai j soclatlon but are deprived of their j right to vote or to hold office. |