Tactics Of Mrs. Maxwell

They Savor of the Political Barrel Variety

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OUT FOR THE OFFICE

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Now Held by Miss Emma Bower, Great Record Keeper L. O. T. M.

The hot fight that is now being put up between the candidates for congress from this district is nothing compared to the battle that is being waged for the office of great record-keeper of Michigan Great Hive L. O. T. M. by Mrs. Leota Becker Maxwell of Detroit, if the interview that she has given to the reporter of a Detroit paper is correct.

From what the Detroit paper says one is led to believe that Mrs. Maxwell has opened the proverbial barrel and that she is spending money right and left in her effort to gain the coveted position. She is even quoted as saying "I propose to win and I will if it cost me the entire salary of the position for a year."

This declaration of Mrs. Maxwell's takes on a peculiar aspect and gives the impression that the lady is not altogether sincere in her proposed generosity when an interview she recently had wit han officer of the Great Hive, stationed in this city, is known.

This officer met with Mrs. Maxwell recently while on a train to Lansing and in the conversation which ensued, Mrs. Maxwell is reported as informing the officer from here that she needed the salary attached to the office of Great Record-Keeper quite badly as she had to obtain a position to support herself and child.

When seen yesterday, Mss Emma Bower, the present Great Record-Keeper, said she had not given Mrs. Maxwell's candidacy much thought.

"Of course, said Mrs. Bower, "she has a perfect right to try for the place, and I am sure that I will put no obstacle in her way to getting it. My candidacy is entirely in the hands of the members of the Great Hive and I will rely on them at the convention."

Miss Bower is known to be one of the most efficient officers the Great Hive has ever had. She is a woman of much executive ability and since her election to her present office, the affairs of the organization under her charge, reflect great credit on her discernment and intuitiveness of mind. She has ever been a peacemaker when there was anything approaching strife in the organization. In fact she has fulfilled her duties in such a way and to the satisfaction of the officers associated with her and of the members of the order, that there is hardly any doubt but that she will have the majority, if not the unanimous support of the convention for her return to the office which she now fills.

Mrs. Maxwell formerly held the office of chief executive of the L. O. T. M., but those who knew of her management of the office are not enthusiastic in praising her work, in fact they rather criticize her methods as not being of a sort which would commend her as the best business manager.