Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-02
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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
NEW YORK, May 1.-The gentlemen
who, as descendants of Revolutionary he
roes, assembled on Tuesday morning in the
room in which Washington took leave of his
Generals in Fraunces Tavern, corner of
Broad and Pearl streets, met this morning
pursuant to resolution in the room of the
President of the Produce Exchange to pass
upon the work of the committee appointed
TO prepare a constitution and bylaws for the
national association which they had agreed
to organize.
At that meeting a young gentleman, who
said be was a member of the New York So
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution, said:
sour society was organized in 1888, and
will refuse to recognize or consider any of
the societies organized excepting as auxil-
.iary branch societies.
A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT
The announcement startled some of the
gentlemen present, and those who were not
acquainted with the wishes Of the New York
society to make itself national organiza-
tion sought after the meeting the informa-
llOu lIOu buOSc WIZ ulQ huON.
Mr.. Paul Revere and Mr.. W. o. McDow-
ell, of the Society of the Sons of the Revo-
lhtion, of New Jersey, said to them that
though the New York society was undoubt-
~&dly first organized, it was the New Jersey
+ society that had called for national organi-
cation a call to which IA States had re-
sponded. The New York City society had
refused to recognize or consider any of the
societies organized in the several States
excepting as auxiliary branch societies and
had assumed to make itself a national or
ganization by few changes in its constitu-
ton, although its roll OF membership at
February %, 1889, shows that outside of
some 20 persons in Connecticut and New
Jersey, it numbers but SO members in the
whole country, including the State of New
York, who are not residents of New York
City or Brooklyn.
NEW YORK ASSUMING TOO MUCH.
''The officers of the society,"" said the
Jersey man, are all practically elected by
New York The seat of all authority is
New York. We will not humihate our
State pride by placing ourselves in a posi-
tion subordinate to any State society, how
ever influential or respectable it may be.
Let us organize society in which there
shall be no branches or auxiliaries but in
which there shall be in every State a society
having equal rights with every other, with
full power over its own affairs, subject only
to the authority of representative national
body, to which all shall be equally amen
able"
Mr.. Clarence S. Ward, in behalf of Mas
sachusetts, said, in response to Mr.. Revere's
statement: Bunker Hill is auxiliary to
nothing under heaven"
Connecticut" said Judge Demming, sis
subordinate to no other society except ma
tional society, which we will join in Great
ing. With New York if she will join us,
without her if she will not. Z"
Maryland, Sir" said Lieutenant J. c.
Cresaps q. S. N, Will not bow. Her sons
of the Revolution will not submit to oil
garchy or aristocracy. Michael Cresaps
and other heroes Who lie in Trinity Church
yard would rise in opposition"
These remarks and those of like import
from others settled the question of New
York's assumption of places.
TROUBLE BREWING.
This morning the delegates who answered
to the roll call represented New Hampshire,
California. Kentucky, Connecticut, Mary
land, West Virginia, Maine, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Alabama, South Carolina, Massachu-
sets, Ohio and New Jersey. The absence
of the young man who had at Tuesdays
meeting announced himself a member of
the New York society, and who told them
what New York would do was not noticed.
But there was trouble ahead. 1t showed up
in the election of officers.
The meeting, in the adoption of the con-
stitution as prepared by the committee, Sc
lected the name ''The Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution" The constitu- |
tion makes only males eligible to member |
ship in the national association.
These officers were elected: President, |
Judge Lucius P. Demming, of Connecticut; |
Vice President at Large, W. o. Mcdowell, |
of New Jersey; Vice Presidents by States, |
Hon. II. K Slayton, of New Hampshire; |
Colonel A. S. Hubbard, of California; Gov |
ernor Buekner, of Kentucky; Hamilton |
Fish, Sr., of New York; Major J. c. Ken
ney, of Connecticut; Hon. P. H Dennison,
of Maine; Burchard Washington, of West |
Virginia; Governor d. B. Francis, of Mis-
souri; Benjamin Harrison, the President of |
Indiana; Colonel G. B. West of Alabama;
Governor Wade Hampton, of South Caro- /
lima; DR.. J. B. Morris, of Maryland; L. L. |
Tarbell, of Massachusetts; r. B. Hayes, of |
Ohio, and Senator DR.. La Fayette, of Rue i
de Rome 72. Paris, France.
NO coPPERHEAD NEED APPLY.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, was
named as one of the Vice Presidents
II object to his name, " said Major George
B. Halstead, of New Jersey. "He is not
fitted for the place. He was a copperhead |
during the late war, and, as such was spat
upon and whipped in Elizabethtown. L
know him. Yes, he is a member of our
society IN New Jersey. Under our constitu-
tion we could not keep him out. His ances-
tor did not fight in the War of the Revolu-
tion, though he held a Judgeship and
worked for the cause in the civil life''
81 regret exceedingly" said Judge Dem
ming, that objection is made to Governor
Green. We are here to wipe out all ami
mosities, and not to revive the troubles of |
the late wal"
s'I'm not seeking to revive the animosi-
ties of the late war;" interrupted Major
Halstead, ''for assure you would gladly |
vote for a rebel for the Office, for / respect
lim-he madesn honest and manly fight
but the copperhead, no"
Mr.. John Hubbell, of New Jersey, spoke
of Governor Green as one of the foremost
men in the State and one whose election to
the Office sought for him would be ratified
by the society of New Jersey.
''We should not go back Is years." said
Judge Demming. "Let rs look at what the
man is to-day"
A REBEL WITHOUT COURAGE
s'Not go back" said Major Halstead.
"why, sir, every man makes his history day /
made theirs. I carried through the late
war the sword which my ancestor used in
the revolution. Green had no sword 10
carry, and had not the inclination to carry
one If he had one He was a rebel SYM
pathiEer without courage"
On the suggestion of the Major the name
Of Paul Revere was presented to be bal