Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-24
G. A. R.
Officers Elected San Antonio Selected
as Next Place OF Meeting.
General G. NJ Dodge Delivers an Address-The
Camp Fire Last Night a
Great Success.

The delegates to the fonrth annual en-
campment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public of Texas met yesterday morning
at @ clock and continued in session I'M
til 8 'clock in the evening ,aud assembled
again around the campfire at 1880 p. N. .
The first business was the election of off,
GERS. Gen. A G. Malloy of Dallas was
chosen department commander; Capt.
D s. Brown of Fort Worth was elected
senior vice commander; j. H.
Pratt of Fort Clark, junior vice.
commander; d. Mackay, NJ. D., of
Dallas, medical examiner; Rev. Harvey
Webb of Denton, chaplain; J. H.
Hartup, assistant adjutant general; j
P. Newcomb Of San Antonio, judge
advocate; T. B. Helm, Inspector; T. a
Pope, chief mastering officer; A. K.
Taylor OF Houston, quartermaster-
general.
Representatives to the national en-
campment at Milwaukee,: j. p. New
comb of San Antonio and M. w Mann
of BRENNAN; alternates: j.. . Cannon of
Dallas and j Litsey.
San Antonio was selected as the place
to hold the fifth annual en-
campment IN 1890. In the eveh-
ing the officers elect were in
stalled and several excellent speeches
made, especially that Of Gen. Fuller of
Milwaukee.
In the evening all went to the camp
fire on Houston street and partook of a
soldiers meal. There was nothing but
good feeling and good cheer and many
I1O ha I'D ho
G. A. r. men. Gen. Dodge being called
upon delivered speech which provoked
much applause. Gen. Dodge was one of
Gen. w. Z. Sherman s corps COM
manders.
Gen. Dodge promised his remarks with
an explanation of the causes which had
thus far prevented him from becoming a
member of the order, and then, after an
expression of his appreciation Of the COM
pliment implied by the invitation to be
present on the interesting occasion, pro-
ceeded as follows:
In looking out upon this assemhlage l
am conscious that it is one which has
many features all its own. Taken as a
whole, including the occasion, the
place, the vast scope of
terridory represented, its personnel, the
grand cause here commemorated aud the
still grander development of which it is
q prophecy, this assemblage may well be
regarded as in some sense marking the
summit of the watershed dividing the
gloomy past through which your mag
niffcent state has battled to its present
stature Of manhood from the
glorious future which your
valor on CORY fields, followed
by services on no less important though
less renowned fields OF patient toll. have
much accelerated. On all these unique
features l would like to dwell had the
time, and particularly on that feature so
ever present TO us ali, the memories OF
the march, the bivouac, the battle, the
camp, the skirmish, the picket, the
siege, the movement By the flank, andso
on; but 1 must pass by all these, each Of
which is IN itself large
enough subject for whole dis
course, aud call your attention
to a single fact which your meeting i'm
presses upon my mind with oVerpowering
emphasis.
/ allude to the marvellous and expan-
sive development OF this common
wealth within the last few years.
You are to-day gathered here from ali
parts of state whose territorial limits
are broader than those Of the mighty
empire of France, whose power within
the memory, possibly of. some here pres
ent, threatened to engulf the popu-
lations OF the world. The rail-
road, the telegraph and the tele-
phone place you IN easy and quick
communication with every section and
city Of your state. Your imperial terri
tory is literally dotted, as the stars dot