The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-07
HE MILWAUKEE ENHANCEMENT.
No One But the Delegates viii Attend-No
One From Indiana VIII Go.

CHICAGO, June S0.-The department. COM
manders of eight states were in session nearly
all day at the Grand Pacific hotel, debating the
stand they should take in reference 10 the an
nual encampment next month at Milwaukee.
The result of the meeting was a positive and
unqualified Endorsement of the announced de-
termination to discourage general attendance
in view of the refusal of the railways TO make
satisfactory rates. The states represented we're:
Illinois, by Dept. Commander Martin; Iowa,
Dept Commander Charles II. Davis Of Mt
Peasants; Minnesota, Dept. Commander a.
Barlow of Sank Center; Missouri, Col. Rogers
of Springfield, representing Dept. Commander
Phelps: Indiana, Dept Commander Charles NJ.
Travis of Charlottesville; Michigan, Dept. Com
mander NJ. Brown of Big Rapids; Kansas. Dept.
Commander Booth of Larned; Nebraska, Dept.
Commander j. b. Davis of Wshoo.
The conference was presided over by Gen.
Martin, and triple decision was reached. ~
That the posts represented indorse and accept
the manifesto issued in this city by July 2, in
which a general attendance at the encampment
was to be discouraged if the railways did not
recede from their position. o. That the mani
festo OF July was in accordance with the
action of the last national encampment at Co
lumbus o., as Endorsed by the resolution found
in the journal on pages 2l9 and 200. (3) That
some time in the near future the representatives
present will issue a circular that will be signed
by eight department commanders, with posi-
bly, few more, Withdrawing the departments
represented from the parade that is advertised
10 take place.
At the present time the disposition against
general attendance is a general one, shared by
most OF the western posts. Yesterdays meet
ing was result of a desire for definite action.
Gen. Martin says there is not now much doubt
about the outcome of the fight.
The railway people" he says, have held
US of on one pretext and another, saying wait
i little longer. we will see what we can do,
until we are tired of waiting. Every depart
ment commander here to-day has authority TO
act for his state posts"
Does it destroy the chances OF big meet
ing at Milwaukee,"
cit looks very much like il. We represent
the states that would have furnished the crowd.
II only our representatives 60, of course it must
virtually kill the encampment"
Gen. Martin said he did not know when the
general order Withdrawing the states from the
parade would be made. None of the other
representatives would express views on the
time il would be issued. The chairman was
given the privilege of reassembling the confer
ence at any time. Gen. Martin said further
that he was receiving from five to twenty let
ters day ind0rsing the sentiment o. the mani
The other department. commanders talk in
much The same way. There won't be any one
20 from Indiana" said Commander Travis
'but the delegates. The posts are all thor
oughly indignant. Gen. Lew Wallace Gen. VI.
TO attend, have told me they would not GO
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The Inter. Ocean, one Of
the leading organs of the g. A. R. in the West
viii tomorrow say in its columns: ct is
plainly to he seen that the de-
partment commanders have exceeded
their power and have assumed
iuties belonging TO the COMMANDMENTS chief
From 1861 to 1865 the grand army fought to
sustain the principle of national supremacy as
against state rights. Now, twenty odd
years after that memorable struggle
in which this self-same grand army won untold
victories, few of its leaders become the advo-
Gates OF state rights and in a manner contrary
against all precedents established
ny former department commanders, assume the
control OF the order 1t is following
100 closely in the footsteps OF
he Confederaey 20 suit the entire
charity covers a multitude of sins" Possibly
posts who have so generously in.
dorsed the eight department commanders,
did 50 TO cover their recent SHINING against the
grand army. Their attempt to use the grand
army as a boycotting machine is to be
deplored. AS fratenal and charitable
organization the grand army leads all
others. That its members have rights as re-
yards railway fares equal to members
OF other and similar organizations, no
one viii deny. The ways aud means
taken to secure the rights many of US bs,
liere were hssty, ill.timed and uncalled
Tor. The comrades and citizens of Mil
Waukee have invited us 10 visit them
The national encampment accepted that in
vitation. Until that invitation is an
nulled by the commander-in-chief it
is, We believe, the duty of every comrnde,
without regard or reference 10 the
eight department commanders, TO aid
in every way possible in making
the twenty-third national encampment the
greatest and grandest reunion of veterans ever