The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-04
THEG. AR. VETERANS
Gathering for the Silver En-
campment at Detroit.
SOME PROMINENT CANDIDATES
For Commander.in-Chief-W Washington and
Lincoln, Neb. Striving for the Location
Next Year-Their Chances

DETROIT, Aug. 3.-The twenty fifth an
nual encampment of the Grand Army o.
the Republic will formally open to morrow
forenoon. At the appointed hour Com
mander-in in Chief Veazey will head the lint
OF march and review forty or fifty thou
sand veterans as they pass before the mag
nificent reviewing stand on Woodward
avenue. To-day has been reception day o
the encampment. 1t is estimated there ar
$4,000 visitors in the city tonight, but TIM
great crowd is not expected until to morrow
morning.
There is strong rivalry in the race FOL
the position OF national commander in
chief. but thus far il has been in the nature
OF friendly competition aud is unmarked
by strife. The leading candidate of al
those mentioned in last dispatches Is &C
knowledged to be Colonel Weissert, Of
Milwaukee.
Tne main fight for the location OF the
next encampment is between Washington
u. c., and Lincoln, Neb., with the chance:
favoring the former. II. Nj. Bishnel, OF
the Lincoln delegation, says Lincoln is the
center of vast territory in which reside
300, 900 veterans, ali of whom would prefer
Lincoln to Washington or any other city,
I'VE have the support of South Dakota
Kansas, Iowa, Colorado and other states
said he, land we shall see the delegate:
as fast as possible from other states.n
No arrivals at the Central depot created
much more excitement to-day than the
Georgia and Florida departments. There
we're $50 in the latter delegation, and
nearly all were bedecked II hats of not
only curious construction, but made Of
natural sea weed. They were in charge OF
Department Commander WEIGH, Of WEIGH
town, Fla. One car OF their train was filled
witE products of Florida, from
i've crocodile ten feet in length to a bunch
of seaweed. They had wstermelons il
great profusion. banana trees in blossom
olive and orange trees and any quantity Of
phosphate, which promises to eclipse
oranges as the fortune maker for the citi
Zens of Florida.
Colorado and Wyoming are here in force
and what they lack in numbers they make
up in noise and show, having two Zuavt
DRUM corps with them.
Ex-President Rutherford b. Hayes, com
mander-in-chief OF the order Of the Loya
Legion, arrived from Ohio to-day. He
was met by local delegation of the Loya
Legion and escorted to the home of Colone
Decker. Commander Hayes was rendered
reception at Colonel Decker's residence
this evening and all members of the Loyal
Legion paid him their respects.
The Rhode Island contingent Of 200 men.
mostly members of the well-known Slocum
post of Providence, marched to the hotel
escorting twenty-five women of the party
The department commander is AdjutaIt
General PrentisS. Slocum proudly carries
the old battle flag which at Fort Pulaski
and other engagements was riddled with
bullets. Behind the Rhode Island con-
tingent marched $50 Iowans, with c. L.
Davidson, of Hull, as commander. They
have forty fair comrades. They are the
advance guard only and assert confidently
their state will have 900 men in line.
A small number of South Dakota vet
Grams marched behind the Iowa men.
The ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic are arriving in the city. They
comprise the wives, mothers, daughters
and sisters of veterans. Among the officers
and national delegates present are National
President Mrs. c. z. HuesiI, Mrs. Mary
A. ELLINGTON, secretary, and nearly all the
state department presidents and go dele
gates.
Governor Page, Of Vermont. and NUN
Der Of his staff are in the city, and Gov
ernor Thay er, Of Nebraska; Congressman
Henderson, of Iowa; ex-Congressman
Walls, of South Carolina, and A. p. Davis,
OF Pittsburgh, founder of the order of Sons
Of Veterans, is also among the recent ar
rivals. The New York delegation, 1900
strong, arrived late THIS evening. A SUI
diamond badge was presented TO General
Alger to night by his admirers of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The department of Louisiana and Mis-
sissipi will revive the ''color" fight in the
encampment Charles +. Fink, assistant
quartermaster- general of this department,
said to-day: 1--WE have come up to this en-
campment to make fight on the color line
We object to colored members of the
Grand Army of the Republic and want
them formed in a separate organization.
1t is all right here in the north where you
have only few colored veterans, but dc
you know in the south there is any num-
Der of colored members of the Grand Army
of the Republic who are not thirty years
oldl They swarm in our posts and the
white man has no show. We will not
associate with them and if the president oil
the convention does not do something &c
relieve the southern posts of this growing
trouble the white Grand Army Of the Re
public veterans will withdraw.
COMMANDMENT Chief Veasey tonight
declined to discuss the "color" dispute anC
was disposed to minimize the Importance
of the question IN controversy.