The National tribune., 1891-09-10
FROM THE BAY STATE.
What Is Going on Among the Veterans OF that
Section.

What Is Going on Among tho veterans OF that
Section.
EpIroE NAT1oxAL TgIBUNE: A Boston Sunday
paper startled the sensitive among its Grand Army
readers two weeks ago by declaring that Senior
Vice Department Commander Churchill and Junior
Vice Department Commander Hall were making a
sharp contest to see who should head this Depart
meut next year. This is all fiction. COmrade Hall
il mot in It," am authorized to say, and will not
dispute for the place with anyone this year.
Were il not 80 hot and unreasonable would re-
peat "A whisper which reaches me from Post 1870. of
SOmervlle TO the effect that at the proper time,
later this Post of go proposes To put for
ward the name Of Col. Charles +. King for third
place. Since il is becoming so fashionable in this
Department to promote through the grades, only
the wOrthies5 should he selected for nomination,
and "a wOrthier soldier, Grand Army worker, or
more honorable gentleman than Comrade King
would be hard 10 lind
Another matter which is being discussed infor-
malIy among the veterans of the Order is the most
suitable way of selecting delegates to the National
Encumpment Every year has seen an increasing
ssnti.faction with the manner in which 10 is done
i'm thi. Departmcnt This dissatisfaction culmi-
mated at the last Eucampment in the adoption of a
resolve offered by Comrnde Chas II. Fox instruct
ing the incoming Council To consider the question
and make report to the next Encampmeut. Ono
suggestion is to have each Post select some COM
ride Of experience and ability who will agree to
attend IL selected and report his name TO the As
sIstant Adiutant- General IN advance OF the Depart
ment Encampmeut; this list to be printed and -
committee from the Eucampment 10 select there
from, say, two or three times as many candidates
for the delegation as are required and these TO Do
marked for on the Australian plan by the men,
beTs of the Eucampment
One palpable advantage OF this plan would be to
estOp the charge that comrades are now frequently
selected whom their own Post would not have
chosen as worthy of the honor.
A touching sight was that at the grave OF Mai. j.
Henry Sleeper, who commanded the 10Th Mass.
battery nearly its entire term OF service. Eight of
his old veterans, all men who went out with the
company and had served as cannOneerS, bore the
bieg 10 the side OF the grave, and when the bugle
had sounded taps gently lowered all that was
mortal of their old commander into the grave.
This was done at the request Of his widow and sons
who wanted only the members of his old command
to administer this last sad office. The interment
was at Mt Auburn.
On to Washington Post IS, Ashland has voted
TO go, so has Post Is Fall River, and Posts III,
Charlestown and 40, Newburyport, have appointed
committees 20 consider the matter Massachusetts
will tread the masto pavement Of Pennsylvania
avenue in '92 with both feet.
Chas. Ward Post, 62, will hold fair In February
I'm aid of their Memorial Hall fund. Glen. Il. w.
Hincks Post will open one Nov. II at Saugus. The
fair OF the Ladies' Aid Association I'm aid Of the
Soldiers Home d 10 occurs ia Noyember.-B..
Boston,