Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-15


| bOrne-Many Reasons for Congratulation
| The Smoky City Surrenders to the Grand
Army.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 1O.-The
smoky City is tonight in possession of
the boys that wore the blue. The cap
itnlation of its citizens is complete
The invading column of Grand Army
veterans, sweeping like torrent from
the north and the south, the east and
| the west, is the monarch of all it NAV
survey Acres of bunting. myriads of
| flags, all the contrivances and wonders
of electricity, blazing from arches,
towers and business blocks;. latch
strings on the outside, committees
galore to hail the coming and speed
the parting guests; each and every
| feature bears testimony to the fact
that the pledges upon which year
| ago at indianapolis the national en-
campment of '94 was awarded to the
second city of the keystone state, have
been fully redeemed.
The campaign for national officers
and for the location of the next en-
campment was inaugurated in earnest
this evening, and tonight there is as
much dickering and buttonholeing
around the principal hotels as might
be demanded by a national political
| convention.
| Yesterday the committee from Louis
vile had things its own way, but to-
day the committee from the CONNER
cial club of st. Paul opened up COM
4 a-to,. L.
house and proceeded to get in its work
In personnel it was decidedly infuen-
tial. Judge John p. Rea, ex-comman-
der of the Grand Army, and ex-Gov.
| McG1Il were on the outside to bid all
welcome, while within Judge II. G.
Hicks, Capt. H. A. Castle, ex-chair-
man of the republican state commit
| tee; Col. !. III. Davidson, Charles
W. Horr, Gen. J. II. Baker, Dr.
Il. McGinnis, Albert Schetfer and
several other prominent citizens were
on duty to make things comfortable
for the visitors and incidentally to en-
| roll them under the banner of the
Twin Cities. Punch that filled two big
| bowls to the rim was concocted and
likewise ladled out by Mrs. J. g.
| Rae who, with several others Of
the fairer sex of the northwest added
smiles and soft spe ech to the more ro-
bust arguments of the masculine mem
bers. As result not a few converts
We're made at the expense of the lead
| ing city OF the Blue Grass state, and
| the Louisville committee is not as GER
tain that it has everything its own
way as it was last night.
An effort was made by the Kansas
delegation during the afternoon to
start boom for Topeka in the belief
that the rivalry between Louisville
and St Paul might become so bitter
that another city would be found
available. 1t received no support,
however, outside Of the Kansans them
selves, and the indications are, that
| the encampment Of 95 Will be voted to
Louisville by an overwhelming ma
| jority.
| With the arrival this morning Of the
| Illinois delegation the contest between
the adherents of Col. Thomas G. Law
| Ter, of that state. and j. n Walker of
| Indiana, the rival candidates for COM
mander-in-chief, was commenced in
| earnest. Headquarters for each aspir-
| ant were opened at the leading hotels
and arguments of a serious kind were
| employed in the effort to secure votes
| Most Of the western and northwestern
| delegates are counted in the Lawler
| column, while the eastern and south
| ern strength, together with a majority
| nf Ia, ct III n 9TH
representative voters, are favorable to
| the Hoosier candidate.
Four thousand delegates and mem
| bers of visiting posts were present to-
| night at the inaugural presentation at
the exposition building of the histori-
| cal musical spectacle ''War and Peace"
| dedicated to the encampment by Col.
L. n. Innes, of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment New York; band. In the per-
formance the band, with chorus of
400 voices, battery of artillery and
| the famous Ransom post of st. Louis
| took part.
| At meeting this Afternoon of the
| Medal of Honor legion Senior Vice
| Commander Urr, with Comrades J. H.
| Lyman. of New York; Matthews, Of
Pittsburgh; Insch, of Newark, o.;
Hills, of St. Louis, and Thomas, of
Philadelphia. were appointed to wait
| upon Congressmen Daniel E. Sickles
and Amos J. Cummings and urge them
to secure the adoption of such meas
ures as may prevent the destruction of
| the insignias worn by the legion from
| all other medals awarded bv congress.
The National Association of Army
and Navy Chaplains to-day elected
Rev. T. V. Haggerty, chaplain of the
| Ninety-third Illinois. AS president. and
| Chaplain c. c. McCabe. the famous
| Methodist church mission fund raiser
of the One hundred and twenty
Ohio. as secretary.