Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-27
THE NEXT ENCAMPMENT.
Several Cities VIII Actively Contest
for That Honor.

Several Cities VIII Actively Contest
for That Honor.
Where is the next Pythian encampment to
be held?
That Is question, and 1t is already being
agitated. The partisans of the contesting
cities are active, though quiet. Very little
Ecise is being made by the representatives
of the various cities which are applicants
for the honor of entertaining the Supreme
Lodge and the Uniform Rank two years
hence, but their hustling is of the sup
pressed, intense variety. Louisville is after
the plum again. The story of the defeat of
that delightful southern town is told in
another part of The Star, and now she has
carried the war into Washington. At Kan
sas City she sent a delegation of citizens to
urge the claims of their city, but they did
Lot prevail against the weightier claims of
the political metropolis of the western world,
and now It Is thought that a committee of
citizens Will open campaign headquarters
mere Ii they do, the hospitality of the blue
grass state will be made manifest The
chances of Louisville are better than those
OF any other contestant in the field, and if
sne presses her case with any degree of
ardor she Will win. Louisville has hosts of
friends, and they remember how ruthlesslv
she was Knocked out in 1892. The trimming
cup OF victory was dashed from her lips by
washington just as she was preparing to
MI herself up to the neck with draughts of
triumph. -
The next most jealous applicant for the
convention Is Minneapolis, and 1t is also
stated that St Paul, the other twin, wants
II, too, and Is willing to put up the required
cash. The Commercial Club is understood
10 nave sent on a good-sized sum Of money
10 be used in legitimate channels as soap
Ihe Pythian press in the northwest are
backing one or the other OF the twin cities
Then, Denver Is not strongly averse to
being the next meeting place of the Pyth-
ians. A few months ago she was in the
field to much greater extent than she is
now. Because of the local troubles in 0olo-
RADIO and the fact that the Pythian press
have been moldiny Pythian opinion against
Denver because of her distance from the
Pythian center of population, she has al
most dropped out of sight, but still she
VIII be perfectly willing to get big en-
tertainmelt for the knights of the yellow
blue and red should things come her way
Boston Is also in the fight, through her
representatives in the Supreme Lodge, and
1t is limited at that toward the last she
will develop great strength. 1t is said
that she is keeping out of sight just now
to feel the muscles of her antagonist, and
that when st. Paul, Minneapolis and Louis
Vile are winded and weary she will step
in at the eleventh hour and claim the prize
There is some talk OF Cincinnati and Co.
lumbus, Ohio, as the next meeting place,
but this talk is very vague as yet 1t is
of Major General Carnahan, is prepared to
bid high. There has been some talk of st.
Louis and Chicago but 1t seems to have
been confined to the representatives from
Illinois and Missouri. Pennsylvania, which
with Ohio is the stronghold of the Order
decided tones. From all Indications things
have a Kentucky flavor, and ii is perfectly
proper to offer odds on Louisville and to
play Minneapolis for Il place.