The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-09-26
Defeating MONUMENTS.

Interesting Preliminary Work ar the Ma.
tionai Military Park-Army of the Gum
beriand.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 19.-.The
people began to move towards Chicka-
manga early yesterday. the first event
being the dedication of the Michigan
state monuments at Snodgrass hill.
The monuments of Wisconsin were the
ne.t turned over to the government.
Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, made an
address to the veterans of his state as.
sembled on Snodgrass hill and the
Ohio monuments to her soldier dead
were formally transferred to the ma
tional government by Gov. Mckinley.
The Illinois monuments were dedi-
Gated on the site where Widow Glenn's
house stood during the battle, few
hundred yards southeast of the famous
"bloody pond" Gov. Altgeld made an
address be ore turning the monuments
over to the government which created
somewhat of sensation, the conclusion
of his speech being as follows: Instead
of an armed force that we can meet
on the field, there is to-day an enemy
that is invisible, but everywhere at
work, destroying our institutions; that
enemy is corruption. 1t seeks to di-
rect official action, it dictates legisla-
ton aud endeavors to control the
construction of laws. 1t seeks to con-
troll the press, to set fashions and shape
public sentiment. 1t has undermined
American politics and places it on
the low plane of jugglery. The ten
dency is now for political parties to
shirk principle and follow expediency,
and their platforms are often drawn
to evade or straddle every live issue.
The idea now is to cajole rather than
convince; to ignore great wrongs and
wink at abuses; to court the
support of conflicting interests. We
are substituting office-seeking and
office.holding in place of real achieve
ments, and instead of great careers in
public life we are facing harvest on
slippery, blear-eyed and empty medioc-
rity, which glides into oblivion with.
out the assistance of death"
The exercises attendant upon the
transfer of the Indiana monuments to
the government took place at Lyttle
hill, being concluded with q salute
fred by the Indiana regiment.
Massachusetts monuments were
dedicated at Knob hill in the after.
noon. The ceremonies were short,
simple and impressive. Gov. Green.
halge called the assembly to order and
made the address of the occasion.
THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
1t is doubtful If p. T. Barnum in his
palmiest days ever saw such crowd
at his circus as assembled beneath one
of his old three-ringed tents in this
city last night. Barnum used to claim
that it seated $4,000 people. II he told
the truth there must have been a
greater number in it yesterday, for the
space used for circus performers was
occupied by auditors The occa.
sion for this great gathering
was the reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland. A
large number of veterans belonging to
the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see who came here from Cincinnati
were pTcScHt uS x ucSto. i hC NSbcidu
general, J. d. Morgan, from Quincy.
H. vice president Of the society, and
who is now past 80 years of age, pre-
sided in the absence of Gen. Rosecrans,
the president
When the meeting had been called
to order Gen. Morgan introduced May.
or George w. Ochs, who made the adj
dress of welcome. Response was made
by Gen. II. V. Boynton, secretary OF
the association.
Following Gen. Boynton, Gen. Nor
gan made an address of welcome to
the confederate veterans, after which
Senator Charles Manderson, OF Ne
braska delivered the annual address to
the society. BY way of beginning, he
said the veterans had met here to
record new era. Then he spoke
of the battle that occurred in this re-
gion. A great change had taken place
since that battle. The scattered ham
let, the objective point Of military en-
| deavor in 1868, was the thriving city,
the center of commercial distribution
in 1895. Then he referred feelingly to
the thousands of brave men who fell