St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-17
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Capt. Castles Tact at the LOYAL LIE.
giOn Dinner

The tact Of Capt. H A. Castle. who
presided at the Loyal Legion banquet
at the Ryan hotel Tuesday night. pre-
vented what threatened to develop into
sensation. 1t was close call. but
the captains foresight and his arbi-
trary ruling in the chair shut 1T off
Wednesday dozen men, who were
ready and anxious to take the floor and
Tor hours champion the generals under
whom they had fought, smiled at the
incident and let it go at that.
The trouble was caused by the paper
of Gen. j. H. Baker His subject was
Gen. Grant" and he delivered a forci-
BILE and extravagant eulogy on the ia
nous general. That was all right. 1t
met with the approval of every man
who heard 1t. Had Gen. Baker confined
himself to Gen. Grants work there
wouldn't have been a murmur, but he
went step further and criticised other
generals, particularly Thomas and
Sherman. Now Gen. Bishop and Sam
uel Appleton and a dozen others are
ready to resent anything of that kind
as quickly as they would fight in the
days gone by and they were prepared
to do it. The intimation that there was
politics in the surrender of Johnson to
Sherman or that Thomas was not quail
lied for commanding whole army was
too much. Capt. Castle knew what
would happen as soon as Gen. Baker
took his seat, so he sent word to Gen.
Ell Torrance, of Minneapolis, to get
up the second Gen. Baker finished and
move vote of thanks to Gen. Baker.
Before Gen. Baker took his seat Mr..
Torrance was up, so was Capt Castle
and so were half dozen admirers of
men whom Gen. Baker had referred to
in a spirit Of criticism. But Gen. Tor
rance, as was understood before hand,
| got the recognition from the chair and
moved the vote of thanks. Mr.. Apple
ton who was still UP said:
81 take great pleasure in sec
onding the motion, but
wait a minute" interrupted Capt
Castle. 1--WE will not have any time for
discussing this paper tonight There
are other matters to come up and other
speakers and we will have to wait till
another time to discuss the paper"
Mr.. Appleton wanted to say what was
on his mind right then and there. but
again the chairman insisted that there
was no time for discussion. eve will
meet every month for sixty years.
said he, land we will have plenty of
time to discuss it,"
81 don't expect to live sixty years. I"
answered Mr.. Appleton, but the captain
wouldn't have it. He put the motion
and the incident ended. AS stated
liCl z, lhOSS WIOSe lSellnSS were at
the boiling point at the time, had cooled
down yesterday and smiled at the incl
dent. Mr.. Appleton said he didn't OBJ
ject to anything that Gen. Baker said
about Gen. Grant, but he did feel Tues
! day night that the one should not have
been eXtolled at the expense of the
others. Gen. Bishop smiled, too, at the
incident yesterday, and remarked as
nothing had been said at the meeting,
he didn't want to discuss it now that it
was over.
Maj. White was also seen by report
er for the G O b e, but the major said
the incident was trif1ing. Did he have
the copy Of Gen. Bakers address? Yes,
but it was SO written up and down and
cross wise that he could not make 1t
out. He intended to send it back to
| Gen. Baker to have 1t sort of rearrang-
| ed and then he intended to send a copy
| Of it to Fred Grant. AS soon as the re-
vised copy of it is received from Gen.
Baker, Maj. White said the GIob e
could have copy. With the exception
| of the few statements that raised the
! feeling, the paper was pronounced one
of the best the commandery has heard.
But with the admirers Of other gener-
ais besides Grant, it was a case of 'Not
that / love Caesar less, but that 1 love
| Roma moro