The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-02
KENTUCKY AFTER IT
WOULD LIKE TO SEE COMMANDER
HOBsON MADE COMMANDER
IN-CHIEE.
LINEHAN'S FRIENDS ACTIVE.
NEW HAMPSHIRE THINKS MEM
YORK SHOULD BE SATISFIED
WITH ONE HONOR.
WASHINGTON HAS A PHYSICIAN
Who Is willing to Serve the Ma
tiOnaI Body in the Same
Capacity.

Interest in the selection of the ma
tional commander was increased yes
terday by the announcement that
Senior Vice Commander Hobson, of
Kentucky, is a candidate and is being
vigorously doomed by his friends. Iowa
is doing a great deal of quiet work for
Gen. John A. Given and are trading
with the Fasteners who are more in
terested in securing the encampment
for Buffalo than in electing a COM
mander from the East. Iowa has the
promised support of some of the Vest
ern states, as has also Buffalo for the
encampment. ]. c. Linehan, who halls
from New Hampshire, has a rival in
his own section in Daniel R. Ballou. of
Rhode Island, department commander.
and who is said to be the favorite of
New York. if Gen. Meade is turned
down. But Hobson, of Kentucky, is
being groomed as the dark horse by
several of the Western states and like
wise some of the Eastern delegates,
who are anxious to give the South
something for the royal manner in
which that section has been represent
ed in the recent encampments.
Buffalo still holds the age in the deal
for the encampment. The boomers
from that city are not wasting any
time and are doing some good mission
airy work among the WesternerS who
are anxious to have the commander
in-chief named from this section. Dan
Tel H. Turner, who heads the list of
pushers from the New York city, said
yesterday that no stone had been or
would be left unturned to capture the
encampment.
I'VE have been virtually promised
the encampment, and were assured a
year ago if we got out of the way in
favor of ST. Paul that our claims would
be given favorable consideration this
year. We are here to remind the dele
gates of that promise, and I believe
that we have the right even now to
say that the encampment will be held
in Buffalo in ST.
Mayor Jewett, of Buffalo, arrived in
the city last evening to assist in the
campaign. 1--WE have made every ar
rangement to care for the encanlp-
ment, even at this early date" he said.
eve can show the convention that we
are amply able and willing to do all
that st. Paul has done-and 1t IS lig
pledge to make"
The Department of the Potomac,
Washington, d. c., has unanimously
decided to present to the national en-
campment, the name of it's medical
director, DR.. A. E. Johnson, for the po-
sition of surgeon general, and to use
all honorable means to secure his
election. DR.. A. E. Johnson enlisted
in Lewisburg, Union county, PEnnsyl-
vania where he was preparing ~ enter
the Lewisburg university; WIS as
signed to Company D, Fifth sennsyl-
vania reserves; was wounded and left
on the field for dead at Cha files City
Cross Roads in the seven 6hys fight
under Mcclellan; four days afterwards
was taken to Libby prisCt; had to
travel on crutches for five fears after;
completed his education at the Column
bian university, Washington, d. c. in
1862 has since been in general and
active practice of his profession in
said city; has served Lincoln Post as
surgeon for the past four years. rep
resented his post in the department en-
campment for the past six years, also