San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-15
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
Reunion Opened in this City This
Morning.

The Confederate Veterans are now
with us for their annual reunion and
there are about 1900 of them in the
city as the Light goes to press and
more are arriving on every train. The
headquarters at the corner of SOledad
and Houston streets, gaily decorated
for the occasion. are crowded with
them. many being seen waiting for the
rooms to open up as early as o'clock
this morning. Here the new Corners
receive their badges and are assigned
their rooms and boarding places and
the local entertainment committee as
well as the Auxiliary Society of the
Daughters of the Confederacy are busy
as bees.
AS the morning advanced and the
veterans learned the program and that
they were expected to participate in
a short parade about the city their
numbers increased about headquarters
and by 1870 O'Clock, the hour for the
parade, several hundred were ready
for the march. Headed by their band
and each man carrying the Southern
States battle flag they paraded before
admiring thousands lined along the
banquettes and acknowledged cheers
as many groups were passed. Reach
ing Beethoven hall by street cars af-
ter the parade. the reunion was formal
ly opened by the tune Maryland, My
Maryland" and the invocation by RI.
Rev. Bishop j. S. Johnston, of the
Protestant Episcopal missionary di-
Geese of West Texas.
Mayor Callaghan then delivered a
splendid address of welcome in which
he said: ut is a pleasure for me, as
mayor of this city to greet you. We
honor you for your noble sacrifices in
the past and the patriotism and free
dom with which you gave life and for
tune for the principles you believed in
and fought for / believe your cause
was just (applause) and that cause did
not die, but its principles, those of
states rights, yet exist, and while we
bow TO the inevitable, those principles
will live but the people must look to
Washington to procure better represen-
tatiOn and represent the necessity OF
government by injunction, in that it
applies the equity OF the judge. 1t is
better to have bad laws that are well
known than to have good laws poorly
enforced. With local government If
an insurrectiOn arises you can then
have your own state machinery to sup
press it.
Il have been advised by a friend this
morning to bid you welcome and to
turn over to you the keys OF this city,
but. gentlemen and ladies, San Antonio
never had any keys for the Confederate
cause and the city is yours. Great APP
plause)."
Following the address of Mayor Cal
laghan, Gen. w. III. Young, in full
generals suit of blue gray, delivered
the address of welcome in behalf of
Albert Sidney Johnston camp, and this
was responded to by Hon. Richard
Wynne, of Fort Worth.
The program for the remainder of
the reunion follows:
Afternoon
200 p. m.-Reunion called to order
for the regular business of the conven-
ton.
$50 p. m.-Memorial address by the
Hon. Norman Kittrell, of Houston.
Thursday, Dec. 49,
9:3O a. m.-Reunion called to order
for business.
Address by Hon. John III. Reagan.
200 p. m-Address by Gov. G. A.
Culberson.
Address by Judge ]. L. Camp. Our
Future :,
Grand overture by the band.
Maryland, My Maryland" Mrs. Euen
Reed.