The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-16
VETERANS SECOND DAY
ANOTHER GROUP OF REGIMENTAI.
REUNIONS IN THE CITY.
Gov. Mounts Comments on Ripley
County LawIessness at the Fer
tiefh Indiana's Camp Fire.


the Statehouse yesterday, and the corridors
were filed all day with the veterans wear
ing badges designating the particular regi-
Inent in which they had fought for the
Union. The Nineteenth Indiana Battery
known as Harris's Battery, met in Room
IL. There We're about twenty-five members
present out of about eighty survivors. The
battery originally contained only about 1SS
members. 1t was reported that during the
year two deaths had occurred in the men,
bership, the deceased being Lieut.. Clinton
Keelor, of Pueblo, Coll and Private John
II. Reed, Of Peru, Ind. 1t was decided to
hold the next meeting at Cincinnati during
the national G. A r. encampment in 1898
ofhcers for the ensuing year were elected
as follows: President, j. II. Gray, Cincin-
natl; vice president, S. E. Laughlin, Gin
cinnati; secretary, w. II. Reinheimer. Win
chester
The survivors Of the Fortieth Indiana
held campfire at the Criminal Court room
last evening, with Governor Mount as the
principal orator. With the Versailles trag-
edy fresh in his mind, the Governor took
1t as his text in making little talk on pa
ttrtollsm After recalling something of the
A . uSHlpS they had gone through IN order
mat the Nation might live and it's people
prosper, he spoke of the trouble at Halle
TON ana deplored the fact that ii had oc-
CURED. These things. he said looked dam
gerous and We're dangerous Within the last
,WehIy-tour hours the sacred soil of Indiana
nad peen dIsgraced by the deplorable affair
a. ' versailles, where an armed mob had
broken into the jail and murdered five pris-
oners IN cold blood. The Governor recited
"a tle actIon ne had taken in urging the au-
enOItIies thefe 10 take all possible measures
10 preserve order and apprehend the men,
pefs OF the mob and in sending the deputy
attorney general to the spot commissioned
the a hp fnp and Of
the state to see that the law was enforced.
he desired 10 say that there was no crime
brutal or serious enough to justify resort
70 mob violence, and it would not be toll
Grated Tor moment in Indiana. Such an
outbreak was dangerous and a menace to
the peace and dignity Of the State I'VE
stand ready to uphold the law to-day" he
declared, Just as you fought for it in the
past"
erhor declared, and people We're prone to
forget the fact that the purpose of the law
anu order was to produce the greatest good
Lol the greatest number. There must of
necessity be much personal sacrifice for the
pubic veal. Such sacrifice they had made
weilingIy during the war. The truest type
OF patriotism was not the man who stood
on the corner and talked of his readiness
10 go to war, but the man who was ready
aC any ana all times TO make any necessary
sdcrince for the general good, to promote
the interests and protect the rights of the
people, to see that the laws were enforced
ana That the dignity Of the State was pre-
After recalling some of his recollections
or the Fortieth, the Governor closed with:
GU did your duty grandly You carried
the old flag again and again in the face
OF the enemy and you never went after them
that you did not capture their works"
General John Coburn followed Gov
ernor Mount in q ten-minute speech in
which he said the last thing to rejoice over
was the downfall of the enemy. He said
war was a practical thing. 1t meant bust
ness, and 1t taught men to be both brave
and domicile. He believed that the vcte-
rams who attended these reunions should
try more than ever to make the little vir-
tues OF the men of the regiment more
memorable. He thought the sacrifices made
the picket line-where there was no chance
for distinction, but 1t was plain hard duty
ought to be remembered. General Coburn
recalled the devotion of the boys who
nursed the sick in the hospitals. No faith
full mother ever stood more kindly over the
couch OF pain than the soldiers who cared
for their comrades in the hospital wards.
These things, the speaker insisted, should
not be forgotten. The illuStrious deeds OF
the private soldiers should not be over
looked in these reunions.
The day before the veterans met at the
state fair grounds. Business of routine
nature was transacted and officers elected.
They were: President, Colonel John w.
Blake, of Indianapolis; vice president, H.
B. Shively of Wabash; secretary and treas
urer, David Bryan, of Lafayette. A MIS-
of Colonel John w. Blake H. Is. ShiVely
Captain James Bragg, Captain II. z. Kinney
and Robert c. Lane. The speech making
was reserved for the campfire last night
The Fourteenth Indiana Regiment was With
the Army of the Cumberland.