The times., 1897-08-27

Buffalo. n Y, Aug. 26.-Gen. j. p. s
Gobir,. OF Lebanon. Pa. wastonight elected
commander in-chief OF the G. A. Z. Ciu-
cinnat. was selected as the place for the
next encampment.
The defeat OF Col. Isaac +. Mack. or
Sandusky, was decisive. Col. Mack made u
hard campaign. but was defeated by the
movement to take the encampment to Gin
cinnati Tie old soldiers thought the Union
was too large TO let one State have both
honors.
The first blow to Col. Mack's chances fell
at / D. m, when, contrary to the desire OF
his supporters, the convention took up tie
encanpme.a question first. President VI.
T. ingalls,, OF the Big Four road, presented
the invitation from Cincinnati. san Fran
cisco was put in competition The vote
was: Cincinnati, 52G: San Francisco, p 1.
At 6 p. IN. nominations for commander
were asked Tor. Cien. George IL. Inniss, of
Massachusetts: Gen. John c. Line han, Of
New Hampshire; Col. Mack and Gen.
Gohu Were nominated, Gen, Gobin's
name being presented by Thomas j.
Stewart, of Pennsylvania.
Gen Inniss' name was withtira wn be-
fore the first ballot was taken fhe
ballot stood: Mack, 253; Gobin, 296;
Linehan, 81.
The second ballot stood; Mack, 249;
Linehan, 1928; Goblin, 35S. This put
Gen. Gohin within ten votes of election
Missouri had % votes in the convention
I en- uf these had been cast for Mack
Oh this ballot and IL for Goblin. Missouri
now asked TO change these 10 votes
from Mack to Goblin and this was done.
On motion of Department Commander r.
b. Brcwn. of Ohio, who nominated Col.
Mack, Goblin election was made unani
nous.
The convention put over until tomorrow
the election OF other Officers. Alfred
Lyth, of Buffalo, Will be elected senior
vice commander.
Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul, addressed
the encan,pment during its secret session
today. He was present by virtue of his
election to The Grand Army last night.
The archbishop served as chaplain in the
Army. The convention was reused to
great enthusiasm by the prelates speech.
In it re said:
As long as God permits me to live,
VIII serve America, aud when die l want
no better epitaph than this: He was 3
worthy cuInrade OF the Grand Army of the
Republic 4"
,sen Lew Wallace also addressed the
encampinent.
report from the committee on schuI
histories WAS presented by a. o. Marsh,
r Tnn that the A
is dissatisfied with the histories of the
civil war; not that it wants the bitter
memories of that event revived, but be-
cause I've cannot close our eyes to the
! fact that our schoolbooks do not make a
distinction between ourselves and those
who fought against US. We demand that IL
be made clear In the textbooks of the
country that those who fought for the
Union were right and that the Confederacy
was wrong"
Several histories, the report says, have
been written 10y Southern historians, and
are incorrect and disloyal to the Union.
| School histories written in the North
treat OF the war merely as struggle
4 between the North and the South. not as
a war for the suppression OF rebellion
and no history treats adequately any
] k1tAAA "a NnE " IL
| Tie report was adopted.
Addresses OF welcome were made by
GOV Black and Mayor Jewett. Gen Clark
son presented his report.
In it he called attention to the IN
roads death is making upon the order
| and said:
We are far past the meridian in
diyidually, and as an order the stream
I fc no 4
/ and poverty are making great inroads
into tue ranks Recruit the ranks until
every honorable discharge is recorded in
every descriptive book, and every sus-
pended oomrade is again touching elbows
with his fellows. Stand by your COM
rades though all the world assail-
''0w:ng to the steady decrease In the
membership and the very small burden
| imposed by the national per capita Of
21-2 cents / believe that the best
interests of the order would be subserved
| by an increase of one-half cent in the
per capita, making it 3 instead of IL
cents per aDnum."
The reports of the senior vice commander
in-chief, junior vice commander-in in chief
| surgeon general, quartermaster general, In
! spector general, Judge advocate general, ad
| jutant general and senior aide -de-camp
were read.
| The report of Adjutant General Charles
! E. BCrIllester hOwed hat the totalmember-
ship OF the order in good standing June 80,
1896, was 7,032 posts, with $40 ,6I0 mem
ebrs on December 81, 1896, 1876 posts
with 327,i13 members: on June 80, 1897,
| 7,l06 posts, with 319,456 members, and
that during the past ten years the Grand
l IoI
charity the sum of So, 2,iO0,6l7.6