The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-10
COL. MCORD RELATED TT tn TtIn
LOYAL LEGION LAST
NIGHT.
C0PPERHEADISM IN OHIO
IS DISCUSSED BY REV. DIR HEINIC.
WHO LIVED THERE IN
WAR TIME.
HON. LOREN FLETCHER's YARNS
Also Entertained the Companions ut
Their Monthly Banquet-LincOIn
Celebration Coming.

The companions of the Loyal Legion,
Minnesota commandery, hundred or
more in number, held their regular
meeting and banquet at the Ryan
hotel last night Senior Vice Com
mander C. c. Andrews, of St Paul.
presided in the absence of Commander
Adams, Of Minneapolis. Among the
guests present We're Brigadier General
James Wade, L. S. A, commander of
the Department of Dakota; his aides
de-camp, Lieut.. Almy and Lieut..
Reede, Col. Arthur Macarthur, ad-
jutant general of the Department OF
Dakota; Capt. Russell, of the ordin-
ance department, L. S. A; Hon Loren
Fletcher, of Minneapolis; w. II. S
Wright, Benjamin Somers, Claiming
Seabury, c. H. Kellogg. a. b. Bell and
c. NJ. Gordon and W. A Frisbie, of
Minneapolis, and Rev. DR.. Helvig, of
Ohio
After the business meeting the COM
mandery and guests assembled in the
ordinary to discuss the menu. and sub
sequently to listen to d paper by Com
panion Col. William Berry McCord, of
Minneapolis, as we'll as a number of
other "reminiscences of the period from
81 to 60.
Before the reading of Col. McCord's
paper on The Battle of Corinth"
Senior Vice Commander Andrews in
troduced Gen. Wade to the compan-
ions, and also Adjutant General Mac
Arthur, each of whom responded BRIEF
ly. Congressman Fletcher was then
asked to say a few words.
Il perceive" began Mr.. Fletcher.
that this is a nOn-partisan gathering
and therefore 1 shall make no extend
ed remarks for fear 1 might drift into
politics, as | am apt to do. Oaughter0
Mr.. Fletcher congratulated the com
mandery upon the large attendance at
this late date, a generation after all
the hardships the companions had en-
dured. Mr.. Fletcher regretted that he
had not served his country on the bat
tie field. He was aware that he had
missed fine opportunity of being Il
dead patriot or a live hero, but cir
cumstances were such that he couldn't
go to the front. His Wife's relations
were good enough to go to the war for
him. O-aughteD. But Mr.. Fletcher was
glad to know that he was today i'm the
service of the people where he had the
opportunity of participating in making
laws for their benefit.
At the conclusion of Mr. FletCher's
remarks, a voice exclaimed:
Whats the matter with Fletcher"
Cries of Your Uncle Loren's all
right" answered the query.
Senior Vice Commander Andrews
then announced that the Flexible quar-
tette, composed of four veterans Of
Bryant G.. A. r. post, Minneapolis.
would sing. The quartette obliged with
a harmonious selection and received a
hearty encore.
Col. McCord's paper came next. 1T
proved to be an interesting account Of
the battle of COrinth, Miss, oct. and
4, 1862-the campaign preceding and
leading up to the battle and it's re-
suits. At the conclusion of the paper.
the companions rendered Col. McCOrd
rising vote of thanks.
Some "reminiscences of other episodes
of the war followed, interspersed with
patriotic songs, in which all the COM
panions joined, as is the custom at
these enjoyable gatherings.
The last address of the evening was
delivered by Rev. DR.. Helvig, the presi-
dent Of Wittenburgh college, of Spring
field, o. DR.. Helvig was one of those
loyal home workers, who did much dur
ing the war to build up loyal spirit
in that hot bed of Vallandighamism in
the state of Ohio.
Rev. DR.. Helvig is a tall. white hair
ed gentleman with smoothly shaver
face and strong features. 1t was forty
four years ago, he said, that he first
set foot in ST Paul The only warriors,
he saw here then, were a band Of sixty
Chippewa warriors who had come to
st. Paul to seek at the hands of Min
nesota's territorial governor, Alexander
Ramsey, protection from their enemies.
the Sioux Indians. Today, when he be-
held the companions of the Loyal
Legion before him-members as they
were of an hOnored body whatever
beliefs he might have entertained in
the theory of evolution, he was sure
that the companions were not evoluted
from those Chippewa warriors Oaugh-
teri
when 1 see your Twin Cities here"
continued DR.. HelVig, Il must say,
what wonder God has wrought,
There is no country on the face of the
earth where so much could have been
done, and has been done, as in St Paul
and Minneapolis"
Referring to the national unity be
tween the North and South, Dr. Hell
Wig declared that there were no nat
ural boundaries between the two sec
tons. The great mountains and rivers
of this country did not run east and
west, but north and south. In conclu-
sion, DR.. Helvig related graphic remln-
iscenses of his experiences during the
war, when he had charge of three
churches in Ohio, and bent his efforts
combating the cOpperhead sentiment
that pervaded that district. During
the great conflict, DR.. Helvig belonged,
as he put it, to "the Union army of
the North"
At the business session, the COM
mandery appointed a committee to
make arrangements for meeting and
a banquet to be held at the Ryan, the
evening of Feb. u, to commemorate the
anniversary of Lincoln's birthday. The
committee comprises Gen. r. NJ. New
port, Judge Ell Torrance, of Mime
apolis; Col. John II. Page, u. S. A;
Maj Charles Whipple U. S. A, and
Capt e. S. Dudley, U. S. A Some
speaker Of national prominence is ex-
pected to be present.
The report of Gen. T.. G. Mason the
recorder as to membership. shows the
total membership of the commandery
on Nov. 1, 1897, to be 3O7, of which 2TG
are in the first class.
John Howard Martindale. of Min
neapolis, was admitted to membership
in the second class.