The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-13
RAID" OF THE RED MEN
THEIR GREAT COUNCIL OPENS TO-
DAY AT THE TALBOT BLOCK.
Officers Who Will Be EIected-History
of the Order-Public Recep-
tiOn Tonight.

Last night all but few of the 25O or more
delegates who will attend the Great Council
of the Improved Order of Red Men of the
United States had arrived. The council
will open this morning at the Talbot block,
at Pennsylvania and Market streets The
business of the council will be the hearing
of committee reports and the disposal of
them. and Wednesday the biennial election
of officers will be held. The election of Of
ficers will be cut-and-dred matter, with
one exception. The present officers give the
following ticket as the one that will go
through without opposition
Great Incohonee--George e. Green, Bing-
hamton, n. Y.
Great Senior sagamore-E. D. Wiley, Des
Moines, Ia.
Supreme Keeper of Records-Charles G..
Conley, Philadelphia, Pa.
Supreme Keeper of Wampum-Wiliam
Provin, Westfield, Mass
For the Office of great Junior sycamore
there are five candidates and it is antici-
pated that the struggle for election will be
an exciting one. The present great inco-
honee, Robert T. Daniel, will be appointed
great prophet, an honorary office.
Headquarters for the visiting Red Men
were opened yesterday at Press Club room,
in the Denison Hotel. There the dele
gates registered and received their badges.
There, also, they were greeted with hearty
handshakes and found abundant refresh
ment and cigars Last night the delegates
amused themselves at the theaters and at
the hotels. 1t is not possible to find an or
der of men more jovial and amusement
loving, or who seek more the good things
of the world than the Red Men.
Enthusiastic Red Men assert that their
order is the outgrowth Of secret organiza-
ton among the Indians before America was
discovered. After the style of the Indians
organization was formed the Sons OF Lib
erty, society organized in 1865 to resist
the English stamp tax. The Sons of Lib
erty adopted the dress ard customs of the
Indians when performing the rites of their
society. They wore the Indian costume
when they threw that Observation-Disclosures
tea into Boston harbor. In 1889 the Sons of
Liberty joined with the Saint Tamina So
clety which was organized in Maryland,
and afterward was the foundation of the
combination christened the Sons of St
Tamina. In 1913 the Society of Red Men
was organized, and in 1888 it became the
Improved Order of Red Men. Logan Tribe,
No. ], was the first tribe, and it was organ
lied at Baltimore, March II, 1884. The mot
to OF this tribe. Freedom, friendship and
charity became the motto of the whole
order. Twenty-tour years ago the Great
Council of the United States was held in
Indianapolis. The District Of Columbia, ore
Territory and twenty-five States were rep
resented. Among the representatives was
Charles Fl. Litchman, of Massachusetts,
who is present at this council.
One State is allowed but eight representa-
tives at a Great Council The only States
entitled to the full number of representa-
tives by the extent of the membership of
the order within their bounds are Pennsyl-
vana, New York, Indiana, New Jersey and
Massachusetts,
Tonight at Tomlinson Hall public re-
cepton for the Representatives of the order
will be held. Governor Mount, Mayor Tag
CART and the officers of the Red Men will
deliver addresses Afterward the reception
will become d darcing party and a general
good time. Theater parties trolley rides
and visits to the state fair ere among the
amusements which the wives and daughters
of the representative will be- treated to
during the week by the members of the To-
cal tribe of the Degree of Pocahontas the
women's branch of the Order Of Red Men.