The age-herald., 1898-10-04
NAME SHOULD NOTBE
 WORN BY ANOTHER No Woman Deserves the Title "DauSh-
 tor Of the COnfederaCy.' GEN. LONGSTREET'S VIEWS Title Should be Held Sacred to Win-
 mic Davis Memory.
GEN. L0NGSTREET'S VIEWS
THE PARTY IN BIRMINGHAM
The Geheral Has Been on an Official Tour Inspecting Railroads-Not
 His Business to Discuss
 Approximation War.

General James Longstreet, commissioner of railroads of the United States, was in the city yesterday on his way from an eX- tended trip through the west to his home in Gainesville, Ga. Besides his wife there were also several ladies and gentlemen who accompanied him on the trip. The party travelled in private car.
 q don't think that there is any woman in the south who deserves the title of ''The Daughter of the Confederacy," said Gen eral Longstreet in discussing this interest ing question in his yesterday after noon 'now that Winnie Davis is dead. The title belonged to her distinctively, and with her the honor died. She should al- ways be remembered by this endearing ap- pellation, and this would not be the case if 1t were given to some other southern girl.
 'If another Daughter of the Confeder- acy' were appointed she would soon get married, and I think by that act she would lose the honor. The Daughter of the Con- federacy' should not be a married woman. So the office would have to change hands many times, until the entire sacredness or the title would be lost.
 
 with a smile, If there is another daughter to be appointed or named I think that l, as the ranking general of the confederacy, now living, should be entitled to that privi- lege.
 Now, if l am permitted to do this, l should certainly name that young lady sit ting over incredible her name down-Miss Montine Sanders, of Gainesville, Ga. I don't know of any one who could more worthily succeed Miss Davis than she could
 General Longstreet referred to a beauti- full young lady who was member of the party. She is daughter of Colonel c. c. Sanders, of Gainesville.
 "O but she wouldn't do,'' suggested MT. Shannon, one of the young men of the car, she's going to get married
 'No she's not, are you Montine?" said the general.
 Maybe, some day." replied the fair young nominee, with a blush.
 And then the conversation drifted off to other subjects.
 Visited Familiar Places
 "As you possibly know" said General Longstreet i've have been all through the west and a large part of Mexico. l visited a number of places which l had not seen since 1 was a young man, when was serv- ing in the United States army before the civil war, and of course they were most interesting places to me. One of these was the battlefield of Chepultepec, where I was wounded in the Maxican war. President Diaz, of the republic of Mexico, now has one of his palaces there
 I raf11 to he Spanish war at all, that is, to pass any criticism it. He said that. it was none of his business to do so, and that besides he had been travelling around so much this summer that it had been impossible for him to keep up with the happenings of the war as he should have done.
 He considers Hobson the greatest hero of the war, and also said that Wheeler de- served highest praise for the brilliant record he made before Santiago He con- siders that the war has almost entirely obliterated all sectional strife, and says that this was the greatest benefit derived from it.
 The Party's Travels
 The party consisted of General and Mrs. Longstreet, Colonel and Mrs. c. C. San ders, Mrs. M. A. Sanders, Miss Montine Sanders and J. H. Hunt, of Gainesville, Ga Lewis w. Haskell, of Abbeville, S. C., General Longstreets secretary, and Emory F. Shannon, of Elberton, Ga.
 The party left Washington on July 30, and since that time has visited Chicago, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Sacramento, San Francisco, Portsmouth, Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria, Los Angeles, Catalina Island Fl Paso. the City of MeXi- co, Eagle Pass, San Antonio, New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham. They arrived at noon yesterday over the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and left yesterday afternoon over the Southern for Atlanta and Gainesville, where the party will disband. After week or two Gen eral and Mrs. Longstreet will go on to Washington.
 General Longstreets trip through the west was an official one, as he was on an inspection tour of all the bond-aided and land-grant railroads in the west It was his duty to inspect the books of the roads and see that they were keeping in good faith the contracts they had with the gov ernment. All along the route General Longstreet and the party were treated with marked consideration and were shown every courtesy. At Mexico, President Diaz gave him special reception.
 As stated the party passed through Few Orleans and all through Mississippi and Southern Alabama they were met at the depot by armed quarantine officers who forbade any exit from the car. Even in Birmingham they were supposed to be un- der the same surveillance.