Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-12

Col. Gardiner Tells How They'
Broken Tor Col. RoosevssS Il 81
Nav York Times--7thJ


observation-disclosures Gardiner made = STATS
ment Yesterday afternoon In expiapat'o"
Of his abrupt departure from tho dinner
of the New York State CommanoeFy -
the LOYAL Legion, given at peimon'eos
Wednesday evening. when Cosonei ncve@
Welt appeared there In company Win co'
eraI G. II. T. Coils, and apparently ~
his guest. After describing the orsanisa-
ton and its meetings. and asserting snat
"in these meetings anything OK pontsceA
aspect has always been sternly ana WV
rously excluded" Colonel Gardiner says
Any member who desires to introuues
guest must make due application TO tne
Council. and II the application Is approved
the applicant is notified and seat az tho
banquet Is reserved and the gentleman
making the application makes the neces-
sary contribution. Whether or not any
application had been previously mace 70
introduce Colonel Roosevelt as one "a
our guests. do not know, bat presume
of course. IL had We had our banquet.
sang Marching Through Georgia., ana
then General Nj. y. Mcmahon read most
interesting and valuable paper on tnat
unequalied ship, the frisate Cnesapeake.
Of the war of 1872. When the applause had
subsided which was justly due TO THAI
paper. one Of the members arose TO adj
| dress the Chair. At that moment he was
| interrupted, precisely as would happen 81
| a political meeting. Colonel Roosevelt
was escorted forward and his political
| friends began to applaud, and he was
| taken TO the rostrum and called upon fos
| a speech.
| He IS now a private citizen and the
nominee of great political party Tor q
nigh office In this state. and the poiticat
campaign has actively begun under the
| circumstances. II he desired to attend
meeting OF the Loyal Legion. II would
have been better to have deferred IL unut
| the December meeting: that all, OF course.
| is n matter of taste. However, In coming
at all, as being our guest, Ike the other
| gentlemen there, Judge NewDurser, OF
| the Court of General Sessions, and many
other prominent gentlemen, and to par
take with us of our banquet and to listen
to our paper reading and JOIN us IN cur
patriotic songs, he should not have come
\ in at the conclusion OF these under tIs
introduction OF a gentleman In political
life and precisely in the manner follow
| ed at political meetings. apparently 10
| REF the Endorsement OF us old soldiers.
He had not been with us through .heso
| proceedings. and his advent at this spe-
| cial time appeared to be for poiiticat
object. For that reason withdrew from
the meeting, as did number OF others.
regret that the matter should have oc-
Cured
Colonel Roosevelt was not the guest OF
| General Coils, but of City-Msgistrate
| Pool who invited him some months aga
10 attend the October dinner Colonel
| Roosevelt replied from Santiago de Cuba.
accepting the invitation, and promising
10 be present II possible. Major Pool then
submitted Colonel Rooseveits name Ia
the council and IL was approved. Later.
| after Colonel Roosevelt returned rom
Cuba. General Coils not knowing OF this
nreyious invita- ton, went to Recorder
Rlokewell TO arrange for an invitation on
his own part, and was Informed that no
was too late
An attempt was made yesterday to have
~ believed that General Colts had stolen
| q march on Magistrate POOL "euhesosy
night and deprived him OF the pieasuro
OF having Colonel Roosevelt as ms guest
Magistrate Pool said last night;
"There is no truth IN that story. Coio-
mel Roosevelt was my guest, only ne came
10 the dinner much later than expected
IN fact. after the dinner was over.
I aid not 20 10 Carnegie Hall TO escort
him and he came 10 the dinner WIN
General Coils, who had attended inc
| Senublican ratification meeting.
General Coils last night said: II can
not discuss the affairs Of the Loyal Le-
zion I'm public but will say there rs NOT
,ha slightest difference between MaJor
Pool and myself