The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-05-19
G. A. R. in MlLW AUKEE
Some 1900 Enrolled in the
State of Wisconsin.
DEATH CALLS ABOUT $50 A YEAR.

jeff Davis Captor To Be Honored-He
Will Be Department. Commander
Paul Scofield Dies Where Governor
Rusk's Daughter Did-One of Funston's
Swimmers a Badger-Stevens Point Ships
575 Carloads of Potatoes.
Madison, Wis, May 16.-There are
over 275 posts of the Grand Army Of
the Republic in Wisconsin, and to-
morrow they begin a two-days' en-
campment in Milwaukee. Not for eight
years have the "old vets met there,
and it is the thirty-third encampment
wishes to honor. Among them are
Abraham Lincoln" Darien); Joseph
Hooker (Baraboo); "P. H. Sheridan"
(Oshkosh); 'Iucius Fairchild'' (Madi-
SOM; Governor Harvey" (Racine);
~. A. Garfield (Waupaca); William T.
Sherman Platteville); Custer Crock
Elm); "R. B. Hayes" (Elkhorn); ;
James G. Blaine" (Marshfield), etc.
Of Wisconsin men two have been at
the head Of the national G.. A. r. organ
MISUNDERSTANDING and Weissert. Among
those who have headed the state organ
ization John Hancock, Jerry Rusk, H.
A. Starr, A. J.. Mccoy and James Da-
wilson are dead; but the other twenty
S. Allen, Phil Cheek, Senator G.. B.
Welton, J. A. Watrous, mike" Griffin
(the new tax commissioner; ex-Gov-
errors Upham and Hoard, and E. A.
Shores Of Ashland. The number of vet
Grams who belong to the order is be-
tween II, 900 and $4,000. About 1000 will
be at Milwaukee. The old fellows are
full Of patriotism. When the Spanish
war broke out fourteen of the post at
Spooner notified Mckinley that they
Cuba to the Philippines. 1t costs the
state organization about$3, 600 a year for
expenses There are twenty-seven pa
triotic organizations in the country, all
but one dating from the organization Of
the G. A. r.
23S Died During the Year.
The Wisconsin G. A. r. lost 23S mem
bers by death in the year preceding this
one; and the national encampments re-
port about 5000 deaths a year. The old
soldiers are very proud Of the fact that
over 1900 of their number signed slips
proposing to fight for Cuba libre. They
also never forget that since 1866, when
the Wisconsin order was organized, of
eight presidents of the nation, seven
have worn the badge. Wisconsin has
had ten governors, seven of whom
were members of this order. Our sis
ter state of Minnesota has had nine
governors, all except three of whom
were in the G. A. r. AS General Gray
said, in his address at Appleton: mo
society ever received, since history be-
gan to be written, such liberal recogni-
ton from a grateful people as has ours. :"
1t is believed General Henry Harm
den of Madison will be elected depart
ment commander without opposition
He was in the same cavalry regiment
with Commander Russell of Berlin
the present head. Russell was taken
prisoner. Harnden served through the
war, and at the close of hostilities was
breveted brigadier general. Comman-
der Russell closed his services as
first lieutenant. 1t was General Harm
den who captured Jeff Davis. The big
campfire will be held in the Exposition
building, where addresses will be de-
livered by Senator J. V. Quarles, Judge
Eugene S. Elliott of. Milwaukee, Judge
B. F. Bryant of Lacrosse, Ex-Governor
w. D. Hoard of Fort Atkinson, Colonel
E. B. Gray Of Madison, and Mrs. jam
ison Miller, national president of the
Woman's Relief corps. The guests will
be welcomed by Mayor D. S. Rose, and
addresses will also be made by ex-Sen-
ator John L. Mitchell and ex-Congress-
man Michael Griffin of Eau Claire.
Gentle Paul Scofield Dead.
Paul Scofield was buried Sunday aft
ernoon in Oconto, but he died in the ex-
ecutive mansion, where a daughter Of
Governor Rusk also passed away dur
ing his term. Paul was slender, clean
cut young fellow of rs years, with
bOyish black mustache; gentle, like his
mother, and retiring. He died of con-
sumption. He went to Amherst col
lege for a couple Of years, where he
played famous baseball When his ia
Their became governor he was appoint
ed Executive secretary" the next post
in rank to private secretary" Paul
did the work for a time and then fell
sick. To save the boys feelings he
was kept on the payroll, even for the
better part of a year. The idea was
to make him think he could return to
do his work, and thus keep his spirits
up. Private Secretary Anderson and
Stenographer Frazier did his work The
salary was $1,000 and at first blush it
looked as if the governor had saddled
his nonresident son on the payroll.
The opposition made something of it,
but in the campaign Senator Spooner
did the issue so delicately and yet
frankly that no. one has mentioned the
subject vet