The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-28
KANSAS NEWS.
G. A. r. Encampment Closes
Its Work Today
Topeka Gets Reunion, HOltOn
the Encampment.
EVANS is CENSURED.
Commissioner of Pensions Sc
Verely Scored.
Resolution Commenting Gov.
Stanley Tabled.

Hutchinson, April 2s.-The second
days proceedings at the C. A. r. en-
campment were interesting and spiri-
ted, to say the least.
The encampment adjourns today af-
ter the installation of officers.
Holton was seIected as the place for
holding the annual encampment next
year. Topeka got the state reunion
The following are the G. A. r. officers
elected:
Commander-O H Coulter, Topeka
Senior vice Communications Beaner,
Jetmore.
Junior vice communicable. Palmer,
Wichita.
ChapIain-D. D. Akin, Peabody.
Medical directors NJ. Colladay,
Council of enthusiastically. E. Bal
lard, Barnes; John B. Campbell, Kan
sas City; Ben Pagan, Ellsworth; Chas.
Harris, Emporia; A. w. Ashcroft, Cha
mute
The following delegates and alter
mates were elected to the national en-
campment at Philadelphia: First dis
trict, delegates, B. S. Foster, ,Hiawatha;
G.. w. Johnson, Seneca; alternates, Jno.
Eaton, AtchisOn; Ed B. Jones, Holton.
Second district, A. Dobson, Ottawa; r.
w. Blue, Fleasanton. Alternates, Il.
wa. Third district, Kirk Brown, Cow
ley; c. A. Mitchell. Montgomery. Al
ternates, F. NJ Mills. Chautauqua; w.
B. Stone, Cherokee. Fourth district,
w. A. Morgan, Cottonwood Falls; Isaac
Hammond, Eureka. Alternates, T. c.
Thoburn, Peabody; D. A. Stahl, EN-
poria. Fifth district, B. F. Pealer, Sa-
lima; Thomas Dever, Junction City. AL
ternates, s. S. Longley, Greenleaf; w.
H. Fletcher, Clay Center. Sixth dis
trict, o. H. Durand, Mankato; w. H.
Mitchell, Beloit. Alternates, H. F. Hill
labrant, Osborn; W. E. Marsh, Lin
h
Aiternates. G. W. Nimmock, Great
Bend; Jesse Lyons. Stafford.
The following officers were elected in
the W. r. c.: Department president,
Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan, Cottonwood
Falls; senior vice president, Mrs Ida c.
Chaplin, Hutchinson; Junior vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Mary E. ClogstOn, Eureka;
treasurer, Mrs. Eliza Davidson, Abb
Iene; secretary, Mrs. Belle c. Harris,
Emporia; chaplain, Mrs. Jennie R.
Marsh, Manhattan.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. elected
the following officers: Department pres
ident Mrs. Della Rawlings, Kansas
City, Kan; secretary, Mrs Mary h
Stanley, ,Atchison; senior vice president,
Mrs. Emma Ritchie, Wichita; Junior
vice president, Mrs. Annie BeeIer, OF
taWa: treasurer, Mrs. Annetta Lundy,
Winfield; chaplain, Mrs. S. Engle, Law
renee; counselor, Mrs. Emma Wall; del
egate at large to the national conven-
tion, Mrs. Nellie Rhodes Mcmillan, Man
haitian; delegates to national conven-
ton, Mrs Snyder, Wichita; Mrs Marsh,
Ottawa; Mrs. Root, Beloit; Mrs Brus-
man. Topeka; Mrs. Raft. Osborne; coun-
ell of administration, Mrs. L. L. Nc
Bride, Leavenworth; Mrs. Frances N.
Wood, Topeka; Mrs. William Marshall,
Hutchinson.
The following officers were elected by
the Ladies' Aid society: Department
president, Mrs. Eva Outcalt, Burlington;
vice president, Miss Jessie BEEN,
4,I,i~ oh 1oi ArC n
George, Wichita; treasurer, Miss Jo-
sephine Rich, Burlington; council of ad-
1ninistration, Miss Lou Wilson, Oberlln;
Mrs. Maude Redmond, Burlington;
chief of staff, Mrs B. Bailey, Reading.
The Sons of Veterans new officers
are: Division commander, L. B. Price,
Mulvane; senior vice commander, James
T. Sellens, Bunker Hill; junior vice
commander. Charles Hedrick, Hutchin-
son; division council, Guy Sellick, EN-
poria; c. f. Holmes, Florence; William
KirkwoOd, Marysville; delegates to ma
tional convention, w. P. Wilcox, EN-
poria c. E. Dennison, Erie; Columbus
Borrin, Oberlin; ]. l. Papes, Wichita.
When the resolution to endorse Gov
ernor Stanley was presented, Senator T.
]. Anderson of Topeka entered his pro-
test He declared that had Stanley
given the old soldiers preference, which
is doubtful, he had done his duty, and
there was no particular credit due him.
Anderson has a dislike for Stanley and
he succeeded in heading off the endorse
ment. The motion to table the resolu-
ton prevailed, more than two votes to
one The resolution which was killed
is as follows:
of the. old soldiers are due Governor
Stanley for the very liberal patronage
he has bestowed on the veterans by
their appointment to various offices
within his gift; he has by SO doing
abundantly fulfilled his generous prom
ises and complied with the laws"
Resolutions were adopted demanding
a congressional inquiry into the official
oppression of Pension Commissioner H.
Clay Evans. The Republican workers
tried to head off the denunciation, but
the veterans were in no mood to com
promise.
The pension resolution is as follows:
Whereas, At the last encampment,
held at the city of Wichita, April 81,
1898, resolutions were adopted condemn
ing the management of the pension de-
partment; and
Whereas, Not less than twenty-slx
state encampments have in their wis
dom, felt called upon to adopt resolu-
tions of similar import; and
Whereas, At the national encamp
nent held at Cincinnati last September
consisting as it did, of the best men
and the best thought of this nation. the
abuses of the pension department forced
discomfort and dissatisfaction in more
severe and condemnatory language than
this department made use of; and
Wv hereas These wrongs have gone
unredressed and the piteOus appeals of
our comrades have been unavailing;
and
Whereas, In justice to the condition
with which we are confronted. relief can
only come through congressional enact