The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-18


A majority being required. there was no
choice. No sooner had the result been de-
clared than DR.. Tucker was upon his feet
to withdraw his name. His announcement
nouncement by Captain Garrigus, thus
proving that the report of Wednesday
evening TO the effect that Hutchins Tucker
and Garrigus had made an agreement that
the two having the lowest vote should
withdraw and make an effort to carry their
supporters to the candidate receiving the
highest vote was true. 1t is a hazardous per-
Torrance to try TO transfer a whole vote
to another man. 1t was a failure in this case.
Captain BEEN lacked fifty-six votes of an
election. The question which concerned all
was whether or not in marching from
Garrigus and Tucker to Hutchins fifty-six
would join BEEN. The ballot showed that
more than sixty, left to their own choice,
went to BEEN. The ballot stood:
Whole number of votes......-............ sol
necessary 10 t....-.......-....-....... 4Ol
Il. M. Hutchins.... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
David Il. Beem- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 421
The vote showed that the encampment
was the largest that has been held In
six or eight years In point of numbers
Captain David e. BEEN, OF Spencer, was
born near Spencer sixty-two years ago.
He enlisted at the very first of the war
as a private in the State troops for which
there was no place at the first call. He
was transferred as private in the Four
teenth Indiana Volunteers, of which Cen
soon first sargent, then first lieutenant,
and was made captain May Is, 1862. The
Fourteenth was one of the first 800 regi-
ments which lost by killed and died of
wounds 10 per cent. or more of their en-
rollment. The Fourteenth lost in killed
and died of wounds $50 men, or 1872 per
cent. or the enrolment. 1t was in the
Army of the Potomac at Antietan il was
one of the regiments that made the Little
Gibraltar Brigade. III went into that battle
with 32O men, when II lost thirty-one
killed and $50 wounded, but not one miss
ing. Very naturally in a regiment In
which, one time or another a large part
of its men were marked by battle, Captain
BEEN had the scars of wounds received in
action. Captain BEEN was mustered out
with his regiment. He is a lawyer by pro-
fession, prominent in the affairs of his
locality and represents the State in the
board of trustees of Purdue University
Captain BEEN is a cultured gentleman and
graceful speaker.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
The full list of officers elected is as fol-
lows:
comander-David E. BEEN, Post 90
Spencer.
Senior Vice Commander-A. r. Seward
Post 200. Indianapolis.
Junior Vice Commander-John Gordon
Post 132, Argos.
Medical Director-Dr. j. Z. Sterrett, Post
Chaplain-Rev. II. E. Butler, Post ia
Warsaw.
Council of Administration-Benja
Starr. Post 80. Richmond; Theodore Wilkes
Post IS, Shebyville; A. +. Miner. Post s
Wabash; William E. Shilling, Post IL. In
| dianapolis; Henry a. Root. Post &C. Michi-
gan City.
Representative at Large-Admiral George
Brown, Indianapolis.
Alternate at Large-Governor James A
Mount, Indianapolis.
District representatives and alternates &c
the National EncamDment were elected as
| follows:
First District-James ]. Hartin, Post 2S
| Princeton; alternate, Isaac G. Higgins
| Post Is, Petersburg.
Second District-Harvey Manning; Post
| 5s7. Elnora; alternate. Ellis House. Post
| 552, Bicknell.
| Third District-W. X. Atkins, Post 1871
| New Albany; alternate. Theodore Rauth
| Post 527, Elizabeth.
| Fourth District-Louis A. Hill, Post IS
North Vernon; Thomas A. Shirk, Post Ia