The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-01
MEDALS ARE PRESENTED
TO SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION
WHO SAW SERVICE.
The Annual Meeting of the Society
at the University Club Il a
Pleasant Affair.

About thirty members of the Sons OF the
American Revolution were in attendance
at the annual meeting and banquet held at
the University Club last night. Prelim-
mary to the banquet a short business
meeting was held, at which the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, William E. English: vice presi-
dent, Inman II. Fowler; treasurer, c. II.
Mcdowell: secretary. Charles W. Moores.
The banquet was elaborate and tastefully
served. At its conclusion Captain English.
the POSTMASTER. called upon number of
the guests, who responded In felicitous
speeches.
The first to respond was John E. Cleland,
who told in a happy way of the civil war.
and of the part the Indiana soldiers had
played therein. In closing he said:
Coming closer love own Indiana
part Of our country's whole. Thirty-three
States of the Union are larger in square
miles, but Indiana is great in the things
that make up life. Hewed out of a literal
wilderness dragged from the forests and
the swampS, from the ague and the In
dams, she stands In majesty and strength.
Inc beginning or the century saw her in
primeval wildness and loneliness-the clos
ing of the century sees her decked like a
princess, with the crown of plenty and the
Oh beauty. Inc term 'f1OOSler Is
no longer a by-word and a reproach. 1t
stands for brilliant achievement in moral,
intellectual, social and material progress.
Indiana has more blue grass than Ken
lucky, and furnished that State its first
bluegrass seed. She has more beautiful
women than Maryland. Her very name is
sweet and musical when it fingers on the
tongue. Her schools are peerless and her
teachers peers. Her soil is fat, her mines
are diamonds in the raw. She has snow and
sunshine. 'squaw winter and Indian
summer. She has bad weather enough to
make us appreciate the good, and good
weather enough to make us glad to be out
Of doors. She builds churches and good
roads. She builds smokestacks and
Libraries. She plants orchards and happy
| homes. She plants cabbages and colleges
| She makes literature and She makes pork
| She raises beef and books She raises corn
| and soldiers, hay and statesmen. oats,
poets, potatoes and presidents. Best of all
she raises good, everyday people-people
with warm hands, cultured intellects and
kind hearts-sons of revolution and makers
OF peace-people good to live with year
ny year. On all this green earth Of Gods
there is no place with a broader and better
| general average than our own Indiana"
Others who answered the call of the
tGS,a asHns with patriotic remarks were
Merrill Moores and c. H. Mcdowell.
PRESENTATION OF MEDALS.
AT the conclusion Of the toasts Duncan
| T. Bacon, registrar of the society," an
nounced that at the national congress Of
| the Sons of the American Revolution, held
| at Detroit last year. action had been taken
| to recognize those members of the society
| who went from the various States to fight
| in the war with Spain. He then said that
| he had six medals for as many members
| Of the Indiana society which were to be
presented as proper recognition of their
services. He. then announced the names of
| the following members of the Indiana So
| ciety: Rosecrans j. Bosworth. Guy w.
| Brown, William e. English. Robert War
Camp and Harry s. New
The medals We're accompanied by certifi-
sh1Tng Il that they were
| were signed by the president general and
the secretary general:
| The recipients of the medals who were
| present were called upon and each re-
| sponded with appropriate remarks express
| ing his appreciation of the honor con-
Captain English was especially felicitous
| in his remarks, paying a warm tribute to
| every soldier who enlisted in the Spanish
American war, whether he was actively
| engaged or not. He said the soldier who
| was detained in the camps of the South
| and compelled to do nothing but drill while
| his more fortunate compatriots were on the
firing line were entitled to as much credit
| as any soldier who enlisted, for it was the
| same spirit that actuated them all-the
| love of country. In speaking Of General
| Shafter, he said that the general had been
| very much maligned, and that there never
| had been soldier, whether general or pri-
vate, who had been more faithful to his
| duty. He said: You will find that the
| people who have spoken i'll of General
| Shafter are those who are totally unac-
quainted with active warfare. 1t has been
| said that General Shafter should have been
| on the firing line, and some have even
questioned his courage because he was not
| there. I want to say that If General SHAFT
ter had gone on the firing line he should
| have been court-martialed. for he would
| have been sadly out of place. 1t is un-
necessary to say anything of General
| Skaters courage, for it has been tried in
| the biggest battles of the civil war. He
| was always to be found at the front when
| his duty called him there" Captain En-
| glish also said that he believed in uphold
| ing the hands of the President regardless
of party politics. Said he: 1.-THE war with
| Spain was a war of civilization, and the
| flag that to-day waves so proudly In the
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