The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-14
Large Delegation Met in
 Court House. PAYNE IS AGAIN CHOSEN Will Meet in Montgomery Next Year.
 The Convention Was Great success and Several Important Matters Were Discussed and Disposed :. of By Delegates.

The first annual reunlOH oh thS sCNStos camps comprising the Alabama Division of the Tinted Sons of Confederate Vete- raAs was held yesterday in the Circuit CoArt room. The occasion was one or much interest because 1t witnessed the inauguration of organized effort on the part of the Sons of Confederate Vete- rams in Alabama
 The hall had been tastefully decorated. and a large portrait of Gen. James T. HoItzclaw hung over the speakers stand. Over and about 1t were hung flags of the Confederacy Welcome flags were also In evidence. Just back of the chair of the presiding officer was q large bunting national flag of the Confectionery, the property of Thomas M. Owen. one of the most enthusiastic members Of Camp HoltzcIaw.
 At 12:30 D. m. Thomas! M. Owen. late | the Division Commander of Alabama called the convention to order. In doing so. Mir Owen expressed his sense of app preciation of the high honor accorded | him in being permitted to preside over | the preliminary deliberations of the body. He introduced Rev. Eugene Crawford. Division Chaplain of Camp Pelham, Eur taw, who fervently invoked Divine bless ing and guidance on the proceedings of II the day.
 | The formal order by Ccnananderzfff- Chief R. B. Haughton. converting the division In annual TeunlOn TOT tne purpose of organization, was read by Division Adjutant T. Sydney Frazer of Camp l Randle Union Springs He also read a | communication from the Department or Tennessee Commander w. Armistead | Collier, Jr, of Memphis expressing the hope that a thorough and compact State organization would be effected. and espe- cially congratulating the Sons of Vete- rans of Alabama upon the magnificent historical work which has been accom- plished in that division"
 The chairman announced the Committee on Credentials as follows: Chairman T.. | Sydney Frazer. Camp Randle; R. B. Co., hen, Camp Wheeler; and Dr. R. Paul Jones. Camp William H. Payne The committee retired to consider its work, | and an informal recess was taken.
 The Committee on Credentials then re- ported the following camps and delegates representing them, viz:
 Camps and Delegates. | Camp w. H. Payne. Scottsboro-Dr.s R. Paul Jones, Leon Mcleod, John F. Proc tor, J. R. Rosser. Virgil Bouldin, W. M. Rove, Pope W. Keith.
 Camp E. Troupe Randle, Union springs G. A. Ritch, M. M. Baldwin P. F. Miles, c. c. Beverley, T. Sydney Frazer, H. F. Chappell.
 Camp Bullock, Hayneville-J. T. Dixon. HI. M. Caffee, c. w. Garrett. w. N. Haynes, J. W. Dixon.
 Camp Pelham, Eutaw-Rev. E. l.. Craw- ford, C. s. Boyce.
 | Camp Holtzclaw-Gove William ID. Jelks, Thomas M Owen. J. H., Crosslands I C. Lawrence D. s. Hausman and D.
 w. McIver; and the following alternates: Hardin H. Fitts, Hardwick Ruth, J. A.
 Fillmore, Clayton Tullis, William F. Her.
 bert, Duncan May.
 Camp Hargrove. Tuscaloosa-W. w.
 Brandon, F. NJ. Purifoy, B. G. Hargrove, George D. Johnston. Jr.
 1 Camp Joe Wheeler, Tuscumbia-B. B. Cohen, W. A. Sadler, J. c. Harris, H. B. Sevier, o. J. Simpson, Frank N. Julian, W. C. Horseapple, Claud King, R. J. Thurmoud S. c. Cook, Earle Johnson. James Smith, R. T. Abernathy. | The report was unanimously adopted | and the convention was declared organ ized.
 MT. Owen then introduced Hon. Tennent Lomax. Commander of Camp Holtzclaw, Montgomery, who delivered the address of welcome. MT. Lomax was received with enthusiasm. He said:
 Address of MT. Lomax.
 Comrades: care not where they meet or whose sons they may be, there cannot be an assembly of the Sons of Confed- crate Veterans who have inherited a higher estate of honor and of glory than the Sons of the Confederate Veterans of Alabama.
 With a population of a little over 60O,- 900 white people in 1861. from that time to 1885, Alabama sent forth 10000 men to die in glory with Sydney Johnston or to live in immortality with Robert Lee. Of this number. 35000 never returned to the State whose colors they had hero ically carried on an hundred ensanguined fields.
 Ut has been found that in the thirty : six years that have elapsed since the close of the war between the States-the
 greatest war in the history of mankind
 there has arisen no historian who has had
 the courage and the manhood to tell the
 whole truth about the struggle for life of the Storm Graded Nation that fell This fact gave rise to the organization of which We are members, because the young men of the South resolved that
 whatever might come in the future. one thing must come, and that was that his- tory should. at last and finally. tell the truth-the eternal truth-about their fa- thers who had died in battle and about their mothers who. in spirit. had died in grief and sorrow even though their lives had been spared. If I understand our or ganlzation its aims and purposes, this Is it's essential claim for life. The proadest title I own today is that I am the son of Confederate soldier who died in bat tie for his country. and no honor has I Do-a Caxxav,