The National tribune., 1901-07-11
FOR COMMANDER.IN-CHIEF.
The Department of Pennsylvania Presents
Thos. J. Stewart.

X, has sent out the following circular:
Comrade: In presenting Comrade Thos
]. Stewart as n candidate for Commander.
m-Chief the Committee respectfully invite
your attention to his qualifications for this
honorable and responsible position.
He served as n private in the 13Sth
Pa. Vols, cnlisting when 16 years of age.
Though among the youngest members
of our organization, yet for more than 20
years he has been an active, untiring, val
liable worker, and has filled every position
to which he has been elected or appointed
with conspicuous ability and fidelity.
He served as Adjutant-General without
| salary during the years of 1S9I-'9S and
1S9S-'99, and during 1S99-1900 for less
than half the salary paid Immediately
prior to his appointment, thus saving
thousands of dollars to the Grand Army
of the Republic
He has been a member of the Com
mission in charge of Soldiers Orphans
Schools of Pennsylvania, and has been
Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the
| Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home
continuously since its organization in 1856.
In civic life in Pennsylvania he was a
member of the House of Representatives,
| 1SS5-1SS6; was elected Secretary of In
ternal Affairs of Pennsylvania in 1885,
reelected in 1890, resigning in 1898 to
| accept appointment by Gov. Daniel H.
iIdSlIDSS as WuS reap
! pointed in 1899 by Gov. William 4. Stone,
and is now serving as his Adjutant-Gen-
eral. He has been connected with the Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania continuously
since 1868.
Comrade Stewart is thoroughly versed
in the history, proceedings, laws and Gus
toms of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Has attended and taken an active part in
all Nationl Eneampments for the past 20
hos 1nl nd
cessful career in public affairs, and is an
able and fluent public speaker.
Chief Goblin, in his ad
dress to the National Encampment, after
referring to the financial conditions which
existed when he assumed command and
the necessity for economy, says: ITO ac-
cOmplish this, however. it was necessary
to call upon the unselfsh devotion and dis
interested work of comrades who were
willing to serve as Adjutant- General and
QuartermasterGenera without compenSa-
ton. l cannot too highly commend the
action of Comrades Thomas ]. Stewart,
of Pennsylvania, and Charles Burrows, of
New Jersey, who accepted these positions
under the conditions stated.
Comrades Stewart and Burrows are en-
titled to more than the thanks of this En-
campment for their unprecedented action
in the interest of our Order, as well as for
the faithful manner in which they have
performed their several duties" page 81,
journal 1881
Senior Vice-Commander-in Chief w. G.
johnson, who after the death of James l..
Sexton was acting COmmander-in-Chief,
says: while fully recognizing the splen-
did services of all, l cannot refrain IN
justice to a most faithful officer to en-
phasize the splendid efficient services of
Adj't-Gen., ThOs. J. Stewart. His wise
counsel, and exercise of those excellent
qualifications that render him so well fit
ted to perform the duties of this most i'm
portant office, and which he has executed
to such marked degree of excellence, have
proven invaluable to me. His patriotic
devotion to our Order induced him to con-
tribute his services for the past year with
out compensation" page 10, Journal
1S99.)
COMMANDMENTS Chief Albert D. Shaw
says: "Quartermaster-G General u. ]. At
kinson and Adjutant General Thomas J.
Stewart have been tower of strength
in their laborious and most important posi-
tions. Both are comrades of rare girth
and grain, and the duties of their respec-
tive offices have never been better per-
formed than during the past year. To the
AGjutant-General especially | am indebted
for wise counsel, devoted comradeship and
unfailing courtesies. He is the right COM
rade in the right place, and -four square
" lle MluuS l1dl ulUh age JOuI-
nal 1900.
The Committee commend the candidacy
of Comrade Stewart to the considerate
judgment of the members of the National
Encampment with assurances of the fit
ness, fidelity, ability and devotion OF the
in whose interest they so earnest
ly represent the sentiment and wishes of
the great comradeship of the Department
of Pennsylvania.
Very fraternally, Louis Wagner, Past
Department Commander; Robert B.
Beath, Past Department Commander; Jno.
NJ. Vanderslice, Past Department Com
mander; William Emsley, Past Depart
ment Commander; Alfred Darte, Past
Department Commander; Jas. f. Morri-
son, Past Department Commander; Levi
G. McCauley, Department Commander;
Ezra II. Ripple Post No. 139; Chas. A.
Suydam, Department Inspector; Thos. II.
Cole, Post No. 81; st. Clair A. Mulhol- |
land, Post No. ] Richard h Holgate, /
Post No. 3o7; ]. p. S. Goblin, Past De |
partment Commander; Thos. G. Sample, |
Past Department Commander; II. H |
Cummings, Past Department Commander; |
w. ]. Patterson, Past Department Com |
mander Chas. Miller, Past Department |
Commander; Thad. NJ. Mahon, Post No. |
800; III. Fl. Bengough Post No. 157; Thos. |
n. Boyle, ID. D., Post, No. 215: NJ. A. |
Gherst, Post No. 42; John Q. Stewart,
Post No. 5S, John T. Blair, Post No. II.