The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-20

lowing Mr.. Cockrum the grand sire of Odd
Fellowship, Hon. A. c. Cable, of COvington,
o., was introduced, and in a half-hOur talk
managed to put the audience in thorough
good humor and to whet its appetite for the
remainder of the programme.
ADDRESS OF MRS. HARRIS.
In a few graceful, weli-chosen words the
chairman presented the principal speaker
of the evening. Mrs. Nellie Harris, of Illi-
nois. past president of the Rebekah or
Ger. Mrs. Harris's addresses was cOuched
in polished diction and was thoroughly APP
preciated by both the Rebekahs and the
Odd Fellows in the large audience. She
said in part:
Sisters and Brothers and Friends-As 1
stood this afternoon in the shadow of the
monument of Schuyler ColfaX in beautiful
University Park in your city and heard
the lovely remarks and beautiful addresses
that were made on that occasion it seemed
TO me that il unjust and unreasonable
10 say that the prophet is not without honor
save in his own country, for am sure that
the people of Indiana have given proper
homage and due credit TO that distinguished
citizen, valiant patriot and statesman. that
magnificent Odd Fellow, Schuyler ColfaX.
prolonged applause.l
1T is fit and proper then that i'm the city
of indianapolis, the capital of the State in
which resided the author of the Rebekah
Degree, there should be celebrated at a
meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge in
which he performed so conspicuous a part,
the hftieth anniversary of the order he
founded. 1t Is indeed worthy tribute TO
great man, a fitting testimonial in memory
OF one who did much for our order, mag
nitcent eulogy in commemoratiOn of his
work, for the truest honor, the, greatest
glory that can come to a man is in the fact
that at his death he leaves a memory the
brightness of which shall illuminate the
pathway of others. AS great influences
have been given to the world because of
accident so, too, have great achievements
resulted from accidental efforts The great
of Odd EpllOVVSbiO iS lpcSppaH no
cause Thomas Wildey, its founder did not
see in the future the vast proportions it
would assume, for although he lived to see
the tender plant grow into a mighty tree,
yet the order was at his death but an atom
to what 1t will I'm time become. The mag
niticence of Schuyler COlfaXS work is i'm
no manner lessened because he failed to
observe what the future had in store for
Rebekah Odd Fellowship He would I'M
doubtedly have felt that his labOrs had
produced an ample harvest if nothing more
had been gained than the fraterna recogni-
ton OF women by the order of odd Eel
Mrs. Harris spoke eloquently of the great
loss that has fallen upon the Nation by the
death of it's honored President and pledged
the unremitting efforts of the Rebekah
branch of Odd Fellowship in cooperation
with the men of the organizat alton towards
stamping out anarchy from the country.
PAST GRAND SIRE TALKS.
In the absence of Past Grand Sire A.
S. Pinkerton, Charles Busbee, of Raleigh,
~ -, dlSO d past STdDu sire, addressed the
audience briefly on the subject of the Re-
bekah degree. Mr.. Busbee prefaced his
interesting talk with the information that
he was a grand representative when the
Sovereign Grand Lodge held it's previous
session i'm this city i'm 1875 Mr. Busbee
referred to the assassination of President
Mckinley. and gave his hearers assurance
that the people of his part of the country
mourn with them the common loss Re
ferring TO the Rebekah degree. the speaker
said 1t was great step in the emancipation
of womanhood in this country He de-
clared with evident pride that the single
vote by which the degree was grated upon
Odd Fellowship i'm 1851 was east by a South
erner Robert Griffin. of Georgia. who was
grand sire of the order at that time.
Dr. Clarence T. Campbell. of Ontario.
late President, delivered yesterday morn
ing in the Statehouse appears elsewhere
in this issue, was the next speaker. Mr..
Campbell said that he feels a particular
affection for Indiana. because he was nomi-
mated to the high Office of grand sire by
He said that during his incumbency of
the position he visited Indianapolis, and
never in his life did he sojourn in a more
pleasant place nor was he ever entertained
more Hospitality.
a VIRGINIA ORATOR
The closing address was one of the most
brilliant of the evening. The speaker. a
young lawyer from Richmond Va, be
longing to one of the oldest families of that
commonwealth. Hill Montague. made a
distinctly favorable impression by his
easy bearing and his natural eloquence
Mr.. Montague paid a tribute to the martyr
President worthy of reproduction. He said:
I'VE are met to celebrate the golden an
niversary of the formation of the Rebekah
degree. Though ] have but a few moments
in which 10 address you. surely | may be
permitted on this occasion, which also
marks great natiOnal-may | not i'm pres
ence Of the representative of the English
government say Observation-Disclosures
10 pause TO pay a brief but sincere tribute
10 the late President whose body was gently
laid away to-day while the seventy-five
million people of this Nation were bowed
down i'm grief.
shadow of this great calamity and coming
from the oldest commonwealth In our great
ssterhood of commemorative. coming
from the State where more OF the Nations
history has been made than i'm any other:
coming from the State that furnished us
State that formed the theater upon whose
stage was played the most terrible drama
in modern history, where friends and
brothers fought against one another but
ing from the capital city OF this State
where the men who once wore the blue and
those who once wore the gray are sleep-
ing side by side under the green sod OF our
Southern soil; coming from Virginia | am
glad 10 say in this presence that we be
lieVe our cherished Southland has lost its
best friend. GApplause.l
we unite then with yOu In doing hon.
age 10 our departed leader. In the Temple
OF Fame his place Will be side by side with
that OF the purest of the pure and the
bravest of the brave"
AG he. LIT