The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-07-14
THE STATE CoNvENTION
Louisiana DIVISION. United ool
federats Veterans.

Al the regular meeting OF the General
LeRsy Stafford Camp Nos, U q ", held
Wednesday night. delegates and altsrnstes
70 the state convention, louisiana Division
U CIV, were elected IS follows;
UelegAtes-P J Trez lyaut,-s J Ward
and GrOsjsan. commander.
Alternstes-H Rogers, VIM EndeEs
and DIR J scstt
The reunion and convention will take
place 81 Baton Rouge on Monday and
Tuesday, August 8 and g. Consider sble
buslnsasia Programmed Tor the couWn
tiOn II ftAssprCoesdings are not inteiruPtsd
or sIde-tracksd DY' the social (: aturts Vf
the rsunisn.
A major general 10 10 be elected and i { is
understsOd that the rivalry between the
several asprants f. very stronss and .
lively canvass lelsctlonesriHgfe : iS in
progress.
It has been the rule Of the General LIE
Rsy Stafford g lamp TO never honor enc wn o
has sought and canVasssd personally or
through his friends for the pOsltioA be
weuId nll.
The elsctioe Of "a major genera" is
oSnsidel cd an hsnor- q compliment which
should seek the man ana act the man the
honOr, but Of late it weuld seem all i'm
p0rtant by those who vSuld NIL the pos,
too, when every yeara new "majSe gen
erAl" is created, not sniy IN Louisians but
la every state whore the u q v have
srganIx .tiens. :
With these "majOr generAls'' are endless
strings Of appointments OF "colonels," )"
''msjefs" and ''oaptaias" - aids on the
stat OF the "neneraIs." and At the rate the
generals" 'ooIonsls." etc., are being
multiplied annually there must be few
PrivAtss left.
During the war . soldier could net bS
advanced 90 readily - In times Of peace
thlrty-six years after the end OF the great
struggle. Privates In the ranks were N de
lisutonants and captains si tbs oOmpA -,
many OF wn,m were prom tod to
be majors. lieutenant-colonels and col.
onels. A fewer still OF this mum Der
reached the position Of brigadier gontr Il
brixadier eonmander-and the msn wno
held the grade OF major general--divisisn
csmmanders-were limited and still more
limited were the lieutenant.g generals who
commanded corps, ana there was emily sus
general-Rebt Il Lee, but At these annual
co -ventiens ana reunions, so-called, there
10 scramble for the position Of "majoE
general" which, as . iaet, is an empty
honor-snd besides being misleadIng, Ia
indirectly perversion Of the records OF
hlstoryi
How can Q man whs was onlv private,
or captain Or q coIOnsI in active service,
be made - major gsnerAlP' Aud whAtis
still mere striking Is the fact that in the
lsng array oi "oolonels," "msjors" and
''captsins," there is position denoted ~
''psymsssvr In active service the pay
masters business is to pay OF the troop,
but whs Will the z N pay, and 10 wlSi
kIud OF currency would hs pay the ''Jld
Rebels wDo would cal on him for money
A nd there 10 the judge Advocate-he ma I,
b, a''celcnep'-tne person appoiAtsd to
act 80 pu slic prosecutor In courtsmArtIaI
Just think OF an "sld Ret'' being jerked
before q eourtsmsrtIal-thlrty-si years
after Appomatox? Who would shoot him
II he were declared guilty of treason be-
cause hs cSuId not aud would net sub
'oribs to or approve the system Of titles
with which the q v, - 81 organic ttioo
have vested their sttieeS, who, In time Of
peace should not bear the title OF ranks By
which the men in the field r In active
m lisary service were desig lAted?