The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-08-15
STATUES VEIL WITHDRAWN
Confederate Ceremonies Wit
messed bv Thousands.
VAST AUDIENCE HUSHED AT SA-
LUTES AND BUGLE CALLS.
Sponsors and Maids of Honor, Bearing
Banners Wrought from Silk, March
Around Shaft Erected 10 the
Memory of Confederate
Dead.


battle Of Wilson creek a day OF
almost perfect weather. Early this
morning the people began coming in,
and for several hours every road
leading to Springfield was lined with
vehicles. At ten O'Clock. the hour
fixed for beginning the programme,
there were more than two thousand
people IN the beautiful cemetery.
When the vast audience was called
to order at II o'clock the crowd had
grown to more than five thousand.
\ bugle call secured order, when
the sponsors. the maids of honor
and sons of United Confederate vet
Grams to the number OF a hundred,
carrying silk confederate banners.
formed in columns of twos and
marched a number of times around
the monument. At the second bugle
call a salute was fired. At the third
call order was asked for by General
kennard and the Rev DR.. H. b.
Bonde, of California. Mo, offered
prayer. A fourth bugle call, and
second salute was fired Miss Laura
Virginia Edwards, of Jefferson City,
pulled the string which held the red
and white bunting over the front of
the statue. The bunting fell without
a hitch, revealing a statue which has
no superior in artistic finish in the
country. The monument bears the
following Inscriptions:
On the south face: Erected in
1901 by the United Confederate Vet
Grams of Missouri and the Daughters
of Confederacy of Missouri
On the east face: Those Who Die
for Right Principle Do Not Die in
Vain.
On the north face: ITO the Memory
of the Missouri Soldier in the army
of the Confederate States of Amer
lea
Under this inscription is bas-relief
of General Sterling Price. and beneath
the bas-relief his name.
On the west face: They fought for
the Right of Self-Government.
On the east face and on the west
face the confederate flag appears in
bas relief.
Capt. George NJ. Jones, of Spring
field. treasurer of the monument com
mittee, was the first speaker. and his
remarks were largely confined to a
history Of the cemetery and the mon
ument associations. with both of
which he has been connected since
the cemetery association was first
organized in 1869.
The next speaker was Mrs. Jennie
Edwards, of Jefferson City, who pre-
sented the statue on behalf OF the
Daughters of the Confederacy. She
was followed by Judge L. B. Valiant
of st. Louis, chairman of the monu-
ment committee. who presented the
statue on behalf of the committee.
General 5. NJ. kennard of st. Louis,
major general commanding the Mis-
souri, division of the United Confed-
crate veterans, accepted the statue
in behalf az the division.
The grafton of the day was deliv-
cred by chief Justice James B. CAN'T,
OF the Missouri supreme court. In
the course of his speech he said:
Our citizenship for thirty-five
years since the war has stood every
test that could be exacted, whether
in war or peace. Thank God, the
days OF suspicion and distrust are
giving way to an era of confidence
and respect, and We of the south can
once more shake hands with our
brethren OF the north in the mainte-
nance OF the constitution of our
fathers"
F. l.. Bronaugh, of st. Louis was
the last speaker. At the conclusion
of his address in behalf of the United
Sons OF VeterOns of Missouri. the
bugler sounded taps and the assem-
bly, dispersed
The concluding ceremony of the oc-
casion. and which Immediately fol-
lowed the exercises at the cemetery.
was a reception at Doling's park by
the Springfield chapter ofthe Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy. which was
by nearly all OF the visitors
TO the reunion. The visitors left for
their homes on the night trains.
The time and place OF holding the
next reunion was placed in the hands
OF Mai Gen. Gates and Bricadiers
kennard and salmon