The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-13
ROOSEVELT
MAY COME
And Make an Address Before
the Old Soldiers.
DURING THE REUNION
To be Held in This City Sep
tember y to 81.
DURING THE REUNION

President Roosevelt may make an ad-
dress during the state reunion Of the G.
A R., to be held in this city this fall.
Dr. Minick is a member of the state
board of administration and he attended
the meeting held in Topeka Wednesday
and the board instructed Department
Commander LOOMS to go to Washington
the coming week and call on the presi-
dent Mr. LOOMS will be accompanied
to the capital by number of prominent
Kansans and they will be met by the
flower state and together call on Presi-
dent Roosevelt and make the formal re-
quest for his presence at Wichita during
the last full week in September.
The state reunion of the @. A. r. viii
be held this year in this city. beginning
on September % and continuing to the
9th. This date was selected Wednesday
at a meeting of the council of administra-
ton at the department headquarters Of
the G. A. R. in Topeka. Department Com
mander H. c. Loomis was given full con-
troll of the reunion.
DR.. j. NJ Minick stated yesterday the
following resolution was passed by the
board:
AT meeting of the council of admin
istration held this 18th day of June.
1902 the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved. That the department COM
mander be, and is hereby instructed to
fol III nd Of
campments and reunions held under the
auspices of the Grand Army of the Re
public, and that all invitations. programs,
advertisements, and arrangements per
tanning to said reunion shall first be sub
mitted to the department commander for
his approval and that it be the sense Of
this council that the reunion shall not be
an auxiliary or adjunct TO any street fair
or other show to be held at the same
time in Wichita, unless approved by the
department commander.
Resolved, That should the department
commander find it necessary. he be en-
powered to change the date or place of
reunion or both, or to declare same off,
DR.. Minick yesterday stated to a re-
porter for the Eagle in regard TO the
above resolutions that the old soldiers
did not desire to have other attractions
in this city while they were here, as it
would serve to detract from their own
attractions
Now do not understand me to say
that a stock show or anything like that
would be distasteful TO the old soldiers.
but it is street fair or carnival that we
object to- said the doctor 1.-The old
soldiers would delight in viewing fine
stock, as a great many of them are farm
ers and stockmen. but we will have a
number of fine attractions that we of
course, would have to protect and then
there would be the speeches and exercises
and if there was something special going
on down town, there would not be the
interest taken in them that there should
be.
Wichita will see the biggest encamp-
ment ever known in the history Of the
Grand Army of the Republic organization
in this state. There were about fifteen
members of the board in attendance from
all parts of the state and l talked with
each, and they gave me to understand
that their counties would send the larg-
est delegations to the state reunion they
had ever sent. There will be a good
many more people here besides the old
soldiers. The railroads will grant very
favorable rates and I look for not less
than thirty thousand people 10 be in
Wichita during that week That will be
a big thing for this city, and if we can
get the president TO come. Il will mean
a great deal more people than the figures
given