The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

old friend Middleton Pope Barrow can
testify. | see that Maj. Micah John
Jenkins is appointed revenue collector
over in South Carolina as plain Micah
Jenkins, so I presume he has taken mis-
heroic fathers name of plain Micah
Jenkins and dropped the John from his
own name
It should be gratifying to all old
Confederates to know that Gen. John
B. Gordon, their gallant commander
in-chief is cordially welcomed all over
Posts and Grand Army officials of the
highest standing. In his last gen.
eral order, the commander of the De-
partment of Indiana, who is Maj. Gen.
Benz. Starr, says: 1.-The Department
Commander and members of his staff
have arranged to visit the Acton Park
Assembly on Monday, July II. when
the commander will introduce Gen.
John B. Gordon, who will deliver his
celebrated lecture The Last Days of
the Confederacy' 1t is hoped that all
comrades who can will be present"
This does not look much as
though the Grand Army of the Re-
public as Blue Ribbon Donkey" Dali
zell claims. is going over to the Re-
publican party hook and line. bob
and sinker" There are too many
lifelong. rock-ribbed war Democrats
in the G. A r. to prevent any such
calamity. 1t was tried years ago, and
failed of success, as it will again if
the attempt. as Dalzell hints is re-
newed The Rule on Politics reads:
mo officer or comrade of the Grand
Army of the Republic shall in any
manner use this organization for par
tisan purposes; and no discussion of
partisan questions shall be permitted
at any of its meetings; nor shall any
nomination for political office be made"
And that rule will stand until the G.
A. r. disbands.
The revival of the discussion in re-
gard to DR.. Crawford w. Long and
Hon Alex H. Stephens as Georgia.
representatives in the Statuary Hall
of the Capitol at Washington. D. c.,
reminds one that Mississippi is to
have Hall of Fame" all to herself.
But singularly enough the eminent
men to be represented there-as now
suggested-were not or are not natives
of that state. One-Sergeant S. Prem
tbs, Esq, was born in West Gorham,
Me-; two others, Col. L. @. c. Lamar
and Gen. j. z. George, both United
States senators, were born in Georgia.
Gen. E. c. Walthall was born in Vir-
ginia and Gen. Jefferson Davis IN
Kentucky, and both were also United
States senators. 1t seems strange that
a state like Mississippi has to go to
other states for adopted sons to fill her
Hall of Fame" All the above named
were or are illustrious as orators,
statesmen or soldiers, but they were
not born in Mississippi.
No publication in the country gave
the GLORIOUS Fourth" such patriotic
send off, as did the July issue of the
American Boy at Detroit, Mich. The
cover presents a gallant young horse
man bearing the STARS and Stripes I
who would be a fit representative of
Savannah's crack Hussars. A full page
is given to the Star Spangled Ban
Rer" and an illustrated sketch of it's
author. Two pages are devoted to pic
lures of the Liberty bell, of Independ-
ence Hall, of Washington's headquar-
tiers at Newburg, N. Y, of Bunker Hill
monument, ETC., and an historical sketch
of THE Brave Days of Old" A fine
photo-engraving is also given of Rod
hey, Ont, public school cadet corps. It
Will be remembered that l wrote about
the splendid School Cadet Battalion of
Toronto, that came as an object lesson
to the National Military Convention at
Tampa Bay Hotel, few years ago.
This Rodney Corps is a similar fea-
ture in the public schools of Canada.
The company has thirty-two privates,
a drummer, a bugler, two lieutenants
and a captain. The corps wears a
khaki uniform and parades twice a
week on the campus.
The attempt of the New York Tri-
bune to show that President F. L. Pat
ton, late of Princeton University, has
a dual citizenship" is a very weak
affair. 1t might just as we'll attempt
to show that the American renegade
William "Walled-off" Aston, has a
dual citizenship" 1t is true that DR..
Patton was born in Bermuda, which
would make him a British subject.
Having never relieved himself of this
birthright and declared officially and
legally his citizenship in the United
States he still remains a British sub
ject. No man, the Bible tells us, can
serve two masters; neither can he be
a citizen of two countries, as the Tri-
bune claims for DR.. Patton. While the
law of the United States makes chill
dren of any citizen born in any other