The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-25

The Atlanta Constitution is quite
jolly over the fact that Hon. Ezekiel
M. Ezekiel of Springfield, Mass,
Southerner and Confederate vete-
ran, is the Democratic candidate for
Secretary of State for Massachusetts,.
/ don't see much to be jolly about, as
this nomination is simply an empty
honor" The Republican nominee is
a native of Georgia, but a Union vete-
ran and a prominent G. A. r. official,
and his reelection is fully assured.
His name is William NJ. Olin, and he
is a son of the eminent Rev. DR.. Ste
phen Olin, of the Methodist Church,
who was born in 1897 and died in 1851.
He came to Georgia when a young
man as an educator and married there,
and this son was born there: and like
President Roosevelt, he had a North
ern father and a Southern mother.
When Rev. DR.. DIN left Georgia he
became President of Randolph Macon
College in Virginia. The son has in
herited some of his distinguished IA
tehr's fine traits of character. and is
highly esteemed in his Bosaon home.
He has made an excellent Secretary of
State and his denomination was heart
lily unanimous. Georgia has reason to
be proud of the fact that he was born
within her borders and had Georgia
mother.
There seems to be no end of applica-
tons to Congress for new national mill
itary parks and national soldiers
homes. The coming Congress will
have nearly a dozen such projects to
act upon. Hon. Frank Clark, candi-
date to succeed Our Bob" Davis from
the Second Florida District, proposes
to ask for national military park on
the Olustee or Ocean Pond battlefield
so well known to the venerable Chat
ham Artillery and other Georgia COM
mands. He says; THE government of
the United States has built upon va
rious battleields of our Civil War, ma
tional military parks, designed to
commemorate the valor of the Ameri-
can soldier. These parks are estab
lished and maintained by the general
government at a great expenditure of
money. and as only one battle of i'm
portance was fought on Florida soil
during that unfortunate struggle, 1t
seems to me that if intelligent effort
were made in that direction we might
secure the establishment and mainte-
nance of a great military park on the
battlefield of Olustee, and to this end
shall industriously labor if you in
trust me with the high commission as
your representative at Washington"
hand a bill for a national soldiers
home in Florida, to be reintroduced on
the opening of the next session of
Congress.
! see that the preachers of the city
of Savannah are to come together in
monthly meetings for consultation. If
wisdom, justice and moderation guide
their movements and divisions, as
thaU GhnI1ld fhaqa meetings ought
to result in great good. In my valu
able autograph letter book, in which
l have letters from many eminent
men, there is one from my old friend
and associate, the venerable Rev. DR..
Rollin H. Neale, in life pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Boston, Mass.
1T has always been natural for me-"
he writes, mot to think of people in
their professional or UNCONVENTIONAL
relations, but as human beings, with
feelings and trials and duties like my
own. Hence 1 have associated with
ministers of other denominations, not
recognized as evangelical, like DR..
Miner, the Universalist. DIR. Lathrop,
the Unitarian, Bishop Fitzpatrick, the
Roman Catholic, without compromis-
ing my own principles or expecting
them to compromise theirs" This is
sound sense and true Christian charity.
1 knew Rev. DR.. Neale intimately,
and he was as sound in doctrines as
any orthodox preacher in the land
The same was true of my dear old
friend and neighbor. Bishop Henry B.
Whipple, who followed Rev. DR.. Neale'e
example.
Georgia was represented in the Aztec
Club at the Sherman statue unwilling
by Hon. J. J. Martin, of Atlanta My
old friend Jake" as we always called
him, is a South Carolina veteran, who
went to Mexico with the famous fight
ing Palmetto regiment, but was pro-
NOTED into the regular army as a first
lieutenant in the Twelfth Infantry. in
April, 1S47, and resigned as a captain
in March, 1S4S. which made him eligible
to membership in the select Affect
Club of regular army officers =
Men who indulge in peculiar names
must not complain of printers who
set 'em up" wrong. Gen. J. M.
Thurston and Gen. G, P. Thruston were
orators at the Washington gathering,
but the printers made them both
Thurston. Gen. Harries also saw his
name printed Harris. The venera BILE
Maj. Gen. Sanl. G. French, c. S. A.,
OF Pensacola, Fla, was the only men,
Der of L. S. Grants class present at
the Affect Club meeting, and he is
called a lieutenant general in the
Confederate Army" which is an err
ror He read an instructive paper on
the Aztecs. Mr.. P. Tecumseh Sherman
was present as the representation of
his father, Gen. VIM. Tecumseh Sher-
man. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee joined as
the representative of his father, Capt
Sidney Smith Lee, u. S. N.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New
York, although the son of the famous
Standard Oil Company king, is too good
Christian to nisrepresent anybody
or anything, yet he has been led into
an error, if correctly reported by the
press. II am told" said he to his
Sunday-school class, that near the
Southern Pacific Railroad there is
grave of Confederate soldier on
which is this epitaph: John Smith,
who died lighting for what he thought
was right l cannot imagine better
epitaph to be placed on my tombstone
than this. Now, as to the location of
this grave: 1t is directly alongside
of the track of the Western and At
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