The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-30
NEW OFFICERS OF S. A. ELS.
REPORTS of the Various COMMITTEES.
We're Received.

P"rts OF the Various Committees
We're Received.
memphis, Tenn, Dec. 29.-The Sienna
Aipna Epsilon Greek letter fraternity
To-Day elected general officers as fol-
lows: Eminent supreme archon. Col
inns Levere, Evanston, ILL.,; honorary
eminent supreme archon. Judge John
M Dickinson, Chicago; eminent SUI
Preme deputy archon, Marvin E. Hol-
uelAess' Nashville, Tenn; eminent SUI
pienie recorder, Clarence Stowell, Bos-
81 eqltor Oh the Record, official or
San H. Sydnor Harrison, Richmond.
va. eminent supreme treasurer
george d. Kimball, Denver Col
REPORTS of various committees were
heard and voted upon. The COMMITTEES
on Chapter House Ownership recon-
Inehded plans whereby all chapters
would be enabled to secure permanent
homes. The Committee on Exten-
slons recommended that chapters be
granted bodies at George Washington
University at Washington, D. c.; the
University of Iowa, and Gates School
at Cleveland, o.
Birmingham, Ala, was selected as
the next meeting place of the frater-
nifty.
The final session was followed by a
notable banquet at which covers were
lald for 3OO The principal address of
the evening was delivered by Judge
Jacob M Dickinson, formerly of
Nashville, now of Chicago, who is gem
eral counsel of the Illinois Central
Railroad
Judge Dickinson in the course of his
address reviewed the history of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon Fraternity from its or
ganization at the State University of
Alabama in 1856 and dwelt especially
upon the efforts of the society to eff
face sectional feeling between the
North and South, and the gratifying
results accomplished in this direction.
The speaker continued:
To-day on the surface and POLITICAL
ly there is more sharp sectional feel
ing than existed five years ago. This
is, l believe, largely the result of mis-
understanding and eXaggeration. The
President has gotten out with the
South, or the South has gotten out
with the President, or they have got
ten out with each other.
THE President touched a sensitive
nerve in the South. The response was
prompt and in the opinion of many
the outcry was exaggerated. Issues
were thought by many to be evoked
which were tremendous and destruc-
tive. The President, in a fearless, i'm
pulsive, honest way, acted on abstract
propositions and from his point of
view no man could successfully an
swer him. The South had to deal
with the same question, not abstract
ly, but modified by conditions of facts,
that the outside world does not read
ily accept in the full sense that the
people of the South understand them.
while the President would not,
believe, sacrifice a principle for mere
expediency, yet he would not hesitate
to take a large view of conditions
which he understands and subordinate,
If necessary, a principle, if the working
out of grander results, equally found
ed in Justice and right. demanded 1t.
Now that he is reelected, has re-
nounced all further aspirations for the
presidency, has nothing to fear and
nothing to hope for politically, except
the honor or dishonor that will follow
his name as a public servant, his words
and acts should be judged free from all
partisan captiousness.
''While for political reasons / voted
against Mr.. Roosevelt. I never doubt
ed for a moment that his patriotism
embraced the entire country, and while
I hold no brief for him, and am in no
sense his spokesman, know and know
IT absolutely, that the bitter personal
abuse heaped upon him by many who
claimed and appeared to represent the
South. has aroused in him no feeling
of revenge or malice. He has shown
himself great in many ways, but in no
respect greater than rising above the
petty feeling of men of little souls.
am confident that if he shall be met
by the South with the same spirit that
animates him. there will be a good
understanding that will rebound to the
welfare of the whole country"