The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-09
GRAND ARMY MEN
MAD WITH TEDDY
WILL PASS RESOLUTIONS.
DID NOT WANT CORPORAL TANNER
TO ADDRESS ENCAMPMENT.


veIt's Antietam speech-sixteenth
Annual Encampment G. A. r.. of
Department of Georgia Will Meet
TO-Day-Gen. Black, Commander
In Chief, Will Not BE Present.
over One Hundred Delegates Re-
presenting Sixteen Posts.
1t is probable that at the sixteenth
annual encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic. of the Department of
Georgia, to be held in Savannah to-
day, President Roosevelt will be con-
demned.
in the city, say that resolutions will
be adopted condemning the President
for his speech at the unwilling of the
Antietam monument in Maryland upon
which occasion he failed to even men
ton Gen. George B. Mcclellan. who
was in command at the battle of Antie-
tam.
According to a prominent member
Of the organization of Union veterans
the strenuous Teddy has already been
snubbed by the encampment. 1t is
stated that the encampment let it be
known that Corpl. James Tanner, COM
missioner of pensions under the Har-
rison administration. and close to
Roosevelt, would not be welcome if he
attended the gathering in this city.
Do Not Like Tanner.
Gen. John c.. Black, the commander
in-chief of the national organization,
had been invited to attend the encamp-
ment. Because of illness he could not
accept the invitation. but, it is said,
stated that he had secured the consent
of Corpl. Tanner to take his place. But
the Georgia members of the G. A. r.,
it appears, have no love for Corpl.
Tanner, and made it known to Gen.
Black that his substitute was not
wanted
According to several members of
Hancock Post there will be a lively
contest when the encampment under
takes to elect new department COM
mander. 1t is said there are two can
didates seeking the honor and that
they have about equal strength among
the delegates. Mr.. A. w. Kenny of
Fitzgerald, it is said, will probably be
elected. The other candidate that is
being doomed by the delegates now in
the city is former Commander w. NJ.
Scott of Fitzgerald.
Will Convene at 10 O'clock.
The meeting will be held in the
Irish American Hall, at Abercorn and
Bryan streets, and will be called to
order at 10 o'clock this morning by
the department commander, F. D. Lee,
of Fitzgerald. The first business that
will be transacted will be the routine
work of passing on the reports sub
A.,
will be delivered by the department
commander and short speeches will be
made by members of the encampment.
The council of administration will
hold a meeting at o'clock, when it
will pass upon the reports of the Off
GERS and examine the books of the
treasurer. The department officers
will not be elected until the afternoon
session, when the following offices will
be filled: Commander, senior vice
commander, junior vice commander,
medical director, chaplain and five
members of the administration coun-
Gil.
The department officers elected at
the last annual encampment held at
Fitzgerald in March, 1903, are as fol-
lows:
Who the Omcers Are.
Commander-F. D. Lee, Fitzgerald.
Senior Vice Commander-J. G. Buck
ey. Fitzgerald.
Junior Vice Commander-William
Walpert, Atlanta.
Medical Director-C. A. Butcher,
Fitzgerald.
Chaplain-J. R. Green, Fitzgerald.
Council of ADMINISTRATIONS. G..
Brown, Fitzgerald; Milo Porter, Fitz-
gerald; G.. e. Whitman, Fitzgerald; r.
E. Mansfield, Charleston; A. H. Stroup,
Atlanta.
Official Staff of F. D. Lee, Com
mander-A. w. Kenny, assistant adj
jutant general and assistant quarter
master general, Fitzgerald; M. S. Har-
rod inspector, Fitzgerald; S. A. OAR
nell, judge advocate, Atlanta; H. Van
Buren,, chief mastering officer, Fitz-
gerald.
Sixteen posts will be represented
from the following cities in Georgia
and South Carolina, which constitutes
the Department of Georgia:
Savannah, two posts; Fitzgerald,
three posts; Columbia, one post; Char
lesion, two posts: Atlanta, one post;
Jasper, one post; Tallapoosa, one post;
Brunswick, one post; Port Royal, one
post; Augusta, one post; Macon, one
post; Beaufort, one post.
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