Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-28
NOMINATED PRESIDENT
VETERANS PREDICT HIGH HONOR
FOR SENATOR WARNER.
His Next Move Will Be Toward the
White House Say His
Comrades.


Army of the Republic. headed by Corporal
Tanner. commander-in-chief; Gen. John {.
Black. formerly commandments and
now a member of the civil service commits
sion, and others gathered at the Grand
Army hall last evening and extended q
rousing welcome to Gen. william Warner,
the recently elected senator from missouri
who has Just reached Washington TO attend
the approaching session of Congress. II
was a demonstration of fraternal feeling,
interviewer with patriotism and personal
regard Tributes were paid to the guest
Of honor as soldier, as a statesman ano
as a former commander-in-chfef of the
G. A. r To these eulogies Mr.. Warner
responded feelingly.
.'Of ali the honors that have received
there is one that l look back 10 as .le
browning glory of my life" said the seIa
tor land that is that l was elected com
mander-in-chief OF the Grand Army or the
Republic Until / pitch my tent on tne
other side ! hope that shall always pe
loyal comrade of the Grand Army.
what is wanted in this country To-Day
is men in office who will act right as Wei
as think right. The battle today is as grea'
as IT was in 1860, a battle against gfeeu.
graft and corruption: the rights OF the
people against corporate ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
In whatever I have to do In the senate OF
the United States / shall act as l believe
to be right. I have made no pledges.
Presidential Boom Launched.
The hall was prettily decorated and on
the wall hung a banner carrying the words
"Welcome to Comrade Warner" Com
mander A. P. Tasker of the Department
of the Potomac presided as master of cere-
monies, and in the course of the evening
several Warner presidential booms were
started, 1t was said that the Missourlan
had made an excellent soldier ana was
bound to make an excellent senator RAY :
ing succeeded In this. said several or the
speakers the next logical step was the
White House.
Speeches were made by Thomas s. Hop
kins, past department commander; senator
Warner Gen. John c. Black, n. Nj. brooks,
past department commander; Commander
in-chief Tanner, John r. King, pension
agent, and Vespasian Warner, commissioner
of pensions.
Corporal Tanner had great many COM
plimentary things to say about the new
senator. He always has had a faculty of
drawing men toward him. said the cor
poral, "that is, all except the enemy. lie
used to make the enemy move rapidly IN
the other direction. This is true partly be-
cause he is always the same 365 days in
the year He is living refutation OF Dr
Osler's theory and A worthy representative
lions are being smirched we find that char
acter is the true foundation of civic hon
esty In all this graft and robbery-for
that is what 1t means-has any IT, A II
man been smirched? We all have con-
fidence In Senator Warner which we shall
not lose when he goes TO the White House.
His Record Tribute.
His own record is higher tribute than
we could pay" said Gen. John c. Black.
His principles have always been the per-
petuity of the republic and the advance
ment of the people of this land. Those prin-
ciples he will take with him when he goes
to the United States Senate"
Commissioner Warner of the pension bu-
reau made the final address, and, as usaul.
he was in a happy mood. He said that
when he became commissioner fiattering no.
tees of him were printed in the papers
throughout the country. and in half OF
them there appeared a likeness OF Senator
Warner. The selection Of the senator, he
said showed that the old soldier was not
entirely forgotten in the United States. In
regard to pensions he said: Il will give
to the old soldiers the benefit of every
reasonable and well-founded doubt