The National tribune., 1906-08-23
THE NATIONAL ENCAMpMENr.

now history, and it is a very creditablt
part of the history of the Grand Army
| of the Republic. Never were Charity
Fraternity and Loyalty more strongl!
in evidence, more enthusiastically mani.
tested by everyone inside and outside
the Order than at Minneapolis. The
National Encampment was a magnii-
cent body Of representative comrades
and their proceedings were character
lied by dignity. earnestness and the
highest regard for the welfare Of the
country and the good of the Order
Commander-in Tanner appeared
at his best in meeting the immense
throngs which crowded the city to greet
the Grand Army. and in his speeches
before the great meetings. Campfires
and other assemblages during the week
Everywhere and all the time he spoke
for his comrades in eloquent words OF
no uncertain sound and which pro-
duced the happiest impression upon the
people who heard him. 1t cannot be
but that the Grand Army of the Re-
public holds a far higher place in the
esteem of the country than it did before
the meeting of the Encampment
The choice of officers for the ensuing
year will be enthusiastically ratified by
the veterans all over the country. The
men chosen are all comrades of the
highest standing as citizens and of
splendid records as soldiers.
Commander-in-Chief r. B. Brown, of
Ohio. is fire-tried veteran of one of
Ohio's fighting regiments, the 18th. in
which he served from first to last and
was severely wounded. He has been an
earnest worker in the Grand Army ever
since its organization and prominent in
comra deS
Senior Vice Commander-in-Ch
Armstrong, of Indiana, has an enviable
war record and an equally good one as
a citizen.
Junior Vice Commander-in-Ch
Fenton, of Michigan. as boy served in
the goth Conn. was severely wounded.
was promoted for his efficiency as a
soldier. and then served three years and
a half during the Spanish and Philip
pine wars. He is a prominent business
man, and has been indefatigably help
full in the Grand Army in Michigan.
The selection of distinguished pre-
late, Archbishop ireland. for Chaplain
in-Chief aroused the greatest enthu-
siasm. Comrade Ireland is a magnifl-
cent specimen of an American; he is
one of the Princes of the great Church
of Rome, and his intense devotion to
the highest spirit of Americanism is
manifest wherever he goes and in what
fighting Minnesota regiments he showed
the manhood that was in him on many
fields of battle. His sacred Office pre-
vented his actually engaging in the
fight, but he was there to carry am
munition to the firing line, to encourage
the men who were doing the fighting.
and to care for the wounded, all of
which he did with a courage and zeal
not surpassed by any man who stood
upon the firing line.
also a soldier of fighting record. has
been a first-class citizen. and was Sur
geon- General of his Department.
Commander-in-Chief Brown has ap-
pointed as his Adjutant-General Com
rade Joseph w. O'NeaIl. member of
the 9th Ohio Cav. who was a prisoner
of war and whose wounds received in
line of duty compel him to go upon
crutches. He is Past Department Com
mander of Ohio, has been Jealous and
active all his life in the Order and
among the Prisoners of War, and in
civil life has filled acceptably the hon.
orable office of Judge of Common Pleas.
observation-disclosures Burrows is
too well known to all Grand Army men
to require mention. He is a banker of
New Jersey. Past Department Com
mander, belonged to a fighting regi-
ment, and for many years has been
Quartermaster-Genera of the Grand
Army of the Republic. during which
time he managed its finances with pru-
dence and economy.
Comrade ]. Corey Winans, of Ohio,
the Chief of Staff, is also too well
known to require extended mention.
The intelligence and skill with which
he has filled the Office in the past has
made him friends everywhere through
out the Order.
The legislation by the National En-
campment will be everywhere strongly
approved. The Encampment renewed
its Endorsement of the Service Pension
bill, it approved the administration of
the Pension Bureau by Comrade Ves-
pasian Warner, it fixed the status of
Past Department Commanders who had
removed to other Departments, and it
generally commended strongly every
thing that it was within the province
of that body to commend and an
nounced anew its unfaltering opposition
to many things that are opposed to the
best good of the country.
There was at one time considera BILE
feeling against the selection of Sara
toga as the meeting place for the 41st
National Encampment, but the strong
representations of the leading comrades
of the Department of New York as to
what Saratoga was able to do for the
entertainment of the Encampment and
what they were very much in earnest
to do changed the tide of sentiment and