Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-10
HE UNITED SPANISH
 WAR VETERANS,
Logical Successor of the Grand Army
 Of the Republic.

United Spanish War veterans. which begins it's third annual encampmept ln Washington, D. C., has caused the order to be hailed throughout the country as the logical successor of the Grand Army of the Republic.
 Predictions are made that it will take the place in the Memorial Day parades ten or fifteen years from now of the thin blue line" which fought on the battlefields of the civil war Those who dwell in south have come to regard the United Spanish War vet efans as the successors of the aged wearers of the gray, for the new fra ternlty enrolls men of every section Of the land, who joined in that war against Spain which made the United States a world power.
 What the organization stands for is exemplified ill it's uniform, which is half blue and half gray. Among it's membership are old campaigners for the union cause as we'll as soldiers
 
 are comparatively few veterans of the war of the rebellion to be found in it's more than two hundred camps
 1t is mingling of the blue and the gray Ill the second generation and the third, for the great bulk of it's rank and file is composed of the young men who came from both the lands of the palmetto and the pine to enlist against common foe Not only does the organization mean unit ed veterans, but it's highest ideals are centered about that patriotism which means united country. It's prime object is 10 keep it's members in mind of the struggle which brought to the defence oi the country Generals Joe Wheeler and F'itzhu9h Lee. as we'll as leaders who had foueht under the Stars and Stripes al Appomattox and Getty sbur9.
 Sons and srandsons of the men who met i'll internecne strife in the sixties are being brought together in an or sanization which makes no distinction between north and south It com nemorates the glory won on land and sea in the struggle which gave to the United States a neW era and to the flag deeper significance ill every for aion land.
 Especial interest eenters in the ap- preaching encampment because the date for it was set by the president, who is one of the members of the as sociation. lie is "Comrade" Roose- welt of the Rough Riders on the rolls and none has been more desirous of seeing the new military order achieve its highest destiny than he. Many of the old companions in arms at the fight at San .luan hill will pitch tents near the White House The president will open the encampment with an address. and later he will hold a re- cep)ion at the executive mansion. where he will greet thousands of vet erans.
 Among other who have joined the United Spanish War veterans are Ma ! ior General Frederick D. Grant, com mander of the Department of the East; Rear Admiral Joseph B. Cogh- Ian and Lieutenant General Nelson A. ! Miles, retired.
 Few organizations have made such i rapid advances as that which have ! been attained in the last year by the United Spanish War veterans. In that brief period the order has nearly doubled it's membership. It now en. rolls 10000 men in the United States The department of New York, which is the strongest of the state Organiza- tions, has Loco members. With be- tween 800 o0o and loo, 0o0 men from from which to draw, theh veterans will be able to attain a large member ship within the next few years, ac- cording to the confident predictions of the officers.
 As far as it's origin is concerned, i the organization closely resembles the Hl anu AIIlN oi iut INcIjuDIlC it latter was made up of several orders and societies of veterans, which were I called into being shortly after peace 1 was declared between the north and ! the south. The United Spanish War veterans is merger of the camps and lodges which were started within a few months after thp signing of the E treaty of Paris.
 First in the field was the National I Army and Navy Spanish War veterans, [ which was chartered in Ohio; second come the Spanish American War vet | erans, who first gathered in the state of New York, and last the service men of the Spanish war. who first convened f in Illinois The first two organZa