The San Francisco call., 1906-08-17
OH|OAN IS CHOSEN
c. A. R. CHIEF.
Veterans in Convention
at Minneapolis Name
Brown of GAINESVILLE

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16.-Command-
er-in-chief, r. B. Brown, GAINESVILLE
Ohio.
Senior vice commander, William H
Armstrong, Indianapolis.
Junior vice commander, z. B. Fentoh,
Detroit.
chaplain-in- -chief. Archbishop John
Ireland, St. Paul.
surgeon general, W. H. Johnson, Lin
coin, Neb.
These officers were elected today at
the annual meeting of the Grand Army
of the Republic All other officers are
staff appointments and will be an
rounced later by the new commander
in-ohief.
The strongest opponents of Bfr. Brown
far the honor of being commander-in-
chief were c. G. Burton of Missouri
and Captain P. Fl. Coney of Kansas,
Both withdrew when 1t was seen that
the election of Mr. Brown was GER
tainty.
Several candidates were nominated
for senior and junior vice commanders
bat later all withdraw IN favor of
Armstrong and Fenton and both were
c. oscn unanimously.
Archbishop Ireland had no rivals for
the position Of chaplain-in in chief.
In the course of his final report Cor
poral Tanner, the retiring commander
in chief, said that, Notwithstanding the
fearful inroads of death upon the COM
rades of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, the organization today is $500
stronger than at. the encampment in
Denver last year. He continued:
Repeatedly during the past year on
various public occasions / have defiant
ly and perhaps arrogantly called atten-
ton to the fact that while the public
conscience has been shocked and out
r-rc I'D hry T.
tude on the part Of many of those who
stood among the so-called most emf
nent men of the nation, eminent in
financial and religious circles. trusted
guardians of the Interests OF the wild
ows and orphans for whom loved ones
dead and gone had thought they had
necessities for comfort through ali
their natural lives, men who IN church
circles stood on the very st steps Eso OF the
of Christ. yet who when their real
characters were exposed were exhib-
tied in such poverty of soul and honor
lowest state might justly be considered
a multi illionaire, and in all the list,
search 1T from top to bottom, the name
of not one veteran of the Civil War
can be found.
Commander Tanner said the time was
close at hand when the ultimate dispo-
sition of, real estate and Nother valu-
able properties acquired by y. A. r.
posts should be considered, suggesting
that committee be appointed to CON
slider carefully the whole subject as
well as the relations to be sustained
in the future between the Grand Army
of the Republic and the Woman's Relief
Corps, the Ladies of the Grand Army
Of the Republic, the Daughters of Vet
erans the sons Of Veterans and other
patriotic organizations.
The proposed monument to Captain
WirZ. who was in charge of the Ander-
sonville prison, was strongly con-
demned.
The new commander-in chief of the
G. A. r. r. 3. Brown, was born in
1878 and mas always lived in Ohio. He
enlisted in the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry
st the age of le and served with the
army of the Cumberland until he was
mustered out in 1854. He then re-
enlisted and served until the end OF
the war. He was a private for three
years and then became q non-commis-
stoned officer. He has long been active
in the work OF the Grand Army. Brown
is now editor of the GAINESVILLE Courier