The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-03
BREAKS OUT AFReSH.
G. A. r. May Now Investigate" Com
mander p. H. sConey. i 1E

Another secret which has leaked
out of the present G.. A. r. middle is
that Topeka post has taken up cudgels
in the fight, and has asked the national
commander to send a special deputy
here to investigate the record and
standing of Department Commander p.
H. Coney. 5f.'s7 taSrr...e So
Department Commander Coney. may
find it necessary to start a counter in
vestigation to find out why the mem
bers of the army defy his threat 10
courtmartial anybody giving out the
secrets of the order.
There is plan on foot for a new
trial of Ed G. Moore, the member of
Gage Post who was recently dismissed
from the Grand Army by Commander
Coney. Mr.. Moore says:
Il shall appeal my case direct to the
state. encampment- 1 don't expect JUS
tice from Coney, or any jury that he
may pick out. Coneyt will not place my
case before the commander in chief; he
has not done so, regardless of his state
ments to the contrary. l believe that
the state encampment will give me
fair show, and it has the power to
overrule Coney's order"
Some of the Kansas posts are taking
a hand in the general conflict, and De-
partment Commander Coneyis not escap-
ing a share OF the criticism. One post
ng" on the legislation which Com
mander Coney said was needed from
..le coming session. Today a crop of
blistering resolutions appeared from
John w .Geary Post No. 15, g. "A h,
at Cottonwood Falls, Kan. This is the
most of which Cochran, Commander
Coney's right hand man, is said to be
a member. The resolutions follow:
Cottonwood Falls. Dec. %, 1905.
eat an adjourned meeting of this
post, held this day. the following pre-
ambIe and resolutions were unanl-
Cd
"Whereas. a copy of special order
No. g. dated Headquarters Dept. of
Kansas, Topeka, Oct. 80, 1905, signed
by p. H. Coney, department comman-
der, converting a general court martial
for the trial of Comrade Ed G. Moore,
was received by this post and while IT
did not state the charges against said
Moore, the following was written I'M
mediately under the signature or the
department commander, which, we
presume, indicates the charges upon
which he was arraigned. viz:
.Slandering and lying members
must get out or stop.
wherefore be it resolved: That we
the department commander
for his efforts to punish slanderers and
liars who are members of our order
and we hope he will not become weary
in we'll doing but continue until ne mas
purged our order OF:
ssThose who, it is alleged, stuffed the
ballot boxes at the department en-
campments held at Emporia and Par
sons. and those who were caught at 1t
at the national encampment at Min
neapolis. to the disgrace and humilia-
ton of this department:
''The prominent G.. A. r. man who,
IT is alleged, became SO drunk at re-
cent district encampment as to be I'M
Al bic to fill his place on the program
and had to be put to bed, to the NOR
tif1cation and shame of this depart
ment:
1.-The member or members who, it is
alleged, forged or falsified the records
Of the Parsons encampment. the ex-
posture of which. at the national de-
partment of Denver, makes every
member of this department hang his
head in shame:
1.-The fellows who, it is alleged, were
never soldiers or sailors, but by some
have managed to become
of the C. A. r. to the dis
grace and humiliation Of this depart
ment;
1.-The person or persons who. 1t is
alleged, were discharged from the G.
A. r. on conviction, by court martial.
on charge of defalcation or stealing,
and have ged to crawl back
through the rear window SO. to speak,
while no one was looking, to the dis
grace and humiliation of this depart
ment;
"The person. be he department cozza-