The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-27
 Order Has Shown Great
 Growth. WEI COMING EXERCISES HELD Strong Report by Grand Saehem
 Neil. Grand Council Was welcomed to Mont Eomery by c. P. Mcintyre and K. T. Goodwin Welcomed Red
 Men to City.
WEI COMING EXERCISES HELD

The Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men for the State Of Alabama met in its twenty-hrst annual convention in this city yesterday morning; and the "big injuns had heap much good time on the Montgom- cry hunting ground, for the DIE m tuns" said so themselves.
 The convention opened with three of the best speeches ever delivered in Alabama in recent years this state- ment of veribIe fact is based on the further fact that the weather was hot, the room crowded and that the speeches were all appropriate. full of historical interest, sound sense and good cheer and run from two to five minutes in length.
 J. T. Letcher of this city called the convention to order in the Red Mems Hall and in a most graceful manner in- troduced the speakers. City Attorney c. P. Mcintyre welcomed the delegates to Montgomery on behalf of the city government. He paid a beautiful tri- bute to the order as a peculiarly Am erican institution and said that he was doubly honored in being selected to represent the great and splendid city of Montgomery on such an occasion and in having the opportunity of well coming such noble body of men. He declared that as he understood 1t the principals of the converted pale face Red Men were fidelity to tribe, love of country, protection of his own hunting ground and defense of his freside in perpetuation of the same virtues prac- ticed by the aborigines and that such principals always. awaken sentiments of admiration and respect in all man kind.
 R..T Goodwin followed with, an. ad- dress of welcome in the name of the Red Men of Montgomery. Mr., Good wyn said that as the warmest welcome was always expected from member of the family so 1t came in this in- stance and that oh behalf of the local braves the members of the visiting tribes were received to the hunting grounds with extreme pleasure and friendship.
 The speaker said that this was a most appropriate place for a meeting of the State tribes of Noble Red Men for its history was replete with the deeds of daring of the real Red Men of the Wilds.
 Tn times gone, he declared there is not a creek in all this section whose waters were not stained with the blood of the Creeks, Chickasaws and other tribes shed in defense of their tribe integrity and hunting ground security sand that while the savage Red Men was -lT61neu 'Only III the of war and measured his lifes sue cess by the prowess, of his.bow and the number of scalps dangling at his side that his fidelity to that which was his by God given right furnished an in- spiration for ever converted pale face Red Man of today.
 R. E. L. Neil of Selma. Great Sachem of Alabama, responded to the addresses of welcome in a most delightful and interesting little speech. He said in part: "Spea1Sing for; noble Red Men from where the tortuous bodies of the Oostanauia, Coosa and Etowah locks in tender embrace the lands of the Cherokee; for Red Men from the fertile valleys. washed by the limpid How of the Tallapoosa into which the Choctaws looked with longing and covetous eyes as they beheld its beau- lies and attractions; for Red Men from the land made musical by the singing falls of the Chattahoochee, here on the incomparable hunting ground over looking the placid bosom of the Ala bama, I accept your hearty words of welcome"
 After the delivery of the addresses of welcome and the response the con for the transaction of business and all were requested to retire. It was case of holewaugus. esclousus; ojusy. Which in the language of the pale face menas. 'If you are not a Red Man, your no good, Co.,"
 Both the morning and afternoon ses- sions of the convention were devoted