Evening star., 1909-06-10
S|SS0N IS RAMPANT
Waves Bloody Shirt and
Shouts for Lost Cause.
SOUTH UNRECONSTRUCTED
Federal Dead in Arlington Monu.
ment to Confederacy.
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS ALSO
Grey Veterans Hiss and Leave Hall
When Representative Appeals
to Sectionalism.
SOUTH UNRECONSTRUCTED
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS AIS

! MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 1O-''The prin-
ciples you fought for were right in 6l
and are right today. You were not con-
duered then: you are not conquered now.
And the greatest monuments in your
/ honor are the millions of pensions the
| federal government pays 10 the widows
and orphans your valor made and the
1900 graves In Arlington cemetery which
the federal government decorates each
Both Of May
petuated to your honor you need erect
| no others
| Mingled Kisses and cheers greeted these
| words. the closing utterances of Repre-
sentative I. L. Sisson Of Mississippi in a
| speech he persisted In making at the re-
| union of the United Confederate Veterans
| last night in defiance of calls to sit
| down from the audience and the noisy
| clamor of objectors. which he wore out
| ir an endurance test.
Many Confederates left the hall In dis
gust when lie had concluded. Others
crowded around him and swamped him
| with congratulations.
Rebels Still, Says Woman.
| The spirit Of the. .'unreconstructed" found
| vent again in few moments, when Mrs.
Moore Mudock of Dallas, Tex. got the
attention of the assembly to declare:
| We have lived as rebels, we are still
rebels, and we will die as rebels
| Then pandemonium broke loose. 1t
| was difficult to tell whether the majority
L e.
Cheers were mingled with cat calls and
| Kisses. Above all reverberated the ear
| splitting rebel yell.
After re-electing Gen. Clement A. Evans
commander-in-chief over his vigorous but
futile protest, and selecting Mobile, Ala.
as the next place Of reunion. the veterans
adjourned their business meetings.
The only candidate for commander-in-
chief placed in nomination was Gen. Will
liam NJ. Cabell. commander OF the trans
Mississippi division. The delegates. by a
vote OF 1.54O to 744 for Cabell. reelected
Gen. Evans to command.
With tears streaming down his cheeks
and shaking with emotion the stately and
aged soldier bowed to the commands of
his comrades.
His election followed one of the storm
lest sessions of the veterans which old
time delegates can srecall. Sweltering in
a temperature of over hundred degrees.
the veteran delegates objected strongly
for vote as to the next meeting place.
But the disorder was desultory.
Sisson Rides Over Uproar.
Finally John w Apperson. commander
in-chief of the United Sons of Confed-
crate Veterans, secured the floor and in
troduced Representative Sisson as the
spokesman of the sons. Nearly every one
suspected Sisson was to spring a dark
| horse candidate for the next meeting
place. but as it became evident that the
young congressman merely desired to
| make a speech the delegates became noisy
and calls OF ''Sit down. and Voter
were insistent.
Sisson was game, however, and won
out on a test of endurance He announced
| that he wished to repeat his speech in
Congress delivered In answer to Repre-
sentative Calderhead of Kansas, who
| charged that the southern people were
| lazy.
Sisson received some announcement
| and some Kisses, but he persevered.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma had stormy
greeting, which might be construed one
way or another. Finally, however, he
| tired ou. the crowd and made diplomatic
| speech inviting the convention to choose
| Oklahoma City for the 1910 reunion.
| The vote for the next reunion city
then began. Mobile, Ala, polled 1884
| votes, with Houston second, with COS.
The choice was made unanimous. Gen.
| Evans reelection likewise was made
| unanimous.