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The National tribune., 1910-09-15
DETRACToRs OF ST. CLOUD.

st. Cloud could not hope to escape
from the. usual pest of the absolutely
unsatisfiabIe. of scheming adventurers
and of downright blackmailers, such as
harass every new enterprise. Naturally
and inevita bly,, some men went thither
who have been rainbow chasing all
their lives. Some went there who had
been from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
hurrying 10 every new opening, expect
could get rich without labor or care
Others, regular land harpies, expected
to work some scheme of advantage over
the Others. They threatened openly
that if they were not given profitable
preferences they would denounce the
enterprise in the press and elsewhere
few were eut=and-out bIackmailers.
who demanded money. With all their
noise there was much smaller per-
centage of these undesirables than could
have been expected. No community of
the size of st. Cloud ever started with
so little friction and discomfort. This
was because 80 per cent of the real in
and women, who knew what they want
I'd and recognized a good thing when
they saw it. They had not expected to
find a ready-made Paradise at ST.
Cloud-no one had told them they
would. They found a climate and sur
roundings as near perfect as earth af-
fords and the making of Paradise was
in their own hands. The mischief-mak-
ers have attracted unusual attention,
because the colony has attracted more
attention all over the country than any
similar enterprise ever did. In the end
this will work for the greater glory of
ST. Cloud. It is safe to say that not one
Of these slanderers and grafters has
really hurt the colony where he was
we'll known. His character was suffi-
cient to discredit his utterances. He
has mainly served to draw out vindica-
ton and praise from trustworthy men
who knew what they were talking
about. Where one man has been scared
away from st. Cloud by his abuse prob
ably ! 0 have had their attention strong
ly directed to it, and decided to join It,
Such Is Enthusiastically indicated by our
Where these men have
said the most in the local papers we
are receiving the most information of
numbers going down to st. Cloud this
Fall and Winter.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
ST. CLOUD AS A CITY.
Resolution Adopted Opposing Prema-
ture Incorporation of st. Cloud.
(From the st. Cloud Tribune.)

(From the ST. Cloud Tribune)
The last meeting of the Veteran AS
sociation on Saturday last broke all at
tendance records since the Association
was instituted in st. Cloud. This is
certainly a clear indication of the in
creased interest which is being taken in
the affairs of the colony. Also the pres
ence of many new faces is very notice.
able. 1t is quite evident that the
evacuation of the North" has COM
menced
While on this subject we wish to call
attention to the number of new arrivals
that have been coming in on the trains
to st. Cloud, especially during the past
week. 1t appears that the number in
creases daily, and the chances are that
our boast of 5000 colonists this Winter
will be easily realized.
Quite a number of those present ad-
dressed the meeting, speaking in the
highest terms of st. Cloud, saying that
they considered the climate and gen.
eral conditions ideal and that they were
here to stay.
resolution was adopted by unani-
nous vote opposing the incorporation
of our colony until we have a sufficient
number of property owners and citizens
to have voice in the general activities
of the State. A canvas was then taken
with view of ascertaining how many
of our comrades will attend the Ma
tional Encampment at Atlantic CITY
The result disclosed the fact that an
unexpectedly large number will go,
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
SUCCESS OF MIR. sULLoWAY.

The veterans and their families are
to be congratulated that the Hon. Cyrus
A Sulloway has been renominated for
Congress and will be elected Mr.. Sui
loway is now serving his eighth term in
Congress. during all of which time he
has been member of the Committee
on Invalid Pensions and during IL years
of which he has been Chairman of the
committee. During this time he and
his committee have done an incom-
parable amount of work for the benefit
of the veterans and their widows. all
of the pension legislation, both general
and special, which has passed Con-
gress having gone thru and been rec
commended by his committee We have
recently published a statement of this
which startles the attention. The vet
Grams in the First District of New
Hampshire showed their appreciation
of Mr.. Sulloway. and rallied strongly
AMI enthusiastically for him.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
HON. ID. s. LEXANDER.

! We certainly hope that the enthu-
siastic loyalty of the voters of the Buff
/ falo District of New York for Col. D. S.
Alexander will assure his return to Con-
gress by Il continuation of the increased
majorities which have signalized all of
his previous reflections for seven
terms Comrade Alexander is high
credit to his State and to his district.
both of which strongly need his pres
ence, his high abilities and his ripe ex-
perience in Congress. Comrads Alex
who took part in the war He was born
in 1916, and entered the army at the
age of 10 years, serving three years.
carrying the gun of a private soldier.
After the war he graduated in law, To-
Gated at indianapolis and speedily took
high rank in his profession. He is a
captivating speaker, did great work for
the Republican Party, and was ap-
pointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury
Department. While living in WASH
ington his active interest in the Grand
Army and his unusual abilities led the
comrades to unanimously elect him
Commander of the Department of the
Potomac, G. A r., which office he filed
to their highest satisfaction. Retiring
from the Authorship upon the advent
of President Cleveland, he went to Buff
falo and formed law partnership with
his old college Jclassnate, Hon. James
A. Roberts, and at once won success.
He so commended himself to the peo-
pie of Buffalo that he was elected to
the 55th Congress, and has been re-
elected ever since. For the 61st Con-
gress he received 30,621 votes to 20,-
7sO for VIM. H. Follett, Democrat, or
nearly 10000 plurality.
Comrade Alexander holds a deserved
ly high rank in Congress, and is Chair
man of the important Committee on
Rivers and Harbors, in which he has
done invaluable service for the devel-
opment of the Great Lake regions. Be-
sides being a persuasive and convincing
orator Comrade Alexander has shown
himself writer of quite unusual pow
er. His Political History of the State
of New York." published by Henry
Holt & Co, Is receiving the highest
concentrations by thinkers and stu
dents all over the country. Col. Alex
ander is a warm-hearted, genial COM
rade, constantly helpful in whatever
way he can to comrade whom he
thinks he can assist.
With so many good comrades recent
ly falling outside of the breastworks
the veterans of Comrade Alexander's
district should make unusual exertions
to see that the depletion of our ranks
in the House goes no farther. and that
we have retained there such main
stay as Comrade Alexander.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
REpURLICAN GERMANY

How far the Germans have pro-
gressed toward true Republicanism is
shown by the outburst in the press
that he reigned by divine right, and
not by virtue of any mandate from the
people. The Kaiser's words, uttered at
Konigsberg. the ancient seat of Prus-
sian royalty, were:
MY grandfather by his own right
placed the PrusSian crown upon his
head and again proclaimed it to be
bestowed upon him by Gods grace
alone and not by parliaments. assem-
bIages OF the people or resolutions of
the people, and that he saw in himself
the chosen instrument of heaven, and
as such he regarded his duty as regent
and ruler. ~=* Considering my
self as the instrument of the Master,
regardless of passing views and opin-
ions, ! GO my way, which is solely de-
voted to the prosperity and peaceful
development of our Fatherland"
OF course, the Socialist papers lead
in this outburst. They demand that
Parliament take note of this return to
medievaIism, and, fetch up the Kaiser
within constitutional limits and with a
will give the Socialists SO more seats
in the Reichstag. The Liberal papers
denounce the speech, but more tenn
perately; but even the Monarchist pa
pers are startled. and deplore the
speech as one of the Emperors too fire.
quent attacks of the mouth. Germany
is far better fitted for real Republican
Government than any country in Eu-
rope outside of England, the Scandi-
navian countries, Holland and Switzer-
land. 1t is only question of short
time when Germany becomes as much
of Republic as England is. where the
King is mere official fiction, with not
a fraction of the power lodged in the
hands Of the President Of the United
States.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
The 5th Conn.

Editor National Tribune: I would es-
TEEN it a great favor if you would pub
lish a short history of my old regiment,
the 5th Conn.-W. C. Rockwell, Cap
tain, Co. G, 5th Conn, and A. A. 1. G.,
First Brigade, First Division, Twentieth
Corps, Bradford, Pa.
The 5th Conn. was organized at Hart
ford July 26, 1861, and finally mustered
out July 10. 1865. The first Colonel
was Orris S. Ferry. Col George D.
Chapman resigned and Col w. Packer
was discharged. Lieut-Col Henry W.
Daboll was in command when the regi-
ment was mustered out and brevetted
Colonel Lieut.-Col. Henry B. Stone,
Maj Edward F. Blake and LieutS.
Smith and Dutton were killed at Cedar
Mountain. Capt. George s. Benton was
killed at Charlottesville. 1t belonged
to Knipe's Brigade of Williams's Divi-
sion, Twelfth Corps, and became part
of the Twentieth Corps after its transfer
to Sherman's army.-Editor National
Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
THE DAVIS STATUE.

In a temperate and well-considered
editorial on Attorney General Wicker
sham's opinion the Nashville Banner
opposes for the present the placing of
statue of Jefferson Davis in the Capt.
tol. After reciting all that can be said
in Mr.. Davis's favor it says:
Still, all these facts admitted, there
is a strong, widespread and deep-rooted
prejudice against Mr.. Davis at the
North, aud this prejudice it should not
be the policy Of the South to needlessly
offend Let the civil war animosities
die without any act on the part of the
South to perpetuate or revive them. We
hold in this section to our traditions
and the sacred memories of our heroes
The Home of Jefferson Davis at Beau
voir as the home for the Confederate
Veterans of Mississippi is altogether
seemly and appropriate, but there is
no need in Haunting a red flag in the
face of Northern sentiment.
Let Mississippi keep this niche in
the Statuary Hall vacant If it is unwill-
ing to fill it with one of its sons of less
renown. The vacancy will be suffi-
ciently significant. Doubtless future
generations will regard the matter diff
ferently. IT was a long time before
statue of Oliver Cromwell was allowed
in England. Just now we want peace
and union, and the South does not care
to assume an attitude of aggressive de-
fiance towards the North respecting
memories of the struggle over issues
now dead beyond any hope or even pos
sibility of resurrection or desire that
they be revived"
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
DIR. st.Bo,r;ER,s OPINION.

No writers of American history COM
mands greater audience than Prof
James Scheuler. He has written much.
and each book of his that has appeared
has added to his high reputation as a
careful, discriminating, eminently judi
cious historian. The agitation over the
Lee statues has made him feel called
upon to say word, and the word he
says is extremely pertinent:
THE actfof Congress of 1864, cited by
Attorney-Gene Wickersham. appears
by fair construction to have intended
that the two statues furnished by a
State for the old historic Hall of Repre-
sentatives should be of illustrious citi-
zens already deceased. and the circum-
stances and conditions attending the
passage of that act favor this conclu-
sion. us, s=s4s 81 ssSssSsl "a
what list of ,iIlustrious deceased
persons had Virginia to select frOmi
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Mar
shall, Patrick Henry and other SONS to
associate with the peerless Washington.
For many years past the statue of
Washington has stood in that hall and
also one of jefferson, the latter a
bronze figure which once stood before
the White House. No known objection
was ever offered to them or either of
them. They must have been placed
there under some authority, however
derived, from the State of Virginia. The
statute of 1864 does not insist upon a
formal legislative resolve to express the
choice.
4 presume that this statue of Jeffer-
son has been removed from the hall to
make way for that of Gen. Lee in Con-
federate uniform, lately placed there.
Otherwise Virginia is adding a third
statue when only two are permitted.
When and under what authority on the
part of the United States has Jeffer-
sons statue been removed? And what
has been done with it?
Charles Sumner who was no dough-
face nor a dissembler in his political
opinions, took, / think, the true stand
in such matters. He contended that no
memorial ought ever to be placed in
our National Capitol which might
wound the sentiment of either North or
South concerning the civil war.
Gen. Lee was a brave soldier and
had some excellent personal traits of
character. This Union is broad enough
for his admirers to erect statues to his
memory where locally desired But
neither under a just rule of ethics nor
with fair construction of the statute
of 1864, nor in timely compliance with
an invitation of Congress extended
nearly SO years ago, should his statue
be placed now in the National Capitol.
Moreover, despite all legal casuistry,
Congress has the final control and the
final responsibility in this whole busi-
ness to accept or reject, to place, dis
place or replace, in it's own temple of
legisla ton"
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
The Ist VT. Cay.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short sketch of the 1st VT. Cav.-L.
D. Wheeler, Bell Center, Wis, P. o.
Box 50.
The 1st VT. Cav, one of the fighting
regiments, was organized at Burlington
with 10 companies only, Cos. L and NJ
not being recruited for a year later.
Upon the expiration of it's term of SER
vice of three years the original men,
bers were mustered out, and the vet
Grams and recruits consolidated into
battalion of six companies and retained
in service until Aug. 9, 1865. 1t was
commanded by Coils Jonas P. Holiday.
Ia West Point man, who committed sui
eide; Edward p Sawyer, VIM. Wells
Spring of 1862 the regiment was as
signed to duty in the Shenandoah VAL
ley, and under Gen. Hatch took an ac-
At Gettysburg it was in FarnsworSh's
that battle was ordered by Fitzpatrick
to make the fatal charge on the rebels
strongly protected by stone wall. The
which resulted in the death Of Farms
killed, 25 wounded and 81 missing. The
regiments in the service, and took an
belonged to Kilpatriek's Division, Cav
airy Corps, and lost 134 killed and 304
from disease, etc. One hundred and
forty-nine of its members died in Con-
federate prisons.-Editor National
Tribune
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
WASHINGTON COUNTY COLONY.

The National Tribune receiving subscriptions
the Florida colony
Washington County
Washington County recognized being the best
ing trucking of Florida far
grapefruit and other subtropca products
At of the will be located ST. Andrews
the largest and best natural harbor the Florida
United States expenditure of
quarter of million dollars improvement
harbo and the deepening of the channel This work will begin
early date.
The following prices hold good for a short time only:
One lot 5oxI5o and veacr of farming land outside
the townsite $4,000.
Two lots and veacre the latter constituting
solid body of ten acres, $4,000
Three lots three hve-acre the latter constituting
solid body of fifteen acres 100000.
Four lots and four hveacre the latter constituting
solid bodyof twenty acres, $4,000.
Surveys of the ownste and colony lands progress and
completed prices will be sharply advanced Address The
National Tribune, Washington, D. c.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
RETIREMENT OF SENATOR WAR
NER


The veterans all over the country
ranks of their representatives in both
Houses of Congress is being still further
diminished by the retirement of Past
Commander-in-Chie Warner from the
Senate. Senator Warner has been a
power of the Senate for safe and sound
an enviable position as soon as he en-
tered the Senate, and no one stands
closer to the President and the leader
ship of the party. Naturally his retire.
ment has caused the sharpest pangs of
regret in Missouri, which is proud of
him and which appreciates his useful
ness. He has been besieged to with
draw his decision and allow himself to
be reelected, and many delegations
have importuned him either personally
or by correspondence to do this. The
reasons for his retirement are purely
physical and are dictated by his physi-
clans. He has simply worn himself out
by his unsparing labor in behalf of his
great State and the party. Missouri is
now one of the leading States in the
Union; it has immense interests of every
kind, and Senator Warner has been
looked upon as far the most effective
agent she has in Congress. He has Sc
cured more patronage for his cOnstitu-
ents than any other Senator and his
labors in the interest of Missouri dur
in the tariff discussion were overwhelm-
ing. He was constantly in attendance
during the long discussion of the tariff
bill and ever watchful of the interest
of his State and of the whole country.
What he took upon himself would have
exhausted much younger and strong
er man. The physicians say that there
is absolutely no organic trouble; that
the Senator's wonderful constitution is
perfect, but it is case of absolute eX-
haustion. The Senator left New York
Sept on a slow ship for Europe, where
he will remain few days, and return
by another slow ship, thus getting the
full benefits of sea voyage. Everyone
expects and earnestly hopes that he
will return entirely restored to health,
with all his old vigor and effectiveness
recovered, and will be again the power
of good that he has been for so many
years in politics. public life and the
Grand Army of the Republic. No one
everywhere, and probably none not as
much as the people of Missouri, without
regard for political affiliations.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
OBJECT-LESSONS ALWAYS BEFORE
THEM.

The men in the smaller towns and
country have the veterans before them
every day as convincing object-lessons
las to the justice of pensions. They
know all these men intimately, and how
richly they earned the meager pittance
they are receiving. They are the
farthest remove from the ignorant i'm
migrants and the selfish money-grab-
bers who throng the large cities. The
tordinary residents in the metropolitan
communities are as careless of the men
who saved the Nation as a lot of pigs
who have broken into cornfield are as
to- the man who plowed, planted and
tended the field thru the heat of Sum
mer, and gave days of toll and nights
of watchfulness toward producing the
crop.
Another thing is that the people in
the country and the small towns have
a lively sense of the benefits the quar-
terly distribution of great sums of
money is to the business of their COM
munities.
The State of Ohio, for example, has
92,507 pensioners equally distributed
thruout its SO Counties, except in the
great cities of Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Toledo. These pension
ers receive annually $16.376,313. which
is distributed equably to every little vii
lage and hamlet in the State. 1t finds
its way at last into the pockets of every
man in the State, and does every man
some good. 1t really does more good
than several times that amount distrib-
uted in any other way, because of this
quality of reaching at last every man
In the community. Before that great
sum is at last gathered back into the
vaults of the banks it has perhaps done
the work of s100, ,O00,00 in paying
debts and quickening trade in the re-
motest country districts.
1t would be the worst OF Affections to
the business men of all kinds in Ohio IL
the payment of pension money should
cease.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
HOPE FOR THE VETERANS.

The hope engendered in the hearts
of the veterans by the letters of Speak
er Cannon and Senator Dick, favoring
the early passage of a bill on the lines
of The National Tribune bill, is a most
substantial one. 1t is one that can be
relied on. The ScreecheS against PEN
Sions in the papers of the big cities
do not represent the people. The real
people, who influence Congressman and
legislation, live in the country and
the smaller towns They are men who
are related to the veterans; many of
them sons and sons-in-law. All of them
know veterans intimately, know of their
great service to the country, the sacri-
fees they made and their present needs.
These men feel that nothing is too good
for the veterans whose premature age
and decrepitude are due to unparalleled
hardships and dangers they braveIy in
Cured when the country was in dire
need of men who would give up every
thing, suffer everything, dare every
thing to save her from destruction.
They realize, as the immigrants into
the large cities never can be MADE TO,
that the country owes everything it has
to-day to what those men did then,
and that it is rank ingratitude for the
Nation to allow these men and their
poor old widows to go down to their
graves lacking the common necessaries
of life. Public gratitude and public
spirit are much more strong in the
country than in the selfish, commerce.
ridden cities. The men there listen to
the stories of the veterans and sympa-
thize with them.
They also see, as the men in the
cities cannot, how rapidly death is car
rying off their neighbors who carried
muskets during the great struggle, and
realize that whatever the country in
tends to do for them must be done
quickly.
Our hope is therefore in the influ-
ence that the country will exert upon
their Congressman, and we feel that
this hope was never as well founded as
now.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15
The Sth n. j.

Editor National Tribune: Please give
a short sketch of the Sth n. J.-Georg3
P. Crowell, Hood River, Ore.
The Sth n. J. was organized at Tren-
ton Aug. %, 1861, and the original
members mustered out Sept. 21. 1864.
The veterans and recruits of the 9Th N.
]. were transferred to this regiment,
and the organization remained in SER
vice until July II, 1865. Col. A. J. john
son resigned March 19, 1853, and was
succeeded by Col. John Ramsay, who
was in command when the regiment
was mustered out and brevetted a Brig
adler and Major-G General for gallantry
during the war. At Gettysburg the Sth
n. j. belonged to the Third Brigade Of
Humphreyss Division of the Third
Corps, a brigade made up of such not
able regiments as the I'd n. H. and the
5th. 9Th, 7th and Sth n. J. and 115th
Pa. This brigade did some of the hard
est and most decisive fighting of the
battle.-Editor National Tribune.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15

The French Republic has now COM
pleted 40 years of existence, and has
lasted more than twice as long as any
other Government since the great Rev
olution 120 years ago. It has met every
crisis with distinguished success. 1t
has disestablished the Church, extricat-
ed the country from the crash of a great
defeat, has defied Socialism and An
archy, suppressed dangerous demagogs.
repressed military chiefs who would
become Cesars, and made the country
immensely richer than it ever was. The
experience of 40 years has shown Eu-
rope that a Republic is the strongest
form of a Government.
The National tribune., 1910-09-15

Minnesota is in most enviable con-
dition. She has so much money in her
Treasury that she does not know what
to do with it, and has about decided
not to levy any taxes for 1911 She has
100000 in her Treasury to the good,
and this amount is growing constantly
by reason of the settlement of big Ium-
ber tracts, inheritance tax suits and
other litigations which has nearly dou-
bled the Treasury fund since last Octo-
Der. Comrade w. F. Gall, of Barlow.
Fla, suggests she employ some of this
money to pension her veterans. Com
rade Gall served four years and half
In the army, and has lived 10 years in
Florida, where he has willingly paid
taxes to pension old Confederates. He
thinks it is right, but the Northern
States should ia the same