The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-14
SEN, HEPBURN
GETS BROADS|DE
VETERANS IN SESSION SUNDAY
HEAR GOOD TALKS PASS
RESOLUTIONS

ans, held I'm the district court rooT
yesterday afternoon, Commander y
VI. Rumph referred to the speech
OF The senator from Idaho. Hepburn
who gave vent few days ago IN
ihc United states senate to his feel
ings In speaking against a resolu.
ton offered to permit the Confcder.
ate Veterans to Us, the regular army
tents for the coming reunion. In
. the course of his remarks Command.
or liumph compared the democracy
Of the south with that of the an.
/ cicnt Greeks, he spoke OF the prov.
ess of the Confederate army. of the
struggle between the north and south
how we'll the old sore had healed
/ since the close of that awful war,
and in Caustic terms denounced the
utterances of the Idaho senator, as
| uncallcd for and as shameful.
j. I. Wyont followed Commander
Rumph, and he, too, took occasion
I
menting on 1t in vtriolic words.
W. \. Evans. who has recently
moved to Ardmore and become al.
lied with the local Confederate camp.
addressed the old soldiers" in n
very happy and reminiscent mood.
Speaking of the musical features Of
/ the program and especially of Mrs.
ihard's rendition Mr. Evans said
/ that tOD much praise could not be
/ bestowed upon Mrs. lkard and the
others who had ntributed so much
/ To the pleasure of the camp. He
/ said the old time melodies rendered
called 20 mind memories of bygone
days. told of the effect Of music on
the states, Illustrating that effect
in an instance when the opposing
forces of the north and south were
camped on opposite banks OF the Ap.
pomattoX. the band with Lees forces
playing Dixie. while the boys across
the river played Hail Columbia" ."
After the last strains OF Hail Col.
umbla" had died away Lees band
struck up "Home. Sweet Home" and
the Yankees joined In, showing that,
tn ugh in grim war the thoughts of
the men of both armies were con.
] u hn 90
\ relief committee, composed of
W. T. simmons. W. G. Goodson and
G. ~ Morrow was appointed at
Yesterdays meeting. \ resolution
made and carried provided for the
addition of the names of two ladies
on the committee, and Mrs NJ Ikard
ana Mrs. Chas. Dobbins were named.
The following resolutions on the
death Of Uncle Bob" Scales were
read and adopted. after which the
veterans adjourned.
Robert Scales.
As one by one our comrades in
an parts OF The land pass away, we
recognize that soon-rery soon
they and W, will all be gone Al.
ready there are Of them more sleep
Ing the last long sleep than there
are f the living TO follow after
them. and while now there are left
several of rs to meet and in this
public manner pay our respects 20
the departed, the day when there
viii be- only one or two OF MS living
to revere the memories of all the
departed is fas, approaching Soon
too ON, pcrhaps-we will all be
comrades again-not in war; but
in a peace ana rest in that home
not mhdo with hands, eternal
In the heavens
At this meeting We are called upon
10 respect and honor the memory
OF our Comrade Robert Scales, q
private in the Confederate Army
throughout the war and private
in life, yet me of Gods noblcmen,
DISTINGUISHING himself as one OF
those who at last receive the great
reward because they have been
faithful over few things"
Robert Scales was born in Mon
ucll Canada, in May, 1896. lie
moved, early in life, to the state
of Maine, but later came south and
located in Mississippi where, AT
the beginning of the war. he enlisted
m the 18th Mississippi regiment
SONG az once 10 the front where
he remained throughout the -four
lcug years the war lasted His record
As a soldier in the Confederate army
, comes 10 MS without a blemish. As
before indicated, Comrade Scales re
mained private, being a member
, of that great host Of private soldiers
who, under the leaders of our ar
mics. made that record that is the