The National tribune., 1910-04-28
FOR CONNANDER=IN=CHIEF.
The Endorsements of Grand Army
Posts, of Voters in National
Encampment and Other Per-
s0nal Endorsements Continue
to Come in BattaliOnS.
FOR COsIMlNDER-IN-CHIEF.
Announcement From Chairifan HOl
brook.
"Headquarters McElroy Campaign
Committee Washington, ID. c..

brook.
"Headouarters McElroy Campaign
Committee. Washington, D. c..
April q, 1910.
Comrades: That our comrade, John
McElroy. will be elected Commander
lin-Chief of the Grand Army of the Re
public at Atlantic City seems now as
sured Your loyal support of him mas
been very cheering to the comrades OF
the Department of the Potomac, VINO
believe that the time has come When
the Commander-inCh Chief of the Gfahd
Army of the Republic should be located
lin WASHINGTON While their desire TO
lbave a Commander-in-C Chief of their
lown NAV be considered a little selfish,
we want you to know that, after all, We
are looking out for the interests OF our
comrades everywhere. You must know
lthat everything is closing in on the vet
Grams of the war of the rebellion. They
are growing older, there is disposition
20 proclaim them inefficient and unable
to perform their duties in Government
employ, and the signs increase that
their best days are not their last ones
Since he is less able to make him
self felt at the ballot boxes thruout the
| country more and more the veteran
feels that there should be concentrates
| effort and influences in Washington,
from whence all help for the fasl-de-
CreaSing veterans must come. We VINO
live in Washington realize this perhaps
far better than the veterans thruout the
country. We feel that it now must be
a long pull, a strong pull and pun
altogether, and with the hub in wash
Iington this is exactly what we can 90
by putting our shoulders to the Wheel.
There have come to the McElroy
Campaign Committee during the past
two weeks Endorsements of 40 Posts,
said Endorsements having been passed
in December January and early Feb
ruary, and which the Posts had not con-
sidered necessary to send in until the
! importunate call was sent out by the
committee. The comrades are so loyal
to the editor of The National Tribune
that they evidently believed that he
must know that all he had to do was to
state his desire to be elected Command
er-in-Chief. and that the Posts would
! indorse him spontaneously. While this
! is true, the McElroy Campaign Com
mittee desires to make a complete rec
ord of every Post that indorses. IL
would be something for the next Com
| mander-in-Ch to hand down to is
! grandchildren and for them to be proud
| of So il is hoped that all those Posts
that gave the earlier Endorsements, now
/ numbering into the thousands, will for
ward a statement to that effect
The committee has been informed
! that the Department of California unan-
IfnOuSlN lnuOrSeu COflE1u6 4htlIlIpA 1Ol
| Commander-in-Chief at its Department
Encampment last week, and, as was
stated last week, the Department of
Maryland also unanimously indorsed his
candidacy. These, added to Potomac,
makes three Departments which have
emphatically stated that they desire
John McElroy for Commander in Chief
this year. Assurances are coming from
other Departments that tney will go
with the same unanimity for the candi-
date of the Department of the Potomac.
THE Campaign Committee sincerely
thanks the veterans of the country for
their hearty and enthusiastic support of
our candidate.
Edwin Holbrook, Chairman"
Eben n. Ford Post. Department of
Pennsylvania, is solid for John McElroy
for Commander-in-C Chief of the G.. A r.
The National Tribune pension bill
and the candidacy of John McElroy for
Commander-in-Chi are unanimously
indorsed by S. A. Hurlbut Post, Depart
ment of Missouri, G. A r.
Owen Gray Post. Department of Ohio,
C. A. r., is strongly opposed to the re-
turn of the rebel flags that were cap
tured from them during the war. is
unanimously opposed to the statue of
Lee being installed in the Hall of Fame
at Washington, ID. c., and is also unan-
imously in favor of John McElroy for
Commanderin-C and thinks he has
done more for the good of the old SOL
diers than any one man living.
At regular meeting of Benz Harri-
son Post, of California, a resolution was
unanimously passed indorsing Comrade
John McElroy as COmmander-in-Chief
of the G. A. r. for the coming term of
l910-1911.
Michigan Post. Department of Mfchi-
gan, G. A. r, is solid for John McEl-
roy as Commander-in- Chief for 1910
1911.
Believing that Comrade John McEI-
roy's position in public life is such that
he would be of much benefit to the Or
der, John Sedgwick Post, of New Hamp-
shire, heartily indorses his candidacy
for National Commander.
Blue Mound Post, Department of IlIi-
nois, G. A. r., writes to The National
Tribune that John McElroy can count
on its hearty support at the next Ma
uonal Encampment.
Resolutions were unanimously adopt-
ed by Capt. VIM. A Jackson Post, of
New York, instructing its delegates to
the State and National Encampments to
favor John McElroy's election as Com
mander-i in Chief
Columbia Post, Department of Cali
fornia and Nevada. heartily indorses
the candidacy OF John McElroy, be-
cause the comrades of that Post believe
him to be eminently fitted for and fully
entitled to that high position and that
he has done more for the ex-Unfon
soldier thru his grand paper, The Ma
uonal Tribune, than anyone else to help
the veterans. and the Post assures him
OF its fun support at the next National
Encampment.
Samuel II. Sizer Post, Department of
Wisconsin. is in favor of The National
Tribune pension bill and John McElroy
for Commander-in-C Chief.
Foote Post. Department of Ohio
heartily indorses Comrade John McEI- |
roy for the next Commander-in-Chi
OF the Grand Army of the Republic
The Delegates to the State Encamp-
ment of Missouri from T. J. Brouster |
Post have been instructed to support |
the candidacy of John McElroy for |
Commander-in-Chief Hugo Vogel, Ad-
jutant.
Sutherland Post, Department of Iowa. |
is for The National Tribune pension |
bill first, last and all the time, and |
heartily indorses John McElroy for |
Commander-in-Chief. e. H Mumby, |
Adjutant.