The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-28
Gen. George W. Gordon Of
 Tennessee Succeeds Evans !, As Commander Chief
CONVENTION BUSINESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED
the Veterans Will Re Entertained in Many Ways Ny the People
 of the Gulf City

Mobile. April 27.-With Little Rock
 chosen as the reunion city for 1911 ,}, and New Orleans indorsed for the honor kI in 1915 and with m election of off N cers, the United Confederate Veterans \ association closed its business sessions tonight. All that remains now is the \ big parade tomorrow and the balance ' of the week will be devoted to amuse gments
 The selection of Little Rock had been freely predicted and though the Arkan-
 sas city lacked majority on the first
 ballot it was so far in the lead that
 vote to make the selection unan-
 nous carried with a roar. The vote
 stood Little Rock 1070, Chattanooga $40,
 Oklahoma City r, Houston 10. When
 Texas was reached the veterans saw
 how things were going and they threw
 their strength to Arkansas.
 The indorsement of New Orleans as
 the meeting place for 1915 was con-
 tained in a resolution favorably re-
 ported and adopted. It reeites that
 New orleans proposes to hold Pan
 ana canal exposition in 1915, that this
 city had asked the veterans to indorse
 the exposition and attend it in April,
 1915. It was resolved, therefore, that
 each reunion until 1914 take this same l, action and that the reunion of 1914 fol- Y low the idea and meet in New Or leans.
 Gordon Is Chosen As The programme for election of off
 cers was carried out to the letter Gen. i ,George W. Gordon of Memphis. com , mander of the department of Tennessee, was chosen cemmander-in- chief. stics
 ceedng Gen. Clement A. Evans of At
 lanta.
 General Evans was elected past com
 mander-in-c chief and Gen. W. l.. Cabell
 commander of the Trans Mississippi di-
 vision. was also elected past command
 erin chief.
 The new commander, General Gordon.
 has the distinction of being one of the
 four living Confederate oh hieftains who
 were actually jor generals before the i.war ended. He also has a record of being captured by the federal forces
 three times.
 General Gordon will be succ neded in
 command of the department of 1ennes-
 see by Gen. Bennett Young of Lous-
 vile, Ky.
 General Gordon will not announce his
 staff for several weeks, but 1t is under
 stood that Gen. William E. Mickle will
 remain adjutant general and chief of
 staff to General Gordon.
 New Camps Chartered
 The convention was late in coming to
 order because of the delay of committees
 in reporting. Adjt. Gen. William Mickle f made his annual report, which showed 30
 new camps had been chartered during the year. and ten old camps were renstated. The general seemed ready to read the re- port but two bands were playing Dixie ii so he gave 1t up and distributed printed ' copies.
 The Sons of Veterans marched into the tent during the session, and through their T tyofficers presented great things to the older organizations
 The credentials committee reported no
 contests and voting strength of 2321 |4 The tent was in much disorder. Gen M eral Evans presiding, feeble with age and H just out of a sick bed pounded in vain for silence, and finally appointed ser geants-at-arns to clear the aisles. Clarence J. Owen, commander-in-c M of the Sons of Veterans, was presented M and received an ovation Owen spoke M spiritedy of state rights and declared if N the United States is to exist as a nation it must recognize and adopt the means for which the south fought. On motion of General Mickle, 3 D. m. was fixed as the time for selecting the M next reunion city. This was approved by H all the contesting cities, which welcomed H an opportunity to do little more mis-
 sionary work.
 The committees on history and Battle
 Abbey made reports
 M Ballot for Meeting Place The balloting for the next meeting place was the feature of the afternoon session, reached soon after 8 o'clock. Colonel MI 6hipp of Chattanooga. who was only re- VI gently released from the Washington H(D. @ prison after serving term for X contempt of the United States supreme
 court in permitting a negro to be lynch N ed made the first appeal for Chattanoo- FsWGa. When he described how he had just Ybcen released from federal prison after f- being made Q vicarious sacrifice, the con 'vention went mad. When Mayor ,Thomp son of Chattahooga. who followed him, referred to the cruel persecution there was anothed demonstration. Mayor Rob ertson was reinforced by President Patt ten of the board of trade. and Miss I~ss- ris of Portsmouth, Va, who sang song of Chattanooga. Mrs. Kappelman, the ''poetess of Arkansas recited an orgi- nal poem on Arkansas and Congressman John T. Robinson of Arkansas made an address. Dr. Junius Jordan also spoke for the Arkansas town. E. w Foster of Nashville withdrew that towns entry l and indorsed Chattanooga. Then cama the hit of the season-Mayor E. J. Gid Aings of Oklahoma City. The mayor Ia young, an orator and a real humorist He began by recting how .ie had asked for the reunion at Memphis last year. and
 said he proposed to come back every yeal until he goi 1t.
 ''Why," he said. 'fn two years Little
 Rock will be a suburb of Oklahoma City. We have better ball team than Pitts burg. better beer than Milwaukee, bet ter booze than Louisville and prettier women than Memphis
 Resolutions Read
 He continued in this strain until it
 looked like the convention had stampeded
 to the Oklahoma town. But theNLittle
 Rock people got busy aagin The mayor
 1$ Houston appealed for Houston. as did 1 Mrs Long and Mrs. Francis of the Texas ,ntughters of the Confederacy. It was almost dark when the decision wasAmade X