The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-09
There, After Fifty ears,
Blue and Gray
Will Meet.
SOUTH ACCEPTS
THE INVITATION
Confederate Veterans Will Ioin
in Celebration Despite Adverse
Action of COMMUNICATIONS
eral Bennett H. Young
Will Be Elected Com
nander-in-Chief.

Macon. Ca, May s.-The choosing
of Chattanooga. Tenn. as the reunion
city for 1913. the unanimous. enthusi-
astic acceptance of the invitation of
General Trimbie commander-in-chief
OF the Grand Army OF the Republic.
20 merge the Blue and the Gray in a.
celebration at Gettysburg in July. 1913.
the browning of Miss Mary Scandre,t.
Oh Macon. as queen Of the 1912 re-
union before 10000 pcopi. on Cole
mans Hin, and Georgia sun melting
nie!lo"ly over the city all day. fea-
tured the third day of the twenty :
second annual reunion OF the Confed-
crate veterans in Macon to-day.
All is in readiness for the two big
leatdFes OF tomorrow, the election
OF commander-in-ch!et 10 succeed
the late General George w. Gordon
and the parade OF the long line OF gray
that Will file through the wide and
shaded streets of Macon IN the annual
march OF old and feeble men who
Fought for the Confederacy
Victory IL Sweeping.
ChattanooSa's success IN the fight
tor the 1913 reunion was sweeping
victory over both Jacksonville and
san Antonio, and came al the clos. OF
rather stormy session. although the
u7roar which retarded the progress
OF the convention was not altogether
the outcome of the fight for the next
meeting place. 1t seemed Impossible
to keep the convention IN cheek. and
time and time again General Walker.
| who was presiding. had co rap and
shout for order before the bushes
could go on. Even when n used his
office 10 command he was disrcgarded
the roaring of thousand voices in
| conversation blocking business con-
tinuaily. The vote on the 1918 reunion
was as follows.
Chattanooga. 1,ois: Jacksonville
| coo; San Antonio, 476.
| Late this afternoon the beautiful
| Noleman's Hili. from which Jeffers on
Davis made his last speech to Con.
| federate soldiers, was bright-hued
mass OF people drawn from all over
the South 10 witness the coronation
OF Miss Mary Scandrett
! Hall q dozen bands, recruited from
Oklohama 10 Florida. surrounded the
dais. and as the queen and her ladics
| drove up on great white float dec
! Grated with lilies and American beauty
| roses roar that was heard in every
| part OF Macon went up from the
| crowd. The crown was placed on her
! head by Colonel W. a Harris. chair
! man of the reunion executive commit
/ tee.
Tonight at the grand ball at the
! Park Auditorium. Miss Scandrett and
! General Irvine Walker led the cotil-
! lion. More thafR 200 couples. the
] fairest daughters OF the South, and
I grizzled old survivors of a score OF
battles mixed, and danced until long
| past midnight.
The discussion of the Gettysburg
| North and South reunion was brief
and what objections We're made were
purely on technical grounds One OF
! two delegates declared that the Off.
| cial Endorsement of the convention
was not in conformancc with the con.
| stitution of the United Confederat Il
| Veterans. and that they did not think
| il wise. None of those objecting
! specified the reason for their objection
! beyond that il was constitutional
| breach. However, General Walker
| General Carr and others promptly rose
to declare that the breach was for.
! ever healed: that not anywhere could
| be found in the ranks of the Confcd-
| eracy animus toward the soldiery g.
! the Union, and that the Gettysburg
reunion would forever wipe out what
| fra gment of i'll feeling there might
| possibly be left. The DIRECTORS mad
| haste to ally themselves with the
| overwhelming pacific element. AMI the
| resolution was passed with cheers.
When the report of the committee
, on resolutions was read it was found
that one clause had 10 do with General
Trimble's. invitation for the joint re-
union of the Blue and Gray at Gettys-
! burg. July 3, 4. >. and 6. and recon-
mended that the invitation be declined
Invitation Accepted.
The convention a whole, however
struck out that clause, and with prac-
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