The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-17
Confederate Veterans Con- vene in Annual Session
 at Selma
ANNUAL GRAFTON IS
 DELIVERED BY JONES
Sons of Veterans Hold Opening Ses- sion at Y. M. c. A. Yesterday. Brigadier Generals Elected
 for the Fourth Division

twelfth annual reunion of the Alabama d1- vision Of Confederate veterans convened here at noon today. The opening session was held in the court room at the court house of Dallas county and every avail able inch of space, in the hall was filed with some veteran or gray haired woman of the days of the war between the states. Selma is being taxed to care for the vet erans and the visitors, but by energetic work on the part of the various members of the different committees every veteran and every visitor to the reunion is be- ing cared for.
 The city is crowded, as it has been upon but few occasions before, and to meet all emergencies a large number of the homes of the city have been thrown open to veterans and visitors.
 Every indication from the point of at tendance is that the reunion will be a great success and one of the features Of which will be the awakening in the state organization of sons of veterans some in terest in the patriotic deeds of thier fore fathers of the Confederacy and the fos- tering of the patriotic deeds of vdlor of the old soldiers of the south.
 Sons Hold Meeting
 This was the keynote of the optn- ing session of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which was held in the audi torium of the Young Mems Christian association this morning at Il o'clock.
 Veterans from all parts of the state began to arrive in Selma Monday morning but the great influx of old soldiers of the south did not reach here until this morning.
 Every train brought hundreds of them and hundreds came to the city from the surrounding Selma territory by all manner of conveyance.
 Every train that arrived at the diff ferent railroad stations was met by members of various committees who acted as guides to veterans to the gen eral headquarters, where they regis tered and were assigned to homes for the two days of the reunion.
 Preparatory to the assembling of the opening session there was nothing to mar 1t except the work of an elderly man who picked the pockets of four veterans and secured about $50. No criminal feature other than the pick rockets have been reported to the DO lice department of the city The open ing session of the reunion was presided over by Col. B. M Washburn of Mont gomery. Adjt. Gen and Chief of Staff Gen. Harvey F. Jones then took the chair and the invocation was delivered. Jones Delivers Grafton A. song by Mrs. w. P. Stewart fol- lowed, after which General Jones de- livered an oration upon the Confederate dead and the women of the Confeder- acy, and which was greeted by a loud applause.
 When the election of officers came up on the programme General George liar rison of Opelika moved and nominated General Harvey E. Jones of Montgom cry to succeed himself as commander of the Alabama division of the United Confederate veterans. The brigade gen erals elected for the fourth division were: First brigade, J. B. Fuller; sec ond brigade. c. w. Hooper; third brig ade B. F. Weathers; fourth brigade, T. | P. Lampkins.
 With the unanimous election of Gen. eral Jones to succeed himself as com mander of the Alabama division of Con- federate veterans, Mrs. Townes Ran dolph Leigh of Montgomery, chairman of the Chickamauga Memorial associa- ton, with appropriate remarks present. ed him with a cluster of flowers gath cred from the Chickamauga battle field
 Meet Next in Mobile
 The arranged programme was carried out during the sessions held today and the meeting of the veterans of the state was selected to be held in Mobile upon the call of commander, and the date for which will be named by the vet erans of that city
 Little business was transacted during the afternoon session. the feature of which was the adoption of the follow ing resolution offered by C. w. Hooper the newly elected brigader general of the Second brigade, and which was as follows:
 Be it resolved. That whereas we are lin no sense d political party and that nothing herein should be construed as having political significance whatever. but be 1t resolved that we have no sympathy whatever with the assassin, and we here by do heartily condemn the attempt on the life of Col Theodore Roosevelt.
 Second That we rejoice that no such attempt has ever been made in the south upon the life of any prominent citizen. While most, if not all of us, will vote the democratic ticket, we desire to ex- press our sympathies for Colonel Roose- welt and earnestly hope for his speedy recovery"
 Pickpockets at Work
 Soldiers of the Confectionery and visitors to the reunion have been touched by pickppckets to nearly an aggregate sum of $i06 today. Many cases have been re- ported to the police department and the arrests of three white men have resulted. The men arrested gave their names as Albert II. Brown. William Smith and George Clark. The arrests were made by Southern railway detectives and mem