The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-05-10
TENNESSEE CITY WON EASILY
OVER JACKSONVILLE AND
@SAN ANTONIO.
WILL GO TO GETTYSBURG ALSO
Invitation From G. A. r. to Join II
There in July Of Next Year Is Ac.
cepted by an Almost Unanimous
Vote.

ton of General Trimble, commander
in-chief of the G. A. r., to merge tn,
blue and the gray in the celebration
at Gettysburg in July, 1913; the
browning of Miss Mary Scandrett, Of
Macon, as queen of the 1912 reunion
before 10000 people on Coleman's
hill, and a Georgia sun melting mel
iowly over the city all day, featured
the third day of the twenty-second
annual reunion of the Confederate
!, 'eterans in Macon today
All is in readiness for the two big
features of tomorrow, the election OF
a ommander-in-chief to succeed the
late Gen. Geo. w. Gordon and the pa.
rade 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.
/ Chattanocga's success in the fight
for the 1913 reunion was a sweeping
victory over Jacksonville and San An
tonic and came at the close CT a
rather stormy session, although the
uproar which retarded the progress
of the program was not altogether
the outcome of the fight for the next
meeting place. 1t seemed impossible
to keep ordr and time and again Gen.
Walker, who was presiding, had to
rap and shout for order before busi-
ness could proceed. Even when he
used his Office to command he was
disregarded, and the deep drowning
roaring of thousand voices in con-
versation blocked business continu-
ally.
The vote on the 1918 reunion was
as follows:
Chattanooga, 1,O4S; Jacksonville,
6O6; San Antonio, 476.
At 6 o'clock this afternoon Cole
man hill, from which Jefferson Davis
maze his last speech to Confederate
soldiers, was bright-hued conglom-
crate mass of people drawn from all
ever the South, numbering according
to more conservative estimates TO-
900, to witness the coronation of Miss
Scandrett Half dozen bands re-
cruited from Oklahoma to Florida
surrounded the dias and as the queen
and her ladies drove up on great
white float decorated with lilies and
American beauty roses, roar that
was heard in every part of Macon
went up from the crowd. The crown
was placed upon her head by Col. W.
A. Harris, chairman of the reunion
committee.
Tonight at the grand ball at the
Park auditorium Miss Scandrett and
Gen. Irvine Walker led the cotillion.
More than one thousand couples, the
tairest daughters of the South and
srizzled old men, survivors of a score
Of battles, mixed and danced until
ong past midnight.
The discussion on the Gettysburg
north and south reunion was very
oricl, and what objections were made
we're on technical grounds. One or
wo delegates declared that the off1c-
al endorsement of the reunion was
lot in conformance with the consti.
ution of the United Confederate Vet
'rans, and that they did not think it
wise. None of those Directing speci.
led the reason for objection beyond
hat it was constitutional breach.
However, General Walker, General
Iarr and others declared that the
reach was forever healed; that not
nyvhere could be found in the ranks
f the Confederacy animus toward
he soldiery OF the Union. and that
he Gettysburg reunion would forev-
r wipe out that fragment of ill-feel-
1g that might possibly be left. The
Electors made haste to ally them
elves with the overwhelming pacific
lemeut, and the resolution was pass
d amid cheers.
WIN the report of the committee
q resolutions was read, it was found
lat one clause dealt with General
invitation for a Joint re-
Mot" of the blue and the gray at
July 3. 4. s, 6, and rec
nmended that the invitation be de-
ined.
The convention as a whole, how
Ier struck out that clause and prac-
caily unanimously adopted in its
cad one written by Gen. C. Irvine