The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-10-22
WANT VETS. TO
VISIT DENVER
FOR A REUNION
CARL HINTON, AIDE TO GENERAL
FORREST, SONS OF VETERANS.
WORKING UP INTEREST IN A
GENERAL REUNION IN 1915.

Aide 10 the Adjutant General Carl
| Hinton, who is here with Adjutant Cen
era1 Nathan Bedford Forrest, Sons Of
Veterans, TO attend the reunion Of the
Confederate Veterans of Florida and
TO assist in the reorganization OF the
| United Sons Of Confederate Veterans
here, also has another motive in com
TO Pensacols. and going to other
places to attend these reunions.
Mr.. Hinton, who is a newspaper man
OF considerable experience, though
young in years, represents the Colo
RADIO Publicity League and the Denver
Convention Association. and his prime
object in visiting the reunions of vet
Grams in the various states is to securs
from them the pledges Of the support
Of their respective states toward secur-
ing the general reunion for Denver in
1915.
Mr.. Hinton brings to Pensacola and
TO the veterans of the state OF Florida
the greetings of the veterans and sons
OF veterans of the entire West, as we'll
as the urgent invitation to hold the
reunion Of 1916 in the city Of Denver.
This is the fourth state reunion held
recently, all of which have been at
tended by Mr.. Hinton, and he says that
he has secured the pledge OF every
convention which he has attended so
far. IT is his intention to attend every
reunion of Confederate Veteras held
this year and to endeavor to secure
pledge from all of them.
Mr.. Hinton gives d number Of rea
sons why Denver, though north Of the
Mason and Dixon line. is justified in
asking that this reunion be held in
that city in 1915.
~
cent Of the population of Denver is COM
posed of southern people, and thirty
three Per cent of the population OF the
entire state Of Colorado is made up Of
southern people.
The g0EeTnor of Colorado IS a native
OF North Carolina and the son of a
Confederate veteran. One of the two
u nited States senators from Colorado
is a Confederate veteran from Georgia,
while the other is the son of Confed-
crate veteran.
The mayor Of Denver and two OF the
city commissioners are sons of Confed-
crate veterans, according 10 Mr.. Hin
ton.
Mr.. Hinton says that the hospitality
OF Denver is exactly the same as the
southern Hospitality and that his city
is q distinctly southern city.
AS an instance, he cites the banquet
and reception rendered Adjutant Cen
eral Forrest when he visited that city
recently. simply for the purpose of con-
ferring with officers OF the Sons of
Veterans there. Mr.. Hinton declares
that the only other men who have
ever been accorded such receptions in
Denver are Woodrow Wilson, Theodore
Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.
The banquet given in honor of General
Forrest he says, was the most elab-
crate ever given in Denver, and was
due mostly TO the cause he represented
and the high esteem III which the peo-
pie Of that city and section hold the
memory of his illustrious ancestor.
Another reason the representative
Of Denver and Colorado urges that
Denver mas a claim to the reunion IS
that Denver is directly on the line
from the South to San Francisco and
that more people will visit the Pan
American Exposition from the South
than from any other section. Arrange
rnents have been made with the rail- |
roads he says, whereby people pur-
chasing tickets from points east OF
Denver will be allowed a stop-oVer |
privilege of fifteen days without any |
extra cost, so that they will be enabled |
to attend the reunion at Denver and !.
the exposition without extra cost, pro- |