The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-18
GEN. HARRISON NOMINATED

Immediately after the routine or the reports of committees had been gone through and several resolutions had been adopted, General Sykes of Mis-
 sssippi arose and nominated Gen George F. Harrison of Alabama for chief commander of the Confederate army The nomination was seconded by Gen. A. J. West of Georgia. General Harrison was elected by a rising vote. General Harrison responded witt, great feeling and expressed his gratl- tude for the unsolicited honor. He
 spoke feelingly about the generosity of his comrades in giving him the
 high honor of being their frs: chief q am too full of emotion to at
 tempt to put the feelings of my heart
 into mere words" said General Harri- son. "You have done me a great honor
 I am not worthy of it, but as soldier
 of the Confederacy. I shall attempt to become worthy of the great trust you
 have put in me"
 and the eyes of every veteran were dimmed when he told them that he was
 going to call on Chaplain Gen. J. w. Buchanan of Chattanooga to ask Gods
 invocation on his office that he might be worthy of carrying out the hign standards and precepts of the Confed- eracy. The entire assemblage stood
  Gen. E. c. Cavet named Gen. Calvin V. Vance of Mississippi for commander department of the Army of Tennessee General Stone of Kentufky named Gen.
 John P Hickman. Gen. Leroy P. Buch-
 anan of Florida was nominated Tor thls office as was Gen. Nat F. Harris oi Georgia and Gen. A. J. West of Geor- gia. General Harris, who is governor oi Georgia, declined to run against General
 West, but the members of the convention refused to allow his name to be with drawn.
 On the first ballot General Hickman led
 with GA votes. General Vance withdrew
 On the second ballot General Hickman
 received S19 votes, General Harrison Sl' and General West 56.
 Gen. k. M. Van Zandt of Texas was
 nominated for commander Department ol the Army of Virginia He was elected
 unanimously. Gen. John Thompson Brown and Gen. Lucien P. Carr were
 nominated for commander Department o
 the Army of Trans-Mississippi. Genera
 Brown was elected by a big majority On motion put before the convention his election was made unanimous
 RIVAL CITIES HEARD
 After the election of officers had beer
 completed the representatives of Tulsa Washington and Memphis. who were
 present 10 try 10 gel the convention neA| year to meet in one of these respective cities, were heard from, Col. Hilary A Herbert, formerly of Alabama. but d present a resident of Washington, D. c.
 made the opening talk for the convention to be held next year in Washington. H,
 spoke of the time when the soldiers o1 the Confectionery tried to enter the gates of Washington, which were barred tt them, and stated that now they were oper to the Confederacy and that he had beer
 sent to Birmingham on behalf of the cit
 izens of Washington to extend to them g
 cordial invitation He named the numer ous advantages of Washington and as
 sured them that they would be entertained royalty,
 Colonel Herbert was followed by Judg,
 F. c. Howry of Washington. who 'backet up all said by Colonel Herbert and theI
 some" The crowd cheered and laughed as Judge Howry mentioned that Wash iHgton was 8 place where one may stil get all the liquid refreshnent he wished for and without any trouble whatsoever.
 MEMPHIS MAN SPEAKS J. P. Norfieet of Memphis spoke of tn. advantages his city offered over any othe
 In the country for the entertainment O
 the veterans. Mr. Norfleet demonstrated
 that he was speaker of no mean ahilit.