The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-05-27
Inspiring and Patriotic Pro
gram is Now Being
Arranged.
SENATOR FLETCHER
ONE OF SPEAKERS
Vets and Sons to Mingle in
Washington by the
Thousands.
SPECIAL TO THE JOURNAL.

Washington, May 26.-The COnfed- /
crate Veterans and Sons reunion, /
June As, at Washington City, D. c., |
has arranged an inspiring and pa !
triotic program. Notable speakers
and stirring songs dear to Dixie !
mingled with the most wholesome pa /
triotism will be the predominant tone
of the great gathering in the beauti-
full and ever-interesting capital.
All Washington awaits with sin
cere interest the reunion reveille.
Programs are being announced, the
details of the great T&rad, nothing
similar to which any past reunion can
offer, are complete, trips to Mount
Vernon, to Arlington, the r. Z. Lee
home, near which Fighting Joe
Wheeler sleeps, and other shrines
dear to the south and to the nation
are arranged. The veterans will be
housed and fed, in so far as they de
sire, at the city expense, in comfort
able, conveniently located houses.
They will be safe and secure against
weather conditions, and placed by de-
partments and states as far as posi-
bic. Both the sons and the citizens
committee will meet all trains, and
nothing will be wanting for safety,
comfort and enjoyment.
On the afternoon of Sunday, June
5, will be held the annual ConfeL
crate decoration day ceremonies at
the Arlington National Cemetery.
The president of the United States
has been invited to attend and IS
fully expected to address that meet
ing. Other speakers of national
prominence are also on the program
The music of the program is espe-
cially appropriate. The strewing Of
flowers on the Confederate dead bur
led in Arlington will conclude the
| exercises. This is always a touching
part of the exercises.
The program of the opening night,
June 4, under the management of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, bv
long custom, is a most splendid fea-
ture of the public exercises. 1t will
be held at the Arcade Hall, 14th
street and Park Road. Of the notable
speakers who will be heard that
| night, Major E. w. r. Ewing will in
! terest both veterans and sons No
man of this generation, competent
critics agree, has contributed more
| to the sOuth's historical literature.
He will deliver the principal address
| of welcome. Those who have read
| his famous books delineating various
phases of our American government,
| dealing with the legal and constitu-
| tiOnal question involved and focusing
| the whole into a practical appHca-
| ton of those principles, will be eager
| to grasp this opportunity to hear his
! eloquent welcome to those for whose
cause his pen has been busy these
years. Veterans will recall with pleas
ure his numerous early works on the
| causes of the war, which was warmly
! endorsed in one of their open meet
| ings. As a result an entire edition
! as consumed in a few months, and
the work is out of print. Both vet
Grams and sons and students general
! ly will recall his even more scholar
! " work. Legal and Historical Stat
US of the bred Scott Decision" which
seven or eight universities north and
south have been glad to add to their
reference Curriculums, and which is
widely and warmly endorsed by
judges, lawyers and leading journals.
THE Hayes-Tilden Contest" The
Pioneer Gateway of the Cumber-
lands" and sketches and a few short
stories from his pen add substantial
ly to the south's contribution to let
tiers and history.
Major Ewing volunteered in our
war with Spain, and, though over
military age, his unconditional offer
of service in our war against Ger
man militarism is now in the hands
of the governor of Virginia, his ma
tive state.
For two years he has conducted
the chautauqua historical course
given during the winter by Wash
ington Camp. Sons of Confederate
I Veterans; and with Dr. Matthews P.
Andrews. of Baltimore, another au-
thor of note. and A. H. Jennings, of
Lynchburg, Va, is writing The Gray
Book" This book is being prepared
under the auspices of the general or
ganization of Sons of Confederate
| Veterans, and will present conciseiy
the south's part in American his
tory.
Other distinguished speakers who
viii deliver addresses on the open
ing night are, Senator Duncan L.
| Fletcher. Mayor Mitchell, of New
York, both Sons of Confederate Vet