The Washington times., 1923-04-11
'PU[ITICS s TIR'
|. OLD 'REBS To
FIGHT
Confederate Reunion Seethes
With Interest as Leaders
Battle for Policies.
By RALPH G. LEBL0ND.
international News Service.

NEW ORLEANS, La, April IL
Business sessions Of the Thirty
third Reunion Of the United Com
federate Veterans and the Sons
of Confederate Veterans b gan to-
day with both bodies fairly sfzzlin9
with politics. The senior organs
cation, the old Confederate veters
ans, began their sessions In tho
Gypsy Smith tabernacle, place
Of piety and prayer at one time
but today seething with fa9tional
fights over the selection OF q com
rnandeY In chief to- succeed Gen.
Julian s. Carr: the proposed ANAL
gannafion OF the Confederate Vet
Grams with the Sons OF Veterans
and a possibility Of recurrence OF
the Richmond fight over the reso.
luton declaring Abraham Lincoln re-
sponsfble for the war between tho
States.
Khan IN Fight.
The Sons of Veterans held their
sessions in a hotel convention hall
where khan and antiklan forces are
locked in q grapple. 20 control the
election Of q new COMMANDMENTS
chief.
Except for the election Of COM
manders the other questions win
be fought out in the resolutions
committees OF both bodies.
Commander Carr said today that
the Lincoln resolution, which he re-
pudiated, following the adjourn.
ment Of the Richmond convention
win be killed If it reaches the floor.
Commander Carr is candidates
for reelection to defeat General
Thomas. Other candidates sprangl
up overnight with mushroom-likel
growth. The newest entry IL General
kirkpatrick, of Texas, being put
forth as the trans-M Mississippi can
date. General Haldeman, Of Ken
lucky, is being put forward by the
Carr interests as rallying point
in the event OF the commanders
withdrawal A geographical COM
bination is being talked. which II
made, win control the convention.
of both bodies. This combination
links the trans Mississippi depart-
ment with the department Of TEN
nessee against the army of north
ern Virginia The same combine
ton goes for the Sons.
Predict Dark Horse.
Predictions were made today that.
q dark horse, q Louisiana COM
mander, would be unbIanketed by the
sons at the psychological moment.
d. s. Etheridge, of Chattanooga
Tenn, commander Of the army OF
Tennessee, is also being boosted by
the anti-klan, anti-Lee faction. The
khan forces, it was said today By
Carl Hinton, adjutant in chief, were
working hard under cover, and
their support would 90 to Com
mander w. Mcdonald Lee Of Viz
g1nia. A boomlet has been started
for Walter L. Hopkins. Of Rich
nond to cut into the Lee strength.
Chief interest in today's program
conferred in the presence OF Gov.
John NJ. Parker, Of Louisianas
archboe Of the khan. Governor
Parker's address OF welcome to the
veterans was character1stically
brief and eulogistic Of the Southern
soldier. Neither by hint or infer
ence was there any reference to the
khan.
while time lasts" he said, ''the
record of the Confederate soldier
viii stand as an example Of patriot
ism, self-sacrifice, courage ana
obedience to divine win without .
parallel in history. Deathless, too
is the appreciation Of the South
from generation to generation.
He closed with a tribute to Gen.
Robert e. Lee, "a name to b
linked" he said, with Washing.
ton, Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wil.
son..