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EDITION
20 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.
G.A.
Kansas Delegates Highly In
dignant, Standing Sol
idly Back of Him.
CONEY IS AHACKED
ON HIS WAR RECORD
He Calls Attention to Man
ifest Errors in Anony
mous Letter.
Opponents of His Candidacy as National
Head of G. A. R. Issue Circular.
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CAPTAIN CONEY'S ANSWER
An attack of this kind, anony
mous and obviously false, is an
outrage and should "be denounced
by all honest people. I was with
my command at Gettysburg and at
Spottsylvania, and I have i:ever
made a false assertion so far as
I my army record is concerned. The
I letter purportedly written by Mr.
Ware carries a wrong date in fix
ing the time of my enlistment, if
the copy of the letter used in the
anonymous attack is a true copy.
I says that I enlisted March 21,
1864. As a matter of fact, I en
listed March 4, 1863, practically
four months before Gettysburg was
fought.
I have heard of the existence
of this circular attacking me, but
did not see a copy of it until this
morning. I seems to me that it
is hardly worth my while to dig
nify such an attack by noticing
it. I carries its own refutation
on its face. P. H. Coney.
&
Kansas delegates are highly indig
nant at a savage and determined at
tack that has been made upon the war
record of Captain H. Coney of To
peka, a prominent candidate for the
position of comma'nder-in-chi^f, of the
Grand Army of the Sejoablie this year.
That attack has takeli concrete form
in a printed statement which is being
circulated among the-veterans in Min
neapolis this week. I is important
for the reason that it has injected a
highly unpleasant element into the
contest for this high office, and threat
ens to create no end of bitterness be
fore the encampment is ended.
The -claim, in brief, is that the army
record claimed for Captain Coney in
a. printed circular issued under the sig
natures Of many of the most prominent
Ohrand Army men of Kansas, all of
whom are lovally supporting his.can,
didacy, is in part spurious. Speeifical-
circular that Captain Coney was with
bis regiment, the One Hundred and
Eleventh New York at the battles of
Influence for discord
Army organization.
Coney Circular Quoted.
The circular which indorses the can
didacy of Captain Coney and gives
h'hat purports to be his army record,
Is signed, among others, by Rev.
F. Boyle, past department chaplain
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A BONE Of CONTENTION
MRS. JULIA E. F. LOBDELL,
Of Minneapolis. Whose Prospective Can
didacy Is AQitating the L. the
G. A. i
DEATH GOMES TO
TWO VETERANS
One Succumbs to Accidental In
juries^The Other Drops
from Excitement.
Death invaded the ranks of the
Grand AEsmy of the Republic again
today, .sitddenly Yemoviug two well*
knowi^Yeterstns. -v*
J. Burke oi Burlingame Kan.,.
George H. Smith, First New York
jcferagoons, died at his residence at 4
a.m. from injuries received in an ac
cident at Nicollet avenue and Eighth
street last evening.
Mr.-Burke was standing in the office
talking to the clerk when he sud
denly became faint and fell backward.
Several, men at once ran to him and
tried to revive him, but a physician
who was summoned declared that he
wa
dea
hCoroner m0
ly, it is to the effect, the main,.that Deputdy said death
the inferential statement m.the printed wa
va
member of the Forty-fourth New York pass-By stage, while the less strenuous
infantry, fell dead in front of the members discuss!the emeute in whispers
clerk's desk in the Pauly hotel on i and are trying to smooth the affair over
Bridge square at noon today, and before there is a chance to bring the
menIrvinefell. .he
pro a blv due to apopexy, aggra
th
inteug
nea
Georg
Smitht 2
Smithe, father of B. J.
911 Park avenue, was run
Gettysburg and SpottsTlvama is^not carriage at Nicollet avenue Out-of-town candidates, aware of the
^r
thl%ftl PpttvlbL Eighth street at 4 o'clock yester- situation, are taking sides, and among
S55h? aiul wi?i? a'hSSta^t^JS^y afternoon while crossing' the! them all the convention 'promises to
S of the &Dotts?vvania eneaglment street. He was on his way to purchase show a good deal of fighting spirit. The
This chargers li' Tol^vf^Uel]^^ the parade. A horse, was women of the home department are di-
bnt it has drawn attention to the Co- &en around the corner from Eighth viding off into camps ancK it can be
ney candidacy this year in a most un- street and Mr. Smith was knocked to easily surmised by the demeanor of the
pleasant manner and injected into the the pavement. He was taken to a visiting delegates which side they fa-
Minneapolis encampment something nearby store and later was removed vor.
that may possibly have a far-reaching to his home. Death was due to con- A. member of the Illinois delegation
"in the Grand cussion of the brain. Mr. Smith was i said this morning that the Illinois rep-
70 years old and was in good health resentatives were not asrrec-d with re-
before the accident. gard to the Lobdell candidacy. There
The funeral will take place Thursday
at 2 p.m. from the residence.
I. Van Brocklln of the Sixth Wis
consin battery wants to meet Daniel
Van Brocklin of the Twenty-seventh
i Wisconsin infantry. Inquire at 203
Wirz Statue Agitation
Not Due to Good "Confeds"
By Capt. Jack Crawford.
ATTENTION COMRADESI was twice wounded, desperately at the
battle of Spottsylvania, and badly on the last charge of Petersburg,
when my colonel fell dead in front of meleading the charge into Fort.,
Mahone, nicknamed Fort Damnation. And I Bay to you, my comrades/
who have seen just such service, and' who were always ready to answer
roll call, I say that I have more Jove, more respect and a hundred times
more admiration for the rebels who shot me than" I have for the -coffee-'
coolers who never did any fighting when they could shirk, and who have,
made it their business ever since the war to feed on governme d1rp&p and
slur such men as that grand comrade.of U. S. Grant, Robert-E. Lee.
I say, and I say it most emphatically, that most of the/ animosity-
engendered in the north comes from political outlaws and graft. G.. "SA$. J.
R. newspapers.
Here is what I particularly want to call your attention tor.' I hja.vfe
been all over the south in the last-three years, was treated like, a priifce^
and never heard one disparaging word about the Yankee soldier. except.',
from the same class of southern political bums and Sunday-go-to:meetV
in' soldiers." *i
Furthermore, every good confederate soldier is, and has been since^
the war, a good American citizen, and some of them Were with-Roosevelt^
at San Juan. And I declare, in spite of the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy, who didn't wear the gray, and who didn't fight, that every brave,",
good, true, honest confederate rejoiced with you and me, my comrades,,
when the coward-cur, Wirz, was hung.
And blue or gray who will now agitate this fool-dead question, just
because a few southern women, "worthy-relatives of the coward," want
to make a martyr of him, I say, whether delegates to the national *n-*-~'i
campment or, like myself, ordinary visitors, such men aTe not patriotic'
American citizens.
The Blue and Gray
Have ome to stay, -tj
To stay by one another
With interests Went,
And sentiment,- J.'*
And every Reb 's my brother.
CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD,
Company F, Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, and late
Chief Scout, U. S. A. .._._.
R. B. BROWN,
Of Zanesvllle, OhJo, Leading Candidate for National Commander of the G. A. R.
Bitter strife has broken out in the
ranks of the Minnesota delegation to
the natiomL,convention 'of the Ladies" of
the-G. A. S.*_ .V r/C". **-&*
Between oihe"^of' the partizans it
has reached the non-speaking-a"s-they-
contest on the floor of the convention,
which meets Thursday.
And this is the question which is at
the bottom of it all:
Is it courteous and fitting for "Min
nesota, the hostess, to come before the
convention with a candidate for the na
tional presidency?
A goodly portion of ih delegation
holds that Mrs. Julia E., F. Lobdell
of Minneapolis is the proper person for
the office, while her opponents are
arguing vehemently that for her to be
put forward as a candidate would be
to violate the usages of hospilality.
Visitors Taking Sides.
had been several informal conferences
of those most active in circle politics,
and it was apparent at the latest of
these, held today, that there was a di
vision of forces which is growing more
plainly marked every hcur.
Illinois, next to Pennsylvania, lias
the strongest voting delegation in at
tendance, and the chamnions o-f the can
didates for the chief offiee are earnest
ly working for its support. Just, where
it will be placed has not yet been de
termined.
Other visiting delegations are similar
ly affeeted. An observer among the
delegates at headquarters or other
meeting places has noticed numerous in
cidents that indicate more plainly than
words the effect of tlio schism. A Kan
sas delegate was seen at one moment
in a sisterly embrace with an anti-Lob
dell member a little later.she passed
with a cool and distant nod a friend of
the proposed candidate. A Colorado
woman impressed, the kiss of- "circle"
love on. the cheek' of one of the candi-
TONIGHT'S PROGRAM
r\"^7^:ir~*^
jiO c:p ^TUESDAY', EVENING AUGUST^, ^06.
Seems to Have a Lead
IES OFG.A.R
Candidacy of a $inn$sotan Di\$de$ Delegates
Into Two GampsSome of Them
"Won't Speak."/
date*' followers- amjCactuallv snubbed-,
bv pretendiliii^jKri: To*ifcfc afi %MjQsiag
G..A. B. sister in*^e sftme room.
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EveningReception by Scot
tish Rite Masonic bodies, fourth
floor, Masonic Temple.
6 p.m.Complimentary dinner to
army nurses, Commercial club.
7:30 p.m.Campfire, union ex
prisoners of war, Plymouth xmurch.
7:30 p.m.Reunion, Birch Coolie
Survivors, Griswold residence, -107
'/West Island avenue.
8 p.m.Beunion. First Missouri
engineers, Brunswick hotel.
8 p.m.Public meeting and'
campfire, Auditorium." Welcoming
addresses and' responses music
recitations.
9. p.m.Parade and display, To
peka Flambeau Club.
BAKT CONCERTS, 8 P.M. -v
Seventh, "street, near Hennepin,
Lyndonville Military band.
Seventh Street, near First ave
nue, the Lakeside band.
Fourth, street, near Hennepin,
.Madison Drum corps.
Fourth street, near First avenue,
First Regiment band, Lisbon, N. D.
Plymouth and Washington, Mar
kee Family band.
Chute park (Opposite East Side
high), the Afceley band.
Seven Corners, Rossiter's First
Regiment.
Fifteenth and Franklin, Tepeka
Drum corps.
A B^^ifeiRMte^.Mulleru-
Mrs. John'Mulljipii of
'Wabaan&,\who,
it has-been insimiated, was in search^ of
a national office,- makes an open denial
of this, asserting positively that she
will under no consideration .be a candi
date for any offiee whatever. In re
sponse to a commiinication received a*
short time ago bv Mrs. Mullen, the fol
lowing.is submitted .to a 1:
To correct a statement which appeared
in The Journal of Aug. 6, sighed by
Marion Mullen, I wish to. state that Mrs.
Mullen has no authority whatever lo
spea.K ~ior ttie department of Minnesota.
As president of the ''Some Board" she
has all the authority, that quasi-organiza
tion can confer, and be it said, their lib
erality In "authority" has assumed the
shape of a habit.
The'house board" and the department of
Minnesota are two distinct organizations.
The department of Minnesota is loyal to
Mrs. Julia E. F. Lobdell.
Marilla Stone,
Past Department President.
Rush City, Minn.
OLD SHENANDOAH
OFFICER IS DEAD
New Orleans, Aug. 14.John
Hutchinson, one of the two surviv
ing officers of the confederate priv
ateer and blockade runner, Shen
andoah, died yesterday, aged 68
years.
The officers of the Shenandoah,
which was in north Pacific waters
at the time of Lee's surrender, did
not learn that the war had ended
until several months afterward.
Hutchinson was first assistant en
gineer.
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Two thousand veterans gathered in
the lobby and cqrridors.. of the, ',West
hotel renewed their y'outh today with,
the famous Bucktail bandreally a
dmm corpsof Grand Rapids, Minn.,
which appeared playing "The Girl I
Left Behind Me."' As they- played
i
after air of the 4 old days, the veterans
-continued to cr^JBvd. about and cheer,
calling for old fayorites.
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RELIEF EXPERT, SHE
MISS CLARA BARTON,
Continued on 4th Page, 5th Column.
THE "BUCKTAILS" FAMOUS ALREADY
THE UNIQUE DRUM CORPS AND W. W. EASTMAN, ITS IMPROMPTU FIFER. THE BASS DRUM WAS MADE IN
1776 AN WAS CARRIED IN THE REVOLUTION. .fc ^^^^-^yjp^g
William ^W. Eastman,. av
COOLER A$D POSPIBL SHOWEBS.
?*?."tT
with
Great Relief Movements.
CLARA BARTON
OK RELIEF WORK
Will Not Discuss Frisco
Other Than in General
Terms.
Miss Clara Barton, former president
of the Red Cross, with which her name
was identified for s6 many years, is one
of the many distinguished visitors' dur
ing the G. A. R. national encampment.
While her .interests are now actively
with thd .National First Aid-association
of 'A^nerica, ,of which she.was the or
ganizer and. is ./now the guiding spirit,
she .expresses? ah entire unwilling
ness^ tr,Ntjiscuss' the San Francisco flour
episode, in which all Minneapolis in in
terested, Miss Barton speaks eloquently
of .Bed Cross methods as she knew them.
"X have, handled Minneapolis flour,
sent for purposes of relief in times of
trouble and disaster in many countries
and I know for what it was sent and in
what ways it may" be of -service she
said today. "Minneapolis flour is the
best in the world. If, charitably dis
posed individuals or private or public
corporations or committees, send. Min
neapolis flour for the relief of the suf
^""Ss^iS"
fering:, I "kiiow rt can be kept for ati "j union of the Third and Sixth batteries
almost unlimited length of time. At
times it may be necessary to put it un-.
der cover, or even to barrel it, but it
PRICE ONE CENT IN MINNEAPOLIS.
PARADE TOMORROW
BRIGADE AND REGIMENTAL 1
GATHERINGS HELD
Men Who Stood Shoulder to Shoulder
in Battle Renew Friendships.
Fifty Organizations of all Kinds Improved the Afternoon
to Hold Annual SessionsSeveral Successful
Reunions Were Held This Morning.
Army.
.For"keen enjoyment of fellowship and
renewal^of old-ties, no day of the week
can.match Reunion Day. Scores of
brigade and regimental organizations
assembled in as many meeting places.
Bach
transactetd
visited"'!a
with a .leisurely enjoyment, of,.the, re
unions..
Th Morning Beunions.
can always be put to good use, even were .associated with the famous First
Minnesota infantry, exchanged remi
niscences with each other in the offices
if that use is long-delayed.
She Never Sold Gifts
."Indian OT corn meal rapidly be
comes unfit for_ use if exposed or al
lowed to remain long without being
converted into bread. Flour, such, as
the Minneapolis mills turn out, can
hardly fail to be of practical use to
the country. In all the years I was
active in Red Cross work. I never' lost
a bag of flour, I never sold a bag and
I never gave a bag of flour away ex
cept to those in actual need. In all
these years I never knew the Red
Cross to dispose of a bag of flour ex
cept to cases of actual charity, and
the society was never allowed to dis
pose of anvthing in the nature of food
except to those who were hungry.
"The Red Cross work is- essentially
the giving of first aid to the injured
in its last analysis it is the .caring for
all those on the field of distress until
that distress no longer exists. You
can't do this by giving pink.teas or
GREATEST ENCAMPMENT EVER
In courtroom No'.' 3, on the Becond
floor of the courthouse side of the city
hall and courthouse, the war and time
scarred survivors or "the First Wiscon
sin cavalry foregathered at 9 o'clock.
An hour later the remaining few of
the Fifth Minnesota infantry were
clasping hands in courtroom No. 5., At
the same time there wasflfa little re-
of Wisconsin light artillery in the pro
bate courtroom, while Berdan 's sharp
shooters, who during1
One hundred and seventy-five thousand strangers are -within the gates
of Minneapolis. The wildest pre-encanapment estimates of tae crowds
that would arrive at the railway stations this week have been passed
already, and by Wednesday night the various trains will have deposited
200,000 persons in the city. Beginning tonight, and until Wednesday,,
morning, 25,000 persons will arrive from local points to see the great
parade tomorrow morning.
GrET TICKETS VAIJPATBD'.
Be sure .and get your railway return tickets validated at the eoturt-
fcouse validation bureau before you go to the railway stations.* Other-
wise you will have to pay your fare or be left. Tickets that are not
validated will not be accepted at the station gates, nor on the railway
trains.
of the board of park commissioners.
The, greatest general interest in the
morning reunions continued to center
about rthe
tall, hand
some veteran from New* York, joined
the band and. the merrymaking. From,
somewhere net-produced a' real, old war
time vfife, and the 'shrill, clear notes
were added-to. the celebration.
The, members of the Bucktail are
hardy men from
northerWeitzel,
At the head is* *-Bill0'
Minnesota.
fif er
Then there-are Jake Brenner,. J. E.
HOME
EDITION
This was Reunion Day for the Grand i a million die for an idea and kept onet^
nation from being many. *.$
Fifty Meet Simultaneously.
Fifty organizations held their re-^'
unions tMis afternoon at hours ranging c|.
.irom 2 to 4 o'clock. Forty-one of them'S^,
met in the city and .county building,
and the rest in the halls outside. Two J
gatherings are ealled for tonight, one,^
of the First Missouri engineers at thej@
Brunswick hotel, at 8 p.nu, and one ofspfe
the survivors of the battle of Birch
Coulee, at 7:30 p.m. at the residence ofi^
F. C. Griswold, 107 West Island avenue, ^i*
a little business an
grea deal. Many notabld
meetings were' witnessed, of comrades
who had not seen each other since they
were mustered out, or since some previ
ous reuirio-n twenty or thirty years ago.
The courthouse and city hall was the
main headquarters. All available
rooms in the building were turned over
to the veterans this afternoon,.and thou
sands poured into the corridors and
wandered about, finding their organi
zation meeting.places. Many other re
unions were held in downtown churches
and "halls. A few were held this morn
Wednesday afternoon or evening, OB
even to Thursday. The great mass of
S" SH^t thofoly mWld. Maav old
a part of the war
First Minnesota, which
moved up from the soldiers' home yes
terday afternoon and took possession
of its down-town headquarters at 18
and 20 Fourth street N.
There were many other reunions.
The Thirtv-third 'Illinois regiment
of infantry met in the rooms of
Assistant City Attorney Morse, the
One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Illi
nois infantry made room 514 at the
West hotel their meeting place, while
the Twelfth Ohio battery were gath
ering around the campfires of memory
in the grand-jury room in the court
house, and the survivors of the Ninth
Minnesota infantry were meeting in
the offices of Dean & Co., on Agricul
tural-row.
Everywhere the place wherein nustice
was administered or commerce carried
on for scot its some-time character' and
echoed to the sentiments wniefc. made
Seaman and A. Furman, all drum
mers. William H. Stingle is the bass
drummer and has a drum tfiat-wa made
in 1776 and was carried in the revolu
tionary war by a Pennsylvania drum
mer boy.- I looks its age, but its. boom
is as good as ever and Ihrummer Stingle
can certainly deliver the goods to it
on both ends to-oncet.
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ABCHBISHOP ELOQUENT
Former Chaplain of Old Fifth Gives It
Stirring Eulogy.
Archbishop John Ireland of St. PauL ,'fe
regiment of Minnesota, was the central
figure -at a largely attended reunion
8 oldito f
wbo had not seen each other since be
ing discharged nearly half a century
ago. The event of the reunion, how-"
everT^was an address by the archbishop.
He was introduced by General Lucius
F. Hubbard, regimental colonel, who
presided.
.The archbishop spoke eloquently of
the services ef the old soldiers.
"It is impossible for those never on
the scene of the war's sacrifice/to know
at what actual price the old-, soldier
saved the country,'*~he said. -"It was
the price paid .by those who. died on
ivh "battlefield, or in t.lej
^fwef teat,
or who came home maimed^._It was
the price you all paid in'four suffer
ing, dangers and privatians.
"Yet for that priee-We have the re
ward of .victory, the reward-of knowing
that we were right. We were right
and the proof is the republic ef Amer
ica today, the greatest nation- in the
world.
."Your ranks are now'thinned, but
the old soldiers, scattered thruout the
land, are still the schoolmasters of to
day's patriotism. Continue on^ there
fore, in telling of your achievements
and I trust that there will be yet many
reunions of the 'old Fifth,', in which
our stories may be revived. We arc
fewer now, every .year," but* let me ask
that when the dav comes that there
are but two or three of us 'left, that
those two or threee of the 'old Fifth'
shall come together, I ask that at that
time they send out a call for a reunion
and that when they meet, startled by
their own loneliness, that they let forth
a salute from their souls for the mero
ory of those who have gone. If I am
one of this gathering,' I '11 say in the
eloquence of my aching soul to such
as may hear, that there once was a no
lale, txav \jand of men, tlie warriors
of the old Fifth Minnesota, who did
so much for their country, who did so
much' for the glory of this state of
Minnesota.
Ah, little do those of today know
in truth -of the 'old Fifth.' I remem
ber at,: Cprinth, when the enemy had
broken into'the union lines, when they
were pouring, a stream of nghters into
the gap they Had made. I was a su
preme moment in that battle. And
who can say but what the result of
that battle had a supreme influence on
the final endf At that moment Lucius
F. Hubbard, colonel of the Fifth Min
nesota, told, his regiment to be ready.
With cool head and brave .heart he
told his men hot to fire till the order
was given, Waiting till the enemy
presented a splendid -front, then we
fired the enemy'gave back, the glori-
ous"' old Fifth advanced and saved the
battle of Corinth.".
The archbishop was interrupted sev
eral times during his address with ap
plause, and at its conclusion it was
several moments before the applause
died down. General Hubbard and oth
ers spoke briefly following the address
of the archbishop.
Those present at the reunion were as
follows:
Jeremiah Shumway, A, Lyons, Neb.
C. A. Pischett, E, Appleton C. H.
Flock, A, Minnewaukan James Hop
kins, D, Spring Valley Henry Knlker,
A, Spring Valley A. W. Farnsworth,
H, Minneapolis A. D. Prosser, LSpriar
Valley W. E. Wiseshan, B, Wykofl,
Amos E. Barker, H, Long Prairie Rich
ard Gessert, St. Paul E. T. Nehrhood,|
Continued on 2d Page, 1st Column.
WHERETO LOOK
Pages.
General Encampmeotlfews. 1,2,8,8 1
Women's Organizations.....
Guide to Minneapolis
domrades who Seek Friends
Program of Week
General Telegraphic Hews..
Editorials City News