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THE AMERICAN
aWrrd al lti)t nvtwd-clmw manor
JOHN C. THOMPSON, oit.
W. C. KKM.KY. BuIbh Maaator.
t'CBUPHKD WriCKLY BY THE
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PATRIOTISM and sacerdotalism can
not be allies.
HOW doe It come tht all the agltat
ort on the police force are Protestants?
WHAT U Simwater going to do with
hit three candidate for county treas
urer? OUR patriot fathers, who made the
Fourth of July the most unique and
significant natal day In all history,
contemned kingcraft and priestcraft
alike.
EVERY pap-suoker that bows before
the throne of Governor-Mayor-Dictator
Rosewater is all right for present pur
poses; every one else is a "howling
dervish."
The papal flag should never be per
mltted to be displayed, even on special
occasions, on the soil of the United
State. It Is the symbol of foreign
subjection.
MUCH good work has been accom
plished toward the upbuilding of
Americanism In Piatt City, Mo. Keep
at it, boys, and push American prin
ciples forward.
There were three testa whloh
Thomas Jefferson applied to the as
pirant tor publlo office: (1 ) Is he hon
est? (2) Is he loyal? (3) Is he capable?
No Romanist could pass the ordeal.
The Fourth of July is one of the
great Americas days which Romanists
never heartily honor. It is an occasion
on whloh the Stars and Stripes are ex
alted and the papal standard abased.
Genuine AmerltSns, every soul of
them, discountenance the recognition,
In any mannqr, of the Irish and papal
flags, which signify rebellion and
treason against the Government of the
United States.
We are "Indebted to Rev. O. E. Mur
ray, A. M., author of "The Singing
Patriot" and "The Black Pope," for
the use of the handsome outs which
adorn the first page. See the adver
tisement of his books in another col
umn. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rose and their
son Glenn leave to-day for Delavan,
Minn., to be present at a family re
union of Mrs. Rose's brothers and sis
ters; the first occasion on whloh they
will all have leen together in twelve
years.
After the names of the officers who
were discharged had boen read, Godola
remarked to Moetyn that he did not
know that he was an agitator. Mostyn
remarked that It was always neoessary
to let out some good men with the bad.
WE have been askod regarding an
nouncement of candidates tor the next
election. The American will print
no candidate's advertisement for office
who will not receive the support of the
patrlotio orders. We will champion
no cause but an American one, and are
not for sale to any candidate.
Mr. Simwater remarked before his
citizens' meeting that he had supported
the candidate of the A. P. A. in the
past under the impression that the
movement would be short-lived, like
the old Knownothlng movement, but
Instead of that, it was gaining ground
every day, and was spreading over the
state at a rapid rate. This is a great
admission from the greatest enemy the
order has in the state.
New Yorkers have set a good ex
ample by forcing the Italian flag to be
taken down when it was floated abovi
the Stars and Stripes, In a camp of the
dsgoe. If foreigners cannot respect
our flag when In this country, they
should be loaded aboard ships, by the
authority of law, and returned to their
own country. These disgraces are too
frequent in the United States. If these
foreigners will not respect the flag of
our country, they will not respect the
laws, and would be a dangerous lot in
osse of war.
The Bee has classified members of
the A. P. A. into "howling dervishes"
and another class which has not yet
received its designation. Knowing
that there are 8,000 members of the
order in Omaha, and a large sympa
thetic vote beside, It has found out, too
late, however, that there must be a
split somewhere, or it will fail in re
turning the Roman hierarchy to power,
But the Slmwaters started In wrong,
They have attacked the order as un
constitutional, and abused every man
and woman who professes Its principles,
and they will find out before they get
through that the people will resent it
at the ballot-box.
THE ONLY CHURCH PARTY.
There should be no mUtake made.
There 1 but one church party in the
city of Omaha or Douglas county, and
that is the party championed today by
the Slmwaters, which the WorUl-Herald
humorously terms the "Sacred Order
of the Three Eds." Prior to the ad
vent of the A. P. A., that church party,
under one guise or another, controlled
this city and county, through the as
sistance of the Kd Slmwaters. It Is a
notorious fact that when the Roman
church party held the whip-band In
Douglas county, It was almost impos
sible for a Protestant Republican to be
elected to office; but when the Repub
licans nominated John Rush, the junior
Ed. Slmwatur, or any of that Ilk, the
Democrat running against them were
defeatod. Why was this so? Because
the Romans, under the directions of
their priests, voted as one man for
every Roman, no difference on what
ticket he was running. When Rome
was in power, the city and oounty
treasuries were looted. Witness the
Douglas addition blunder under Sim
water and "Honest" Dick O'Keeffe's
regime, the retalnlng-wall job, the
Thirteenth street grading contract,
the rotten block pavement, and the
sewer system near the Linseed Oil
Works and Sherman avenue, the last
of which stood as a monument to the
incompetency of Andrew Rosewater,
who is now city engineer, by the grace
of E. Rosewater vioe Bemla, until a
rain came and washed it out. And Ed.
Simwater, Sr., was not Ignorant of the
rascality of the oounty hospital deal.
He knew personally that there was
crookedness there that the citizens
were being robbed of thousands of dol
lars; yet he never raised his voloe
against "Honest" Dick O'Keeffe, and,
what la more, has not to this day.
When a man will allow the county
treasury to be looted without raising
his voloe against the jobbery, and
without writing a line against suoh un
lawful work, and gives as an excuse
that the publication of the facta would
defeat "Honest" Dick O'Keeffe for a
re-election and O'Keeffe was always
Instrumental In giving him the job of
printing the delinquent tax-list at
three prices we say, when a man re
mains silent on such a subject, does he
suppose the people will follow his lead
for a reform in politics? The man who
consorts with boodlera, and refuses to
expose them because suoh an exposure
will defeat a man who would be useful
to him, la not the proper man to head
a movement for reform in pol'.tlcs. Nor
Is the man who has been the spokes
man or the paper that has been the
mouthpiece of the only church party
that has ever existed in this city,
oounty, state or nation, the proper man
or journal to decry a movement suoh as
the A. P. A. The church party in
Douglas oounty and In Omaha Is that
fostered by the Roman Catholic priests
through their seoret societies, and
championed by the senior Simwater.
Don't forget that
BE ENTHUSIASTIC.
We doubt much whether a man or
woman in all this land can be found
who will not agree with us on the
proposition that there should be a
greater preference shown, in musical
circles, for strlotly American music,
particularly In our theatres, academies
of muslo and at all gatherings where It
Is the purpose or the intent of the gath
ering to In any way awaken a love for
our country or its tacred institutions.
We have been present in places of
amusement when the orchestra has
played "The Star Spangled Banner,"
and have been In the act of applauding,
when we discovered we were alone in
spired by the sweet strains of that se
lection. Since then we have thought
that possibly there were others in the
audience similarly Impressed and
equally as anxious to give vent to their
feelings, but from a spasm of modesty
or through bashfulnes allowed the op
portunity to show their appreciation to
pass unimproved. To our way of think
ing, there should be no hesitancy on
the part of any citizen to start the ap
plause when "The Star Spangled Ban
ner" or any other tune equally as dear
to the American heart Is being played.
The average audience which assembles
In this city is proverbially cold, and
there Is no doubt but what if there was
more enthusiasm manifested when a
national air is played there would be a
better appreciation of the work done
by the actors. These thoughts have
been suggested by the following item
from HJunsey's Magazim:
"Patriotic citizens are congratulat
ing themselves upon the popularity of
Antonin Dvorak's beautiful and Inspir
ing 'New World Symphony,' and are
anticipating with pleasure the same
composer's cantata, 'The American
Flag,' now being rehearsed by the New
York Musical Society, under the con
ductorshlp of Frank Doesert Mean
while a custom which, it seemed to us,
was particularly calculated to stimu
late the patrlotio and emotional in
stinct of the nation is gradually slip
ping away from us. We refer to the
practice followed for a time In all the
theatres, the country over, to play a
national air at the close of each per
formance.
"Munsey't recently sent a circular
letter to theatrical managers in several
of the great cities of America, asking
the question, 'Did or did not the public
take kindly to the national air while It
was being performed nightly at your
house? From the answers received we
learn that The Star Spangled Banner1
was banished from the repertoire of the
theatres' orchetra in some cases be
cause 'there was no demand for it'; in
others because 'the wopie got tired of
it'; or, again, 'because of apathy shown
by the audience.' One or two manag
ers claim that the practice was looked
upon as 'a species of Anglomania' which
ought not to be encouraged. Another
says, in substance, that it struck him
as sacrilegious to play the national an
them at the conclusion of a purely far
cical performance.
"In some houses, it seems, The Star
Spangled Banner' la still being per
formed once in a great while. In a few
the leader of the orchestra who In
nine cases out of ten is a foreigner is
permitted to select the muslo at pleas
ure. Only one theatrical firm has the
courage to say that the practice should
be revived. At one prominent metro
politan playhouse, however Palmer's
It hat never been dropped, and the
manager declares that it will not be
dropped while he remains in control of
hit theatre.
"We think thatfhe practice Is a
commendable one, and deserves greater
encouragement than it seema to have
received."
WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS."
We have often marveled at the gulli
bility of the average Romanist, but we
are in doubt as to whether we shall
ever again waste any of our valuable
time In marveling at Roman supersti
tion, after having spent sufficient time
to peruse a newspaper clipping whloh
some very kind friend saw fit to send
us, and one which you, no doubt, will
find after reading to be as amusing as
we found It to be.
In times gone by we have read the
fairy tales published by alleged Roman
Catholic newspapers In relation to cer
tain miraculous cures that they claim
have been effected by a visit to a spot
which their church has seen fit to de
nominate a shrine. We have been re
galed with highly colored aooounts of
the marvelous oures which blindly Ig
norant Romanists have hastened to de
clare were directly traceable to a pil
grimage to one of these shrines. It
hat been but a few years since the
newspaper columns were teeming with
aooounts of the marvelous and extraor
dinary relief obtained by the halt, the
lame and the blind who went on a pil
grimage to one of these fabled shrines
In France, or to a rival shrine in Ger
many. Until recently the Old World
has had a monopoly of the shrine busi
ness. But America cannot long be de
prived of a good thing, or a money
making thing, and those Old World
resorts have not proven a money-losing
venture a thing that the local priest
hood has not been slow in discovering
and In Imitating, as may be readily
seen when one recalls the attempt of a
oertaln Pittsburg priest, now deceased,
to perform the regulation miraculous
cures, after having his altar bedecked
with cheap tinsel and tin-foil, so as to
deceive the faithful into believing that
they were worshiping at one of the
rlohest, from a spiritual as well as a
worldly point of view, altars in Amer
ica. His parishioners foolishly be
lieved that he was possessed of powers
not possessed by an ordinary mortal;
that he had the power of relieving the
suffering of afflicted humanity if they
would but come and believe In his
power. We have heard also of the
shrine in New York State and of those
in Canada; of the one located in a
northern state not a thousand miles
from Wisconsin which have been vis
ited by the faithful whose early piety
had brought on certain ailments not
mentioned in polite society. We have
beard of cures alleged cures from
them all, but from not a single one of
those old shrines have we seen pub
lished a circumstance that will in any
way compare with the report published
in relation to a new, and soon to be
popular, shrine In Ohio, which has the
distinction of being the only recognized
pilgrimage church In this country. It
is located at Carey, and a dispatch from
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, says:
"It is only a small frame structure in
a quiet village, and yet it is the most
distinguished Roman Catholic church
in the United States a church where
in the most miraculous cures have been
effected, where prayer has relieved
pain, and simple faith cured suffering
humanity of diseases which had baffled
the best medical skill. This is the
prized distinction of the Church of Our
Lady of Consolation, at Carey, twelve
miles north of this city. It is the only
pilgrimage church In the United States,
and as such it is recognized by Pope
Leo. In other words, it is a shrine
where the lame and sick come from all
parts of the land seeking relief; and,
strange as it may seem, in many cases
finding It Its wonderful healing power
is supposed to be vested In a fac simile
of the famous statue of the Holy Virgin
and Child at Luxemburg.
"When the foundation of the church
at Carey had been laid, sufficient money
to continue the work could not be ob
tained, and the foundation remained as
an eyesore to the villagers for some
years. Finally, Father Gloden, of Ber
wick, took the matter up and succeeded
in raising sufficient means to complete
the edifice. At the request of some of
the congregation, he went to Europe in
1875, and, securing a piece of the orig
inal statue of the Holy Virgin and
Child, had a fac simile made and
brought It to his home in Berwick.
Arrangements were begun for a grand
triumphal march from Berwick to
Carey. Over one thousand people
formed In line, and with twenty maidens
marching In front, bearing the sacred
statue, the procession started. When
half the distance was traversed, the
sky became overspread with ominous
clouds. The lightning flashed and the
thunder roared. The multitude was
about to scatter in confusion, when
Father Gloden exclaimed: "Let the
procession proceed; there is no danger."
At this juncture a strange thing oc
curred. Immediately above the pro
cession the clouds broke and a streak
of sunlight appeared. While nothing
but blackness prevailed to the right
and left, and while rain fell both sides
of the procession, not a participant re
ceived a drop of water until the statue
bearing maidens entered the church,
then the storm broke and the rain fell
in torrents. This sounds very much
like fiction, but there are hundreds
who can vouch for lta truth.
"It would take a page to narrate all
the miraculous cures which have at
tracted widespread interest. Every
week Father Mlzer hat calls for admis
sion to the church, to say nothing of
the many letters he receives. Every
year, on the fourth Sunday after Easter,
ceremonies styled the Patron Feast are
begun at the church. A general pil
grimage occurs, and those who have
received relief or favors from the church
return to it and render thanks."
RECEIVED HIS POUND OF FLESH.
The people of Omaha have not been
slow to catch onto the outrageously un
fair treatment accorded the police who
were discharged from the force last
Wednesday afternoon.
Men have been discharged from the
force against whom there is no suspicion
of wrong-doing; men have been dis
missed against whom no charge of in
efficiency can be sustained.
There hat been no charge of chronic
Infractions of the rules lodged against
those men, no charge of disobedience
of orders or of neglect of duty. Then
why were they discharged? The Shy
lock had demanded his pound of flesh,
which was the discharge of tome of the
most competent men on the force.
We believe the people realize that
Mr. Rosewater is In desperate straits,
and that he intends to weight the po
lice department down with political ad
herents and sympathizers of the Roman
Catholic church, who will stand ready
to sustain any overt act.
The people are to be congratulated
for having secured the passage of a law
whloh will eventually put a stop to
suoh high-handed proceedings. It
will make It Impossible for any man
and we include Rosewater in the cate
goryto trade and traffic in positions of
trust on the police department, or use
the force to further hit political ends.
SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
We understand that the American
Eagl hat not been Issued for some two
weeks. It is a shame and a disgrace
for Americans to allow one of their pa
pers to die because of non-support.
This does not apply to one paper alone,
but to many which have fought for
American principles when many of you
were afraid to be known as members of
a patriotic order. Why do you not
stand by these papers? Why do you
not give them your hearty support? If
you did that, in a little time you could
build them up, so that they would be
the leading papers of the country. It
seems you would rather go to sleep and
not heed the appeals of the patriotic
press. Words fail to express the con
tempt which loyal Americans have for
many members of the patriotic orders
for their selfish inactivity. Have you
considered that if every member of the
order in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas
City, Kan., would pay for one year's
subscription in advance to some good
patriotic journal, you would (by each
lending a hand to the paper) have a
dally paper started before the expira
tion of twelve months? If patriotic
papers die, it is your own fault. If
you will not support a weekly paper
and build It into a dally, you would not
support a daily paper. What will you
do?
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE.
There Is probably no people except
the English, who are more undemon
strative than the Americans. In that
respect we are becoming thoroughly
English. The time was not so very long
ago that to celebrate the Fourth of July
was regarded as much a duty as a
pleasure and old and young vied with
each other in their efforts to make It
the most notable day of the year, but of
late Americans have gradually de
parted from that custom and the cele
bration of the Fourth of July has been
turned over to the small boy, who has
made life a burden to all save himself
for at least 24 hours. True, we get out
"Old Glory," and run it up on a pole,
and string yards of bunting around our
porches, and after we have done all this
we imagine that we have fulfilled our
duty to ourselves and our country and
retire for the remainder of the day to
our offices or loll around the house In a
vain effort to get a rest.
That Is our new brand of patriotism
And to whom are we indebted for It?
Certainly not the "boys" who wore the
blue; nor to those who sought to estab
lish two governments where one had
boen and where but one exists to-day.
Then to whom are we Indebted for this
Insipid patriotism? Some one la cer
tainly responsible for its presence; but
who? It Is the Romanized foreigners who
have until recently held all the offices
worth holding, and who have thought
more of celebrating the alleged birth
day of a mythical saint than of doing
the slightest thing to commemorate
the greatest act In our nation's history.
Tbey have turned out on St. Patrick'!
day. decked with their green ribbons
and yellow-fringed regalia, as proud as
peacocks, but when some citizen hat
suggested that the Fourth of July be
appropriately celebrated they have neg
lected to move until It was too late to
accomplish anything, when they de
clared the people would not stand the
neoessary expense or devote the amount
of time necessary to make the celebra
tion a success. And the people have
been satisfied with this lame excuse.
So It hat gone, year after year, until
some hardly know why the Fourth of
July it celebrated in a manner different
to other dayt. Those Romanized for
eigner! have had a double purpose In
bringing the National holiday Into in
nocuous desuetude. The first was to
bring the holidays set apart and author
ized by the church into greater prom
inence that the people would eventu
ally look forward to the saint dayt of
the Roman church as days which should
be celebrated to the entire exclusion of
all National holidays. Another object
they had in vlsw was to make holidays
so numerous that people not under the
direct control of the priesthood would
tire of them and grow neglectful, even
of the National holiday. We have
celebrated New Year's, a month later
attempted to honor the birthday of
Washington, then that of St. Patrick,
a month later Arbor day, then Decora
tion day, the Fourth of July, Labor day,
Convention days, primaries, election
day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and
what hat been the result? A half
hearted celebration of all save St. Pat
rick's day and Labor day.
Such holidays have tended to weaken
the sentiment in favor of the day that
should be celebrated, above all others,
by Americana, and we suggest that pa
triotic American citizens see to it that
the Fourth of July Is celebrated in a fit
ting manner hereafter. There is need
of a more pronounced and aggressive
Americanism, not alone In politics but
In every walk of life, We need a more
pronounced Americanism especially on
the anniversary of the signing of the
declaration of independence, and unless
we have It, the generations that will
follow us will feel none of that pride
which animated Americans and caused
them to march for mlles through the
boiling hot sun to the strains of "Yan
kee Doodle" played on fife and drum by
Inexperienced musicians, yet ardent
and enthutlastlo patriots. We need a
revival of those days when every man,
woman and child planned for weeks to
celebrate, and looked forward to the
National holiday with feelings akin to
reverence. Unless we have such a re
vival patriotism will soon be at Its low
est ebb, and when the tide turns those
foreignlzed Americans will have to
stand aside and make room for the new
American who will live for others as
well as himself. Let us drop all holi
days except Washington's birthday,
Decoration day and the Fourth of July.
Them let us celebrate with true pa
trlotio zeai.
The re-election of Secretary Glllen
was a foregone conclusion, because he
has made a practice of attending
strictly to his otlicial business and keep
ing hands off the business of others.
Omaha Bee.
And still Mr. Glllen was re-elected
by a school-board which has been held
up to the publlo of Omaha by the Bee
as being opposed to everything that
was commendable and good. There Is
one thing of which the Bet, does not
seem to be advised, and that is that Mr.
Gillen's professed principles do not
permit him to approve the attacks of
that paper on the A. P. A. The Sim
water aggregation has been deceived
in Mr. Gillen, or some one else has
been, and we expect that he will now
get on one side of the fence or the other.
Young America Bound to Have His Own
Way.
Council Bluffs, July 4. On a
grass plat near an open window sat
three boys, 7 years old, engaged in an
argument as to how they should spend
the Fourth, and each wanting his way.
The discussion waxed warm, and finally
Jack B strikes his fist on his knee,
saying: "My pa's a lawyer, and he
says when people don't do as he says,
he'll make 'em; so you've got to do my
way." Gene says: "Well, but my
pa's mayor, and when he says a thing's
to be done, he makes 'em do it; and
you'll do as I say." Be jumps to his
feet, with arms extended, spread eagle
style, and says: "Huh, who cares for
your lawyer pas or your mayor pas?
My pa's United States marsual, and
can lick the whole possyl And you've
got to do as I say."
The Bupreme court of Connecticut has
decided that church property used for
business purposes is taxable. Paroch
leal schools where pupils are compelled
to pay a tuition fee are used for busi
ness purposes and therefore should not
be exempted from taxation. LoweU
Herald.
(iESERAL MITH DEAD.
Once f'rvhlbitioB Candidate for Presl
oVat and arrwly XIm4 Gemination
for Vice-President the Ticket With
Lincoln.
Washington, D. C, June 29. Gen
eral Gra n Clay Smith, who was once
the Prohibition candidate for president,
a war veteran, and in recent years a
well-known Baptist pastor of Wash
ington, died at bit home in northeast
Washington, at 12:56 o'clock this after
noon. For several months he had been
In poor health, and over a fortnight
ago a malignant carbuncle began to
develop on the neck. It rapidly In
creased, and, despite the efforts of hit
physicians, blood poisoning set in.
General Smith's condition had been
very critical during the week, but there
was a noticeable gain yesterday, which
gave rise to hopes of hit recovery. A
collapse occurred, however, shortly be
fore noon today. The patient began
sinking, and the end soon came. All
of the Immediate members of the family
were at the bedside.
General Smith came from a Kentucky
family, which hat been noted for lta
staunch adherence to the Union. Hit
father was a member of Congress from
that state and occupied several other
prominent publlo positions. Green
Clay Smith was born In Richmond, Ky.,
July 2, 1832, to that he lived to be a
little less than 63 years of age. He was
named after his grandfather, Green
Clay, a member of that great Clay
family that produced one of the earliest
of America's famous statesmen. Hit
first military experience was In the
Mexican war, he having enlisted at the
age of 15 In a regiment of Kentucky
cavalry. He served one year, and then
returned to Lexington, Ky., where he
entered the Transylvania University,
from which he graduated in 1850. He
then studied law, and graduated from
the Lexington Law School In 1853,
after which he formed a partnership
with hit father In the city of Coving
ton. He was school commissioner from
1853 to 1857.
During the bitter strife that preceded
the civil war, Green Clay Smith took a
strong position In favor of the Union,
and in 1860 was a member of the Ken
tucky legislature, In which capacity he
spoke and acted against secession. In
1861 he enlisted as a private In Colonel
Feley't regiment for home defense, and
served three months. He was then ap
pointed to the post of major in the
Third Kentucky cavalry, and directed
to recruit a battalion. When this work
was done he resigned. He was ap
pointed colonel of the Fourth Kentucky
cavalry in February, 1862, and was tent
to the front under General Rosecrans.
He saw a great deal of active service,
was wounded at Lebanon, Tenn., and
was made brigadier-general of volun
teers, June 11, 1862. He was then as
signed to the Fourth brigade of cavalry,
under Rosecrans, and was compli
mented in public orders for his gal
lantry in a cavalry battle with General
Forrest, in which he was victorious.
He was later b re vetted major-general.
While In the field, General Smith
was nominated for Congress as a Re
publican, and resigned his military
commission December 1, 1863, In order
to take his seat in the house. He
served two terms In Congress. In 1864
his friends presented his name to the
Baltimore Republican convention,
which renominated President Lincoln,
and to which he was a delegate, as a
candidate for the vice-presidency.
There was a severe contest between
him and Andrew Johnson, and Green
Clay Smith was defeated by half a vote
for the nomination, which eventually
caused Andrew Johnson to become
president of the United Stales.
In 1866 he resigned from Congress to
accept the appointment of governor of
Montana, tendered him by President
Johnson, and he served in that terri
tory until 1869, when he entered the
ministry, and was ordained and became
pastor of the Baptist church at Frank
fort, Ky. His effort was to withdraw
entirely from public life and devote
himself to christian work, but having
become greatly interested in temper
ance reform, he received the unani
mous nomination for president from the
Prohibition convention at Cleveland in
May, 1876. He received a popular vote
of 9,522.
General Smith continued in the min
istry, but for some years devoted him
self to evangelical work. In 1890 he
was called to the pastorate of the
Metropolitan Baptist church, in this
city, and made himself unusually popu
lar with the local Baptists. Despite
his falling health, he participated In
the Washington conference of the
Baptist churches last autumn, and,
though considerably more feeble, he
was quite active in making preparations
for the southern Baptist convention,
held ia this city some weeks ago. He
did not lose his Interest In military
matters, notwithstanding hlsj religious
inclinations, and in March, 1891, he
was chosen to be department com
mander of the Union Veterans' Union
of the department of the Potomac, and
was re elected the next October to
serve a year. In this capacity he was
prominent among those who made ar
rangements for the annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republio
and of the Union Veterans' Union, held
in this city in September, 1892. He
had been mentioned at times as a pos
sible occupant of the office of commis
sioner of pensions,
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