Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 30, 1922, Page 4

PAGE FOUR MEMORIAL DAY FIRST. OBSERVED BY WOMEN OF SOUTH YEAR AFTER WAR ead of G. A. R. 2 ie ie RIG fee colors we 1: oreso long. ‘the love of our country to our suc- cessors. Commander of G. A. R. the women of Columbus, Ga, be Prehistoric Ruin _ In National Park with Mrs Carter as president. Nothing was done toward selecting the date for Memorial Day until Miss Rutherford returned. . To- her was gtven the honor of choosing the date. She selected April 26, gtving two rea. sons: first, that it was a day of sad memortes, the date upon which Gener- al Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army the the Federals, an act that sealed the fate of the Confed eracy; second, it was a date when flowers would be plentiful. Witness Describes It. Death has claimed all the women longs the honor of having con- ceived Memorial Day as we know it today. The first observance was on April 26, 1966. Charleston, S. C., had previousty form of memorial exercise on 1, 1865, consisting of dedication ceremonies of the gfound where 257 Union soldiers were buried. Ten One of the graves decorated tn Co-| tumbus, Ga, on the first Memorial Day. Left, Mrs. John Tyler, at whose home the first Memorial Day associa tion was organized. Right. Mrs. M. s Communal House of Forgot- ten People Will Be Added Mesa Verde Attraction WASHINGTON, May 26.—Restora: t ric ruin in who attended the January meeting.|‘!0m of @ pecullar prehistos e ‘There is one person alive, however,| the Mesa Verde national park tn Col/ who has personal knowledge of the|°rado will be attempted this summer gathering. She is Mrs. M. E. Gray,|>y Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Gaughter of Mre. Tyler. Because she|the bureau of American ethnology of KE. Gray, daughter of Mrs. Tyler. superinten @ent ofedneation. But as this gather tng was called for the single purpose of u>ieating a cemetery, it could hardly be regarted as tho “first Memorial Day.” ‘There were no festivities in comnce- ion withthe first Memorial Day in Cotumbus This was « day of “sad wmemorien.* From I$81 to the end of the war Columbus had a Ladies’ Afd society, its purpose being to care for soldiers, M or wounded, who might come home ‘or who coal be reached in the field. Jn January, 1866, shortly after the end ef the straggle, Miss Lizzie Ruther- Yorf asked Mrs. Jane Martin, a rest dent of Greenville who was visiting: 10 Polumbus, to join a number of other jwomen at Linwood cemetery in look- Knowledge of Origin Of Day Very Limited It seems stramse that so little at- tention has been paid to the origin of the history of a day that in some measure is now being observed all over the world. ‘The story pre sented here by the Newspaper En- terprise Service represents weeks of research, and corrects numerous errors which have crept into such meager information as had been printed about an occasion which in many respects stands out above all others in the calendar of the Amer- lean people. ercives held the following April 26|0f the mummy lke group, and not St. Luke Methodist church. far from a necropolis which, the ft: “\apidty Mies Rutherford's idea |atitute states, has yiekled ¥aluable re, spread through the south. Mrs John|turns in archealogical specimens teft A. Logan, wife of General Logan, com-|>y eerly Indians. manderinchelf of the G. A. R,| Preliminary examination has indi learned of the ,practica while ‘riaiting |cated that the buried building belong: In the south. At her urgent request, |to ® type not used as a dwelling but General Logan issued an order to eli| Constructed for some unknown com- Grand Army posts to celebrate Me-|™unal use. morial Day on May 30, 1868. The institution's announce sent said 4 the state after|!t was proposed to strengthen an state hes, ty an act of legislature,| otherwise repair the shattered walls t aside one day each spring as|S° that tourists might see another of emorial Day. While most states|the great Mess Verde building in a celebrate May 30, others have set! condition somewhat as it was before aside April 26, May 10, and June 3 the ravage of time oe overthrown ‘The American Legion is now urg.| !t® deep mar tianety aaa ing that May 30 be made a uni-)Tefuse of various kir: So yermal Memorial Day, not enty| throughout the United States but ail! If one wanted to be impertinent ona or might aak who put the con in Conan. prec: heRwee —Toledo Blade. ‘UNCLE JOE’ CANNON’S FIFTY YEARS’ OF SERVICE POLITICAL LINK BETWEEN CIVIL WAR AND NOW Itseems a far cry back to the famous Lincoin- Joseph G. Cannon 1865, she called a meeting of the so_ ing after the graves of soldiers who | ciety at the house of Mrs. John Tyler, hhad died in Columbus hospitals. The duty of devotiop finished, Mfiss Rutherford and Mrs. Martin dis- fussed the significance of the work they had been doing tn the cemetery. “Let us continue the Ladies’ Aid bocisty for work of this character,” said Miss Rutherford. Mocting Called, ‘Within a few days, The house still stands. Those present were Mrs. Robert Carter, president; Mrs. WR. A. Ware, Mrs Willian G. Woolfolk, Mrs. Clara M. Dexter, Mrs. J. M McAllister and Mrs. Charlies J. Williams. Neither Miss Rutherford nor Mrs. Martin were able to attend, both being out of the city. This meeting formed itself inte the in January of|first Ledies’ Memorial association, Dougias de- Measured by this rule McKinley wil) always rank high among the presi-| dents. McKinley in the house and! afterwards in the White House was one of the most popular men I have| known. He was a fair fighter, a gentlenman through and through, and had the happy gift of never indulg ing in personalities.” Grover Cleveland was one of the great presidents of American history in the opinion of Mr. Cannon. “I honor Grover Cleveland,” he said, “not only because of his courage, but: also because of his conscientious f- delity to his oath of office. Like Grant, he was absolutely indifferent tg publicity or public clamor that went contrary to his convictions.” “Uncle Joe” and Roosevelt Of Theodore Roosevelt, Mr. Cannon retains only the pleasantest of recol! lections. For years the impression has| been that “Uncle Joe" and “Teddy”, were not exactly “teammates” when tt ame to politics, and that on many big questions they were not entirely ‘n agreement. They differed @n many rolicies, but personally they were the est of friends and as Mr, Cannon admired Mr. Cleveland because of his courage, he for the same reason al ways had a warm spot in his heart ‘or the statesman from Oyster Bay. “Roosevelt,” he remarked, “is one of the great figures in American his. tory. He was a great man with great ideas, and he had the courage to de- fend those ideas before any audience at any time and in any place. And he was also a very reasonable man, and L ought to know, because when he was in the White House he and I talked things over two or three times every week. It ts not a matter generally known, but the fact is that the two most prized of the promotons, with th single exception of the speakership, that has come to Mr. Cannon during his Jong career in congress came from the Democratic side of the aisle, one his promotion to the committee on ap- ‘bates of 1858 and to the tense times that followed two years later when Abraham Lincoln was the presidential candidate -of the then young Republican party. But there is one man in ycongress today who is, as it were, an active political link be- ‘tween the present and the stirring years that immediately Preceded the Civil wer. ‘This man is that his name was on the ballot with Joseph G. Gannon of Danville, I.,] Lincoln's “Uncle Joe" said: affectionately known to Republicans} “It is true that I knew Lincoln, and and Democrats alike as “Uncle Joe.”| that I had the great fortune to at- “Uncle Joe" Canon enjoys the dis-|tend the Lincoln-Dougias debates in ittnction of having been a candidate} 1858. But when I say that I know Hfor office on the same ticket on which | Lincoln I don't mean to create the tm- ‘appeared the name of Abraham Lin-| pression that I knew him intimately goin as candidate for president.|or, for that matter, very well, for Acaong his most cherished possessions | such was not the case. I was a young sa copy of this olf ballot of 1860,|man then and my acquaintance with with the name of Lincoln at the top| Lincoln was lke that of scores of and that of Joseph G. Cannon appear-| other young fellows who at that time ing further down the list as the| wore rallying to the Republican stand- Party’S nominee for prosecuting attor-| ard. Ley of Vermillion county, DL } This was the introduction of young Foo Cannon into politics, although two Years before he was one of the inter- sted Hsteners who followed the great, @ebates between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, the “ little giant,” who defeated Lincoln for the United States senatorship in 1858. It is 50 years since Joseph G. Can mon first entered congress and 62 since he became active in politics. He was 86 on May 7. Not long ago he announced, to the regret of all his’ colleagues in congress that this dchis last term. On March 4, 1923, he ‘wil retire to private Mfe after having served more years in congress than any other man. Members of congress irrespective of party are already plan- ning an unusual “send off" for him. “Uncle Joe” was born in Guilford Court House, N. C., in 1836, the year in which Sam Houston was elected president of Texas, the year of the Massacre of the Alamo,a year in which the national debt of the United States, which was paid off in the same year, was only $37,513.05 and the year in which Martin Van Buren was elected President of the United “I recall, as if it were yesterday, the fourth of the debates between Lin- coln and Dougias at Charleston, Il. It seemed that all the folks from the prairies of central Illinois were there, and as the events of that day come back to me I recall that the crowd was quite evenly divided in its sym- Pathies and in those days, I can as- sure you, partisanship was something that wns, virile to the last degree. “In my lfetime three American presidents have suffered martyrdom at the hands of assassins— Lincoln Garfield and McKinley—and I knew them all, and all of them were my friends.” “Uncle Joe" then talked of other famous men he had known. Had Many Famous Associates “When I came first to congress in 1872," hé said, “Alexander H. Ste- phens was a member from Georgia, I had heard a great deal of Stephens be- fore I came to Washington. Stephens was Lincoln's ablest adversary, and in congress I came to know him and he was one of the my earliest friends on the floor of the house. As I came to know Stephens I found that he was & man different from the Stephens I never took very much stock in story for the very good reason Colonal Watterson was a mem: of the house at that time and was in Washington using all of his influence and diplomacy to work out & peaceful solution of the Hayes Tilden controversy. The Republicans thought Hayes was elected and the Democrats thought Tilden had been elected. The house was Democratic— Samuel J. Randall was the speaker— and the senate was Republican. The contest did not turn out as the Demo- crats expected it would, but the fact remains that the result was patri- tically acquiesced in. I recollect that when a filibuster started on the Demo- cratic side Watterson refused to be a part of it explaining that he would join in no movement to obstruct the progress of the count and adding that ‘we have had enough of anarchy.’ ” It is said of Mr. Cannon that he ‘was-closerto the late Thomas B. Reed that that ber througt from Samuel J. Randall States. And so down through the} haa read about in the war news. Paxtiwariaue ttheanan, petariastiedas Rigiecaee tau to rtad dayerce Wetatarn Glagvaia Catsoans| aoe Seer ase. pean a Tom Reod’s Great Courage committee on rules by John G. Car- ys of el er, Clay and Calhoun, remembered 5 Lincoin, Grant-and Lee, “Uncle Joo" | Duvet ba as the| “There was crossed in Tom Reed |iisie, during the speakerships of those author of ‘the civil rights bill, that raised such a row in the South And here let me say that while the South, in the heat of its indignation over the civil rights bill, denounced and pour ed imprecations.on Butler’s-heed, they apparently @id not take into consider- ation the fact that he was also the. chairman of the house judiciary com- mittee, which reported and ‘put through the house the amnesty Dill, which removed the political disabfli- ties, incident to war, from so ‘many thousands of southerners. “And let me recall one of the best losers I have ever known, one of the greatest of American editors, who has. 80 recently gone to his reward—Col. Henry Watterson of Kentucky, who wes also one of my colleagues in the earty years of my service in congress. There is a popular fiction of which Colonel Watterson was the hero. I mean the story which even has. ap- peared in some political histories to the effect that Colonel Watterson had organized an army of 100,000 Demo- crats and that this army was going to march on Washington for the pur- poss of putting Mr. Tilden in the White House, the greatest irftellect with the great- est courage I have ever known,” he said. “Reed won his fame by count- tng 2 quorum in the house, and, simple as that mey seem, it was nevertheless the finest display of tourage I have ever seen before or since. It had always been the rule that a member of the house could sit in his seat and be recorded absent unless he answered to his name, and Reed was the first of the speakers to refuse to recognize the fiction. “Another great speaker of the house was Blaine. To me the secret of Biaine's leadership was, as was the caso with Reed, his courage to mest situations, to accept responsibilities, to fight when occasion demanded, and the ability to use the weapons of par- lMamentary rules and political stratesy better than any of his colleagues.” “William McKinley came to con- gress in 1877 and he and I were pretty intimate friends from that time until his tragic death in 1901. You know to my way of thinking the measure of a public man, especially when that man happens to be the President of the United States, is the success of his administration of his office two famous old-tithe Democrats. “In the forty-aix years that I have has journeyed. e Entered Congress in 1872. In 1872 the year when Grant was elected for a second time president of the United States, “Uncle Joe” en- tered congress. “That was a great year,” he said, “as it was the year when Vesuvius produced one of her worst and most historic eruptions; it was, the year of the great Boston fire that burned up something like 80 million dollars’ worth of property, the year they ar- rested Brigham Young and charged him with complicity in the murder of Richard Yates, the year when the Prohibitionists held their first nation- al convention and nominated James Black of Pennsylvania for president, the year that Spain emancipated the wes in Porto Rico und the, year hen Germany became an empire and France a republic.” £ And “Uncle Joe” recalled that of the men who are today his cofieagues in the house of representatives, all but © few were unborn when he first entered congress. In recalling the other day men he ‘bad met m and out of congress, and his colleagues of this and other days, “I have found partisanship to be a ‘warm and vigorous thing, but at the same time something that is mixed with patriotism and much common sense., There is no prohibition against crossing the center aisle that divides the two polltical groups, or of meet ing in the lobby or the cloakroom, ta talk things over. It has all been very Pleasant, very profitable to ma “Among the four thousand or five associated In legislative forts and thought of as Democrats or as Re. publicans, except as we discussed in public or more often in private dif. ferent national policies. And so it is when I see ghosts in the house of rin reentatives Iam never frightone for they typify the spirit of a repr: sentative democracy as truly as do the words and works of those who at the beginning laid the foundation of the American government, Che Casper Daily Cridune Will Be Restored) thousand men with whom I have been, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1922. IN MEMORY OF THE YESTERYEARS BY HAL COCHRAN RANDMOTHER, mother and T ae generations of women to- ay, Cy daughter, too, Are shedding a memory tear; They may smile for the peace that HE memories stay, though the years roll on, And the feelings of reverence in- < x 2 crease All with a single thought, For grandfather, father and son, | Are paying respect to the memory has come anew, Th pe ene ight live in s at our coun! m iv f those who in wars have fought. Yet they sob for the yesteryear. Peace. 3 ad us GAS SHIPMENTS FOR MAY TAKE TWELVE TRAINS Approximately 144,000 Bar- rels Moved to Export Points from Casper During Month. 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