Word: cannoneer
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...represent the U. S. as "observers" at the International Telegraph Conference next month in Brussels, the President appointed Charles Henry Shedd of Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which the First Minnesota Volunteers lost 215 of their 262 men. "In all the history of warfare," the President said, "this charge has few, if any, equals...
...Asheville conference was held just the same. Some 300 Dry, determined clergy and laymen attended. Bishop Cannon's colleague, Baptist Barton, a solid, ruddy gentleman, took the chair after Bishop Cannon had called the audience to order. It was announced that the conferees were to be officially known as "Anti-Smith Democrats." Republicans were not invited. The speech-making pictured Nominee Smith as a diabolical visitation upon the Democracy, of which it must and would be purged. The Anti-Smith Democrats promised to swing North Carolina and Florida out of the Solid South for Nominee Hoover. They predicted...
...largest-looming effort to split the South was yet to come, and did come, last week at Asheville,-N. C.-the "nonclerical" Dry conference called by Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Dr. Arthur J. Barton. Georgia Baptist...
...Bishop Cannon is a quiet, prosy, tenacious little Virginian, a son of the W. C. T. U. His name is a synonym for the militant, reforming, social-working element of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South. He has long sought to reunite the northern and southern wings of his faith, which split over slavery in 1844. His lifelong ardor for Prohibition is explained, in his own words, as follows...
Almost the antithesis and often the bland antagonist of Bishop Cannon is Bishop Warren Akin Candler of Atlanta, an M-E of the old school, a believer in the status quo, in worship before works, in conservatism. Bishop Candler is, of course, a Dry. His brother, the late Asa Griggs Candler, made a fortune giving the South a substitute for mint juleps and white mule. The substitute was "Coca Cola" and a far greater power for temperance it was -if you should ask Bishop Candler-than ten thousand sermons or revivals. Bishop Candler is for churchmen sticking to church matters...