Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1904 — SECRETARY HAY WAS LATE [ARTICLE]

SECRETARY HAY WAS LATE

Virginia Dm 1 dad la 1776 That "the People of ThU Country Shall Be Kaowu as Americans. ** St. Louis, June 24.—Major Humphrey Castleman, chief of the World’s fair bureau of insurance, declares that he has Just discovered that Secretary Hay’s ruling that the people of the United States shall be known as "Americans” was ante-dated 128 years by the Virginia convention, which on April 29, 1776, passed a resolution declaring that “hereafter the people of this country shall be known as Americans.” The resolution was introduced by Carter Henry Harrison, great-great-great-grandfather of the present mayor, Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, and great-great-grandfather of Major Oastleman.