Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — SEXTON IS COMMANDER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEXTON IS COMMANDER.

Chicagoan at the. Head of G. A. R.— Neat Kncampment at Philadelphia. Col. James A. Sexton of Chicago is the new commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was elected in the national encampment at Cincinnati by a vote of 424 to 214 for his only rival, Col. Albert D. Shaw of Watertown, N. Y.

It was a fight between the middle west and the middle east on one side and the extreme border sections on the other, and the former won. The victory carried with it the selection of Philadelphia over Denver as the place for the encampment next year, the vote resulting 395 to 295.

COL. JAMES A. SEXTON. New Commander-in-Chief G. A. R.