Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . *^» Genp:ral James W. Latta,Secretary of Internal Affairs. THE HERE was the man withthe Aaronic beard and theheart of a college lad,General James W. Latta, leadingmember of the Universal Priest-hood of good fellows. Nokindlier gentleman everlooked the people ofPennsylvania in the faceor came before them fortheir suffrages. He wasthe one star in the gal-axy of the Great Cam-paign whose lustre never waxed dim so long asthe Quartermasters department was operative. Gentlemen, a famous Union general oncesaid, An arm3^
Through the great campaign : with Hastings and his spellbinders . *^» Genp:ral James W. Latta,Secretary of Internal Affairs. THE HERE was the man withthe Aaronic beard and theheart of a college lad,General James W. Latta, leadingmember of the Universal Priest-hood of good fellows. Nokindlier gentleman everlooked the people ofPennsylvania in the faceor came before them fortheir suffrages. He wasthe one star in the gal-axy of the Great Cam-paign whose lustre never waxed dim so long asthe Quartermasters department was operative. Gentlemen, a famous Union general oncesaid, An arm3^ travels on its stomach. Now,this party is not an army, but I propose to see thatit travels on army principles, he remarked, onemorning early in the campaign. Then he bowedhis fine head, with one hand on his breast, to theapplause of the entire party. 21 Forthwith, by unanimous consent, he waschosen commissary. Nothing Hke it was everknown before. A General by right and titlemade a commissar} for a handful of men. And no man had a better right to the position,for behind James W. I^atta was the experience offive long years of arm} life. Ha
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