Show WHEELER AND THE VETERANS COME DAYS AGO a story WU was seat 3 out trout from New Orleans to tile the e erect that General h WI Wheeler eIer was wash h hissed ad ad jeered out at of a reunion of veterans In hi which he ap appeared appeared wearing the uniform ot of an cili of the United Stat States army On Us Its face the story wu was hard to credit Be Becan because can cause It was so utterly at variance with the sentiment of the new 16 south but it was waa told with such a wealth of detail that it found many The Herald refrained tr m comment at the time tIlDe In the belief that the report would That belief JIa has Dee been It has developed that there was br hardly Jy a word of truth in it Gea G n eral Wheeler did appear at the reunion In a United States uniform and that is isas isas as far as the facts went Instead of being d with jeers and hisses he heas hewa wa as greeted with cheers As A a confederate veteran of b high h and honorable standing General Wheeler wag waa to the re respect peet of his hiB former comrades no DO matter what sort ort of cloth lug he be wore More certainly was waa he entitled to respect because he wore ore a Union uniform for ter Wheeler Is a Union veteran now BOw as well asa as a confederate confederate The south and especially the SOldiers are as 8 loyal today as t the e old soldiers of the north TIMe These days n tb the people of the entire tire country have no DO patience with men on either side who be wave red shirts and at attempt tempt to revIve dead Issues ues The ut last vestige of disloyalty in the south it if any still existed was out during th war with pain Many an uld con j federate donned the blue during that struggle and as offered ought velY for the as asI I they against st it str r The heeler matter w d not be Worthy indeed It it were n not t ct that t certain cerin northern them r p peva g at Pt ed the ori Ne New lani story as a at t fact ft sal at oUt OOt ed ht criticisms I south and aDd its vet Now that the canard has W bf it i dEd It Js is to e I hoped hope t that at the tIIe will promptly retract I their ed and aM hasty utterances |