Show THE OLD GUARD An Organization of the Supporters of Grant in 80 Completed WASHINGTON Jan 23A meeting was held this evening by the surviving members mem-bers of the 36 delegates to the Republican can national convention in 1880 who sought to secure the renomination of I General Grant A resolution introduced i I by Colonel Power of Philadelphia on behalf I be-half of Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania was unanimously adopted It provides for an organization t be known as the Old Guard for the purpose of keeping alive the traditions tra-ditions of that event At the meeting tonight to-night twentytwo states were represented repre-sented Of those who formed the original I band of 306 Grant supporters some two hundred and fiftysix are still living A committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for a banquet to be given in Philadelphia April 27 the I anniversary of General Grants birth |