Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-13 | Page 12 | Force Removal Flag From

FORCE REMOVAIJWki FLAG FROM'm Members of tho Grand ArmjjB!". public and the Daughters of can Revolution yesterday forcw mlttee In chargo of the decflj' the Lincoln day celebration aB Utah, under tho direction ofjSia an's Republican club and tho'SMT Republican club, to removB,r' floor of tho lobby of the HotMqJ American flag which had hecjB-a hecjB-a rug In tho center of the IoM"? Harry S. Joseph, the chairj committee on decorations, oS',ii responsibility for the seemhj tion of tho flag. Associated yjg tho committee were Claude J and Georgo Wilson. Tho flag had not been spjjltf! floor long when a patriotic cltH ened to whip the entire comiT-flag comiT-flag were not removed fronft A G. A. R. veteran who haplMa hotel soon afterward forgot! jjj an effort to rush again to tbj his flag. Chairman Joseph defended'3 tee by declaring that tho flagP to represent the grave of 'BJ tho plan of tho committee MBjRti palms and stacked muskets Mti the flag and sentries statIortBjt guard the flag. The oxpIatHm; chairman did not satisfy ajw? Grand Army men who hadipj the lobby nor several racmBJti Daughters of the AmericanBJui, who were vigorous In against placing tho United tho lloor, 'aBEj Lucia n H. Smyth of tho tain Stuart W. Cake of tho tt navy, Cuplain Edward N CJWli United States army and MrSflpf land Shepard of (he Utah i the American Rovolution nniK coe M. Brccden of the DauffJB; American Revolution Joined 9R' oral protest, and the eominIJftt la ted. The flag wns takon 'M