The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-04
THEY'RE COMING.
The Kansas Old Soldier Boys in
Blue
To the Biggest, Grandest, Re-
union Ever Held Here.
AN OLD TIME CROWD
Which Will Make People Think
There Are More
Than Thirty-tive Thousand Old
Soldiers in Kansas.
TOPEKA AS HOSTESS
viii Provide the Greatest Fess
tival For Them
That Amy State in the Union
Ever Saw.
Pictures, Parades, Pageants and
Than Thirty-five Thousand Old
Soldiers in Kansas.
TOPEKA AS HOSTESS
Will Provide the Greatest Fess
tival For Them
That Any State in the Union
Ever Saw.
Pictures, Parades, Pageants and
a Carnival Thrown In.

The people of Kansas want to attend:
the next state reunion at Topeka. Major
T. J. Anderson, Captain A. NJ. Fuller and !
other members of the committee ara
being deluged with letters from all por-
tions of the state from prominent mem-
bers of the g. A. R. who want to see the
next reunion held in Topeka.
Captain A. NJ. Fuller yesterday receiv- i
ed letter from Captain ]. D. Barker of
Girard, who said "You have my cor
dial support in your efforts to bring the
state reunion to Topeka" Captain Barr
ker is q whole team himself.
The Topeka managers say that they
are sure of the support of the southeast,
and that even Kansas City and Fort Scott
will come to Topeka rather than go any
where else.
There is not the least reason in the
world why Topeka should not have the
largest gathering of old soldiers in the
history of the state. Not since 1885
when the old soldiers gathered in To-
peka in such numbers as to surprise
every one has there been a really large
gathering of the Kansas boys who wore
the blue. Now is the time for them to
get ettogether. There is not a single old
soldier in Kansas who would not enjoy
spending a week in Topeka and meeting
the men who marched by his side in the
ranks. Not many more reunions can be
big ones, let this one be historic.
The time is ripe for just such a re-
union as that next year must be. There
is nothing in its way. There will be a
great political ampaign in progress and
tho people will be awake and ready to
move around and they will be more anx-
ious to attend a reunion than at any other
time.
The people owe a debt to the old SOL
diers which they can never repay, and
they should see that their reunion in To-
poke next fall is a success in every par
ticular. There is spirit of patriotism
which must not be allowed to die, aud
there are many men not old soldiers who
need revival along this line.
The thing that the G. A. r. members
of Topeka will do first. to test the feeling
of the city in favor of the reunion will be
to give an entertainment on Friday even
ing, December 13, at Hamilton hall. Then
the people of Topeka will be given an
opportunity to prove whether they will
give the members of the G. a. r. the
support they deserve in their efforts to
bring the big reunion here.
The ladies are not wasting any time.
They are just as much determined as
the men are that the reunion must be
held in Topeka. The members of Relief
CORPS. No IA, and Lincoln Circle, No. s.
held meetings yesterday afternoon to
discuss plans of making the enter
tainment on the 18th success. They
decided that each organization would
take 300 tickets and see to it that they
are sold. Now, buy them when the
solicitors come around. This is the first
move to raise money
This entertainment, of course, will
furnish only the nucleus for the fund
which will be raised but it will afford
excellent opportunity of testing the
sentiment here. There is no reason why
Hamilton hall should not be packed as
full as has ever been at state conven-
tons.
Capt. A. NJ Fuller, who is one of the
most determined of the G. A. r workers
in Topeka, says that he has little doubt
! about the reunion being secured for To-
| peka. when we get it we will have a
| week of such time as the boys have not
seen for a long time," he said. I'VE
want no long winded speakers The
| time for speeches will be at the camp
| fires, aud during the day the boys can re-
! new old acquaintauces
/ There will be no Ingalls, day, no Bur
| ton day at our reunion It will not be a
political side show and it will be seen
| that there is no politics in il. The re-
union must be carefully guarded from
running into politics, and if the poll
tcians participate, it must be as indi-
viduals and not as politicians.
sour only competitor for the reunion
will be Leavenworth. l understand the
Leavenworth people want the reunion,
but the assurances we are receiving in
dicate that the people want to come to
Topeka.
Then there will be the encampment
of the regulars l am satisfied we can
have Topeka designated as the place of
holding their encampment, and this will
add to the success of the occasion. We
will show the state that Topeka is not
dead and Just what we can do"
If the other cities in the state will help
Topeka in this matter, Topeka will
pledge her word that at least 500 of the
| citizens of this town will attend whatever
iubilees and festivals the other towns
| NAV give. We have been liberal to the
Atchison, Leavenworth and Hutchinson
festivals, and we will turn out in greater
numbers next year to help our sister
towns along. We can all afford to ge
| visiting each other