The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-14
THE REAL THING.
Rough Riders of the West so
Regarded.
New York Laughs at Kid-GlOved
Cohorts.
TEDDY IS CRITICISED.
Grigsby'S Fighters Receive the
Praise
And of Them Much Is Expected
in War.
TEDDY IS CRITICISED.
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New York, June 14.-One of the most
spectacular events of the war with Spain
has been provided by Teddy Roosevelt
and his band of alleged rough riders
Dispatches from the south TEEN with the
strange conglomeration of Fifth avenue
dudes and so-called cowboys, until one
grows heartily sick of it all. When Colo
mel Roosevelt resigned his responsible post
as assistant secretary of the navy to raise
his band of terrible warriors, the more
conservative of his friends did not hest
tate to indulge in hostile criticism. They
argued, and not without good grounds
that it was. to use a bit of expressive
slang. grand stand play"
And we in New York have grown quite
able Teddy and his Kld-gloved cohorts;
with a sense of humor, in which event
we have been quietly amused. But there
are many OF US who take Teddy and his
rough riders quite seriously, not realizing
that down at Chickamauga,e eagerly await
ing. is another band of rough riders. who
are Just exactly what they seem to be:
of volunteer cavalry. consisting of $40
genuine: simon-pure cowboys and plains
as Roosevelt's pets. They are big brOnzed
fellows, every one born horseman and a a
hardened by years of life on the plains.
Many of them have records as indian
fighters and are imbued with intense pa
triotism.
There are no Wallets in the camp of Colo
mel Grigsby's Third regiment at Chicka-
manga, There are no golf sticks and polo
clubs to be kept in order. The society
men by with a sniff of disdain. And yet
there are I'm men there from the colonel 1d
have records TO be proud of, and who
have in them the stuff that heroes are
made of.
There are no pampered sons of the rich
in this outfit. These men do not look up
on their enlistment a holiday jaunt.
They are there to fight, not a posers, and
the fighting can't begin any too soon to
Your true westerner can only be com
manded by a man for whom he has a re-
spect born of superiority. And in Colo
mel Grigsby they have a man in whom
thai that respect is very deep.rooted; Al Al.
life has been filed with adventure. At
the Close of the eiy war tn through which
kota and grew up with the country He
years he has resided in the state and is
at present attorney general of South Da-
During the civil war he was once pris-
oner at AndersonVille and twice prisoner
ence., s. G. On both occasions he es-
capped, being recaptured the first time,
His sobriquet, The Smoked Yank,'' was
given him after he reached sherman $
suit of long exposure and the SCOT of
many solitary campfires in the wilderness.
At the conclusion of the war he wrote
THE Smoked Yank.
Inc regiment IS OIUC6reQ men all OF
whom have made names for themselves in
the west. Lieutenant Colonel Floyd of
Helena, Mont, is a graduate of West
Point, who has passed through many ex-
citing Indian campaigns. Major Leigh H.
French, the senior major of the regiment,
is Washington surgeon, but he has spent
most of his life in the west. During the
last few years. however, he has been hunt
ing big game in the jungles of Africa.
Major Robert S. Stewart, commander of
the second squadron, is of a younger gen
Grafton, and consequently has not seen so
much of wild life. He is a lawyer. Dur
ing the winter months it has been his
practice to follow the hounds on wolf
hunts across the Sioux reservation, where
he became popular with the hundreds of
cowboys in that vicinity.
Captain Jack Foster, Captain Joseph
Binder and Captain Bullock command re
spectively troops A, B and c. All have
records as fighters and all have been ter
rors to the, evildoers of the early days.
Captain Bullock is one of the best known
men of the northwest. After serving as
captain of the vigiantes at Helena, Mont,
and building up a fiourishing cemetery in
which repose some of the most noted des-
peradoes of the early '7Os, he transferred
his field of operations to DeadwoOd then
the toughest community in the west.
His record had preceded him and he was
made the first sheriff of Lawrence county.