The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-06


commander-in-chief ought to be accept
able authority in the matter. These
| nou-voluntcers will he sent home in due
time-no orders have as yet been re-
ceived concerning them-and, when
their respective commands return from
the field they will be entitled to their
former place in the ranks. or, as the
case may be, in the line.
Some of them will not seek to
again associate themselves with the
comrades they refused to accom-
pany to the front. They will send
in their designations and will be
discharged, honorably possibly, but
more likely "for the good of the guard
that charitable halfway cause that
was invented to save from disgrace
unfortunate fellows whose sins were
not dcep-dycd Others will come
around and take their positions and
be greeted heartily by their fellows.
WERE BRAVE ENOUGH.
These are the sympathy-doserving
men who were brave enough to say
mo" when conscience bade them say II.
They wanted to go and it was hard for
them to stay behind. Their comrades
know it, They know that Bill was
the most anxious man on the street
that the company should make good
showing, but they also knew that he
had a wife and family and halt-pald-
for home and they advised him: DON'T
be a fool but go back and take care
of your family, There's plenty oil
young fellows to take your place"
This thing happened in every company
in the division. and in some of our own
regiments compa MES, There were nu-
merous instances of it. Captain KAN
beck, of Company B, not only advised
but commanded nine OF his men, heaus
Of families in poor circumstances mat
when the question of the mastering
officer was addressed to them theV
should say mo" II will not take you
with me, so you might just as well
get down and out in the regular way
he told them. Some of them Needed
them, but others answered yes ana
coming to him afterwards begged nm
not to carry out, his threat. He has
not given them an answer as yet but Is
disnosed to let them have their own
way, feeling he has done his full duty.
In Company d is a youngster named
| Michael SChummelpilanE. He was de-
termned upon volunteering. His COM
radcs who knew he was about the. only
support of a mother and eight other
children, advised him not to volunteer.
| He insisted that he would; saying he
wasn't going 10 go home and have peo-
pie think he was afraid to enlist. The
street" decided that the kid
! shouldn't go and a committee went to
| him and told him of the decision.
HE SAID NO.
you've got to go home" they said.
"Gf YOU answer no you can go home
! in peace. If you answer yes we'll kick
| you home" And they got him to
| promise that he wouldn't volunteer.
"Ry the blnkety- -blankety-blank," said
! one ferOCious looking member of the
! committee, my set of fours is right be-
| hind yours and if you say yes when
were out on that field there, tomorrow,
| so help me so and so, I'll run my dosh-
| dashed bayonet through your gzard.'
| Michael said mo- when he mastering
officer called Private Schummelpfang'
yesterday morning.
! Another boy promised his invalid
mother before he left home that he
would not enlist without her consent.
! He wrote daily since his arrival here
! begging her to give him permission to
| volunteer. The desired answer did not
| come and with a great effort he said
| mo" Five minutes after the regiment
! returned from the field the company
! clerk handed him Il letter. 1t was from
| hls mother and il told him to do what
! he thought was best. Before finishing
! the reading of the letter he counter
manded hls mo"
! These are random examples. Possi-
! bly, in nine out of ten cases some SINH
! lar explanation could be made of the
| nOn-enlistments. ! know of but one in
| stance where a company accused a nom
! volunteering COmrade of saying mo"
/ through a lack of proper appreciation
/ of duty. He was rOundlY and Openly
| scored and his own brother told him he
/ was miserable low down whelp of a
yellow dog and a disgrace to the name
that his father placed high on the roll
! of honor in the civil war.
| The following resolutions, adopted by
| Company c, speak the sentiments felt
! by every other company in the regi-
ment towards it's respective non-volun-
| tecrs, with some few excepted instan-
| ces like the one mentioned above:
SOME RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas. BY act of congress and by
| proclamation of the president of the
! United States, a call has been made for
| l21uOO volunteer soldiers to defend the
flag and uphold the dignity and honor Of
! our common country in the present crisis,
| anu
! Wheras, The militia of the state of
! Pennsylvania has been called upon by
| Governor Hastings, and such volunteers
acted as could render their services as
soldiers to the United States without sc-
! nous personal loss or exposing to hard
! shin wives or children depending upon
! them, and
! Whereas, Respecting the duties and the
high patriotism which they gave to their
/ dependent wives and families Lieuten-
amt David Davis, Sergeant Edward Firch
! Corporal w. T.. Kennedy and Privatas
! William Bcatman. IaVerne Lynn Sran-