The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-04
THE GREAT NATURAL BORN
GENERAL APPOINTED.
AND MERCER ALSO
LIEUTENANT COLONEL AND
SURGEON ARE SELECTED.
N~ebraska's Third Regiment is Be-
ing Quickly Recruited with Men
Drawn From the Flower of the
State.

There are mcnstrous few men in a
great and healthy state like Nebraska
whose minds are SO dwarfed as to
lmpugn the motives of Colonel Bryan
and his associates in organizing a regl-
ment to be placed at the disposal of
President McKinlev
"Adjutant Generals Office, Lincoln,
Neb., June 4, 1S9S.-General Order No.
~: The following regimental appoint
ments fer the Third regiment, Ne
braska volunteer infantry, have been
determined upo and are published for
the information of all concerned:
Gol9nel, William J. Bryan Lincoln;
Lincoln; surgeon, with ank of major,
S. D. Mercer, M. D., Omaha. BY direc-
ton of the governor,
H. P. BARRY,
Adjutant General.
The Washington Post says:
1T appears that Mr.. Bryan may get
his regiment after all. We hope he
will. He has come forward at his coun-
trys call, anxious to serve it in any
useful way, and has devoted himself to
the creation n organization Of a Ne
hraska regiment. He has not vaunted
himself. He has displayed no spirit OF
vanity or ostentation. While hordes
of Notwithstanding sons, proteges Of
o-S0S NNA oAANN Uo VI
clamored for staff positions or big COM
mands, William J.. Bryan, with more
ability tina any hundred of them put
together, has gone to work modestly
and without self-seeking. He recruited
a force n it was taken from him. He
persisted and got another force. The
newspapers have made fun Of him, his
enemies have sought to cover him with
ridicule n derision. He has taken
no notice and has pursued his purpose.
Now there is another Nebraska regi-
ment and both the soldiers and the gov
ernOr want Bryan to command it. We
trust it may be so. Mr.. Bryan is young,
he is patriotic, he has courage, nerve,
brains, initiative, equilibrium There is
nothing discreditable in his ambition to
lead a regiment of his fellow-citizens
in this emergency. We do not know
where Bourke Cochran, Billy Bynum
and the rest of the spluttering heroes
who deserted the democratic party two
years ago, are at present exhibiting
their prowess. We do wnow, however,
that Mr.. Bryan is trying to do his part,
and we believe that he is worth more
to the country and deserves more at
Its hands thar any of them"
Lieutenant Colonel Vifquain, with his
military record n we'll know qualities
as a soldier which gained for him not
only thanks from officers and congress
for bravery in action, but for tina other
quality hardly less essential, the ability
to so handle a regiment of volunteers
that they were referred to as models
of discipline" will be an ideal COM
mander of the First battalion and Sec
ond IN command Ut the regiment.
DR.. Mercer has been a resident of
Omaha so long and prominent in the
business life and growth CT the west
IN such a manner that he is recognized
as one of the representative men among
those who have built up the state.
These selections have been made, as
the others yet to follow will have to be
made, from a long list of applicants,
among whom are scores of names of
men known from one end IF the state
to the other as standing at the head
of their communities, in professional.
In business enterprise and in social life,
From the number and character Of
those offering their services in this regi-
ment it is evident that the task a not
been to find fit men for the positions,
but rather to select from the numbers
every way fit the few that are needed.
Reports are being received daily by
the adjutant general and the governor
from the company commanders and re-
cruiting officers in temporary charge Of
the twelve companies of this regiment.
All except two or three are already re-
ported as recruited up to the maximum.
One of the reports today received was
from j. H. Brown of Wakefield, and in
it he says that his company is re-
cruited up to the 106 limit and can be
concentrated at that point in four
hours notice. Similar reports are ON
ing from other companies, and many Of
them are having the recruits carefully
examined by surgeons and rejecting all
VINO 90 not come up to the require
ments of the. army regulations.
Now is the time to nrnua the hoastod