The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-02-26
THE OLD SOLDIERS ON DECK.
GRAND ARMY MEN CATCH THE
WAR SPIRIT.
The Veterans of Warren Post Ask
the Governor to Provide
Them With Guns.

The recent dispatches, in1ammatory or
otherwise, respecting the recent disaster
to the battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor have stirred up the veterans of
Warren Post, G. A. r., in this city, and
the fever of war is stirring and the fever
of patriotism is running high.
The veterans of Warren Post. No. "a
say that if there is to be fighting to do
they want their share of it, but they
realize the fact that if called out on the
spur of the moment they might appear
little rusty, and they desire a chance
to burnish Up the old drill so as to be
able to come to a right-shoulder- shift
with the snap OF 81.
Following out that line of thought,
at a meeting of the post held last Wed
nesday night, the following communica-
ton and preamble and resolutions We're
adopted, and yesterday they were deliv-
cred at the Governors office by COM
mittee soncisting of Post Commander
L. 5. Geitner, Adjutant S. j. Jones.
Quartermaste George w. Herr and Of
ficer of the Day A. D. Hurd:
| Whereas, In the destruction of the
United States battleship Maine, while
anchored in the harbor of Havana, en-
failing the loss of two hundred and fifty
lives, casts feeling of gloom over our
country, approximating that OF 1861;
| and
Whereas, Present indications seem TO
warrant the belief that due caution was
not exercised by the Spanish authori-
| ties for the protection of said battle
ship and her brave crew, while anchored
in Spanish waters, under Spanish forts,
covered by Spanish guns; and
| Whereas, Present complications in
connection with the deplorable disaster
| of the Maine has so worked up the minds
of the American people as to render pos
sible very serious trouble, and as Grand
Army men we hold ourselves ever ready
to defend the best interests of our coun-
try; and
Whereas, Kindred organizations of the
Grand Army of the Republic, as also
| several patriotic Governors of various
States of our nation, have rendered our
Chief Executive at Washington their
moral, financial and physical support
should emergency require it: and
Whereas, We are obligated by the
principles of our order to exercise a jeal
Gus watchfulness over our country and
flag. which from 1861 to 1865 was de-
Tended upon more than two thousand
battlefields by the men who now COM
pose the grandest organization beneath
the folds of ''old glory" and for the de-
| Tense of which more than four hundred
thousand of our country's noblest sons
gave their lives; therefore be it
Resolved That Warren Post, No. "a,
Department of California and Nevada,
Grand Army of the Republic, petition
his excellency, James II. Budd, Governor
of the State of California. requesting a
loan of fifty muskets, fifty cartridge
| boxes or belts, fifty canteens and fifty
| haversacks for a period of ninety days,
| to be used in our poSt-room for the
purpose of drilling in the manual OF
arms, and otherwise fitting ourselves for
any emergency that may arise; and be
| it further
| Resolved, That a committee of four,
! including the Commander of this Post,
| be appointed to present TO our Governor
| a copy of these resolutions under seal
| of the post.