The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-29
THE HOMECOMING.
TOpeka'S Plans to Receive the
Kansas Regfment-Ridicu-
lous Effort on the Part
of Kansas City, Mo.

The movement to give the Twentieth
Kansas regiment a stupendous recep-
ton at the state capital, has been I'M
derway for many weeks.
The State Journal has printed strong
and numerous articles about it. The
other papers in Topeka have taken it
up and the press of the state generally
has endorsed and commended the idea
of a mammoth reception and welcome
at Topeka for Col Funston and his
men.
Weeks ago T. J. Anderson. secretary
of the Topeka Commercial club, wrote
Col Funston himself about the matter
and took the subject up with Congress
man Curtis, Senator Baker and others
in the Kansas delegation.
Now comes a Kansas City, Missouri,
newspaper, which knew all about To-
peka's programme and with unique
nerve and gall, proposes a reception to
the Kansas regiment.
If Missouri wishes to get up a re-
ception, let the state do it for her own
soldiers. Kansas loves and cherishes
her own and will welcome them as she
has planned.
The celebration will be at Topeka
where it should be-, This city naturally
proposed the idea of welcoming her re-
turning soldiers with grand demon
stration and we do not have to go to
Missouri to carry it out. The Kansas
regiment will return by way of San
Francisco and will not go through Kan
sas City, but arrive here and be mus
tered out here.
Kansas City derives her great reve-
nues from this state. She takes every
thing she can from US. We feed her
and support her newspapers. In all
decency, if she desires to honor Kan
sas regiment and jollify with us she
should come down and participate with
Topeka in the greatest reception of the
year-and not try to run little side
show of her own with our people as
the attraction.
That the Topeka and Kansas people
may see what real nerve and audacity
a newspaper can display, the following
is taken from one of the Kansas City
papers of today:
THE people of Kansas City take an
almost personal interest in the fortunes
of the gallant Twentieth Kansas and
when that aggregation OF F1hplno-
fighters returns next fall the Kansas
boys will be given a welcome that Will
be sincere in every respect
In common with the entire state of
Missouri, which has no direct represen-
tatives in Manila, the whole of Kansas
City, the whole of Missouri, looks upon
the Twentieth Kansas as our boys"
They are representatives of the Mis-
souri, valley. of the rolling prairieS, the
diversified interests of the west They
are the typical sons of the west, fear
ing nothing, fighting both bravely and
going after-and getting it.
so Kansas City is determined to
give the Twentieth Kansas reception
when the great regiment returns from
the scenes of war this fall, a reception
which will not be merely little piece
of formal tinsel, but a reception the
spontaneous thought of all Kansas City
and a reception which in its character
will show that it means actual, SubStan-
tial love, respect and admiration for the
boys who have brought such high
honor to the stars and stripes, to the
American cause and to the LOCALITY from
which they hail
Mayor Jones says it is a thing which
ought to be done by all means. and he
promises to do anything which suggests
itself as proper to get the reception go
ing. Mayor Jones says:
e AS Kansas City has not decided to
Dewey day, this will be the
grand opportunity for an outpouring
demonstration of the patriotism of the
people The war with Spain, the policy
Of expansion, have aroused the patriot
ism of the people to the highest pitch,
and such a thing as a popular reception
to the noted Twentieth regiment and it's
gallant Colonel Funston would afford a
cause, time and place for a demonstra-
ton which would far exceed the Dewey
day parade of last year. 1t would be
the greatest day ever seen in Kansas
City,"
The Topeka Plan.
Every day brings more evidence of the
favor with which the Topeka plans are
being received throughout the state.
is one of the letters received:
To the Editor of the State Journal:
AS a resident of Kansas for forty
three years, and a soldier of the war of
the sixties, 1 have grown to be a firm
believer in Kansas, her institutions,
newspapers and gallant troops always
in the front"
1 want to see proper arrangements
made at Topeka for welcoming the re-
turn of the Twentieth Kansas from the
Philippines. ] think the whole state
will turn out to see them, for wherever
the civilized languages are read they
have made known Kansas, and Kansas !
valor- Whether the war be right or
wrong, our boys have demonstrated to !
the whole world that they are of the
same stuff of which Grecian heroes
were made.
If they can be spared for a home COM
ing. they should be met in Topeka by
such an ovation as will establish a new
era in politics and patriotism. The gov
ernOr should strike medals to COM
memorate their deeds and the event
submitted