The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-12
Received An Ovation When He
Landed In San Francisco.
CHEERS FOR HIS TROOPS
PEOPLE WOULD NOT LET SOL
DIERs PASS IN PEACE.
The Gallant Little General Tells of
Conditions In the philippines and
Denies That He Is An Anti-ex-
pansionist-Campaign Being Con-
Quoted In An Able Manner.

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San Francisco, Oct. 1.-THE Twenti-
eth Kansas regiment and the 400 dis
charged soldiers who arrived here last
night on the transport Tartar We're
landed today. after being anchored in
the stream all morning during the pro-
gress of the health officers examina-
ton. Their stay at anchor was made
less monotonous by the attentions Of
hundreds of people who journeyed as
near to the transport as the quaran-
tine regulations would permit, and
showered messages and questions upon
the boys. Fruit and good things to eat
were in abundance passed on board,
much to the qualification of the sol
diers.
The inspection was finished early in
the afternoon and the word was passed
among the soldiers that the vessel
would be locked Immediately. A1great
hurrah greeted the announcement, and
the soldiers commenced their prepara-
tions for debarkation. Under the guild
ance of a powerful tug boat the trans
port was towed to the government
dock. The water front was black with
people, all anxious to greet the Tween
tieth, Kansas. As the Tartar passed
Slowly along the water front the sol
oilers were cheered time and again.
Flags were dipped and whistles and cal
Hopes added to the din.
The scene in the vicinity of the trans
port dock was an exciting one. Hun
dreds of friends and relatives of the
discharged California soldiers who ae-
companied the Kansans home, gathered
here to get a few words with the SOL
diers before they commenced the
march.
Was An Exciting March.
The march to the Presidio was an ex-
citing one for the soldiers. The well
come they received was second only to
the one accorded to their home troops
in their return home. Both sides of
Market street and the other streets
through which the soldiers passed were
thronged with excited people, all anx-
ious to do them homage. Cheers upon
cheers passed up and down the lines of
people. Cannon We're fired at intervals,
bells changed and whistles and steam
calliopes added their respective noises
to the occasion.
The throngs surged around General
Funston, and he had great difficulty
making progress through the crowds.
Cheer upon cheer greeted him, but his
only acknowledgment was a military
salute and an occasional doffing of his
cap.
The crowds simply would not let the
soldiers pass in peace. Breaks Oc-
CURED every few minutes. Relatives
and friends broke into the ranks and
marched with the soldiers. some srnil-
ing and laughing and others crying,
but all happy and glad.
The Fegimental colors, little the worse
for wear in spite of the arduous cam
paign which they had passed through,
called forth a tremendous burst of ap-
plause wherever they were sighted.
Taking it altogether, the soldiers
seemed to be in fair health, but, of
course, there We're some who showed
the effects of the severe ordeal through
which they had passed. Bringing up
in the rear of the regiment were the
hospital wagons, not very heavily laden
with sick.
Funston Talks of Philippines.
General Funston, in an interview to-
day, said: This is America, you know
and I am an American That tells
the story best of our delight in reach
ing home again. There is nothing
greater than the great joy of being
among you again-among the people
whom we know are our catintrymen
and kin.
II have only this to say of the cam
paign in the Philippines: Everything is
being done that could be to carry the
war to an early and successful conelu-
sion The report that am an anti-ex-
pansionist is ridiculous and not worthy
of serious consideration. | never init
mated such q thing and have been
wrongly quoted i'm the matter.
THE people must stop to consider
when they are passing Judgment. that
there are countless conditions to be
constantly e0mbatted and overcome
there before Roadway can be made. /
fear that the exact difficulties of the
situation are not fully understood.
Some mistakes may have been made,
but the campaign has been conducted
in a most able and conscientious man
ner, and every man has done his best.
No grave errors have occurred, but it is
always easy to look hack and comment
up what has been done, even though
that might have been accomplished I'm
der trying circumstances.
General Funston. when asked what
he thought of the FiIipinos, said:
They have some pretty good fighters
there, and some pretty good shots, hut
the majority OF them are rather poor
marksmen."
He added that while some of the Fill
pinos were intelligent, he did not think
they were capable of self-go government.
He declared that he was not a candi-
date for the vice presidency, and said
that he expected to be mustered out
very soon: