The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-19
Petition to Governor.

Petition to Governor.
Manila, Philippine Islands, Nov. 8.
Governor Reber NJ. Wells, Salt Lake
City;
Dear Governor: II is understood to
be the fact that many organizations of
volunteer troops are making every
effort 10 secure their discharge, and
to that end are sending cablegrams to
the governors of their respective states,
TO congressman and TO the press.
IN order that silence en- our part
may not be misconstrued as an express
sion of desire to remain in the serV-
ice, we Will say:
THAT since the 18th day of August
last our duties have been simply those
of garrison routine. and, SO far as we
can Judge, the future duties here will
be little less than those of occupation
and garrison.
This command, officers and men, as
a unit do not desire to continue in the
service for the love of the duties of a
soldier. We enlisted in the service TO
support the government in the time of
need. And as soon as our services can
be dispensed with honorably and with
out embarrassment, we wish to be re-
called to our state and mustered out.
Without criticising the action of
other troops, and without entering into
an unnecessary scramble to that end.
we do not want 10 see one organization
after another discharged before US and
be among the last To be mustered out
when it shall be determined to send
the volunteers home. it may require
several months To transport all of
them. 1t viii be then that we desire
your active assistance in having us
named among the first to be mustered
out.
we stand ready and willing to 90
our whole duty, but feel that the ne
cessity for our presence here has
passed. Since Manila was occupied two
Light batteries of the Sixth regulars
have arrived, and in the routine duties
OF garrison life we are of little practical
use, the work necessarily falling on
infantry.
Hoping that we have made our posi-
ton clear, we place the matter entirely
in your hands and request that in such
manner as you deem proper you secure
our recall at as early a date as prac-
ticable ana consistent. Most respect
fully, your obedient servants.
RICHARD w. YOUNG,
''F. A. GRANT,
GEORGE w. GIBBS,
"E. A. WEDGWOOD,
81. T. CRITCHLOW,
20. r. GROW,
RAYMOND c. NAYLOR,
WILLIAM c. WEBB"
During the interval of peace the boys
sought various means of diversion for
themselves. a paper entitled Free
dom" was started by the Musser
brothers.
How Soldiers Voted
When the election occurred in Utah
in November the Utah volunteers also
took a hand. While the election had no
effect, legally. the returns, as transmit
ted to Governor Wells, indicates the
preference of the soldier boys had they
been at home to vote. The returns con-
tanned a list of the voters, and the
whole is sworn TO by Don L. Coray.
Harvey II. Dusenberry and Heinrich
Klenke. the judges of election, and
countersigned by certificate of cor
rectness by J. O. Nystrom. Samuel
King, 4. l.. Williams. Angus K. Mich
olson and John 3. Rogers.
From the returns il appears that AL
ma Eldredge, the Republican candidate
for congressman from Utah, received
124 votes To 1sS for Brigham H. Rob
erts. For supreme judge. Charles s.
Zane received 1S7 and Robert ". Bas-
kin. Democrat, So.
After the capituiation Of Manila per
haps the next thing Of great excite
menT TO the Utah batteries was the
taking of Caloocan. Ever since the az
fair at Malate in August the batteries