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RECALL OF THE VOLUNTEERS.
South Dakotn's Lieutenant Governor
Differs With the Governor.

The President has received a letter from
John T. kean, lieutenant governor of South
Dakota, opposing the views on the recall of
volunteers in Manila made public by the
governor of the state. 1t says:
MIR. PRESIDENT: In view Of the open letter
recently addressed to you by the governor
OF this state, representing that the people
OF South Dakota are demanding the i'm
mediate recall of the LIST South Dakota
Regiment, the retreat of the heroic and sue
cessful forces of the United States from the
fields so gloriously won and the exposing
TO the mercies of bands of semi-savage muir
dererS and piunderers the people and prop
erty Of those islands whom the gallantry
OF our soldiers and sailors and the splendid
philanthropy of people have rescued
from 400 years of Spanish tyranny, l deem
1t TO be my duty 10 express to you the real
sentiments of the people of this state as evil
denced by hundreds of letters, by public and
private expression and by the utteranceS
or the great majority of the newspapers
| realize the burden of heavy care which
rests upon you and / deprecate the effort of
any one, even the governor of a great loyal
ana patriotic state like this, to add to that
burden by the assertion that our people
IN these trying times not giving to you
and to the policy of the administration a
most cordial support. From expressions of
indignation which have come to me from
every side I feel justified in declaring that
the letter of Governor Lee is a gross mis-
representation of the sentiment and feeling
of the people of South Dakota.
The people Of South Dakota do not be-
lieVe that the suppression of band of
outlaws and guerrillas is the subjugadon
of race, "a conflict Waged against liberty
and in the interest of exploiting capital as
charged by Governor Lee, but we believe 1t
to be the wise and humane policy of this
government to build upon the ruins of
Spanish misrule in the Philippines just, sta
Bile and liberal government to substitute
law and order for anarchy: to teach the ma
tives Of those far-off islands the story of
human liberty as exenplified and illustrated
by American institutions and an enlightened
Christian civilization. And we believe that
the overwhelming majority of the inhabit-
ants of the Philippine Islands understand
done If, like towards, we withdraw Cur
troops in the face Of a guerrillas rebellion
and leave the people of the islands prey
to the avarice of Europe and the warning
factions aroused by Aguinaldo and his like.
The people of this state will never en-
dure a policy which would haul down Old
Glory at Manila and substitute the red flag
of anarchy, and our brave boys in the
ranks, as their letters amply testify, will
be slow to forgive the charge We believe
that the problems of the orient will be set
tied in consonance with the spirit and gen
Jus of American aims and purposes dictated
by the highest principles of constitutional
liberty and civilization, and that brave
boys in the field will interpret the nearing
of the flag under southern skies not the
banner of oppression, but as the signal of
freedom and the emblem of order, justice,
contentment and thrift.
"(Signed) JOHN T. KEAN.
Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota.
wv oonsocket, S. D., April Ii, 1899"