The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-25
PEOPLE AROUSED.
Indignant Protests Against Act
of the Government.
Kansas Troops Must Be Brought
Home.
THERE IS NO DIVISION
State Wants Her Soldiers Where
They Can Be Welcomed.
Believed Order of Secretary of
War Will Be Rescinded.

The committee appointed to look after
the reception and mastering out of the
Twentieth Kansas feels certain that the
regiment will be mustered out on Kan
Sas soil.
Such a pressure will be brought to
bear on the war department at Wash
ington that it will show Secretary AIger
the preference of the people of the west.
Not for Kansas alone, but for every
state represented by a regiment in the
Philippines.
Governor Stanley will return from
Wichita today and he will be requested
to communicate with the governors of
the different states inviting them to join
him in a petition protest to the war
department against the regiments be-
ing mustered out in San Francisco or
anywhere but in their own states.
Congressman Charles Curtis said this
morning: Il have not given up hopes of
having the Twentieth Kansas mustered
out in Kansas. Advices I have receiv-
ed from Washington cause, me to be-
lieve that the order for them to be
mustered out in San Francisco may be
rescinded and that the regiment Will
come home to be mustered out. 1 do
not believe it will reach the United
States before October. All Kansas
wants it, as shown by the Kansas pa
pers."
1.-The congressional delegations have
been appealed to-, said James A. Trout
man, land the governors of all the
western states will be requested to join
in a petition to Washington to have all
the regiments mustered out in their re-
spective states. All feel that the Or
der of the secretary of war is unjust
I believe that the requests of the gov
ernors will result in a change of orders.
Congressman Chester l. Long has writ
ten me that he will cooperate with US
in an endeaVOr to have the regiment
mustered out in Kansas Congress
man J. d. Bowersock is in sympathy
with the movement and will aid in hav-
ing the regiment mustered out in KAN
sas. Congressman w. A. Reeder viii
do all he can, as will Charles Curtis
Every state is just as much interested
in it's regiment as we are, and the mus
tering out of the men in Frisco will be
very little money in the pockets OF the
privates."
I'VE shall keep on working said D.
J. Greenwald. "and I believe the regi-
ment will be mustered out in Kansas
1t is the wish of the people, and that
should have some weight with the war
Ex-Attorney General Louis c. Boyle,
who is much interested in the Twen-
tieth Kansas, said:
like to show the Kansas boys when
they come home, there would be fea-
ture of policy in bringing the regiment
back intact. These boys are citizen sol
diers. The moral effect on the young:
men of the state, the patriotism it would
teach them, the example of the plain
boys of last year coming back to be
honOred al home as abroad would stim-
ulate feelings of patriotism.
IF England had such a. regiment,
picked up from the farms and shops
and voluntarily going into the army
as citizen soldiers, and it had made the
record our Twentieth Kansas has made.
the government would spare no pains
to honor them and show its people how
worthy service is repaid. II the boys
could come home and march through
every town of Importance on their way
and receive the entertainment and con-
gratula tions the cities of Kansas and
Kansas City are anxious to give them
the influence of the people would be
worth ten times the cost, and the pleas
ure it would give. the boys themselves is
only what they have well earned
Last year they were made the sub
ject of jibes and jeers in San Francisco.
of cartoons and rough jokes in San
brought back through San Francisco.
and when they reach that town they
ought to march through it's streets with
their colOrS flying and see how San
Francisco will treat them now
Glenn Fairchild of Kingman. one of
the most widely known Democrats of
Kansas, said:
Il have not kept very close track OF
things the last few days, because I
have been travelling" he said, but it
looks to me an outrage for the boys of
the Twentieth Kansas to be scattered
before they get home. I suppose the
idea is to get them to enlist in the reg
ular army. l see no other purpose for
it,
Ex-Secretary of State w. G. Edwards
is as much interested in Kansas affairs
when he was secretary of state only
three years ago.
THE government ought to let the
IF they prefer to come home in a body.
as it seems natural that they would, I
should think it would be only proper
for the government to let them come.
The cities of Kansas have forgotten
their fight over the mastering out place
in their anxiety to make sure that the
boys will come home as a regiment in
stead of being separated. The extra
money would not be of much use to
most of them. They would get rid of it
before they would ever see Kansas"
The following dispatch was received
from Abilene this afternoon:
The Abilene city council this morn
ing held a special session and adopted
resolutions protesting against the mus
tering out of the Twentieth Kansas at
San Francisco and favOring Fort Riley
The resolutions with a citizens petit
ton will be sent to the president at
once.