The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-26
Talking About Funston.


beginning to suspect that General |
Funston has fins.
Washington POST General Funston's
Rough . winners continue TO hold |
the center of the pool.
Globe Democrat: OF course If a Fill !
ipino ever takes fall out Of Funston
will be q water fall.
50. Paul Dispatch: Colonel Funston
seems to be about as good a swimmer
as Aguinaldo IL a runner.
Oklahoma State Capital Function lie
also several poems ahead of Colonel
Roosevelt AZ well as battles.
Chicago Tribune: General Fred
Funston is ubqueetionably the Briga-
dierest little hero in the country.
Philadelphia North American: After
long experience in warfare, Funston
/ feels fit to plunge into Kansas politics.
| PhHa dolphin Times: There may be
no rhyme for Funston'e name, but
Twill sound all right in the trump OF
fame.
Council Bluffs NonparieE 1t must be
aggravating TO Colonel Byran that
Funston is no longer a colonel like
himself.
Danvine (Ht.) News: A ,threshing
machine trust mas been formed. but it
can't he complete without General
Fred Function.
Galveston News: Colonel Funston
lie merely handful, yet when the
Filipinos saw him coming across the
river they took him for q gunboat.
Washington Post: Fred Funston
has reached that stage of heroism
where the newspaper artists guess
how he looked at his different ages.
Chicago Times Herald There appears
to have been great scarcity of Fun
stons in the Seventy-first regiment Of
New York according to the report of
the court of inquiry.
Globe Democrat: They say Fun
ston's name won't rhyme with any
thing. 1t is equally true that he has
succeeded in knocking most OF the
poetry out of the Philippine situation.
Huntsville Post: II we may Judge
by the pictures of General Funston
that are nov being printed, the hero
OF Bagbag needs TO he pumped up.
He has a Debated appearance in
print.
Louisville Courier Journal IT may
not he true, as charged, that Funston
used to read the speeches i'm the Con-
gressional Record, though it IL evi.
dent that be has been fighting mad
for some time.
| New York Mail and Breeze: Casual.
| ly speaking, it may also be observed
that the example of Brigader Gener-
al Fred Funston proves that true
mericanism Is not measured with
| tana limo nor aNa,, NuIth no g,,1,.
81. LOuiS Republic: If Funston had
let II be known sooner that he was an
ohio man he might not have had to
go TO war and do SO much swimming
and hghting. He could have stayed
at home and held down "A good gov
eminent job,
Arizona Republican: General Fred
Funston has received his sixth wound
but it is Il slight one, and he HASN'T
any time to worry over IT. Peace or
any injury that completely disables
him is tue only thing that will halt
this dashing young lighters military
/ operations.
New York .HaH ana Express: Briga-
| dier General Funston, OF Kansas and
the Philippines, got his first military
training IN country printing Office
/ Moreover, his recent exploits show
that he Is still dealing extensively in
/ ouble-leaded matter.
GiObe Democrat; a word of paise is
/ due TO General Fred Funston for his
| remarkable versatility. So far as is
/ known, no man has ever equaled HIM
| in the facility with which he RECEIVERS
/ his land legs after undergoing the
hardships of Il voyage by water.
Charleston News and Courier: No
body will he surprised To learn that
the daring Colonel Funston, of the
twentieth Kansas volunteers, il of
good old Virginia stock. His grand !
mother was sister of General James
Hoge, of that state. Blood will tell. /
Omaha Bee: General Funston was
recently spoken to about the conduct
of some Kansas soldiers ON leave in
Manila. They were very noisy, but !
harmless. "let don't you think |
they're keeping it up pretty late?" !
"NOt for Kansas They always keep |
ii up for forty-eight hours. 1t NAV |
he little late for night before last
but tor tonight it's right in the shank /
of the evening"
UHkes-BaTe Record: General Fun. |
sion seems not be very deeply impress |
sed 10y the proposition TO make him |
governor of Kansas, or United States |
senator He has informed his impa-
tient political admirers that "it will |
be Time enough to talk about politics |
when the war is ended in the Philip.
pines Funston believes in attend
ing to the business in hand before .
asking up something else