The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-12
Fun With Funston.


swim. - Boston Herald.
ST. Joe Herald. Colonel Fred Funs
ton swims like fish, but never turns
tail.
Hail to Colonel Fupston. the un.
osculated Hobson of the Orient.-De-
tfOh Free Press
Ten to one when Agunaldo gets
his last ditch ready that man Funston
will be on hand to swim it.-CIerelaHd
Plain Dealer
PhHadelDhia North american: Fun4-
ton, OF the Twentieth Kansas, is max
ing his state glorious among the
CommOnwealths.
Colonel Fred Funston IL so small
that it Will be easy to Hobsonize him
when he returns to this county
Springfield Journal
Colonel Fred Funston, the Kansas
cyclone in the tropics, is not q Cnica-
go man. He didn't stop to boil the
water.-OMaha Bee.
Colonel Funston can have anything
he wants when he gets home, even
Jerry simpsons socks, if he can find
them.-lSt. PAM Giobe.
fthe people of Kansas do not elect
Colonel Fred Funston TO something
they will miss great opportunity to-
honor great hero.-BafimOfe amer
icaH.
Journal Col. Funston and his four
nervy volunteers made what might
be called 1.-TWO bagger.r when he
swan the Bag bag river and chased
the Filipino anti.eXpausionists out of
their own trenches.
Phiadeipbm North AmericaH: That
man Funston has such affection for
| the tilipinos that he runs whenever
he sees one. Moreover, the Filipinos
don't always succeed in dOdging him,
as the death rate shows.
Council Blufs NonpareH 1t seems to
the Des Moines Leader that Colonel
Funston OF the Twentieth Kansas is
the Teddy Roosevelt of the Philip
pines No, no! Colonel Funston is
making name for himself, aud
doesn't need any other fellows.
New York Mail and Express: Colonel
Fred Funston, the Roosevelt of the
Philippine campaign, will probably
be the Republican nominee for Gov
ernor of Kansas if'he gets home in
JLtime for the State conception AT
present, however. he is engaged in
an undertaking which leaves him nc
time to talk politics, and which he IL
not disposed to abandon nntil Aguin-
aldo and his cOpper-head bush.
whackers have promised to be good.
a veteran at the soldiers Home
makes the suggestion that
"In view of the TACT that Col. Fred
Ennltnn - a all nt Ia
, fighting by water, why not suggest
+ the feasibility of issuing to him and
his regiment bathing suits and revol
vers? That's about all they seem t.
need when they go up against thu
: Filipinns
1t would really seem that this i.
about the size OF the nnform anC
equipment needed by the Kansas col
onel and his splendid fighters. Tht
same correspondent sends the Time
the information that Col. Funston
was formerly a newspaper reporter
which easily accounts for his capacity
as scrapper who does not sign hi'
articles that are aimed at the enemy
Los Angeles Times.
h. C.. World: Colonel Funston o
the Kansas regiment in Manila says
i WISH tNtlJ EAlnbl SOO Nht
splendid, enthusiastic army that ha'
put the finishing touches on the WORK
: begun in the sea fight year ago.
Right you are colonel; but az many
of us are busy and can't go out there
suppose you finish up the bnsines:
and come home. Bring cousin George
and the rest of the boys with you.
Colonel Funston will probably re-
turn to this country one ofthese days
he seems to bear charmed life. Ther
T dangers of new and serious sort will
menace him. We wish him in adj
vance safe deliverance from foo
friends, tool papers and fool poll
!, ticians. BY all accounts he is the
? most dashing, daredevil little wonder
of a fighter tnat has come into view
in this little swamp-and-thicke wal
of ours on the other side of the world
, The people of his state are in the
mood to "kill him with kindness, .
and they'll have plenty of outside
help. The longer his return home Is
delayed, the better --HaTtfOrd COuraHt
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