The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-24
EANSANS CHEER TEDDY.
Rough Riders Colonel Greeted in
Funston's State,
BOOKING HIM FOR PRESIDENT.

Hope TO i{c in Kansas when tun-
ston aud his Heroes Come Marching
Uomc-Grcating His ola Comrades.
Hutchinson. Kan, Juno 2i-Funs-
toms Kansas welcomed Governor
Roosevelt i'm a royal manner yester-
day as the Santa Fe train sped west
ward with him and his rough riders
to Las Vegas. And the colonel OF the
rough riders told Kansas what he
thinks OF Funston and his demons.
The warlike spirit Of the governor
was i'm the ginger jar all day. He was
hardly I'm Kansas City when he wired
President Mckinley: III there 10 TO be
a call for volunteers earnestly re-
quest that New York be allowed her
full quota We will send full regi-
ments."
At Carrolton a committee OF ten
from the Knife and Fork club. OF Kan
sas City. led by Mr.. Cotton. the presi-
dent. boarded the train. Each man
carried a cluster of flowers, and Gov
ernor Roosevelt was soon decorated.
The committee formed a circle about
the governor and clamored for a chat
on the Cuban campaign. He gave II
offhand, ending with the assertion;
81 was disgusted with congress be-
cause It did not pass the army reor-
ganlzation bill. Our army is just in
the condition that England's was at
the time Of the Crimean war. II badly
needs reorganization"
Then the governor talked OF public
| interest in municipal government in
| New York city, criticizing the citizen
who denounces bad things when there
| is no election on. but when the primar-
! ies come refuses to attend.
Mayor Jones, of Kansas City, met
| the train in the suburbs and when the
| Union depot was reached 1000 people
we're out upon the tracks. President
Bovard, of the Missouri Republican
club had a large delegation OF club
members ready to escort the governor
to the Blossom house, but before he
left the train he made a little speech.
"I wish to come out to Kansas he
said, when Funston comes home.
Nothing would please the rough riders
better than to meet here in Kansas
with the Twentieth Kansas and your
gallant Funston, and celebrate his
glorious deeds. He is not fighting
Spaniards, but l guess there is not
much difference In what is required to
be done in either case"
Up out OF the sea of faces before him
came a brown hand in salute and the
cry of a voice, ooh, Colonel"
"Why, old fellow-why, Schweitzer,
is that you? My, but l am glad to see
you. Shake"
And before the multitude Colonel
Roosevelt and former Rough Rider
Schweizer grasped hands as men who
had fought side by side.
Then came Captain Day, and he was
saluted by the colonel and Khablach,
Goodrich and Ferguson, who have
been with him since he left New York,
Day was at Las Guasimas wheL
Thomas, of Troop L, was shot down
and the command devolved upon him
Troop L was from Indian Territory
and fought with great bravery.
At Eudora an old man called fol-
Roosevelt AS the governor steppe,
on the platform this old man said
"I was in the civil war, and my boy
was with you at San Juan"
what was his name?"
"Bugby"
what, Fred Bugby? There was not
q better boy in my regiment"
The labor worn features of the oil
man lightened up, and he went away
full of joy.
At Lawrence the station was hung
with flags, and the whole town was
about the tracks. When the governor
had said a few words of greeting a
farmer shouted: "Hurrah for the next
president"
At Topeka the governor spied Lieu
tenant Parker, of Gatling gun fame al
San Juan hill.
Hello, Parker" he shouted, "Tm
tickled to death to see you. You are
a brick"
He wheeled about, and dragging
: Parker to the front shouted to tbs
people: 81 want to say Parker's guns
day and night, were always at the
front"
Three cheers for the next president
of the United States" was Parker's re
joinder, The cheers were given, bu
Colonel Roosevelt neatly turned theil
tenor after they ended by shouting
"FunstOn"