The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-29
MORNING CAMP FIRE.
Closing Scenes of the g. A. r.
Reunion.


At the FRIDAY, morning camp fire the
crowd was smaller than usual but the
enthusiasm was no less.
j. r Harris of Ottawa was the first
speaker and said he saw the preparations
for the Dewey reception in New York
but that he preferred to meet the old
soldiers of Kansas than to see the New
Ex-Governor G. W. Click was the next
speaker. he said the statement had been
made that many old soldiers were con-
firm drunkards and their pension should
be stopped. He said his personal investi-
CATION showed this statement to be false
growth of the Kansas schools and that
the Lawrence university and the Agri-
the country: He said 9e7 9the man M aN2 Who 10
carried the musket deserves as much
the commander" He did not touch on ex-
Chairman Harris introduced Col. W. F.
Cloud of the Second Kansas cavalry as a
soldier of three wars Col. Cloud said:
Our regiment has registered one cap
tam ana a colonel Oh, why am alone
Col. Cloud was very much affected as he
spoke. He spoke of Gideon and said he
shouId nave been colonel OF Kansas
regiment. I once heard q sermon preach
ed on that man." said Col Cloud. The
soldiers OF Kansas in the civil and pres
go thou and do likewise
I hope you will be with US a year from
now" said Chairman Harris.
We'll, I am like the old grandfather
sary,'' said Col. Cloud. His granddaugh-
ter said to him, grandpa, will you be
alive another hundred years? Well I
don't know said the grandfather, but l
am a good deal stronger than when I
commenced my first hundred "
Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan, president of
the Kansas department of the w. r. c.,
was the next speaker. Mrs. Morgan COM
plimented Clara Barton for her work for
the soldiers on the field The women of
We are trying TO teach our children and
all who come to US the glory of liberty.
The glory of this nation comes largely
through it's women. We will work in the
future as we, have in the past for the
Mrs Mary E. Stanley, secretary of the
Kansas society of the Ladies of the G.
was introduced she said She felt like
Martin MOhler when he tried to wash his
value of the soldiers of the civil war and
said they had not lived in vain. She
ed to know all the great statesmen but
before he met them he died and when
he found none Of the great men there
The young man asked where they all
We're and was told they were in the warm
place below The young man went there
and saw Abraham Lincoln there. Why
y young an man. Hou Weii Hd said Lincoin Teed "f I
want to be with the majority" Mrs. Stan
ley said she hoped to be with the major
ity in the hereafter would be the old
Ody on Barbara Fretchie.'
Chairman Harris introduced ''Rev.
was J. NJ. Whitehead of Topeka. He told
the story of Stone river and of short ra-
tiOns. 7 love the flag OF my country and
you do and I say where it is put up any
where shoot the man that Will take it
down" (Cheers) IF thSy plant it in China
keep it there (Applause.) Where the
flag Of my, country goes my heart goes" :"
Judge G. W. Wimmock of Great Bend
was the next speaker. He said God 5
hand was in the work of extending the
government of the United States around
the world. i thank God we have such
Catholics in this country as Bishop Ire
land. he said in speaking of the CathO-
Colonel Cloud was again introduced and
recited a parody an POe'S Raven"