The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-24
BRING EN- HOME.
(Continued from First PACE


their own state.
The regiment will undoubtedly resent
being mustered out in San Francisco.
The members of the regiment, nor the
people of Kansas, have forgotten the
way the Kansas regiment was treated
while in Frisco and the boys will not
want to spend another month, or two
perhaps, there camped on those sand
hills again
The different towns in Kansas that
furnished companies expect to welcome
home their companies after the grand re-
cept1on- If the regiment is mustered out
and disbanded in San Francisco it will
dlSappo1nt more than a dozen towns in
Kansas. The Abilene Reflector says:
The report from Washington that
the Twentieth Kansas will be mustered
out at San Francisco will be a keen
disappointment to every Kansan- The
state expects the regiment to come
splendid fighting of the Kansans en-
titles them to this privilege and they
should be given it, Kansas wants to
see the soldiers together once, to see
them parade with their colors flying
and to cheer for them. Once scattered
they can never be brought together
secretary Ayers plea is that they
will get more money by being mustered
out at San Francisco. If there is any
thing in this why not let them go at
Manila so that they can have the max
imum and take their choice of loca-
tions? The plea is a puerile one and is
not credltable to the secretary of war.
Kansas wants the boys to come
home as a regiment and it should make
such protest as will bring them here.
Let the state have an opportunity to
honor the heroes as they deserve and
cheer them to the echo as it desires.
Bring the Twentieth to Kansas for
Secretary of State George A. Clark, who
ives nXes at junction City and knows how
The regiment ought to be mustered out
on han a soil: We Of Kansas have fol-
with interest and solicitude, and since it
is the only one of the Kansas regiments
guish itself, We want an Opportunity to
properly testify our appreciation of its
the order to muster out the men at San
Francisco is a scheme TO induce some of
are soldiers of experience and therefore
of more value in war or garrison than
ing soldiers and it would be easier to re-
cruit our Kansas boys at San Francisco
among the friends Of their youth. l have
bear; influences that man might easily
resist if he were surrounded by home and
friends. But, aside from that, the Twen-
ueth ought to be mustered out in Kansas.
The other three Kansas regiments were
tieth ought to be treated the same way
Attorney General GODDARD said that he at
the men at San Francisco they would be
given about S1S5 apiece by the govern
thing to muster them out there, but if it
they ought to be brought home.
They would have $40 or $50 fare to pay
besides the expense Of food while travel,
ing he said. Forty dollars second class
fare, or $50 first class. To that add SO for
food and they would have left only sos or
$35 at the most, and that is no money for
a Kansas man. especially for Kansas
man just returned from a foreign war
Why, they would turn loose and spend it
in San Francisco, and many of them
might spend their allowance for travel
W mis-
some of them again. As Mr.. Clark says
regular army and be sent back across the
sea. A man without money 1000 miles
from home is not very happily situated.
and the army would be a welcome refuge.
No we want our Kansas soldiers sent
our citizens: their fathers. mothers. wives.
sisters and SWeetheartS live here, and
don't want them to stray away. Besides
Of ali nations by their bravery. We want
not give them a fitting reception.
the men were ali anxious to come home
and impatient of any delay. They want to
come home in a body. too. They have
heard of the preparations making in Kan
sas for their reception, and since they are
conscious of having rendered faithful ser
vice to their country, they very naturally
want to be received as the heroes that
they are
IF they are mustered out in California
them. The Kansas senators and congress-
men ought to join hands and oppose the
scheme to muster the regiment out in any
other state. 1t is q Kansas regiment. and
in Kansas it ought to be mustered OUT
With all due respect to Secretary AL
GER Frank f. Grimes. treasurer of state.
said the people of Kansas viii not APP
prove his order to muster out the Twen-
tieth Kansas in California. We can't give
the man a proper reception if they came
home in fragments. If they are mustered
out in San Francisco they Will be disor-
Sanized, without command. Independent
of any authority, and they will come trail
ing back home for thirty days or six
We sent them to the war. We want what
we gave to the country. the Twentieth
Kansas regiment not struggling squads
Capt. Fred E. Buchan of Company B.
Twentieth Kansas, who came to this
country for the purpose of burying the
body of his young wife. and is now rest
ing at his fathers farm in Wyandotte
county, is of the opinion that the idea of
a grand reception for the members of the
regiment will not meet with the approval
of the soldier boys. He says;
Home, Sweet Home. are true to life, one
should go among the soldiers of the
They talk of home. They dream of home.
in fact they will pay attention to any
except that which concerns the
soil Of their native state. For that rea-
son L think that the boys would not look
with any great amount of kindness upon
the reception idea: Banquets. bands and
like honors may be all right, but when
they are compared to home in the sight
of the Kansas volunteers they dwindle
to nothing.
Il don't mean to say that the boys
would rather be mustered out at the Pa
want to get to their respective homes as
quickly as possible and it would please
them to come directly to Kansas if they
would be allowed to go home without de-
lay"
Cleveland Party Homeward Bound.