The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-27
THIS SETTLES 1T.
Officers of the Twentieth Kan
sas Heard From.
Want to Be Mustered Out at
Home.
CABLE MESSAGE CAME
Was Signed by Gen. Funston
and Col. Metcalf.
Expresses Wish of the Men
in the Regiment.
Major I. ]. Anderson Says a
Few Things.
CABLE MESSAGE CAME

The officers of the Twentieth Kansas
have cabIed Governor Stanley request
ing him to urge the mastering out of
the Twentieth Kansas at home The
cablegram was received this morning
and is as follows:
Manila, May q.
Stanley, Topeka.
Urge muster out at home instead Of
San Francisco.
FUNSTON-METCA
The supposition at the executive office
IS that these officers have ascertained
the sentiment of the members of the
regiment and have taken this method
of notifying the governor. AS these
cablegrams cost $24O per WORD they are
very brief
The governor was much pleased when
he read this message this morning and
expressed himself as delighted with
the information that the Kansans want
to be mustered out at home. 1t is be-
lieved that a majority of the men, In
Guiding the officers, want to come home
for the mastering out and receive the
ovation which the people are anxious
TO give them
The governor is keeping the wires hot
between here and Washington. He said
today: I will do everything in my
power to bring the Kansans home"
I wonder what that secretary of war
meant by saying that he will permit the
Kansas soldiers to decide for them
selves where they will be mustered out,
If the state will provide a suitable place
for that purpose, said Secretary Ander-
son, of the Commercial club, today.
Major Anderson just returned last
asylum committee. and he already has
his coat off to do all that he can to
carry out the wish of the people of
Kansas that the Twentieth may be
brought home to the capital of the state
to be received and mustered out.
There has been on file in the office
of the adjutant general in Washington
for a month a blue print of our fair
grounds and buildings, with a full
description of them, to show just what
sort of place the state will furnish
for this purpose" said he. When Mr..
Curtis was in Washington on his way
home from Atlantic City he stopped to
see Adjutant General Corbin about this
very matter, and COrbin asked him
about the accommodations here AS
soon as Curtis got home he told me
what Corbin had asked. and the very
grounds. drawn by the city engineer.
and forwarded it to the adjutant gen
eral. The blue print is drawn on a
scale of one hundred feet to the inch,
and shows the dimensions and arrange
ments of all the buildings, as well as of
the grounds 1 also stated that the
buildings had been recently repaired,
including new roofs, and they will make
an excellent place for the boys. 1 also
stated that the city would furnish wa
ter and electric lights.
Now the war department wants to
know if the state will furnish a suit
able place for the regiment to be mus
tered out. The secretary of war ought
to use the information he already has.
The boys went away as a regiment
of new recruits, without equipment. The
people want to see them return as SOL
dierS. in uniform and fully equipped,
and the boys themselves want the boys
to see the contrast. From time i'm
memorial victorious armies have pa
raded in their cities on their return
from their wars Whenever a Roman
army was victorious in a campaign the
triumphal procession in Rome after it
was over was the biggest thing about it.
1t will be a source of great satiSfac-
ton to the soldier boys to be received
in their capital city, and it will be an
inspiration to the rising generation. 1t
viii afford the people of the state an
opportunity to honor their brave sons
and Will bring about a speedy meeting
between the soldier boys and their
IrlendS and relatives. and that is what
most or them will want The govern
ment spent millions to concentrate the
VICTORIOUS union army at Washington
Tor the famous two days steady tramp
tramp up Pennsylvania avenue of the
victorious legiOns of Grant and Sher-
man. The soldiers who took part in that
famous review take more pride in re-
ferring to it than to the most brilliant
bayonet charge of their experience
The idea of Kansas City wanting to
take the Kansas regiment away from
Kansas to help out their fall show is
preposterous- But then it is in keeping
with Kansas City's way of doing things
70 ask US to furnish the material for
their show. then furnish the crowd for
II and then pay for it after we get
there- That is Kansas City's way of
doing business.
In all the entertainments we have
ever had in Topeka, Kansas CITY has
not sent up twenty people The first
time we held a fall festival I sent a LET
Ter TO the Commercial club down there
teulng them how we had always come
TO lhelr bloW-OutS by the thousand and
extending an invitation to them to come
up mere, and never even got the roIlr-
tesy of a reply.
II kansas City wants to enterta ir,
snypody let 'em gather up what is left
OF QuantrelPs band of cut throats ana
entertain them 1t would be more in
keeping with the spirit of the town. or
else they can give a reception to their
train robbers. If they would gather mn
the train robbers in Kansas Citv thev
would have a bigger crowd to enfertai,
tnan there are members in the Twen-