The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-05-08
OLD INDIAN FIGHTERS
Pioneers Who Defended Their Homes
Against War Parties.
in the Oregon indian Wars Issue
An Address Of Inquiry TO
Speaker Henderson.

At a meeting Of Bennett Camp No. $
Of Indian War Veterns Of the North
Pacific coast, held in the city Of Salem,
Oregon, May 8, 1860, the following adj
dress and resolutions we're unanimously
adopted.
TnE CAPITAL JoURSAb was requested
10 give publication Of the proceedings OF
the meeting, aud all other papers in
eympaihy with the cause Of the much
neglected aud abused Indian War
Veterans.
THE VETERANS ADDRESS.
Address Of Capt. Bennett Camp. NJ.
3, Of Indian War Veterans Of the North
Pacific Coast. " their dear comrades
and friends. In 1886, when Col. r. B.
Wait. was our first Grand Commander,
he said in speech before the Grand
Encampment THAT we must organize
and get every vote OF the Veterans and
their friends 10 vote together for our In
tercsi II is now thirty years since we
vent to our cnuulry's rescue, and, what
have We r,ceiyed2 Comparatively noth-
lug.
You should show how many votes
W. have. Knock somebody down that
h in oar wdy, aud tl,eu they will
want ioknuw " hat the old fellows want
They ihiuk W. are dead. or " not dead, A.,
we have ~ liltie sense, iliai they can
i nsa p'eniy.
"lf the Grand Army Oi the Republic
hal not Ln,rhad voter, ard used them,
wonld there have been anything said
about their Patriotism When mem.
b of congress- is in political accord
with the house Of Representatives, and
doesnothing for ", see that he stays
at home Lext time Then and not until
then will you get what Is justly your
dues"
Though spoken fourteen years ago,
Comrades, we ak you, were not the
words Of our first Grand Commancr,
lCh. +. Is. w. Wait, prophetic words2 ?
Have We received anything, and is there
any prospect that We will eyer2
Every two years just before election
we get doAc Of MIR. Tongues tsiiy,
spread on thick with Colonel Woods
confdenla .assurance.D op, that IN a
few months at the furlhest We will ! @
looked after to our hearts content.
II nov iorty.Iour years that We have
been seeking recognition in vain; now
LEI M appeal to our comrades and friends
10 stand hy ~, aud for snide congress.
mems scalps Leave not stone IN.
turned nor vote uncast against those
do. nothing congressman, who think that
with n little ialiy just before election
they can fool us until We have all passed
into our graves, and then the future his
torian will write: "Sevcn thousand
Indian War Veterans Of the Pacific
Northwest, within iifty years, all passed
into their graves without recognition,
that very small politicians might go 10
congress"
j. ". ElOiN,
Captain Bennett Post, No. 4.
5. r. NoRrucuTr,
Secretary.
IMMORTAL 10 ruE srEAgtM
The following resolutions addressed to
the speaker of the lower house at con-
gress were unanimously adopted
Whereas, We have learned through
our representative IN congress, Hon,
Thomas a. Tongue, that the speaker of
| the house Of representatives ot the
| United States IN opposed 10 any legisla
ton tending toward the relief Of those
old Indian War Veterans who served in
the early Indian wars In Oregon, who
1 Tor many years have been asking to be
/ placed ON the pension roll, or 10 receive
at least some recognition at the hands
of this our government, and
Whereas. We are informed hy our
representative in congress, Hon. Thomas
n Tongue, that Speaker Henderson has
taken Il q same stand In this matter Hs
lid the former speaker, Thomas u.
| Reed aud
Whereas, We have heen put on from
yorr tuNVir with different explanations
of this matter, aud Woald like to locate
the source oi the opposition To our just
demands therefore
ne il Resolved, By the Indian War
Veterans oi Bennett Camp, that We
hereby most respectfully call upon the
Hon. Speaker Henderson, ol tlm house
oi representatives OF the United States
In give his reasons for ~ opposing the
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