The Topeka state journal., 1901-11-18
CAMERON'S PILGRIMAGE.
Kansas Hermit VIII Visit Graves OF
Jeffarson and Adams.


General Hugh Cameron, the Kansas
Hermit, has decided upon a pilgrimage,
the first he has made since William Nc
kinley was first inaugurated and when
Cameron was arrested by the White
House police for walking on the grass
and for being a suspicious character"
The Kansas hermit claims that John
Adams was the greatest crank the Uni
ted States has known. Adams died
July 4. 1926, and Gen Cameron was
born on that day. The hermit will
make pilgrimage to Braintree and
also to the home of Thomas Jefferson
near Monticello, who also died on the
same day. He has made the following
announcement and declaration of his
intended journey:
Camp Ben Harrison, Glen Burn, Doug
las County, Kan.
With sincere gratitude to Almighty
God for the manifold blessings which
He has vouchsafed, and especially that
of free government that guarantees to
every one of mature and sound mind,
not a felon. the right to life and the
opportunity to live so that life shall
be something like the reverse of miser-
able and contemplate the hermit is
constrained to praise the diSpenSationS
of providence divine which has made
Kansas free, progressive and prosperous,
dry and wet; that makes the hermit
glad occasionally, and sometimes af
f1ictS him with unutterable grief; that
brings him fire, fiend and good and
faith and fortitude to stand up for
Kansas and free government. And while
he is not ashamed to make the most
ample and emphatic expression of this
acknowledgment before men. men who
would not bribe and assassinate our
chosen rulers. he would in like manner
remember the debt he owes the patriot
fathers by whose inStrumentality free
government was set up on this conti-
nent-
Just after the close of President Cleve-
lands administration, eight years after
the establishment of Camp Ben Harri-
son, feeling something ought to be done
to strengthen, and extend the desire to
cultivate and inculcate proper respect
for this government, the Hermit made
an extended pilgrimage to many of the
sacred shrineS. He encountered thou
sands of policemen and trampS, about
one per cent of whom did not use beer
nor tobacco: hundreds of industrious
farmers, who did not know where Wash
tngton was born, nor that he had a-Ball
for his mother: some Of his Hneal deS-
cendantS, who were old enough, with
every other constitutional qualification
for the presidency of the United States,
who had never read his farewell address,
And now, in this year of our Lord, the
first of the Twentieth Century, one
hundred and twenty-fifth of the indie
pendence of the United States of Amer
lea, and the thirteenth of the establish
ment of Camp Ben Harrison, free gov
ernment having been extended beyond
the limits of this continent and the ad-
ministration of William Mckinley
mournfully ended, it seems more need
full than heretofore that something
should be undertaken to strengthen and
extend the desire to cultivate and incul-
cate proper respect for this government
(free government the author of it, and
the instrumentalities by which it was
set up, preserved and extended, as also
the chosen officials of the people of the
United States of America And for such
as would bribe or assassinate them
wholesome hatred might be strengthen
ed and extended, without mourning the
diSpleaSure of the good.
With these objects in view the Her
init of Kansas hopes to be able to un-
dertake another pilgrimage before the
close of the year. Respectfully,
HUGH CAMERON.