The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-01-15
TO SAINT LOUIS OR NOT?

TO SAINT LOUIS OR NOT?
That's One Of the Questions troubling
Company II Of klmbali
A few weeks ago, under the caption
"a Hint to Company H, the GRApHIc
published an article from the Water
town Public Opinion in reference to
the proposed encampment Of the
national guard at st. Louis next sum-
mel. Though it was published as al
matter of news of special interest toI
Company HI Of Kimball and with no
editorial endorsement, some of the
boys got warm under the collar, we
guess. because it did not jibe with
their own ideas in the matter. I'll
they have a grievance they'll have to
settle it with Col. Lee Slower, who
wrote it.
The Watertown people are oppos-
ing taking away the encampment from
that city after they put up money to
get it, in which they have Col. Stoyer's
sympathy. The article we published
was a suggestion from him that the
boys go into camp at WATERFOWL and
then go to st. Louis, paying their own
expenses-which he claimed could be
done for 800 each including sleeper and
all expenses.
The GRAPHIC has not given the
matter enough investigation to express
an opinion one way or the other. Suf-
flee to say right here that, deeply in
terested as it is in the local company,
it would rejoice to see them sent TO
st. Louis at either the expense of the
state or the general government
preferably the latter. But the out
look for such a proceeding is mighty
slim, and as a purveyor Of news the
GRAPHIC is in duty bound to give it
to the boys straight as 1T finds it.
Now, here is what Adj. Gen. Conk-
lin wrote to the editor of the Public
| Opinion, and attached to the generals
letter will be found the comments of
the editor:
Adjutant Generals Office, Pierre,
S. d., December %. 1908.
r. J. Cory, Esq, Waterfowl, S. d.
Dear Sir: | noticed in a recent
from the Zen Of Colonel Lee Slower,
protesting against the proposition of
taking the national guard TO st. Louis
and holding the annual epcampment
there.
The reasons he gave against it are
unquestionable, and [ would not
counsel, would the governor en-
dorse a proposition Of the kind unless
it should be found that the citizens
of Watertown, who contributed to the
purchase OF a magnificent camp
ground and donated its use to the
state for that purpose, should with
great unanimity recommend it, which
! have no iGea they are likely to do,
nor could it be rightfullY expected of
I4them. Very respectfully,
(Signed) S. j. CONKLIN,
I'll Adjutant General.
Public Opinion refers to the letter
as follows:
"a letter from General Conklin
is printed in another column
of this paper. General Conklin says
in substance, that the national guard
will not be taken to st. Louis without
the free consent of the people OF
Watertown and OF Codington county,
who have contributed state grounds
for holding an annual encampment
and school of instruction.
This suggestion that the national
guard of the state go to st. Louis in
1904, instead of repairing to its own
camp grounds on the shore of Lake
Kampeska, is not quite clear. At
least, we confess that we do not UNI
derstand the conditions upon which it
is proposed to go to st. Louis. We
seriously doubt whether a civilian in
the state has a full comprehension Of
the matter.
The state Of South Dakota, through
its legislature, have appropriated
thirty-ive Thousand dollars a year
for two years for the maintenance Of
the national guard. The larger part
of this sum was intended for use for
encampment purposes-for the pur-
pose of conducting a school for the
state army, if 1t may properly be so
termed.
If the proposition to visit st. Louis
i'll 1904 is n that involves the pay
ment Of the expenses of the states
proportion of the national guard by
the general government it is probable
that not a person in Watertown or
elsewhere would protest. II the fed.
eral government IS to meet the ex-
penses Of such a proposed trip we say,
by all means, let the s'boys'' go.
If, howev y, it be proposed to use
the thirty-tive Thousand dollars az
propriated by the state to defraY the
expenses of the National guard to and
from st. Louis, and to subsist the
troops while there, 1T would hardly
seem that the sum would be sufficient.