Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-12-16


The volunteers returned to their acclt--
toned walks of life, conscious of duty
performed. it i true but not 10 hold
such Il place III the community as did the
men at those thinned regiments OF 1865.
with flags bearing battle records AMI
marked by shot and shell, followed by a
Icing line of one-arme1. one-legged and
otherwise shattered men in gray and blue.
The rev volunteers will ask for no such
rank; they would refuse it ii rendered:
but they would have won it had oppor-
tuuiticS oneted themselves.
Ii is true that most of the volunteers
who went to the Pnuppines had taste
81 actual war; more than a nibhle, many
of them, but all of their losses in killed
and wounded would not equal the killed
and wounded of any one OF fifty northern
or southern regiments which might be
named. When they came back, after
their long journey aud rather exciting
tour in the Philippines, they came with
ranks we'll filled. without any empty
sleeves or almost none. without any men
hubblmg along ON one leg, OF almost none.
and with very few permanently shattered
10y bullets shells and shct
we shall look through the ranks Of all
the volunteer regiments in vain for the
knd OF war heroes that political parties
search out for convention honors Now
and then We may hear OF a governor
chosen from the ranks of the survivors
of the Spanish American war and tho
Philippine insurrection. hut the choosing
will not be based upon the fact that he
wa, IA soldier. City and county officers
may he selected from their ranks. but the
.l1ll. Of
not likely to open their doors to soldiers
of these wars because they were soldiers
The war of the Cos developed material
from which. to very large extent, both
political parties, north and south, have
selected candidates Probably no ono
Twill deny that Grant. Hayes. Garfield.
Harrison and Mckinley were candidates
for President and elected. largely be-
cause They had been soldiers, No other
IpWt of their history had So much to do
INiih securing their nomination and elec
uon except, possibly. in the case of Maj.
Mckinley. Gen lIaucocN was the Demo-
Ic@tie candidate in 1850 because he was
one of the genuine war heroes
At the very first election for congress
Imen. after the close If the war. many
soldiers at The northern army were sent
TO Washington as national legislators, and
soldiers at the southern army. and very
naturally, too, were elected TO Congress.
10 marked degree both partie. have
continued that p"ncy up To the present
time.
Every President since 1860 ha. had
uuc or more soldiers of the north or
south ia his cabinet Among cabinet
officers we may name Eawlns Gresham.
il4- tn,.r 1 f,.,tlt IN,
sherman. ScluGcld. Hay. Noble Rusk,
Al&cr. Iamnr. Herbert. Coli Wilson, Key
Garland.
Federal Judges have been taken from
their ranks Nearly every state in the
union has had a soldier for governor. and
some states several OF them. Wisconsin
has had only fou since the war who
were not soldiers,
II is interesting 60 recall some OF the
soldier senators. including Gems Wade
Hampton and W. G.. Butler Of South
Carolina. both OF whom were dstin-
Eeuishcd in the Confederate army and
prominent senators. and both of whom
have served their states and the govern
mcW outside OF the SENATE. Hampton as
commissioners of railroads and Butler as
n major general of volunteers; Morgan
and Pcttus ot Alabama the latter having
tal-o served IN tins Mexican war: mu,t of
tine Arkansas senators since the war have
lcru soldiers and the same i. also true
OF Mississippi The late .'cn Miller was
the most prominent soldier senator Cali
tOruia cytr had. and the late Col. T. -.
] Baker was by all odds the most promi.
rent senator Oregon ever had Indiana
has had U.s. Cen Benjamin Harrison;
/ Wisconsin ilv Col John &. Spoouer. Col
/ w. r. Villas, col. John L. Mitchell and
! Capt }, Y Quarle- Minnesota has had
/ it, Capt Cu-hman X. Ddy. and its
~rr%t kuute Nelson; Missouri its Gen.
/ T. NJ Coclrell; Nebraska it. Thaver
Henderson and Ailcni Kentucky has had
/ its Joe lIacebuu New Jersey it4 Gen.
~cwcll; New iotl, its Capt Warner Mil
/ Ter; Ohio it- Col. Calvin Bricc Can't. TO-
eph Il. Foraker and Iieut Mark lIanua;
/ Pennsylvania It's Lieut. Col. Matt QUAY
and Capt. Mitchell: Tennessee its Cen.
I Harris and Bate; teinia its Gems. Ma
/ hone and Daniel; West Virginia its
/ Eiliu- and Faulkner; Kansas il, Plumb
and HAMS. the former in HE Cnior
|auuy and the batter in the Confederate:
Illinois It's Logan ami O2Ic-by; Vermont
.Il- Proctor
tmnHg tho more prominent foreign
uiH.. tuFe bbru from the soldier ranks
m8N Pee ramed Gcu. Robert G. Schcuct.
Itap' Rodent a. Lincoln and Col John
I lne to England, GEN John A Dix Con.
/ Edward g. Ao1cz. both of whom lad
Noco governor. piN 81 New York and
Nut- I'd Ohio; and Horace Porter. 10
France. Grn Abort II. Iawtou. 10 Au~-
t5ia; r.u ". g. ~touqhton and Capt.
tjtou q Breckenridge 10 Russia: GEN
] ueaIne EuU.aI- to Germany; Gen Cart
~elIZ GH. Jamrt H. ~icklc.. Gen In