, 1906-12-24
INTERESTING TO THOSE WHO
CONDEMNED GENERAL PERISH
ING ON YELLOW REPORT
SANS HEARING.
Was Victim of Scandalmongers Almost
unheard of In the Army-Fellow
Soldiers Wrought UP over Matter
How He Met Daughter of Sena.
tor Warren and How Meeting Rip
ened Into Friendship and Love.

"oohil6lOh5 DGC. "a AILly Circles
have been all torn up the last week or
ten days over rumors that B~rigadier
General Pershing had committed an in
discretion in the Philippines which
should have materially interfered with
the confirmation. AS a matter of fact,
however, there seems to be pretty gen.
eral evidence that jack Pershing,
who is now On his way to assume com
mand of the division of the Philippines,
has been the victim of scandalmongers
almost unheard of in the army.
Left Excellent Record.
When Pershing left Nebraska for the
Spanish-American war he left behind
him in the university an excellent rec
ord for efficiency. He was a friend
of everybody. He was particularly a
friend of Senator Burkett who was
then a member of the lower house of
congress, n later, when Burkett was
elected senator Pershing was in his
minds eye for a ~brigadier generals
star. During his campaign in the Phil
ippines Pershing became the hero of
the whole army. Senator Burkett, see
ing his friend of old university days
win his spurs, was among the first to
urge on the president Pershing's pro-
motion, and what is most vital, the
president promised Senator Burkett to
take care of P%ershing when the oppor-
tunity presented. That was before the
election of 1904.
Starts at Nebraska Diner.
The congressional season of 1904 op-
ened with much promise of social bril-
liancy, not the least among the highly
available and attractable men who
burst upon the social life of the capital
was the then Captain Pershing. He
had been ordered here for ONE special
service and was one of the lions in
the army set, and at this point com
menced a romance which is worth tell
ing. Miss Helen Warren of Wyoming,
who had been one of the leaders in the
senatorial circle of the capital by rea-
o OF being the daughter of Senator
F. T.. Warren and an extremely charm
ing girl, with just enough dash to dis
tinguish her from her sisters, heard
the presidents message read on the
opening of the Fifty-ninth congress and
in which he spoke of the splendid rec
ord Captain Pershing Lad made in the
Philippine service.
Met at Senator Millard's.
On the evening of that day some of
the Nebraska folks celebrated Perish
ing's new honor, Senator and Miss Mil
lard giving a dinner and among those
invited We're Senator Warren and his
daughter. Captain Pershing and Helen
Warren met at this dinner. There Were
other functions following and Captain
Pershing and Miss Warren were
thrown together, and it turned out that
Captain Pershing danced as well as he
fought and, more than that, he danced
with Miss Warren more than with any
body else. That was the beginning Of
the courtship which resulted in the
marriage of Miss Warren and Captain
Pershing, who is now a brigadier gen
eral, whom all kinds of stories are be-
ing told of derelictions in the Philip
pines, but sifted down to stories that
Pershing had improper relations with
a Metize woman in the Philippines and
that he left behind him two children,
las, on investigation, proved to be a
lie out of whole cloth, and has been
raced to rough stories of the camp
where sometimes fancy takes the place
IF truth.