The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-16
HUGH oANERoN's LONG WALK.
Makes Announcement Preliminary to
Visit to Ex-senator Ross.

| Hugh Cameron, the Kansas hermit
was in Topeka this week visiting the
/ legislature and arranging to start on
| his long walk to Albuquerque on Feb
| %. This will not be his first pill
grimage.
! Twice before he has walked tic
Washington;s the first occasion being
on the election of Senator Harris.
In his first announcement made on
/ the occasion of the election of VIM. A.
| Harris to the United States senate to
succeed VIM. A. PETER. the hermit
said:
| 81 would greatly prefer my old soldier
comrade but I accept the results. AS
| Kansas was the last to amnesty and
| the first to honor an ex-Confederate
| brigadier, it seemed a divine interposi-
| ton designed to allay the sectional and
| partisan animosity existing between
Kansas and Missouri and / am willing
to be the self-constituted proclaimer
of the good tidings.''
In his second announcement made
at the mournful termination of the adj
ministration of President Mckinley
he proposed to inaugurate a second
walk to strengthen and extend the de-
sire to cultivate and inculcate proper
respect and reverence for the author
Of free government on this continent
and also for those instrumentalities
by which it was set up, perpetuated
and extended and to also cultivate a
wholesale hatred for the vicious and
the vile who malign and villify or at
tempt to bride, impeach and assas-
sinate the peoples chosen rulers. This
walk he never attempted, being
warned, he says, in vision of dreams
that it would be unnecessary under
the wise and strenuous administration
of President McKinley's successors.
While in Topeka he gave out the
following concerning his latest pill
grinage:
February 22nd, 1907.
On this day, sacred to patriotism, I,
as hermit of Kansas, make this, my
fourth twentieth century announce
ment.
In my first twentieth century an
nouncement 1 advertised an important
walk of over four thousand miles. In
my third. l advertised an important
run for the legislature of Kansas as
the competitor with Honora Bile w. R..
Stubs, the great Kansas boss
buster"
In this one I desire to announce my
purpose to inaugurate pilgrimage to
Albuquerque, New Mexico, to en-
phasize the expression of my gratitude
to Almighty God and E. G. Ross for
his vote against the impeachment of a
president of the United States while
acting in his capacity as senator from
Kansas. For which courageous, wise
and patriotic act that saved this great
state and this greater nation from a
stigma vile, terrible and vast, he was
maligned. vilifed, boycotted and ban
ished. This expression and acknowl-
edgment of gratitude is made cheer
fully and without shame before men.
Men who never attempt to bride and
bamboozle their enfranchised fellow
citizens, men who would not bribe, i'm
peach nor assassinate the peoples
chosen rulers as well as those who
would.
I also, acknowledge my gratitude to
those masterfuI minds, who formu-
lated and enacted into law, our great
American Magma Charta. including all
the maxims of true liberty, and also
with pride acknowledge my graft
tude to him, who was first in war, first
in peace and first in the hearts of his
countrymen, for defeating the British
king in his attempt to destroy the
validity of this Important enactment
HUGH CAMERON,
The Kansas Hermit