The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
THE TWENTY FIFTH REGIMENT

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The Twenty-ffth regiment of infan-
try, recently removed from Valentine
to Brownsville, Tex, and many of
whose members were recently dis
charged without honor by President
Roosevelt, are not adding to their own
glory or that of their fellows by their
recent acts, and the noise that has
been stirred up in their behalf by hys-
terical people who would make mar
tyrs of the murderous regiment, has
caused a digging up of past records
that do not reflect credit to this band
of troopers.
The latest offense by member of
the Twenty-fifth was one of the most
serious and race feeling is at white
heat at Ell Reno, Okla, as result.
One of the negroes of the Twenty-fifth
infantry passed along the street, seized
on the sidewalk threw her into the
street and declared that the walk be-
longed to him. He escaped but mob
formed to lynch him.
1t is apparent that soldiers who,
while supposed to be on their good
behavior in order to live down the
cloud of murder that now rests on
their regiment, nevertheless will thus
lay themselves open to public con-
tempt, must be vicious by instinct and
the result of much of this action will
be to the detriment of the whole race.
Senator Foraker thought to make
for himself a presidential band wagon
when he assumed sponsorship for that
regiment which he claimed had been
grievously wronged, but his progress
has been blocked by the disgraceful
depredations of the Twenty-fifth.
Whatever may have been sympathy
toward the discharged troops has been
turned into approval in this country
of late, and every day adds to this
feeling.
The great regret of the country now
is that the murderers have not been
caught. The inexcusable assault upon
a white woman, the shooting Of Cap
tain Macklin and the other past deeds
of the Twenty-fifth are enough to con-
denim it for all time. The following
dispatch indicates some of that past
record:
Washington. Dec. 2S.--In their Gag
erness to attack the president, some
of the more prominent defenders of
; the colored troops insist upon circulat-
ing the report, in the press and else
: where, that the order of discharge EN-.
| braces also the members of the bat.
: TALON who are on furlough. 1t is
enough to say that this statement is
false. The men on furlough at the
time of the riots are still in the ser
vice and will remain there. The shoot
ing of Captain Macklin recently is
water on the presidents wheel, &C
cording to those who are following the
case in this city, and serves to show
something of the desperate characters
of the men in the discharged battalion
= AS bearing on this same point, Sen
ator Lodge, who is to make a rejoin
der to the Foraker speech, has haG
inserted in the Congressional Record
that part of the evidence in the case
taken from war department records
: which shows that the Twenty-fifth reg
9 iment has on several occasions since
: 1885 been guilty of precisely the con
3 duct charged against it at Browns
y vile. On the night of September 10
1885, about twenty members of the
9 Twenty-fifth regiment, then stationed
!, at Fort Beade, near Sturgis, S. D,
, "shot up" that town, but killed ne
one. They fred several volleys into
houses on the main street of the town
and a court martial decided that tbs