Show DENOUNCED BY FUNSTON The General Goes for Eastern Press Which Criticised Speech Before Be-fore the Lotus Club > Topeka Ivan March 26Gen Frederick Funston was In this city today on his way to California Gen Funston delivered deliv-ered himself of a scathing denunciation of the Eastern newspapers which crltl clscd his speech before tho Lotus club In New York He said 1 havo been nagged by that class of papers until I am tired Editorially they wilfully misinterpret my remarks and I am glad to express my Independence of their opinions and their talk and that of their kin1 about my uclng dishonorable dishonor-able and unfair means in the capture of Ajrulnaldo Also that I violated the articles arti-cles of war They know a great deal moro about tho articles of golf than they do about the articles of war Everything Every-thing la permissible In a campaign except ex-cept the use of poison or the violation of a Hag of truce As a matter of fact only four of m > men In tho expedition were dressed in tho Insurgent uniform Tho others were dressed ns Filipino peasants President Roosevelt approved bcartll of my remarks before the Lotus club banquet and was very anxious to have me go to Boston on the Invitation of Senator Sen-ator Lodge and make the same speech there but my orders were such that It was Impossible for me to go |