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Show DEMANDS DISCHARGE. Governor of South Dakota Wants Soldiers Sent Home. Pierre, S. D., April 15. Governor Lee has written to President McKin-ley, McKin-ley, demanding the return of the South Dakota volunteers from the Philippines. Philip-pines. He recites the facts of enlistment enlist-ment to fight for humanity against Spain, declares that "the South Dakota volunteers have fulfilled every obligation obliga-tion which they owe to their country and its flag," and that they should be allowed to return home. He says: "We view their present or future detention as unconstitutional and as a violation of the law which called the organization into being, and feel that they should not be retained against their will, against the law and against the moral sense of the people of our state, without offering some subject reason for so doing.'' |