Show WHAT A ROUGH BOUGH RIDER SAYS benver post private L S of y A leadville adville lie returned to denver esterday ent erday direct from the rou rough gh camp at panama park jack orvllle me and states that at least 80 per mt of the second volunteer cavalry T as Torr Torrey eyu 8 rough kough riders want ato be mustered out of the service but the regimental and company ot of oppose the idea and are doing all i i A their power to keep the regi regiment signel I 1 ln n 1 t has a certificate signed col torrey stating that he was die arged for disability As the service no strings on him he to is a free can bitzen once more and is not r d to say what he thinks about the e arsand band the treatment of the enlisted y to la an old time cowpuncher cow puncher known throughout western weste rif colo ado before his enlistment on may I 1 S leftt he be was engaged in mining at lead J nearly fearly every enlisted man in tor 6 regiment Is anxious to get out of ice said this morning they all enlisted to light fight spaniards but now that the war Is over and there is no prospect that they will see any active duty outside of garrison work the boys want to come home to attend to business and support their families it is no more than justice that they should be allowed to return home for what is the use of keeping them in the service when other men have accomplished everything we enlisted to accomplish com A week before I 1 left jacksonville one of the privates in the den j ver troop circulated a petition to the war department asking that the regimen be mustered out this was afterwards destroyed and changed to a round robin on account of the fact that the officers were camping on the trail of the men who first signed the petition and were going to have them dishonorably discharged had they found them the round robin prevented them from knowing who the first signers were this round robin set forth that a majority of the enlisted men had families dependent upon them and that at 15 per month they could not support them we were all willing to stay in the service just as long as we were needed but there appeared to be no further use for us and it seemed absurd that we should be kept down there e exposed x to disease and hardships after the war was over the round robin was signed by eighty per cent of the enlisted men some whole troops notably I 1 of utah and A of leadville had every mans name on it that petition never reached washington the officers ofil suppressed sup messed it because they did not want to be mustered out ul I 1 dont blame them of course they are drawing from to per month and living on the fat of the land the enlisted men get 15 a month and feast on sowbelly and hard tack every day in the week and twice on sunday you bet i those officers can appreciate a good I 1 I 1 thing they were very indignant overl avei the round robin and made all kinds of I 1 threats against the men who signed it they even went so far as to brand jhb signers as cowards called them mamas home sick boys and such things i a as that there was not a man that I 1 deserved any such treatment we went into the war to fight and would have made a record had we got to the front it was a misfortune that we failed to see active duty the officers finally announced that I 1 all the men who wanted to go home would be discharged for good cause out of about who signed the red rolin only five had physical defects sufficient clent to get him a discharge no man who had fever or any ordinary ailment would be sent home he had to have some permanent disability like myself before his discharge papers would be signed nearly all the other regiments in the seventh army corps at Jask jacksonville sonville the first mississippi third nebra nebraska S ka iowa sixth missouri and indiana and one texas regiment want to get out of the service fitzhugh lee the division commander says he expects the corps will be sent to cuba to do garrison duty he Is particularly acx anxious lous to have the rough ridera go but the boys do not dot want any garri garrison son work the denver de river and leadville boys are simply heart heartsick sick over t the he treatment they have received they are sore on everything all of them are thin as rails victor goethe is as fat as a cigarette and says he is disgusted with everything and everybody down there I 1 think the relatives and friends of those enlisted men here in colorado should take steps to secure th influence s of somebody at washington to toi have them mustered out A private in the army is treated worse than a mule the officers live like princes I 1 do not see then why the privates should be compelled to endure the tortures any longer now that the war Is ended A private is a sucker in my opinion every man who thought of enlisting and do so should pat himself on the back and call himself a lucky man war and camp life to is 4 41 splendid thing for the men with the commissions but its hell with the poor fellows in the ranks tells some funny incidents in connection with the rough riders sy stay in jacksonville all the negroes are afraid of the rough riders the very mention of the name makes their teeth chatter he says why those coons thought we all had horns when they saw us said he they had heard how we had killed indians and were afraid that he might mistake them for redskins red skins and go after their scalps so the coons kept away from our camp we get a zei aei i gro man or woman or child to come com e within a mile of ofir our camp one moonlight night I 1 was waa walking alone out from jacksonville to the camp there was a negro residence ahead of me in the road but just bej fore I 1 reached it I 1 heard a womans comans IT voice ring out you chillen come in dis i house right away and bring oe e borg along yere comes one dem tores rough riders you should have seen those little scamper away one of them with a big yellow dog in its wins after they botin the house I 1 heard the lock in the door click after which the old woman poked her head out the window and pulled the shutters to there must have been twenty darkles darales in that house hoube but they never made a sound after the place was locked up I 1 stood there for awhile and listened but everything every ery thing was as quiet inside I 1 ai as death |