Show COLORED MEY MEN TiNTO GE THE I 1 N G MEMBERS OP OF THE NINTH BATTALION BATT AwoN ARX ABB INSPECTED AND APPROVED five years of effort on the part of d its organizers em an agreement was reached hea last night whereby the ninth battalion an independent command of chicago colored id m men en will be muster mustered bd into the state service service as a part of the national guard assistant adjutant general hugh E bayle with col purcell of the gover governors staff came from springfield yesterday and inspected the battalion in its armory thirty seventh street the battalion was founded byrts y its coluni commanding anding officer maj J 0 buckner and comprises aises four c companies amp anies two hundred and sixty one men all told they were put through a drill and acquitted themselves well the adjutant general inspected the men and their equipment li individually when he had finished he told the command that its appearance was was excellent and that he would mus muster ter it into the service october 1 at battery D the mustering in of the ninth battalion is apart a part of an arrangement that thai was made before the last gubernatorial gubernator ial election and as a pha part of the outcome of which the hibernian rifles became a part of the national guard gavira as the sev seventh anth regiment before this the hibernian nian rifles and the colored battalion IR tried ad to lo be accepted as a part of the state forces 1 neither organ oiL goe eded 1 in 1 U its ita efforts and P iven at i e I 1 e wat that the instate did not finot want class cn A n the guir guard the ibernia jand theoplie the otlie com m i and thomas hiis X 11 haid gan pr gnus altgeld sq A 1 I 1 the in in edum 3 for a pia promise n H si toT cifu r the into in ahw bece V wM elected the pro w ind and t the 6 si seventh formed told ab colored troops would as give th battalions isa finecy fin eoy altar military Y amien men She T iy ay yive ve 0 an tinus h eatow a inous tu stati amno 3 t 0 tave th ethwill alcoset SS fc als oSet AA A a year for armor 0 o 4 muskets at iha ire are major 0 bucs V xa ac 5 yr ai W f S ya 7 a S A ar S SJ y ner captains J 3 B R marshall Varlia lb adolph thomas john fellows hobert jackson quartermaster Quarterma B R J B ellington adjutant J hojohn son conj surgeon J N croker in of rifle S searles chaplain J T F thomas omas from chicago tribune act t 15 1895 THE above furnishes another ahe r example of republican publican Ee aup duplicity icicy vad and treachery toward the c colored lored boys for five long yea years these colored men endeavored t to get betre recognition from the hands of gov fifer and the republican publican Be officials but without success withstand not ing the late mayor carter harrison hamson urged upon the republican governor to deal with these men as he did with the whites it remained for the broad minded gov altgeld Alt gela a Demo cratto do justice and honor to these colored american citizens we are personally ac acquainted quai buted with many of the members of this organization having lived next door neighbors for three years to capt F S searles ane we know that by this graceful act of the democratic i officials dials thousands of colored votes totes will go to that party althey can now see that the democrats are their truest and best beat friends all honor to the brave and gallant democratic governor of the great state of illinois this act will bori bring n g a feeling of df confidence and admiration ratio n to the colored americans everywhere |