Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — RECRUITING IS UNEQUAL. [ARTICLE]

RECRUITING IS UNEQUAL.

It Need Not Be Confined, However, Witkim State Limits. The fact that some regiments are being recruited so much more rapidly than others—the Thirty-first, Fort Thomas, for instance, had nearly 600 men, while the Thirty-fifth, Vancouver Barracks, had but about twenty-five—has been the cause of many inquiries directed to the Adjutant General. The people want to know whether the regiment must be recruited within the State limits originally set forth, or whether the recruiting in the more populous districts will be kept up with a view of furnishing recruits for regiments which have not been so successful, even after the quota for the regiment shall have been obtained. The Adjutant General says that the latter will be the case, and that recruiting will continue everywhere until the t<»tal number requisite for the ten new regiments has been raised.