Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1898 — Could Raise Fifty Thousand. [ARTICLE]

Could Raise Fifty Thousand.

Adjutant General Gore, of Indianapolis, says: “I have been snowed under with correspondence, answering letters from persons who want to be colonels or captains and who want to furnish companies, battalions and even regiments, and they all want to go on first call. Yesterday and today I have been besieged with prominent men who want companies from their towns accepted, 3ut as yet we have no use for men, and can give them no satisfaction. The people all over the state are wild and 1 believe we could raise an army of 50,000 men in a short time in our state alone.”