Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1900 — The Indiana Lawton Monument Movement. [ARTICLE]

The Indiana Lawton Monument Movement.

Indianapolis, Jan. 1, 1900. To The People of Indiana: Under the direction of the Board of Trade and the Commercial Club, of Indianapolis, The Indiana Lawton Monument Commission has been organized for the purpose of erecting in the capital of the state an equestrian statue of heroic size to the memory of the late Major-General Henry W. Lawton, U. S. V. Contributions to the necessary fund of 25,000 dollars are asked from the people of the state in which he long lived and which he regarded as his home. The monument will honor him, but not so much as it will honor his state The appreciative recognition of a life exceptionally devoted to his country’s service and of an heroic death will be good for us and for our children, who can not be too much inspired by examples of faithfulness and patriotism.

Monuments have been erected by the state in memory of distinguished services during our other wars and surely our people will wish to similarly recognize one who far and away above all others of recent years has enriched our military history. It ip> proposed to organize in each county an auxiliary commission. For that end the county officers are asked to associate other citizens with themselves, to select a chairman and a treasurer, the former shall be ex officio a member of The Indiana Lawton Monument Commission, and to then proceed in the soliciting of funds. Those in sympathy with the project are invited to send their contributions to the treasurer of their county organization or to hand them to any newspaper. Each newspaper is urgently requested to open a column for the acknowledgment of contributions and is authorized to receive the contributions and forward them to the treasurer of its county organization. The Indiana Lawton Mon. Com William J. McKee, Chairman Executive Committee. Evans Woollen, Secretary.