Foster's Daily Democrat

"HOW ABOUT THE BOSSES?"
Pertinent Query of Funston Regarding
Entry Into Politics.
Kansas City, May 11—Under date of
Stanford University,
Cal.
The Star
prints excerpts from a letter from Brigadier
General Funston, whose brilliant
work in the Philippines has won him
fame, to Professor F. S. Kellogg, a former
fellow student in the Kansas state university.
In his letter, which is dated
April 10, the Kansan gives the first intimation
so far made by him regarding
a political career. He says:
"I cannot think there is much in the
talk about doing the handsome thing by
me.
Politically, the rank and file of
the Republican party might be willing,
but how about the bosses? There are
mighty few offices," Funston continues,
"that I would have, and the one or two
in the gift of the people of Kansas I
have not the gall to ask for.
General Funston apparently remembers
some of the criticisms in connection
with his Cuban campaign when he says
"now I have proven a dozen times, at
the risk of my life, that I am not a fake,"
and it is his main hope that his record
in the Philippines
may
Satisfy the
former critics.
Continuing, General Funston mentions
some of the battles in which he and his
men engaged in the Philippines, saying:
"We had a number of good stiff
fights in which all of the troops behaved
splendidly and carried everything before
them.
Kansas can always be
counted on out here to take a place in
the vicinity of the band wagon."