The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-11

know OF number of companies that the adj
Jutant general does not charge with neglect
nat have, nevertheless, been very sadly neg
iected by him. know of officers being
neglected and waiting six months for commits
sions, from no fault of their own I know of
oncers sending In their reports and never hear
ing rom them for two months, and then when
tney would write about them the adjutant gen.
erai would answer some little, immaterial thing
was wrong about them, and the captains and
proper company clerks would spend two or
three more evenings trying to straighten out
.nese reports, send them in and hear nothing
nom them for two or.three months, aud, per-
maps. after making a trip to olympia, would
nno some other thing wrong. I do not think
TINS Is the way q business man conducts his
business IT he receives a notice about certain
tnings which are not correct he Immediately
answers by return mail, notifying the party
ne has made mistake and wants it corrected
consider this the duty of the adjutant
general, but ! think, from the way he
CONDUCTS his Office it is more convenient for
MIN 70 ignore these reports. In fact, he is very
hkeiy engaged in some real estate deal, or has
some song to sing about that time, and the re-
port Is pigeonholed and he forgets all about 1t
LOT perhaps SIX weeks or two months; then the
chances are 1t cannot be found, and he declares
ne mas never received it, or else he digs It up and
mos some little technical error, of his own
making, perhaps, and requires a new report.
Ana tnat has been the way and experience OF
every company, almost, In the National Guard
MS Is the way the men in the ranks look at the
matter, and great many of them are the EQUALS
Oh any OF the officers or the adjutaut general
aud they do not feel that IL 10 justice to them
10 De treated in this way, especially as they have
no chance of saying anything about it, but have
10 grin and bear it. consider the adiutant
general holds the key to the entire management
oil the National Guard, and If any officer does
not attend to his duty ii is his place to see that
ne does. IL the report is not in within ten DAYS
ne should notify that captain that he is waiting
Tor his report, and If IL is not forth
coming within ten days, some officer
whom he can depend upon should
be placed In command OF that company with in.
structions to see that its reports are forwarded
ana the captain suspended until he can and will
promise to attend to his duties IL the affairs of
the National Guard had been managed in this
way ieei safe in saying that 1t would be in a
ulHerent condition than it is at present. and
men would be interested and things would be
prosperous. l consider the adjutant general is
ehtireiy 10 blame according TO his own state
ments, In which he acknowledges neglect in not
receiving reports from officers, and they have
not Deen punished or reprlmanded even, and it
Is the sincere wish of the entire rank and file of
the National Guard that he would resign and
step out and let somebody who would earn his
salary and attend TO the Office fill the position.
The men are all willing to work for the good OF
the National Guard, but they hate to be hum
plugged by an ornament at the head who neg
leets his duties and makes excuses and tries to
Throw the blame OF his own ineompetency on
some one else"