Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-14
PLUCAY EVANS
Brings the Gillian Authorities
to Time in Short Order
When Crowd of Valparaiso Toughs
Stone His Sailors.
He Informs Thorn They Must
Give Him Protection
OR HE WILL TAKE MATTERS INTO
HIS OWN HANDS
AND PROTECT HIS DIEN WITH THE
YoRKTOwN's GUNS.

Congressman BouteHe Says the Com.
mander of the Baltimore Made a Seri-
Gus Mistake by Not Doing Likewise,
and Smelling the City If His Request
Had Not Been Complied With Immedi-
ately-Senator Frye, IA Friend of Blaine,
Says "Cowardice Never Won "A victory
and Never Made n Misunderstanding
Tracy Talks Concerning ChiIi's Strength
rs Naval Power.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. IA. The follow
ing cable message from Commander
Evans, commanding the gunboat York
town, the only United States vessel now
in CHILEAN waters, was made public
Tuesday afternoon:
VALPARAISO, Jan, O.,
Secretary of the Navy;
Yesterday afternoon my gig, while lying
off the landing place waiting, was stoned
by three men in Il crowd of bad charac-
tiers; no one injured. | visited immedi.
ately the senior naval officer of Chilli,
afoat, and requested him TO notify the
police authorities that | demanded their
efficient protection, and that if the oifense
was repeated | would take the matter
in my hands and protect my men with
arms. Much regret was expressed by
Chili's senior naval officer who went at
once to the police. To-day | have assur-
ance that the parties will be punished
and protection given EVANS.
SHOULD HAVE DONE AS EVANS DID.
fr...t
mander of the Baltimore.
Congressman Boutelle, of Maine, late
chairman of the house committee on
naval affairs. said: Commodore Schley
made the mistake of his life ON the day
when the sailors of the Baltimore We're
assaulted and cast into prison. He
should have demanded that his sailors
be Immediately brought aboard of his
ship. If this demand had been refused
he should, after proper warning, have
shelled the town. OF course he would
have been Brought before a naval court
martial for discipline, but he would only
have had to say to the secretary Of the
navy and all the world; MY sailors
were assaulted, imprisoned, murdered,
and | promptly resented the injury and
insult to my country's uniform and to
my country's flag: and | would do the
same thing again under the same cir
cumstances," and the people Of the re-
public would have praised him.
Captain Boutelle has been a merchant
man on the sea, veritable Yankee sail
or, He was one of our fighting tars in
the war of the rebellion. Hence his
earnest denunciation Of the Gillian gov
eminent for its treatment Of ori1 naval
representatives. He says: Every one
of those sailors of the Baltimore was
citizen of this republic Every one of
them Wore our uniform, which should
be as acknowledgement as the flag under
which they serve. Every one of them
is representative Of our citizenship and
our national honor as though he We're an
admiral, general or secretary of war
or the navy. A stab at one of them was
a thrust at n president of the republic or
an insolent rent in our flag, Those poor
sailors on the merchantmen, the Kewee-
nav, should have been us safe in Val
paraiso as would be the person of that
lawyer, citizen of Indiana, who is now
the chief executive of the nation