The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-19
pococK's NERVE.

Gen. Pocock of our Ohio Militia
bearded the o. N. G.. lions in their den
in Toledo. He proceeded to make q
speech, land 1t is full of nerve forcG
yindicating himself from the assaults
of his numerous enemies. 1t must be
remembered that there is no politics In
this eruption. 1t Is a war inside the
Ohio National Guard, and 1t involves
only the moral character and discipline
of Gen. pocock.
The eNEws-DEMooRAT has already
EXPRESSED the opiuion that Gen. Po-
cocks natural gsllantry may have led
Suspicious people TO suspect his viz
tuous intentions in escorting the Zanes-
willie lady to the grand opening of
Ohio's section of the Worlds Fair in
Chicago: but In the absence of positive
evidence to the contrary, it is charity
to believe Cen Pocock innocent Of
wrong intent. We believe the officers
of the Ohio National Guard In this
section take the same view of Gen.
Pocock as the NEws-DEMooRAT.
For this reason Gen. Pocock's speech
| In Toledo, made in the face of his enc
mics is worthy Of the soldier and the
| man.
Among other good things Gen. Po-
cock .said:
"If Il is my incompetency as a military
| officer, l simply refer you to the Seven
| teenth Regiment for the eleven years 1
had she honor to command II, and ask
4 that 90 up or down as her record shows.
\ Irm willing to go down In history as that
l regiments commander and live or die
| with IL. II is easy to criticiso ald find
fault. General Grant, the most successful
| general of his day, was sent TO the rear
I and his command taken from him after
the battle of Shiloh. Did it kill him? No.
Il He arose again and ended his career the
qreateot of commanders. The strategic
L Sherman was called insane and incoppe-
tent, and for months had no command to
L speak of, and yet we who followed him
through the Atlanta campaign wondered,
II no was insane or incompetent, what was
Il tho matter with those who made the
charges? History tells us how he stood as
a military man. II is not necessary to &c
farther than this, as history 10 full of such
| cases"
Here is talk that hits. General
Pocock is now like General Grant was
after Shiloh, and General Sherman was
after Mill Springs; but not as Napoleon
was after Waterloo. General PocOck'e
fame will not be permanently dimmed
by petty scandal, which originated In
the one eyed envy of some rival officer
IN the o. N, q. whose style failed to
thrill any susceptible female bosoms.
But lest some of our readers, borr
since the war, may mistake Genera
IPocock's command of the Seventeenth
Regiment, for eleven years, it II
due to history to say that this is no
the bloody 18th o. V. L. of the War O.
the Rebellion, but the bloodless 18th
organized since the war, or rather of thu
War of the Roses. In other word
Geu. Pocock won his laurels and hi
fame as o soldier, since the war, il
militia camps, while the roses wer'
shedding the sweet perfumes of jun
mildness and July drowsiness init
the serener airs of peace. Hence w
say, with propriety, that Gen. Pocock'
references to Grant and Sherman II
comparison with himself, indicate tina
he has that nerve, dash and audacit,
fit to command.
Furthermore Pocock convinced tn
adolescent belligerents, assembled II
Toledo, that he was real warrior, an,
a dangerous man; hence they subsideC