The news & observer., 1897-02-19
Some of the New Military Of
f1cials Are Antagonistic.
MAJOR BAILEY INDIGNANT
AT THE APPOINTMENT OF COL.
STARKE BATCHELOR.
CALLS HIM a DUDE DEMOCRAT
The Town Astir Over the areak in
the Ranks of the Newly Com
missioned Officers Blood
OD the Moon
on the Moon.

on lnG WaOOns
There are wars, and rumors of wars,
wars within and wars without, wars on
the picket line and wars in the camp,
and there are soldiers in all these wars,
real live soldiers, colonels and majors
and captains and few privates.
OF course, everybody knows by this
time that North Carolina has some new
colonels and majors and other requi-
sitions. The news has doubtless gone thun-
dering up and down the gorges of Pinar
Del Rio in Cuba, and been waited over
the little battle Scared isle of Crete in
the Turkish Empire the Sultan doubt
less trembled when he read Of the pro-
motion of Colonel Bachelor Major Bal
ley, Major Hancock, Aide Decampe Holt
and then contemplated the possibilities of
an international war. Weyler has prob
ably in his imagination seen the Spanish
throne tremble with the Queen regent
part of the debris as he read of our new
soldiery, and shuddered at the thought
of Uncle Sam at this juncture happening
to take a liking to Cuban belligerency.
But the war we are talking about right
now is sort of a civil war, war
among our own soldiers, a war mostly
Of words with yet awhile no swords, nor
stretchers, nor collins, nor any like mill
tary accoutrements.
1t is a little speck Of warfare among
the newly commissioned North Carolina
Dignitarii Militares. 1t comes from the
refusal OF commander in chief Russell
~ - ha bnl Of
Major c. Thomas Bailey who has de-
clared with emphasis and some vehe-
mence that ne has been fighting Demo
Gratis with such unrelenting vigor and
with such utter annihlatiOn of the said
/ Democrats that he cannot consistently,
1 conscientiously and cheerfully affiliate
I with, fellowship with, mess WITH nor
march with any such q Dude Democrat
I as the new cOmmisSary General Col.
/ Starke s. Batchelor and when Major
/ Bailey, read in the papers that his emin-
! emit superior, the commander in chief had
| let fall the rank of colonel upon the
/ Democratic Dude" shoulders of former
! orderly Sargent Batchelor he was
| wrathy, very wrathy, aud he straightway
/ held little councils of war here a little
! one, and there a little one, until the Gov
ernor and all his staff were apprised of
his discomfort. The new young Democratic
colonel even heard through couriers of
! the valleys that were being fired from the
battery OF Bailey at that Dudish Demo
/ cratic colonelcy that he was wearing
these balmy days in lieu of his erstwhile
military cape, but the new colonel mar
| yeled not neither did he surrender any
| thing, but declares that he viii stand
to his guns until every blank cartridge
is exhausted. Major Bailey has threat
ened TO give back the commimssion that
made him a major on the staff Of the
| new Adjutant General unless the COM
mission of the commissary General is re-
| voked or held up.
| 1t is said that from the little councils
Of war that have been held between Ma
jor Bailey aud his friends couriers have
T been sent into the camps of
! Colonel John Nichols, and some
| Marlborough House c0lonels among them
protesting against. the appointment of
Col. Batchel0r.
+ It is said also that Colonel j. Slogan
/ Harris, was chief among those who re-
| commended the appointment OF Col.
Batchelor and that he is stiIl for him
/ with all his might. 1T is understood
/ that the commission of Col. Batchelor is
{ in. the hands of Major Alexander, the
/ Governors private secretary, but has not
! yet-been handed to the new commissary
/ General, meanwhile Major Bailey and
j Coz. Batchelor are not messing together.
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