The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-09-30
AS 70 THE INvEsTI0A1
(BY G. A.. EDWARrsv !

department got together and starte6 n b.
the nastiest job ever undertakes 70 III
men.
They are brave men, these III. "
have undertaken the job Of inh,Ns ':.Z
doors of the war department sc..S.s.s3.!
stelch of which can never be y. MI 4
even by all the perfumes Of ~. .-s'9
Cashmere.
Mckinley has had hard tims u n
nine men together who are "fr,.ss 4. 'l1I
the administration" ! don't belisvs
p. Howell has made any such pled,s sss Il
am afraid he Is the only one nm ~ IA I
mission who could successfully st., Y, q
role Of Caesars wife. An hope,t 4 y.
won't make sudh pledge and It IA NJ.
GUS TO politician to risk his fr,,,, \!
Finding" that the war derartms.s s. \
been conducted honestly and wi..,.3s': I
don't say that any of these men az Y
honest, but the fact that they are N ~: /
bhe exception of Howell. friends y
president and the administrator ...s'
mems suspicious to sit up In he'd a NJ
| would like to ask right nor !.
beginning, If the General GranvilIs =
Dodge, who sits at the head Of ~ a.
around which this commission A.. a
work, and upon which it rests its man,
salts, is the same General Granvy,L \
Dodge to whom Secretary Alger moi 4.
ago addressed a communication, caIle6 NJ
my Dear Dodge" and virtually ASIA y.
10 find for him clean bill of heeIAy
1t the same Dodge to whom Shaftsr -,
recently and called him My Dear ~
| erll, and also asked him to lenvs NJ
| he (Shafter) was a drunkard, nruts Nj
an incompetent? Methinks n is. anS ~
he has been invited on this commisaas 4.
do the very things Alger and Skater ld,s
him to do. Else why is he here?
But let us watch the leaven Work 1
make the same prediction now that n
made aforetime, and that is, we viii, a
need our andseptics, smelling salts =,
altar OF roses until congress takes holS
The eXcavator Then stand from upds
The only hope OF the people getting n
| truth out of this commission is throux
Evan p. Howell. He is honest and thsi /
| will make a minority report on which ~
| gress can hinge an Investigation LNt
| hope SO.
General Woodford's resignation a. nj.
lister TO Spain was a forced play. 1t NJ
not have been asked Of him directly. but |
didn't have to wait until house fel !
him TO take a tumble.
| Woodford got anything but glory out
his work in Spain in the ante -bellum dsu
Nearly every night he would telegraph y
! White House that II the United S,Gs
would just nold up that declaration Of W
twentyfour hours longer the chances M,
a 10 to / shot that he could square all u
fefences between the two governmena
The Castlian gold brick diplomats slnyf
toyed with the Long Islander, Saguz
strung him like stringing fish. and WI
one at that.
Wcodford's heart was entirely fractuM
when the Paris peace commission ~
made up with his name conspcuously n
sent from the list. He fully expected
job, and when it did not eons We w
began 10 entertain faint suspicion ~
his name was not essential to the peru
nent popularity of the American Bin
Book. There is no gossip as TO hh ~
| cessor, for the chances are we won't ~
Il minister to Spain for six months, Out
was suggested today by some cruel pers1
that l>ger would make good mnlEW
| Spain. Well. he is due to be kicked OUT
| this remarkable cabinet, and he certAnq
| has made an able -bodied aid TO Spain =
| been her great and coed friend 10 The ~
which has just closed. He couldn't NV
| done more had ne possessed the commluN
| and enjoyed Uhe emolumentary maSnN'
cencc of Spanish captain genera
| Through his Encouragement ana !mx
tilty five times the number oil sopas
died in camp than were killed by Spama
bullets.
There is a dark rumor around about y
| dismal corridors OF the war depaNnss
| that Adjutant General Corbln has ~
mentally slated by Mex nley as Agci
successor.
| The president has been heard 70
that he wanted a practical soldief' y
Corbin has him hypnotized. Mcklns
really thinks that CoIbn, who IS, no IVY,
| q good clerk Is a warrior fuil panora
| and of great fire and function. no
been regarded all through the late unp,s.
antness as the real thing at the NJ
House, and it was his crafty ADVICE
| cunning suggestion as much as Aigels
| ders and directions that put Smarter
| front and sent Miles Temporarily
| rear. u
Corbin doctored the dispatches "u
| with the consent and advice OF tne ~
| tary of war;" and Coibin is entltea
| full share of the discredit and dlssrsu
| the whole affair. Corbin is miltsv ~
| cophant, with rough manly extero NJ
dece.yes people. He crawls ike = 4.
He has always been crawler.
| chief characteristic. He has Risen
| tachng himself 10 prominent men W. 49,
too weak to stand without being po,s~
| up with large g0bs of taffy. Mena .ps
one OF these backooneiess indiViuus . y.
has TO be "jollied' or ne gets wesA ,,.rx
| and sex at heart. Corbin is a pass
at the art of ''jollying' people Mao ~
princes favors to distribute. nv M
ticed his arts on Garfield, VINO W.. s,sA
on the Mckinley plan. 1t was assI
Garfield that Corbn got his firs'
into position OF prominence. ~
Rockwell, Swain and Corpsn' .,nd
were the three who hedged IN tne y ~
president and WHO were planninS ~
in all the military pie when Gulteaus u
put stop to their schemes. ,n,s h
in disgrace, Rockwell has droppeu ~ nmd
dark backward abysm OF time ap1 ~ y
for sixteen years remained SUI SUI ~. =
clerk in the war department una, ,,stv
ond crop OF the old Garfield on,u n.y.
gent again captured the White nv
II is told by the quid nuncs OF
ton that when Garfield came nere.v " q
his Inauguration Corbin froze 70 "
a barnacle. He drove with him, -