The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-05-27
NO.4O.
ACTIONS CRITICISED.
Some Discussion About the DOings
Of Admiral SIMPSONS Fleet.
Troops Around Tampa Waiting for the Or
der to Invade Cuba-Spanish States.
men Want Peace-Ready 30
AnnihIIate the Enemy.


New YORK, Nav 25. "A Washington
dispatch says: News from Admiral
Sampson and Commodore Schley IS
looked for at the department. every
hour, but no one at the department.
appears to be able or willing to say
where the news is to come from All
that can be positively sscertained
there is that the United States fleets
are somewhere out Of Key West look
ing for Admiral Cervera and hoping
to come I'D with and fight him.
Whether 1t will be at Santiago, at
CienfueCOs or somewhere between
those points or at San Juan de Porto
Rico not the most speculative expert
Will venture to say. Meantime
tn ere is some discussion among
naval officers about the actions OF
the fleet of Admiral Sampson that
suggests a spirit of criticism Naval
officers who have the highest respect
for the men who are supposed to have
designed a plan of campaign for the
United States fleet are only expressing
wonder that Admiral Sampson was
permitted to travel all the way from
/ San Juan to Key West, to consume
great deal Of coal, and then to coal
again merely to sail back over the
| course he had just traversed. His per
| sonal inclination, it is believed, would
/ have led him to remain in the Wind
/ ward passage, holding a position OF
/ great strategic advantage until the
/ scouts brought him news of the enemy,
l and many officers believed him to be
i there after he had returned to Key
! West
To the suggestion made to these Of
ficers that the Washington authorities
! did not know the Spanish fleet was at
| Martinique until Sampson was fairly
| On his return trip, the unofficial strate-
| gist- answers that the navy depart
ment knew & week ago that Cervera
/ was at Curacao; that it had at its COM
/ mand two or three swift vessels that
could have stopped Sampson before he
had come half way on his return, and
that golfers could have been provided
to take coal to him, and that he might
have thus been able to intercept the
Spanish fleet on its way to Santiago
harbor As 1t was, Admiral Sampson
left Key West the dav the news was
received there from Washington that
Il Cervera had arrived. If the news of
Il SIMPSONS departure worked its way
to BlancO he probably sent it by wire
to Santiago the next day, and Admiral
Cervera was afforded u chance to move
: out and renew his explorations of the
Caribbean sea
/ SOLDIERS EXPECT TO EMBARK SOON. Z
TAMPA, Fla, May s5.-A condition
of almost OminOus quiet, the calm be-
5 fore the storm, prevails around army
j l. 81 u-d At Port
Tampa. Even what little information
has been vouchsafed of late as to the
general work O f preparing a big army
for a hard, bitter campaign ia Cuba
: has been almost wholly cutoff and the
r impression prevails that the end is not
far of and that the long weary weeks
of drilling in the blazing sun and the
sitting dust of southern Florida will
soon be but a memory in the minds
of those engaged in the more deadly
but almost welcome campaigns
: ing in Cuba. Every soldier in
: Tampa, from the highest officer to ths
raw recruit, is watching with an in
. terest almost painful in its intensity
for news from the fleets. In the minds
of all is the settled conviction that the
! hour when news Of a battle between
. Sampson and Schley and Cervera is re-
=
ceived at Washington Will mark the
time for issuance Of orders to embark,
\ and that this is a matter of few days
is not doubted. Perhaps it viii be but
a few hours It is the belief at least
; that the American commanders have
the clever Spanish admiral in a posi-
> ton where he cannot escape; where
his only recourse is to fight, and that
! can result in but one thing-the de-
struction Of another Spanish fleet
, SPANISH sTATEsMEs WANT PEACE
= LoxDoS- May 25.-Ths Mad rid CORE
sPondeat of the Daily News says:
Rumars as 70 the negotiations Of the powers
= IN favor Of peace are premature. but response
z bic SpGllsh statesmen are prepared 20 seize
: / the hrss ppoTtunity 20 en1 the war. providing
u can be done OF terms honorable 70 Spain.
p Should a neutral nation come forward
D with an honorable arrangement. Its pro-
e Tosals would be examined here IN no tm-
practical spirit Of false pride r. therefore.
America does not insist upon impossible
= humiliafions. there Is stlll . possibility o.
8 peace. Marshal Martinez Campos. in the
I course % an interview, has said that the saliva
| tiOn Of the PHILIPPINES is IN the hands o. the
natives themselves. and that much care ought
I / to be exercised TO win them 70 our side" He
: pOoh-poohed the alarming rumOrs about In
Z gland and Gibraltar TIE important thing. he
= declared. is that AsmiraI Csvera should BE- able
e ] to divide the American squadron
: READY TO ANSIHILATE TIE ENEMY.
I key WEST, Fla, May 25.-Every
, preparation has been made by the
United States naval authorities for de-
stroving the Spanish feet which is
known TO be of the island OF Cuba,
e All signs point TO decisive battle
= some day this week The hospital
]
s dered long ago TO be ready FOR seFFica
' st a moments notice, but have no
fresh orders
ThToEn from = TraIa and Killed.
: QUINCY. Ill, Nay 25.-An unknown