West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-11-03
Does He Mean It?
TIA Of Oar Solilsrs Killed In Camp to One Killed at
the Front.

the Front.
at amuses. the MN OF VI ,rquess much to read The ARGUS C
counts of the neglect Oy the administration OF the soldiers at San
nngo lie Cu6."-Mm ON rquess, ais Newcomer Ga The Watch,
alias +. NJ. HuGm IN, in The Journal.
IfIt be true that this man (D is amused by accounts OF the in.
huns n treatment reccivelvby oar soldiers. through neglect AMI IN.
COM potency. during the SIP tnish .Amerc IN war and since it's close,
no can certainly find material in the ne wp .per, printed during the
last three months for all the IN sement he will need during the
remainder of his somewhat goulsh lfo. That he m ~ not be de-
priVed of his daily laugh during the coming week W reproduce the
testimony Of apt. Wm. II. Hiyward. Of Co. q, 2nd Nebraska vol.
unteers. who is a good Republic m aud whose fathers namo can DO
found o n the Republican State ticket of Nebraska this year. Cap
tain Haywood says:
The hospital service IA not VIII 1t it should have been. and the
u msm ~nr nOi Ie ,.ll ss rs ,1%%sy d srf''i uoR Ts11s VI" ANb 5''p %Isr Tns "T,
MENr AT THE HOSPITALS, for they we're conducted shame
fully. did everything in my power to keep my men out of them;
nave been. and a. vas personally acquainted with all of the boys
~~r =" 81 IT s at Amy my ,i ir,enl No ! S IH% q dp% lSPo FELL to ss roo oOr n%oR ri fs
ATALE or HOSPITAL TREArMENr FOR ME MOTTO Be
THAT THE SERVICE WAS SIMPLY AWFUL"
Anal here is thu statement of Il memo Ger of the 9TH u. S. Regulars,
a Veteran of Santiago
'The surrender of Santiago las the proudest moment of NV life.
Very shortly after tho battle yon remember our regiment returned
got for the time the hardships aud danger Incident to the Cuban
campaign, and felt more than proud of our country and the oppor.
tunity W Q had of serving Uncle Sam.
81 contracted the typhoid fever IN Cuba and it spent its force
! asked the army officials for a pass to Denver where the Seventh
sent home all the money had, feeling sure that the government
would return me to the point from which was taken. Then l
asked to be sent to ar army hospital, but this was also denied me
on The grounds that! was no longer in the service. 1 found it i'm
s soaiip ne. : S ss' ' sayos% sp ts Sis; s1 T@' t / h. %'' BEEN en- SO sS Weak 10 that aa !
work. The people who cheered our returned regiment paid no at.
part of three days 1 slept o n the streets of Bridgeport. The police
did not bother me. For a while / feared that the fever together
with the exposure would kill me. After that l feared that it would
not $ suffered SO much that death would have been u relief. On
h morning of the fourth day | was 80 weak that could not move
cut OF the stairway where / had spent the greater part Of the night,
and soon after l lost consciousness"
Man of Marques laugh again-leud aud long But no true man,
no decent old soldier in Preston county will JOIN in your mirth.
An honest investigation before tho election would result ia
throwing the Republican party out of power in Congress by unpre.
Cedented muJorIteS all along the line. Some of the reyaIatIops
OF Aigerism are simply hsurtrending. On board the United States
transport OLDHAM, which arrived at New York recently with volun-
tesr troops from Santiago, for example. Private j. l.. Sweeney,
Company T., First, Illinois Volunteers, died on deck, uunoticsd and
unattended. His body was found lying face downward and soaked
with rain. The body was buried ut sea-"
Col. Charles Ii. Gibson, Field Commissioners of the National Red
Gross who was u passenger aboard the Obdam, in limiting of his
discoveries of shameful neglect and Encouragement of sick soldiers,
SAID 81 dout care to open my mouth now. IL did, I'd have to
use profanity in describing what / wish to tell on paper Colonel
Gibson is to make n official report to the Red Cross Society.
Private Ralph Harwyck, of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, also on
the OLDHAM, says of the army hospital service at Santiago when,
finally, the men were forced to succumb to the fever and we're sent
to the hospitals, they we're treated most shamsfuny. Although
delluous, we were forced to get out of our cots to watch some poor
fellow dying. Some of the men went mad under this strain"
Private James L. Reed, Company X. Sixteenth Pennsylvania,
called out to Governor Hastings, a the latter "a leaving the
obdam: 'For Gods sake, Governor, don't leave us !" Reed was
too sick to be removed from the OLDHAM and at afraid of being
again left to the ministrations of the army hospital service.
VINO with a heart in his breast, can read unmovsd these stories
OF the suffering of the Invalid volunteers?
1t is u notorious fact, now scarcely denied by the most partisan
and nntruthful defenders of Algerism, that had it not been for the
grand labors Of the noble Red Cross Society, the suffering of tho
volunteer soldiers would have been many fold worse anu intensified.
The American people will insist upon a rigid investigation of the
War Department, unquesionably responsible for all this, and for
the deaths Of nearly ten men i peace camps n our own American
soil to one vt the front.
Iii an uncean record, and has the blood of officially murdered
soldiers on 1t.