The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-09-22
WAR G0-SIp.

The death Of Capt. Allyn Capron. fst y.
:. Ant. at Fort Monroe. sept. Is. makes the
third Capt. Allyn Capron to die in defense
OF his country inside of 81 years. The
first was killed az Cheubusco Mexico.
Aug. 20 1917. while in command Of Battery
+. ist u. ;. Art. The second. grandson f
the preceding was Lieutenant in the 9Th
L. :. Cav. became n Captain in the
Rough Il Gers and was killed at Ia Gust
mas. June p. 1898. His father who has
Just d ed. vas an accomplished artillerist,
and commanded Battery T., Isl L. 5. Art.
the same rs his fat her and did such splen-
did work at Santiago that il will hereafter
be known as Capron's Battery. His death
was directly due 10 the strain of the cam
pagn upon him, and grief over his sons
death.
Chaplain Mcintyre, of the Oregon, is to
be court -martialel. The trouble IS that he
is too fluent a talker. OF course. Chap
lain ought to be good easy, aILaround
talker, but the II years that Chaplain
Mcintyre has spent in the Navy have not
taught him that the regulations are very
ininl cal to a free use of the tongue. The
Chaplain was aboard the OREGON during all
OF her splendid performances, and natu-
rally became very proud OF his ship, her
commander and crew. But he got To
thinking that the Oregon did everything,
and that the other ships and their crews
were rather in the way when there was
serious work on hand. Then he got shore
leave, and began telling this story o large
and appreciative audiences. The naval
people hated to court-martial a Chaplain,
and wanted him to resign, but nc would
not.
So far the sth Ill. (colored) has gotten
along very veil at Santiago. Only 20 men
are sick, mono with the yellow fever.
1t looks as if Teddy Roosevelt was going
to have a walk-over for the Republican
nomination for Governor OF New York. II
he don't want that honor, the Regents OF
the University of California stand ready to
elect him President of that institution.
1t was intended that the 9th U. s.
(coloredI should be sent back to Cuba to
do garrison duty, but Gen. NJ les has urged
that special compliment should be paid
to it splendid fighting before Santiago by
returning it to its old post, at Camp Doug
las, Utah. This the War Department has
decided to do, and the order for the regi-
ment to return to its former station is
highly complimentary of its bravery in
battle.
When the Porto Rico Evacuation Com
mission completes its work, which will be
soon, Admiral Schley will resume his place
as Chairman OF the Lighthouse Board.
Gen Shafter will return to San Francisco,
and resume command of the Department of
California.
The 5fst Iowa, goth Kans., 1st WASH,
and detachments of the I'd Ore. have been
ordered to proceed at once from San
Francisco to Manila. This is said to mean
simply that the Government proposes to
keep q force of 20, coo men in the Philip
pines, as well as II 500 in Porto Rico, and
60, 900 in Cuba.
An Associated Press correspondent finds
Aguinaldo astonis hiegly ignorant of the
most rudimentary forms of political knowl-
edge. He knows nothing about the rela-
tive size and importance OF the Nations OF
the world, their science of Government,
thought Australia belonged to he United
States, and SO on. He is simply shrewd,
ambitious demagog of very limited knowl-
edge, but unlimited greed and ambition.
$50
Gen. Otis has begun the Americaniza-
ton OF Manila very resoluteiy. He has
had the city thoroughly cleanSed and po-
Iced, brought the expenditures down inside
the income, prohibited the admission of
Chinese and opium, and stopped the lot
tnv S and lot of vicious ADJUSTMENTS. It
aust give the Manilese a severe Jolt to be
made so good all of a sudden.
The Cd Tex drew the color line In the
most unexpected place. 1t actually refused
to receive its pay from colOred PaymaS
ter This was the color line drunk, crazy,
diotic. And the worst of 1t all, the pace
was set by the Colonel refusing his pay.
There has been much said about the queer
cattle that Governors of States have Sc
Iected 10 commissions, bu. this is the worst
instance yet. Where, among the 2, 500, eco
more or less intelligent people of Texas,
could the Governor have found such a
warp brain 10 clap COioneI's eagles on?
Paymaster-General Stanton had no pa
thence with such nonsense. When the
matter was referred to him he merely said
that the colOred Paymaster was there to
pay of the I'd Tex. They would take it
from him or not at all. Then the I'd Tex.
s. recon sidered, - and took their greenbacks
from the dusky hand that had been desig-
mated TO pay them.