The San Francisco call., 1898-07-02
THE VICTORIOUS MARCH.

EROM the day the American troops landed on l | Cuban soil the advance has been steady and success constant. It has been victorious march on Santiago, hardly interrupted for an hour by the ambuscades and entrenchments of the enemy The army like the navy, has added new glory to our annals, and the triumph achieved by the one on the sunlit bay at Manila has been equaled by that ac- complished by the other amid the chaparral of the mountains around Santiago.
 The skirmish by which the advance guard cleared the thckets and made way for the main army to ascend the hills has been swiftly followed by an at tack in force upon the Spanish entrenchments Ill the suburbs of Santiago itself The reports of the battle which we publish this morning speak for themselves. They attest the energy and vaor with which the army under command of General Shafer is following up the successes last week. They also give as surance of speedy ending of the war in Eastern Cuba leaving the army and navy free to direct their whole force upon Havana there to end the conflict in the island with blow.
 When Cervera after lodging about the Caribbean Sea for as long time as he could, steamed with his fleet into Santiago Bay for the purpose of avoiding conflict with warshps in those waters, he doubt less induged the fond hope that he would remain ln safety under the protection of the forts along the narrow entrance to the bay all summer; and, per haps, keep his flag flying indefinitely. Such hopes were based upon the belief among the Spaniards that land campaign in that part of Cuba impossible. For years the best Spanish troops, under their best generals strove in vain to dislodge few insurgents from the mountains and 1t theif conviction that Americans would have no better success in an ag gressve movement than themselves They have learned better now Cerveras fleet would have been safer in midocean than where 1t is
 With this brilliant feat accomplished in short time the captiouS critics of general will have to relapse into silence or speak only to them selves. They can no longer charge the generals in the field with delay or the commander chief with Iindecison There can be no longer any sneering the Board of Strategy, nor any mockng reference 10 it as board of lethargy" The fleet and the army have moved together in perfect accord and have combined to encompass Santiago and Cervera and rival in this hemisphere the triumph of Dewey at Manila.
 With the winning of the battle of yesterday the enters upon new phase. The period Of prepara- tion has given way to the time of action. Unless Spair speedily for peace other battles will swiftly follow News of additional triumphs for our in Cuba will alternate with dispatches of victories in the Philippines. Neither ambuscades the levers of the summer in the tropics will stay the vic torous march of the younger grand army of the public. We have in the reports of its progress to thrill us with keen ardor at the coming celebra- ton of the glorious Fourth This is new war for the liberation Of some of the oppressed peoples of the world It carries wider yet the glory of the starry banner, and confirms the cause for which that banner was first unfurled