Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-08-11
The ROOSEVELT LETTERS.
Everybody Talking About the Mat.
ter and More on the Subject
Will Probably Be Heard.
ROOSEVELT MAY Be COURT-MARTIALED.
The Doughty New Yorker VIII Then Show
Up the Alleged Mistakes in the Santiago
Campaign-soidiers at Santiago Rejoice
at the Prospect OF Being Sent Home
Immunes VIII Police the Territory.

Washington, Aug. THE Roosevelt
round robin and his letter to Secretary
Alger criticising the volunteers ere
Rted as much CONSERVATION in the war
department as discharge of shrapnel.
The letters were the subject on every
body's tongue. The matter was also
discussed at the cabinet meeting. The
president was displeased at the pub
LEGATION of the document, representing
the conditions at Santiago among the
American troops. Secretary Alger
was highly incensed. While deplor-
ing the publication, the president
however, sided with the officers at the
front and gave orders that prepare
tons for the removal of the entire
army north should be facilitated in
every possible way. At the war de-
partment the publication of the round
robin was generally condemned as
subversive of discipline and calculated
to give encouragement MT to the enemy
The publication by Secretary Alger
of personal letter written to him by
Col. Roosevelt, in which Col. ROose-
Welt compared the volunteers to the
regulars and the rough riders, to the
disparagement of the former, is in
dicative of the secretary's anger at
tanned in the round robin. It is being
charged by some of Col. Roosevelt
friends in the department. who claim
to have knowledge whereof they speak,
that the full letter written by Col.
Roosevelt was not given out, but
merely extracts calculated to make
Col. Roosevelt's comparisons of the
volunteers with the rough riders ap-
pear in the worst possible light. The
full text of the letter written by Col.
Roosevelt would, it is said, make it
perfectly clear that the sole COMPARE
son which Col. Roosevelt intended to
make between the volunteers and
the rough riders was that the
rough riders were better armed,
and for this reason alone could do bet
ter service. Col. Roosevelt's friends
say that he will take up the gaun tlet
thrown down by Secretary Alger, and
that, as soon as he is notified of the
facts, he will make charges of mis-
management and inefficiency in the
Santiago campaign and then demand
a court martial. This will enable him,
it is claimed, to prove many things
which otherwise would be CLOSED
over and give him chance to show
up the alleged mistakes made by the
secretary of war. -
Soldiers Rejoice at Being Sent Home
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. Cen. Al
gers determin alton to send home the
men of Skaters army has been the
cause of great rejoicing among the
soldiers who have been suffering in
their camps here ever since the capitu-
1ation of San tiago. The work of en-
barking the troops has already begun,
and there are pleasant visions of cool
days at Montauk point, with plenty of
wholesome food. 1t is said that
Secretary Alger has set September 1
as the date when the last of the
army shall be taken home. Two regi-
ments of regulars and five of immunes
are to be left to police the province.
Five thousand men are expected to get
away this week and twice that num-
Der next week. Should this be the
case, there will be no trouble getting
the men into more healthy quarters by
the time set by the secretary of war.
One regiment of immunes has already
arrived, and two more have gone to
Savannah, Ga, where they will board
transports for Santiago