The evening times., 1898-09-17

par;ment and declares that he has not
told the half. nothing more will be heard
of his case, unless he chooses to make
a righteous campaign against the mon
sters who are guilty of the crimes he
recites.
The chaplain has no reason to fear
persecution. He is backed first by the
Official report of a board OF army Off
GERS. then by the official report of a
second board and by the sworn testi-
mony OF colonies, surgeons. captains.
lieutenants and privates. Chaplain
Dooley of the Ninth New York. con-
firms every charge he makes. If he will
now take up the challenge of the War
Department Re will glorify the office of
the volunteer chaplain and force the
investigation which the War Depart
ment should have made when it was
put in possession of the official reports
and sworn testimony.
We repeat that the War Departmz MT
is simply trying to bulldoze and intimi-
date the Hoosier chaplain. Else why
did it not take notice of the specific
charges, the detailed testimony of the
officers and men of the Second Ken
lucky. the Eighth and Ninth New York,
and other regiments? Lieutenant Pow
ers, of the first-named regiment testi-
fed that he found sick men lying on
litters on the ground between the tents.
Some, suffering from typhoid fever. had
never had their clothes off all the time
they were in hospital. The floors of
the hospital were never cleaned and
there was not a sheet or pillow in the
place. Often the men did not have a
bite to eat until after o'clock The
stencil was horrible, and the condition
of the floor and the patients foul. Cap
tain Price same regiment. compelled
Surgeon Hubbard to stop maltreating
a dellrious patient. Lieutenant Hardy,
of the Ninth New York, found one of
his sick men unconscious. He was ly-
ing naked and unwashed on a cot in
the sun. Insects were crawling all over
his wasted body. 1t was a terrible and
damnable piece of neglect" Colonel
Green, of the same regiment. found
the hospital in a most unsanitary con-
dition. The stencil was ab5minable
He found one of his men unconscious
and his face and open mouth were lit
orally black with flies. Private Reed,
of the Second Kentucky, nurse in the
hospital, saw a patient whose hips and
back were covered with bed sores that
were full Of maggots. He found one of
his company sick with typhoid fever
on a cot, without a shirt, and lying in
filth. Two others were in the same
state, and all died. A surgeon in the
hospital tells the same stories-he is
Major G. A. Smith, of the Second Di-
vision. The chaplain of the Ninth New
York, Father Dooley, said that men
died like dogs. Those who were i'll,
burning with typhoid fever. We're COM
PEELED to lie on the ground for twenty
four hours without attention. Men
died alone and neglected in their tents,
and their bodies were not discovered
until the stencil called attention to
them"
These are only a few samples. There
are more and worse. The testimony is
embodied in the official report made by
/ Majors Ward, Johnson and HeiIbrun
I 1t is in the possession of the War De-
partment, which did not give ii out for
/ publication, as ii did Boynton's report
| Now, if the War Department wants
! facts about Camp Thomas, why does
/ 1t send hurried telegram TO an Indi-
ana chaplain, with all this more damn
ing testimony in hand? It doesn't want
facts 1t simply wants TO silence the
Indiana chaplain. whose plain talk,
with that of other soldiers, will carry
the State for the Democracy. Can any
body read the testimony we have noted
and reach any other conclusion than
that an attempt is made to bulldoze the
returned soldiers into silence? 1t will
not work. 1t only exaggerates the
original offense of the department in
refusing 10 do anything about either
the report of the army commission or
that of the medical commission The
returned soldiers cannot be frightened.
Spanish Mausers could not scare them,
and a neglectful War Department need
not hope to do it, The ugly, damning
truth will out