The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-10-07
TUE CONDUCT OF TIE WAR.
Tho StntcmOnt OF Editor Gonzales Dt :
serves National Attention.
(New York Evoning Post.)


United States ought to go to war
with Spain over Cuba, but, so far
rs we are aware only ono Of them all
enlisted IN the army, and wont to tho
front when tho war which they had
been urging camo. This was Mr..
N. 6. Gonzales, editor Of tho Colum-
bia, (S O. State. Ho is II man of
marked ability and high character,
who had shown his possession Of
moral as woll as physical courage
before he won't into tho army by
making fight after fight in bis news
paper on the unpopular sido Of issues
in his State Mr.. Gonzales spent the
six weeks before Juno 20 IN Tampa,
FLA, and several weeks after thnt
date in Cuua and on the way to and
from tho island. There could not
be Il bottor witness on tho conduct of
tho war, and what Mr.. Gonzales says
deserves national attention, He de-
claros that, although tho Tampa
warehouses; were choking with canned
goods and the other regular ration
supplies, certain reglmonts-regnlar
as we'll as volunteor--were for weeks
only furnished with Gravel rations"
biscuit and coffee. Ho ai1irms that
the government permitted itself to
bo gouged and imposed upon most
outrugeously by ono of tho railroads
ontering Tampa. 1t gave itsolf up,
in plain English, to be robbed by
extortions which might have bcen
prevented by mn advance agreement
as to terms" Ito says that during
most of tho stay of tho troops at
Tampa there w@s no discipline, mobs
of drunken soldiers filling tho stroets
and robbing stores in daylight"
As for the expedition to Cuba, Mr..
Gonzales points out that, although
before the war broke opt Gen. Miles
had adopted service uniform for
use in hot weather, tho army form
ing ut Tampa for tho invasion Of
Cuba was compelled to wear through
out it's stay the hoavy blue winter
uniform-n cruelty in that hottest of
hot places. The only exception was
the Roosevelt Rough Riders, who
wore brown canvas, while all the
othora sot off for Cuba in tho trans
ports wearing the clothing many had
brought down with thom from No
braska and Dakota; and tho expla-
nation of this WAS that "their chiI'
had a pull" Mr.. Gonzales confirms
} tho wost charges which have been
made that the dispatch of tho first
expedition "was outrageously delayed
and bnngIed." Gen. Miles had
promised tho Cuban Con. Gomez
that vessels with supplies would be
} dispatched to him as rapidly ae
, possible, bnt Mr. Gonzales says that
y after Gen. Miles loft for Porto Rico
} this promise WAS ignored, and Gen
Nunoz was showed from pillar tc
} post in Washington for u month bo
foro ho could got small cargo fol
, the Cuban auxiliarios "Whoso faul
was thatr" is the question will
which tho Columbia editor ends eacl
, count in his indictment, and this il
! his answer:
, "The fault, 1t seems to us, is part
= ly McKinloy's, partly Algor's, partl!
t that of official red tape, and partl!
that of Genornls indifferent to th'
l welfare Of their men and quarter
masters incapable of Intelligent ant
! systematic work. The ultimate ro
sponsibilty, however, attaches to th
administration which permitted it
members and snbordinatos to Great
o these abuses"
What sort Of job is tho admin
iatration which mado such n muddI
of small war in noighborin
island likely to make Of running n
0 "cmpiro" on tho other side of tn
y globo2
An Irishman, in ordor to colebrat
# the advent Of now ora, won't out o
), little lark. Ho didn't got homo ii
"a 3 o'clock in tho morning, and wa
ia barely in the house before nurs
:, rushed up and, uncovoring bunc
of soft goods, showed HIM triplet
49, The Irishman looked up at tho cloe