Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-08-20
CANNOT FORGET 1T.
Spain Will Remember the Maine
for All Time to Come.
Never before Hns n Warning Nation
Had n Better Bnttlecry-Origin
of the Expression Dot
tied Up.o
Especial washington Letter.l
1FHE WAR with Spain has quic

VT|H HE WAR with Spain has quick
ened many minds to memories
II of tbs civil war. In private
conversations and in public prints war
stories constitute the predominant
topic; and some of the veterans tell
stories of their own recollections of the
Mexican war, while others narrate in
stances told them by their fathers con-
cerning the movements of troops and
individual acts of heroism in the war
of 1912.
Every body is proud of the new navy
of this country, and every conversation
concerning the war bears primarily up
on the work which has been done by
Dewey, Bagley, Hobson, Schley and the
other officers and men on our warships.
1t is well known that all of the meu
of the navy have determined from the
first that Spain in particular and the
whole world in general should remem-
ber the destruction of the battleship
Maine in the harbor at Havana on the
night of February Is, 1898. When Ad-
miral Dewey, regardless of contact and
other mines in Manila harbor, started
IN direct line for the doomed feet
CT Montejo, over his flagship he ran up
the signal Remember the Maine" In
Manila bay there were seven armored
cruisers and two gunboats flying the
Spanish flag, and three other boats of
less Importance; and there were $500
officers and men with modern artil-
lery equipments in Montejo's fleet.
The signal of Admiral Dewey was re-
sponded to by the cheers of every man
under his command, and with a vivid
recollection of the disaster and outrage
to the Maine they went to work, smoth-
cred the fire of the enemy, and COM
pletely destroyed the entire Spanish
naval complement in Asiatic waters.
Spain sent Admiral Cervera into
American waters with the best ships
of the Spanish navy to teach the
Americans something about war. Ger
yera's squadron was soon bottled up
in the harbor of Santiago, and when an
attempt was made to escape, the ar
mored cruisers Almirante Oquendo, In
fanta Maria Teresa, Vizcaya and Girls
tobal Colon, with 2, 900 men, all of them
war vessels of the Maine class, were de-
stroyed in actual warfare, as the Maine
was destroyed in time of peace by Span
ish demoniacnl criminality. And the
men under command of Commodore
Schley went into that fight also with
the signal flying, Remember the
Maine"
When Admiral Sampson held his first
conference with Gen. Shafter, after
plans had been agreed upon for a COM
bined attack upon the city of Santiago,
Admiral Sampson said: II hope, gen.
eral, that you will have the men under
your command as thoroughly imbued
with the desire to make the Spaniards
remember the Maine as the men of the
navy are determined to DO. Before this
campaign is over we will make those
Spanish ships in the harbor look like
the destroyed battleship in Havana har
Dor, and every officer and man aboard
of my fleet is determined that every
shot fired shall carry with it death and
destruction to the nation which is re-
sponsible for the destruction of our