The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-18
River forecast till p. m. Tuesday:
The Mississippi will continue falling slow
ly in the vicinity of St. Paul.
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The cunning effort of the politicians of
the navy department to reopen the
Sampson-Schley controversy, made some
weeks ago, failed owing to the good
sense of Admiral Schley and his friends
in refusing to participate in It, 1t orig
mated with the New York Sun and was
based on the colloquy supposed to have
taken place between Commodore Schley
and his navigating officer, Hodgson.
While the country has very plainly
commended the silence of Schley and his
friends, the Sun still remains unhappy
In recent issue that paper returns to
its quarry. 1t pathetically remarks that
there must be many men whose fairness
of mind has not been destroyed by the
hysteria of schIeyism." and, thereupon,
and on the warrant of its own credulity,
proceeds to expend four columns of more
or less valuable editorial space On it's
foolish quest.
1t would be vain to follow our con-
temporary the entire distance to which
1t goes, were it not that its voluminous
screed succeeds in proving a number of
facts which go to justify the final action
taken on the promotion of Messrs.
Schley and Sampson. 1t shows, for in
stance, that Admiral Schley warned his
navigating officer that to allow the Suns
version of his statement to remain I'M
challenged would result in casting Sc
rious reflections on him, Hodgson. The
event has proven the wisdom of the
warning, for in the effort to reopen the
case, as the G o e pointed out at the
time, the only question put in issue was
one as to the credibiIity of Navigator
Hodgson.
If the Sun had tried to put aside all
doubts which might exist in the mind of
any partially informed person on the
subject it could not have succeeded bet
ter, had it exhausted fourteen instead of
four columns than it does in It's latest
essay. The principal fault found with
Schley was in remaining at Clenfuegos
after, was alleged, he had been or
dered by his superior, Sampson, to go on
to Santiago. The Sun, with a strange
perversion of it's own ends, reproduces
the letter written by Sampson to Schey,
which was withheld from the official re-
ports, and on which the decision as to
promotion was finally based Really
but a comparatively few had read the
document. because, before it had made
its appearance, the public judgment had
declared for Schley. The Sun is en-
: titled to the thanks of Schley's friends
for reproducing it now. 1t is the touch
stone of the entire controversy. AS it
was a personal letter Schley might rea.
sonably have been expected to destroy
1t, but fortunately for himself, he did
not. This letter of Sampson is ad-
dressed Dear Schley," reaches Schley
at Cienfuegos, and reads as follows:
After duly considering this telegram ]
have decided to make no change in the
present plan, that is, that you should
hold your squadron off Cienfuegos. If
the Spanish ships have put into Santiago
they must come ether to Havana or
Cienfuegos to deliver the munitions of
war which they are said to bring for use
IN Cuba. I am therefore of the opinion
that. our best chance of success in cap
turing these ships will be to hold the
two points, Cienfuegos and Havana with
all the force we can muster If later
1t should develop that those vessels are
at Santiago, we can then assemble off
that port the ships best suited for the
purpose and completely blockade it. Until
we then receive more positive informa-
ton we shall continue to hold Havana
and Cienfuegos.
Could anything be palmer than this
"After fully considering" telegram
which is enclosed, and which directs
schley TO go at once to Santiago. 81 have
decided" ETC.
The peculiar form of insanity which
caused the late Mr.. Dana to s1Ipport
Ben Butler for president in 1884 has evil
IDENTIFY been left as an inheritance to Al
least one of his successors on the SIM
Republican journals have been jubilant