Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-28
STILL vILLIFYING sCHLEy.

In pursuance Of the policy OF the Sec
ond Term Syndicate at Washington,
which is engaged in bounding brave
and modest Admiral Schley more bold
w than ever, now that that officer has
left these shores, the Fourteenth street
organ yesterday published a more than
usually venomous attack upon the
hero Of Santiago. In order to
show the depths of bare-fac-
ed falsehood to which Schleys
official enemies are forced to de-
scend to manufacture material to be
used in blackening his character it is
necessary only to quote few lines
from our neighbours article. The In
telligencer says:
Throughout all the disgraceful agitation
Sampson has been as sealed book While
Schley has lost no opportunity for posing
Sampson has modestly resisted the EFFORTS
of his friends to exhibit himself before the
public while the contrary has been the
ness in a calm and undisturbed manner,
simply performing his duty as he sees 1t
Rear Admiral Sampson has acted with
$500
previous career.
Thus speaks the organ of the politi-
cal syndicate that has been traducing
Schley and Dewey. Let us see if facts
bear out this claim of exceeding mod
esty for Sampson. Did Sampson eXhib-
it very great modesty when he sent that
cable to Washington after the battle
of Santiago grandiloquently presenting
to the nation "as a Fourth of July
gift" the famous victory over the fleet
OF Cervera at Santiago by the squadron
under MY command" Signed SAMP-
SOM" Was it another eXan2le of
SIMPSONS extreme modesty when he
forgot altogether to mention the fact,
that he was out of gun shot when that
famous battle was fought, and when
he likewise forgot to mention that the
squadron under MY command was
under Schley's command, and that
Schley himself bore the burnt of the
fighting on the swift Brooklyn? Was
1t modesty that caused Sampson in his
dispatches to Washington to forget to
mention Schley or any one else or to
give credit to anyone but himself?
That Sampson "has been as a sealed
book since is not to be wondered at
supposing that he possesses sense of
shame
Sampson has modestly resisted the
efforts of his friends to exhibit him
self before the public, while the con-
trary has been the case with Schley,"
says the organ. AS an evidence of the
amount OF truth there is in this malic-
lous statement it is only necessary to
recall that Sampson has accepted about
very invitation that has been extended
10 him and posed in parade with the
rest of the administration CLIQUE at
Philadelphia and wherever else he has
had an opportunity The fact that
Sampson has accepted fewer invita-
tons from the people than Schley is
simply because Schley has had about
twenty times as many invitations to
RECEIPT as Sampson has had. Which
carries its own comment. The people
want to see Schley as they want to see
hat other hero, Dewey. and they don't
ARE to see Sampson. Schley has re-
used scores of invitations ito pose"
where Sampson has refused none that
nat anyone knows of.
Our neighbor returns to it's laudation
Of Sampson thus.
Without ostentation he laid all the nlans
FOR the capture of Cervera's fleet and II ;s
admitted that his orders were without flaw.
What plans? What orders? Samp-
sons orders from Washington were:l
You will close in on the entrance and
sink them" This Schley die. "All the
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