The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-28
is MILES A FIGURE-HEADr

1t doesn't appear from the dispatches
from Washington that Gen. Miles, the
commanding general has anything what
ever 10 do with the war in the Philippines.
Do the President and the war department
ignore him entirely?
Notwithstanding the fact that Gen.
Miles made a blunder when he charged
that the beef served to the army was
embalmed without being able to sub
stantiate the charge, 1t Is very generally
admitted that as a soldier he possesses
great ability. Why is 1t then that he is
practically laid on the shelf?
day or two ago he expressed a brief
opinion as to the condition of affairs in
the Philippines. The correspondent who
interviewed him tried to get him 20 talk
generally about the war, but 1t seems he
has had enough of newspaper notorlety
for the present.
He has thought all along that mistake
was being made in not sending more men
to the Philippines. AS long ago as last
April he advised that Gen. Otis be large
ly reinforced He now thinks that it will
be found necessary to send a much larger
number of reinforcements than the war
department is preparing to send. There
are other islands than Luzon where
troops are needed-where a large number
of them will be needed if we don't get
entire control of Luzon soon after the
dry season begins. The natives of the
other islands are watching the outcome
of the war in Luzon. If we are quickly
successful there they will recognize our
| authority, but If we meet with disasters,
or are slow in bringing Aguinaldo TO ac-
cept our terms. there win be re-
volts of greater or less magnitude in the
other islands.
Gen. Miller who has just returned from
Manila, says that Gen. Otis should have
at least 5000 men, That seems 20 be the
opinion of Gen. Lawton also 1t is diff
cult to understand why Gen. Otis is so
persistent in insisting that much smaller
number viii be ample for pacifying the
islands. A long war Is not wanted by the
country. Too small an army means q
long war and costly one If the Presi-
dent is wise he will take the advice OF
Gen. Miles and send to Gen. Otis all the
men he can use advantageously
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IL is interesting 10 note how some of the
New York papers account for the
alleged multiplicity of marriages OF
Col. Gaynor. One suggests that
maybe the colonel married the
second time-if he has really done So
in fit of Observation-Disclosures; that he for.
got he was already married. 'The colonel
is an eccentric man." says the paper in
question, land if he has married a second
time he may have done so while think.
ing he was widower The convivial dis.
position of the colonel is believed to be
responsible for the predicament he now is
in--that is, in case he has married once
too often" Another paper suggests that
maybe Col. Gaynor has a double, in an.
pearance as well as in name, since il an.
pears that he is alleged to have been seen
in two places at one and the same time
Meantime the colonel himself is to be heard
from, and his friends have no doubt tina
he will be able to clear up the mystery.
A cable report published in the Philadel
phia Record says that Lieut.-Col Patty d,
Clam has lately tried twice to commit sui
eide in the Cherche-Mldi prison. He /,
! said 10 have become "a prey to a harrow
ing doubt" of the guilt of Dreyfus since
the revelations Of the Court of Cessation