The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-07
SCHLEY AND THE SUN.

The New York Sun reminds one of a
friendIess cur whose sore leg has been
doctored by Healer Hanna, and whose
gratitude is manifest in "a thousand an
tics performed for the benefit of the
administration, from licking McKin-
iey's face and hands to growing at
every one upon whom the great imper-
ialist frowns.
Its shameful attacks upon Admiral
Sckley, its malicious Misrepresentation
of General Miles, its absurd lauda ton
Of Admiral Sampson, its shameless de-
Tense of Eagan and Alger, it's eter-
nal vigilance in the interest of evefy
administration parasite, and its insane
hatred of those whom Hanna has Sc
lected for abuse or ridicule are increas-
ing in violence and virulence as the
days go by
Hundreds of times it has repeated the
ridiculous SANDER that Schleys ma
neuvre Of the Brooklyn during his fight
with the Vizcaya was an act of cow
ardice and an Interference with the
Texas. Mr.. George Edward Graham of
the Associated Press stood beside
Schley during the whole engagement,
and he pronounces the sun story to be
malicious and false. In the Philadel-
phia Times Mr.. Graham says:
The conversation accredited to Schley
on the bridge of the Brooklyn. in which
he is made TO say: Let the Texas take
at his side continually. and an indication
of his bravery and thOughfuiness can be
obtained from his message to Captain
Cook during the hottest part of the fight:
Keep the men below informed of every
advantage. 1t will cheer them up -
IT has been shown, further, that the
maneuvre of the Brooklyn was not only
necessary, but that the credit for it be-
longs to Captain Cook, her commander
who directed the movements of his ship
while the admiral, upon the bridge, di-
rected, by signal, the movements of the
entire fleet. As TO the alleged interfer-
enee with the Texas, Mr. Graham says:
ITO those who criticise upon the ground
that the Texas was stopped for a minute
or so, let me say that a little later the
Oregon crossed the bow of the Texas and
BANKED her fire for ten minutes but
certainly no one viii say that the Oregon
in view of her splendid fight and chase
was not justified"
And it was said Immediately after the
battle. and has been repeated many
times since by Captain Eulate of the
Vizcaya:
If the Brooklyn had not made that
beautiful maneuvre in turning, could
have rammed and sunk her"
Few newspapers, aside from the Sun,
have Joined the administration in its
cutlery against the hero of Santiago
bay. Even the Washington Post, which
can find an excuse for almost every
thing else the Washington officials 90,
takes the Sun TO task for its dishon-
esty and vindictiveness, and says:
We have no fear that Justice will be
permanently disenthroned by a depart
ment cabal even though it has the SUD
port of a few journalistic henchmen-
Even the New York Sun can achieve in
this unhappy enterprise nothing more
than the impairment of its own prestige.
In one of its recent TRADES the sun
intimates that it is exactly like the
fools of the west to receive Admiral
Schley with professions of admiration
and expressions of esteem. This leads
the Memphis Commercial Appeal to
say:
THE silly New York sun is furious
over the fact that ninety nine one-hun-
dredths of the American people do not
agree with it in its insane attacks on
Admiral Schley. 1t continues to de-
mand that Schley shall demand a court
of inquiry and an investigation. Now.
if there is any person who has been
thoroughly investigated it is Schley.
Sampson appointed a commission to
find out which American ships hit the
Spanish vessels, and of the forty hits
from the inch guns it was found that
twenty Of them could be unmis takabiy
traced to the BROOKLYN. Then the
Sampson clique insinuated that Schiey
had run away, and another commission
Of investigation was appointed. The re-
port OF this committee showed that at
every stage OF the game the Brooklyn
was as near or nearer than anv other
American ship to the Spaniards. Then
the matter was aired in the senate, and
by an overwhelming majority that body
indicated Schley and virtually decided
that Sampson was a sham and a sneak.
The Sun then said the board of admir-
ais would investigate Schley's moral
and physical fitness for promotion, and
intimated that it was doubtful whether
he would be allowed to go up He
stood this examination with absolutely
nothing to his discredit 1t is apparent
that what is really needed is a commits
sion of lunacy 10 investigate the Samp-
son maniac of the Sun
The people of Utah and the west are
interested in Admiral Schley, and they
are doubtless glad to know the opinion
entertained Of the gallant old hero in
other parts Of the Union, outside of the
little circle of journalistic malignants
that are the mouthpieces of the admin
istration. For, with all due respect 20
Sampson, he was not present at the
battle, and, therefore. took no personal
part in it. If an engagement develops
a hero, it is not one who is absent from
the encounter. Had Dewey remained
in Hongkong during the battle of Ma
Mia, he would not have attained the
proud distinction which is his today.
He was the highest officer amid the
smoke of battle; he was the ranking
officer actually engaged in the fight; he
was on the bridge and exposed to the
shot and shell of the enemy So was
schley at Santiago. And Sampson was
many miles away.
Al the bimetallic convention at
Louisville last week William Jennings