The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-02
SOME WORDS ABOUT Dewey.

| SOME WORDS ABOUT DEWEY.
| Admiral Dewey's brilliant name and
fame occupied considerable national at
tention yesterday. The country rejoic
ed afresh over it's new naval hero and
sterling patriot, his heroic deed and
subsequent level-headed and judicious
administrative work. Dewey's name
and fame add additional lustre to the
old flag, and his gallant deed at Manila
has made work for the geography MAX
ers and added Dewey Day unofticialy
to the days for national rejoicing, and
for recalling to mind signal triumphs of
| the star-spangled banner. All the
newspapers had a word about Dewey
| yesterday. The New York Sun in its
Dewey talk said: George Dewey is the
most successful teacher the public
school children of America have had
during the present generation. His
name and the knowledge of the glorious
event of May 1, 1898, have given new
gignificance in their minds to the flag
that flies on every properly equipped
school-house in the United States" Our
neighbor the Hartford Courant remark
ed: "a year ago this morning George
Dewey-worthy pupil of the great Far
ragut-snapped his fingers at possible
torpedoes, slipped by sleeping Corregi-
dor in the dim Sunday dawn, fell upon
to make junk of it. The echoes of his
guns are yet rafting around the
/ world"
| The New York World: "Dewey's vic
tory was the only perfectly planned,
f1awessly executed move Of the Span
ish war, the only victory that has not
had a long train of recriminations,
scandals and heart burnings. Why?
| Because Dewey is of the full heroic
stature. And so the American people
celebrate to-day without any mental
reservation whatsoever" Also: zone
thing that should be remembered about
Dewey on Dewey Day is that he is a
much greater man now than he was
ago He has grown with his increasing
responsibilities, and that is the final test
of human greatness"
| New York Tribune: mot the least
claim of Dewey's victory to lasting re-
membrance and to yearly recurring cell
ebration is this: That its completeness
has not been lessened nor it's glory tar
nished by any subsequent revelations or
performances. Many another gallant
| feat of arms has, in the first flush of
victory, been overstated and made to
appear too great; and the later story of
the first rejoicings. Not so this. The
first news did not do it justice. Every
additional days dispatch only made 1t
appear more splendid. And now that
the days have multiplied until they have
joined the full cycle of the year, the ma
tured and permanent record of it is ac-
tually prouder and more exultant than
the news that came through the very
smoke of strife. More than one great
commander, too, has dimmed the lustre
of his achievements by injudicious af-
ter-conduct. Not so Dewey. He has
been as incontestably first in peace as
he was first in war;
New York Journal: 1.-THE exercises in
the public schools to-day will commem-
crate the patriotism of those whose skill
and bravery made the victory of Manila
Bay possible, rather than any Wanting
self-laudation over our defeat of the
Spanards This war was inspired by
the noblest motives-the desire to give
freedom to an oppressed people"
Springfield Republican: Few events
in the national life ever appealed more
powerfully to the pride of the people
than this mighty stroke of the fleet I'M
der Dewey, which stood out with the
most brilliant achievements of our mar
thine history. Whatever division OF
opinion may exist in regard to other
great events of the Spanish American
war, the work of Dewey was so clean
cut and splendid that no discount has
ever been placed upon it. When asked
by the New York Journal if he had any