The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-21

tentative order, intimating that he
 still believed his judgment correct? l Was it Schley's friends who, in the
 face of Brassey's Naval Record that
 the ships in Santiago harbor had great
 CT speed than any of our ships, except
 the New York and Brooklyn, induced
 Sampson to leave the line daily, using
 the New York to chase unarmed
 schooners and run errands down the
 coast?
 Was it Schley's friends who led
 Sampson, in the face of the objection
 of Schley, to risk seven human lives in
 an attempt to bottle up a fleet so that
 it would be in comparative safety from
 our superior force outside, and our | own fleet unable to force an entrance
 and aid the army? s | Was it Schley'e friends who made | Sampson after notifying the fleet | that, for the first time in weeks there were suspicious movements in the
 harbor, send away the battleship Mas
 sachusetts, the cruisers Newark and
 Suwanee, and later to take the swift
 New York and himself far from the line of battle?
 Was it Schley's friends who induced koolHPooI lo Stuu -OQls. plLCls NHS ple3
 fight for an alleged Spanish battleship. the Brooklyn, with damaged guns, dead and wounded aboard, and men tired of the fray, when his own flag ship filed with fresh men and with
 unexpected ammunition, could have
 done the duty? And yet no friend of
 Schley's has intimated cowardice on
 Sampson's part.
 Was it Schley's friends who dictated
 the bombastic dispatch of the victory, that has so disgusted the American people? HYa
 Was 1t Schleys friends who com pelled Sampson to leave out of his of ficial report any mention by name of the man who, spattered with the life blood of the man killed on the Brook lyn, cooIly directed the fight and the long chase?
 Is it Schleys friends who furnish the partisan and alleged facts for the weakly, bitter, vicious, and disreputa- ble attacks by a New York paper on Schley, or is it schfey's friends who keep Secretary Long from throttnng the controversy by preventing the bureau-favored captains from carry ing out their yindictive fight?
 Is it schley's friends who, keep in the background the names Of the heroes among the captains in that fight-Cook of the Brooklyn, Clark of the Oregon and Wainwright of the Gloucester-,I and make prominent the only captain whose ship was hanging ten miles astern and the other one with war like cognomen, who was the only cap i tain to seek protection in his coming tower during the fight? |
 Was it SchIey's friends who induced a former lieutenant governor of this state, in a speech laudatory of Samp- son, to mortify and embarrass that of ficer who was present, by an elaborate denfense of his part in the battle of July 8?
 have tabulated these questions up- on my own knowledge of affairs off the southern coast of Cuba. For five I was on the Brooklyn, and taking part in five bombardments and the battle of July B. as a trained ob- server, without fear of the charge of egotism I assert. that the secretary of the Navy shows at the least a la ignorance in his statement of affairs. He asserts that Admiral Schley should have found out much sooner3 than he did that the Spanish fleet was not at Cienfuegos, and says that. he made no attempt to do so until Con- nander McCalla arrived The facts are. although McCaIla met Schley en route to Cienfuegos, he forgot to notify him of signals ,wf1ich the insurgents had of dresiring communication, and iculty any greater than Schley's? attempts were being made to signal us, sul peIeAoosIp sM leu9 peuInleI su md then Schley sent McCalla to get information, at the same time sending l he insurgents ammunition. Schley ar 'ived at Cienfuegos on May 22 and on I Nay "A, two days later, found definite y that the Spanish fleet was not at ( Per contra Sampson ar ( ived at Santiago on June 1, but it | vas not until June il that Lieutenant ' 3lue.. at the urgent request of the de- obtained definite informa s ion that Cervera's fleet was in the 0 larbor. t The coaling expedition is referred to. h 'chley had t;with9his fleet the broken l. own and disgraceful collier Merrimac. k 'chley notified the department that f nlese the weather abated he could not s oal at sea and would have to return V