The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-08

Last week The Sun called Admiral
SCHLEY's attention to the reparation due
from him to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HODG-
son for charges of fasehood brought against
the latter through SCHLEYs garbling of
HoDGSoN's correspondence with himself.
SCHLEY has done nothing to remove the
shadow resting over HoDGsoN, and the
abuse OF HoDGSoN goes ON.
SCHLEY. it will be remembered, pub
lshed in the Washington Post a letter from
HoDGsoN denying the occurrence Of the
colloquy printed in The sun" relating to
the Brooklyn's loop at Santiago But when
HoDGsoN sent SCHLEy this letter he also
sent another one saying that the do
NAL" referred only to the verbal accuracy
OF the coloquy and that the substance"
Of it was true. SCHLEY published the first,
suppressing the second, and when the facts
as to HoDGsoN's correspondence were re-
vealcd later, the Schley press, flying in the
face Of the facts and suppressing SCHLEY,
says that it was HoDGsoN who lied.
"SCHLEY cuts rather bad figure in tho
transaction" says the Rochester Union and
Advertiser, but HoDGSON has practised
deception OF the rankest kind He has
played the public false" He has written
for publication u statement which he him
self says is not true SCHLEY has the
benefit of the doubt az to whether or not
he thinks the coloquy of the loop actually
occurred" but there is ono doubt whatever
as to HoDGsoN."
In the same way our Columbia contom-
porary, the state. to which we freely give
any apology due for setting it down among
no oil of thn SphlnNy
mails, repeats its charge against HoDGSoN
OF moral cowurdirc." 1T is not n"ccs-
sary," says the State, "to be Schley parti-
san or IA Sampson partisan to detect dou-
ble-dealer and dcspise him
Why are not the plain facts in this case
faced Why should a certain group OF
newspapers, OF which the two quoted above
are among the midcst members, go so far
as to uphold SCHLEE in positive knavery,
and, as they sought formerly to give other
mems honors to him, seek now to make
another wear his disgrace?
The doublc-dealcr is not HoDGSoN but
| SCHLEY. This is beyond controversy.
HoDGsoN wrote the full truth as he saw it,,
and SCHLEY took from HoDGsoNS CORE
spondence part and published that, sup
pressing the rest. Thereby SCHLEY in
formed the public, in effect, that HODGSoN
denied a certain statement in The Sun which
| proved SCHLEY guilty of falschOod before
the United States Senate. And in 80 using
this part OF the Hodgson correspondence
SCHLEY was virtually as guilty of forgery
as if he had forged HoDGsoN's signature to
letter saying that "no such colIoquy
ever occurred" instead of merely denying
. I., all In
journal that avoids emphasizing its
craftsmanship of ScHLEY by sandering his
victim, HoDGsoN. the Galreston Daily Np,rs
says that latter all, even if SCHLEY said
Larboard' ca 'Starboard, Go ahead or
Back! the result showed he was right
| What's the quarrel about =
| wrong cannot be tossed out of sight in
| that way The true character of Rear Adj
miral SCHLEY must be understood before "a
| large portion OF tn" public press will be- in a
state OF mind to atone for gross injustice to
| an Administration which, instead of perse-
cutting SCHLEr, has favored him above all
other officers of the war; to a Secretary of
the Navy whose censure OF SCHLEY, instead
| of being "trumped up, was more than JUS
| tihable; to Admiral SAMPSON, to whom the
| first honors OF Santiago belong not only
because OF his ability as the commander
of the fleet, but because of SCHLEYs dis
tinct Incompetence, notwithstanding the
Brooklyns crew shot well and the ship
herself was hit often; and to the many men
of the navy whose attainment of honors
awarded to them by the President has been
blocked by SCHLEY's thirst for more than
were assigned to him.
The friends of SCHLEY have supported
| him through conduct bristing with grounds