Arizona republican., 1899-03-01

Santiago and that the success of the
 battles of July l. and are really due
 to Wheeler and LawtOn"
 Yes, know every effort has been
 made to deprive General Shafter of the
 credit of his successful campaign. The l fact is that every move of the army | before Santiago on July 1 and 2, in 1 ciuding the charge ol San Juan HIl
 and Fl Caney, W ere the result of writ | ten orders from Shafter. This I know to my personal knowledge, as I wrote and c0piel a number of the orders when being prepared for issuance That is in line with charges that Shaf- 1 ter was away in the rear all the time so far away that he did not know what
 was going on. Shafter was in the sad
 dle nearly all day long both on the 1st
 and End and personally watched and
 directed every move. On the End he
 was in the saddle seven hours and was in direct connection with every move
 ment all day. I would not say one word in detraction of General Wheeler.
 for he is a grand man and a good sol die-, but he was so sick on the 2nd that he had to remain in the rear, and Gen eral Sumner commanded the cavalry division, so that will explode the idea that Wheeler was responsible for
 
 Lsl1ton did good work, but he simply followed out Shafter's orders.''
 Well, doctor, you know of the charges of incompetency at Tampa, and the so-called blunder in holding the troops for seven days on the trans ports?
 "Oh, yes, and that is in line with all the rest. General 'Shafter was Miles own selection to take charge of the first expedition to Cu,ca, it being the intention to land force of several thousand at some point on the north cCast-to- establish a base of supplies. Shafter was ordered to hold his troops in readiness for immediate embarka- tion upon the arrival of the transports Ot course men could not have all the comforts of home while on waiting or ders, but if there was such incompe- tCncy in getting supplies to Tampa and | iii caring for the troops, why did not | General Miles, as the commanding gen. | eEal of the army, issue orders rectify- | ing the alleged blunders, which he had | the right to do. He visited Tamloa | and saw what was being done there.
 'The troops were waiting for the orders to embark for the north coast, when Sampson sent his famous mes sage to Washington saying that if he D., though what put that notion into his head no sane man who was afterward there could ever understand Shafter was notified from Washington by tele- phone to immediately embark his men O1I the transports for Cuba. This was about II o'clock at night and General 5hafter immediately gave orders car rying out these instructions, and by nearly his entire command was aboard the vessels. They were ready to sail the next forenoon when the navy department got up it's scare about the phantom fleet and orders came to hold the transports until the navy could furnish an escort The re- suit was seven days delay, but Gen eral Shafter was no more responsible 1 ;ar that delay than any resident of this own. I tell you all things considered, he conducted a marvellous campaign against Santiago and is deserving of he greatest credit and praise from he American people"
 How about the beef, doctor, that question just now?"
 "Oh, that's another hue and cry ( 'aised about nothing. The refrigerated beef furnished the army under Shaf- ' CT was as fine beef as I ever ate any place. The canned beef was not ' seasoned and by itself tasted flat but cooked with something else and sea- 'oned was very palatable. I'll tell you what it was like. Like beef jardinierre ( hat you get from the buffet on Pull nan car, only that it was not put up with sauce as is that you pay 40 cents l mouthful for on a Pullman. As to he charges of it being preserved with lcid, l cannot say as 1 did not test it. But l do know this: That every doc or would give a soldier more salycilic lcid or salycilate of soda in twenty eur hours for dysentery in ~uch ,iimate as Santiago than would be lsed to preserve a hundred tons of beef. If there was any bad beef fur lished the troops under Shafter or any others in the army I failed to find it."
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