The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-29
DEWEY IS MAD.
Because He Was Criticised for
Giving Away the House
THE PEOPLE GAVE HIM.
ays He Would Give it Back
to the Donors if it Were
in His Power to
Do So.

A special dispatch from Washington
to The News and Courier says Admiral
Dewey is out in an interview complain
ing against what he claims to be unjust
and objectionable condemnation Of his
course in transferring his house to his
wife, who subsequently transferred the
property to the Admirals son, George.
The Admiral displays considerable
temper in his condemnation of the
newspapers and the public for CRITICS.
ing his action, and declares he would
not have accepted the house had he
understood that string was attached
to it. He claims the right to dispose
of it according to his own ideas, and
he believed be was doing an act which
would meet universal approval by CIV
ing the house to his wife so she might
have the pleasure Of bestoWing it upon
his son. The Admiral is reported to
have made the following remarkable
statement:
While | was hero two months ago
l am now reduced to such a position
that certain people cannot say things
too villanous, too scurrilous about me-
and no one defends me. Il | was so
much Of hero then and the American
people thought well enough Of me to
give me this house, why do hot some OF
those people defend me now?
''If I had known how much trouble,
how much villanous abuse was to come
upon me as the result Of accepting this
house I would never have taken it at
the hands Of the American people.
When l sailed lnto Manila Bay over
dangerous grounds, with death aod even
worse in front of US, little thought
that in such brief period of time af-
ter Ireturned to my native land the
American people would countenance
such monstrous attack upon me because
l was doing what I considered to be
the most gracious thing I could do, to
present my home to my bride.
II do not intend to arraign the entire
American people for the acts Of a few,
but I am hurt; am cut to the quick. 1
have never felt so badly in all my life.
want the American people to know it.
I want them to know that if / could /
would return to the contributors to the
fund the house purchased with it. |
would never in the world have accepted
it if I had known what it would cost
me. II should feel tomorrow as I
feel tonight / would cut it all, throw
up everything, go on the retired list
and go abroad. Intact I feel so dis
couraged, so worn out tonight that [
3carcely know what | will do. I hard
ly feel like living in country where |
can be attacked in such an outrageous
manner without being defended by any
one.
One report printed has it that the
transfer vas made to preserve the house,
as Admiral Dewey fears a suit for
breach of promise will be instituted
against him by a lady employed in the
buread Of equipment, of which the ad-
miral was the head before he was as
signed to the charge Of the Asiatic
squadron. 1t is stated upon what ap-
pears to be reliable authority that an
engagement of marriage existed be-
tween the two at the time Of the ad-
miral's departure from this country
more than two years ago. There is
deep regret mingled with the indigna-
tion. but no one as yet has felt called
upon to defend his course, and even his
best friends feel that he has shown
bad taste in the matter, to say the least.