Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-04-07

perfume which they eXhale causes tnt
editor to shake with lusty laughter
AS these lovely newsblossoms, taken
together, form rare posy, we present
them to our readers. Here Is one which
grew In the window of the Herald
bureau, corner Fifteenth and G streets,
N. w., Washington, d. c." 1t Is dated
Sunday"
Orders were issued by Secretary
Long yesterday directing Rear Admiral
Schley to appear at the Washington
navy yard this week for physical exam
ination. These orders are necessary
to the appointment of the rear admiral
to his present grade. His nomination
was submitted to the senate Subject
to examination" and the physical fea-
ture of the examination will be the
first performed. 1t is expected board
will be convened for the mental and
moral examination of the rear admiral.
The law provides that in time Of peace
no officer shall be promoted from the
grade OF commodore to that OF rear
admiral until he has passed an exam
1nation to determine his mental, moral
and physical fitness. Any board that
may examine Rear Admiral Schley
with respect to his mental fitness will
have to take into consideration his past
record, and Its recommendation that
he be promoted will do much to show
how he is regarded by his brother Off
GERS. In structions have been cabled
to Rear Admiral Sampson to convene
medical board for his own examina-
ton"
The twin blossom to the foregoing
the Post culls from the Washington
correspondence of the New York
Sun:
Section 1897 was not repealed by the
law for the reorganization of the per-
sonnet. 1t reads as follows: In time of
peace no person shall be promoted
from the list of commodore to the
grade of rear admiral on the active
list until his mental, moral and pro-
fessional fitness to perform all his du-
ties at sea has been established as pro-
vided in the preceding section The
preceding section provides merely that
a board appointed by the president
shall determine whether officers are
eligible for promotion. This routine
action Of the department is interesting
only In the effect 1t may have on the
future Of Rear Admiral w. S. Schley
as a naval officer. He was included
among the oommodores promoted to
be rear admirals in accordance with
the terms OF the personnel law The
board has been directed to examine all
the official records on file in the navy
department concerning Rear Admiral
Schley and the other officers who were
recently promoted. Included in the list
is Rear Admiral w. T. Sampson, but
his mental, moral and professional.
record is perfect, and there will be no
question raised against his promotion
on that score"
The Post is inclined to regard these
flowerets with smiles, but these smiles
soon pass away; and no wonder. They
are the output Of conspiracy which
has no parallel or precedent in this or
any other country. From the very be-
ginning Of the whole business, when
Sampson was appointed to command
the squadron over a commander who
him, the course of the navy
department has been consistently mean
and unjust. From that time down to
the present every step taken by the
department in behalf of Sampson and
against Schley has been conspicuously
sinister and meanly desperate. What
Is more to the purpose, the conspiracy
has been so bold and shameless, so i'm
pudently regardless of public opinion,
hat the people have been lie to see
through it from day to day. and to
perceive it's true nature.
There is nothing more surprising in
The whole matter than the fact that a
man of the caliber and standing of
Secretary Long should permit himself
10 become the tool Of Sampson and his
partisans iii their efforts to ruin the
reputation Of Admiral Schley. For
for Schley and for justice, his
reputation was made in the eye of the
public, and every step to weaken it
has served only to strengthen it.
We call the attention OF our read
ers to the extracts which we have
quoted above. The navy department
Is to appoint board to examine
Schley, while Sampson is to appoint
MS own medical board. Indeed, ac-
,ording to the New York Suns cor
there will be no necessity
20 inquire into his mental and moral
fitness. His mental, moral and pro-
record is perfect, and there
will be no question raised against his
promotion on that SCORE"