Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-21

throughout the state looked for the resignation of Colonel Callahan. It did not come before camp and since that time matters seemed on the sur | face. to have readjusted themselves very peacefully.
 The resignation Of the conmandant of the Second regiment coming as it 1 does at time when everything seemed 1 to have been amicably settled adds to the surprise and throws the Guard into another state of intense excitement and suspense which bids fair to furnish l a subject of conversation in every com- pany in the state.
 Colonel Callahan's resignation was ! rendered by him without consulting 1 any of his fellow officers and except one there was no one in this city who knew anything of the impending crisis, which is evidently the end of the strain in the relations that have exist ed so long between the adjutant-gener- aIs office and the head of the Sec ond regiment.
 The resignation of Colonel Callahan created the greatest surprise here; in- deed. the announcement may be called a sensation, but local military circles were not at all sui i;rised. They seemed to have been aware that such i an occurrence was due at any time. | While no one connected With the Ma i tionaI Guard in this city would speak for publication on the matter all of them were quite voluble otherwise. One of them stated that he was surprised l that Colonel Callahan had not resigned | long ago. or immediately succeeding the Bradley couEt-martial. One of I those connected with the National ! Guard here spoke in effect as follows; The headquarters of the National Guard was opposed to Colonel Calla- | han from the time of his election and ! the grounds of their objection was race | and religion. That is a serious state ment to make for such a feeling would naturally have supposed to have died 1 long ago; it does not belong to this end of the nineteenth century, and it should have no place in this country, but it cannot Ee denied that it is here and alive. too.
 "The apparent haste in all their re- laticns with Colonel Callahan shows the feeling headquarters had toward him. Such unseemly conduct was nev-
  nent. It is actually disgraceful and emphasizes more than anything else could how objectionable Colonel Cal lahan n'as to the headquarters of the regiment.
 2. The refusal of the adjutant-gener- al to give the colonel time to appear before the board of examination was uneeemly and ungentlemanly It was never refused before. Colonel Calla- han is q member of the board of as
 sessors of New Haven and at this time is a pretty busy man. There was no cause for haste in getting him
 to appear before the board of eXamna
 ticn; had he been popular with head
 quarters his request for time would not have been refused. His eXamina
 ti0n could have waited. whereas his duty as assessor could not. The col
 onel was sat upon. to use an eXpres
 siye phrase, in the Bradley court mar tiai, and he has been opposed by head quarters at every turn he would take
 NOW. regarding his resignation
 Saturday afternoon the colonel sent his
 resignation to headquarters in Hart
 ford. It was accepted Monday morn
 ing. Who accepted it? Who was ii thar
 took upon himself the duty of the ad
 jutant-gCneral in taking action upo1
 that resignation? The adiutant-gener
 al was not in Hartford Saturday after
 noon, nor was he there Sunday, nol
 still ons Monday morning, yet on tha
 morning the cOloneIs resignation waE
 accepted. It was hardly possible tha
 Governor L0unsbury would take ac
 ton upon the reSigna ton without con
 sulting the djutant-general, yet hard ly any other officer at headquarters
 would dare do it. They would hayt
 no right to do so. It is possible tha
 the governor might have telephonet
 the adjutant-general. but that is no
 the way business of that kind or i'm iportance is generally transacted. T,
 be brief, Colonel CaIIanan's resigna , ton is the result of feeling betweel \ certain officers of the Second regimen < and the adjutant-g general. A few nor
 resignations may follow soon.''
 In the natural order of things, Lieu t tenant Colonel Sucher will succeed Col ) onel Callahan and Major Geddes o this city will step into Lieutenant Col s onel Sucher's shoes.
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