Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-09-19
schley Ought to have Said it.

In the controversy over the battle
OF Santiago those who are interested
in killing of the hero of that battle
are publishing report that at c.iti-
cal time in the battle, when he gave
an order to port tae helm of the flag
ship, and was told by the navigating
officer that he might run into the
Texas, he said, d the Texas.
Let her take care of herself. 4" The
matter has become so serious that
some of Schley's friends have tried 20
disprove that he said it, and Schley
himself want to forget it if he did say
it, and wishes that be had not said
it or hopes that he didn't, and his
enemies. finding they have got him
ratified are making the types jingle in
the newspapers to ruin him. The
Herald believes he said it and that he
was justified in saving it. Suppose
chief of police was riding in patrol
wagon, into a mob. to stop riot, and
he told the driver to turn certain
corner and the driver was afraid OF
running over policeman who was
leisurely going to attend the riot, the
chief might in his excitement and
anxiety to get there, and knowing the
policeman never was run over before,
might say .'D-O'Grady. Lee HIM
look out for himself" II the chief
got there and broke up the row and
O'Grady didI't get run over, it would
be mighty mean trick for the board
of police commissioners, who were
miles away from the row. to impeach
the successful chief for swearing
about O'Grady in the excitement, TAX
ing the word of the driver of the pa
troll wagon, who was probably scared
out of his boots for fear brick would
hit him in the ear. 1t would be fully
as we'll for Schley to think the incl
dent over, now at his leisure, and adj
nit that he did say it, and tell the
hounds that are on his trail THAT he
would say it again under the same
circumstances. Is Schley the only
sailor that ever used profane word
in battle? Ii it had been Bob Evans
who said it. these same papers that
abuse Schley would be quoting his re-
mark as beautiful to contemplate, and
Bob would probably have said it if it
was his turn to put in. Suppose Adj
miral Farragut had said something of
the kind, they would have had it en-
graved on his monument. And now
suppose Admiral Dewey had said,
D the Baltimore. Let her look
out for herself under similar cir
cumstances at Manila. wouldn't the
papers have published the remark in
big letters. and wouldn't every Fourth
of July orator in the country have
quoted the remark as the utterance of
world heater, and would not school
children be taught that it was not so
bad for Dewey to say il? Since Ethan
Allen demanded the surrender of III
conderoga, .'in the name of the great
Jehovah and the continental Con-
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language not polite yet forcible, and
Farragut said words that almost
burned the ropes when he was lashed
to the mast in Mobile bay, it comes
pretty tough to see the Sampson wor-
shippers around the navy department,
many of whom would swear a blue
streak at a street car conductor who
stepped on their patent feathers, try
to ruin the second naval hero of the
Spanish war because he used one lit
tie insignificant dam on Sunday in the
heat of battle greater than Manila.
Ii this persecution of Schley continues
much longer. the people who are onto
the whole thing, will take matters in
TO their own hands and place Schley
where he can fix every mothers son
of his enemies and send them out into
the cold world to saw wood. which
they would have to do better than
they fight to hold job long on re-
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