Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-11-01
MIR. DOOLEY ON SCHLEY.

MIR. D00LEY ON SCHLEY,
"1f they'se wan thing I'm prouder
iv thin another in me past life" said
Mr.. Dooley, "'tis that whin me
country called me to go to th'
Spanish war | was out. owe me
rayspict;bility an me high standin'
lmong me fellow-men to tn fact,
Hinnissy, that where tn shot an
she'll fell thickest, wasn't there. If
| had amy childher, tn proudest
title iv fame, as Hogan says, cud
hand down to thim'd be that niver
see tn shores iv Cuba. 'Childher.'
Id say, 'ye'er pah-pah's life was not
entirely free firm crime. He had
his triflin' faults, was something iv
all embezzler, a little iv safe-blower,
an occasionally a murderer. He
dhrank too much, an bateye'er poor
mother, that now is dead, or wud if
she iver lived, but wan thing be niver
did. lie niver took hand in tn
war IN Cuba. There ar-re no dents
on his armor-plate.' I'd have Con-
gress sthrike medals FIR tn absentee
hayroes: TO Martin Dooley FIR not
bein' prisint at tn battle iv Sandaao.'
Or: In reconition iv gallant absence
firm tn battle iv Manila. Sweet an
proper it is to remain at home f'r
vans counthry.' Be hivins, Hin
missy, if mans brought up befure
a Judge on a charge iv larceny, tn
coort says, Amy previous convic-
tionsT NO. says tn polisman. Five
years. says tn judge. 'But he was
a hayro iv tn Cuban war; Make it
life says tn judge.
"First they was Hobson. He
kissed a girl, an ivrybody says:
Hang him. Kill tn coal-scuttler.'
Thin they was Dewey. He got
marrid, an tn people was fr MAXIM
mathrimouy a penal offince. Ye
raymimber Gomez. Ye recall, Hin
missy, how tn correspondents used
to poke their way to tn jungle, where
he set maxim his simple meal iv tn
leg iv SCORPION an a piece iv sugar
cane, an offer him tn freedom iv tn
city iy Moo York whin tn war
was over. Well, he wint to Moo
York, this George Wash'nton iv
tn Ant Hills. He was met at th'
ferry-boat be a rayporther that
twishted his head around to take a
phottygraft iv him, an called him
NANNY an said he looked like Mike
Feeley, tn alderman iv tn Third
Ward, on'y darker. A comfy iv
seegar-makers waited on him an asst
him to jine their uuion, an that was
all tn honors lie had. Freedom iv
tn city, says Ye? Oh, he got that,
an all iv that. He was free to go
an come without anybody payin'
amy attinton to him. He was as
free as tn air, because th'polis didn't
know him. If they'd known, he
might've been locked up.
can now it's Schley's turn. /
knew it was comm to Schley.
Ye used to think he was a
gram man, that whin ol' Cerveera
come out iv th' harbor at San
dago called out, Come on, boys an
plunged into tn Spanish fleet an
rayjooced it to scrap-iron. That's
what ye thought an that's what /
thought, an we were wrong. We
were wrong, Hinnissy. I've been
r-readin' thrue histhry iv tn cam
paign be wan iv tn gr-reatest history
ians, now employed as clerk in tn
supply stores iv tn Brooklyn navy
yard. Like mesilf, he's a fireside
vethran iv tn war. He's a mimber
iv tn Martin Dooley Post No. /, De-
finders iv tn Hearth. He's tn boy
FIR ye. If iyer he beats his sugar
scoop into soord, yell think OF
Farragut was lady cook on a lum-
Der barge. Says tn historyian: 'Th'
conduck iv Schley durin' tn cam
paign was such as to bring tn bright
blush iv shame to ivry man ON tn
payroll iv our beloved country.
'Tis we'll know that whin ordhered
be tn gallant Jawn d. Long to lave
Hampton Roads, he thried to Jump
overboord an swim ashore. He was
chloryformed an KEEP undher matches
till tn ship was of tn coast iv
Floridy. Whin he come to, he tainted
at tn sight iv a spanish ditchnry,
an whin midshipman wint by wild
box iv CASTLE soap, he fell on tn