The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-27
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M. M. MURDOCH Editor.
ecHLEY Will GET LITTLE SATISFACTION.

SCHLEY WILL GET LITTLE SATISFACTION.
Secretary Long has appointed Admiral Dewey, Rear
Admiral Kimberly Admiral Benham board
Of inquiry fvestgate Rear Admiral scheys conduct
during the Spanish war.
schley has asked the investigation. If he means to
add to the gayey Of the nations he has acted prudenty
If he really expects court inquiry determine any
thing be win be wofuy disappointed. The Of in
curry viii decide nothing particular all it viii
do VIII be to upper-cut schley few more times.
every degree Of certainty Admiral Dewey viii
deal Henienty an instance Of INSTRUMENTATION
over and above that the the push"
the with Sampson. He would not have been put in
command Of the blOckading squadron if had been
part Of the push" The navy the fighters in the
world maintains gorgeous degree of leisure in time Of
peace It naturally drifts into fractional differences.
fell upon the schleySampson controversy eagerly and
has been gnawing bone, rest the country
sidered bare for months The charges against schey
main in public memory as mere dereHctons which might
have been Of serious import but were not But the
quarrelng circles Of the navy they grown hdeous
denquencies that intemperance Of language can de-
scribe.
Take for instance Maclay's language in his history
which has brought court of inquiry Macay is in
the and part parcel Of the Sampson faction In
the History Of the United States Navy" by this man. the
outrageous Of abusive language towards schey shows
clearly the bitter partisan historian For example
the writer puts things posterty to accept
as facts:
In his report Of the supply Of the vessels under
bis command schey exhibited either midity amounting
to absolute cowardce preyarcation of facts that
we're intrinsicaly fasehoods.
schey May %, 1893 sullied the brightest Of
American notices by pennng: Much to be regretted
cannot obey orders and can fight from the
danger spot toward which duty honor and the whole
American people we're most earnestly urging him
Viewed in whatever light it may be- the foregoing
dispatch cannot be characterized otherwise than as being
exception the humiating cowardly and Ia
inevitable report ever penned by American naval officer
AS to the reconnaissance at Santiago Historian Mac
lay says:
This timd and nerveless attack on Cervera's ships
is the disappointing when We remember the eabor
ate and brave preparations schey had made to get at the
enemy in earnest
scheys farciaI blockade cannot be described other.
wise than willful disobedience Of orders"
AS to the loop of the Brooklyn. Maclay comments
as follows:
"schey hastily ordered the helm aport But that
viii carry into the Texas said the officer let the
Texas take Of herself the heartess reply; and
the shameful spectacle of American warship supported
by force superior to the enemysa warshiD whose com
mander had expanded such quantities ammunition
target practice in the presence of fashionable hotel
at Hampton Roads in order to meet worthy foe-deliber
ately turning tail and running away was presented
"Cervera nobly threw down the gauntlet schley
crayeny declined to pick it up"
schley was derelict. He not a coward. He was
insubordinate. He a traitor. That any informed
American could designate him. shows how far from
nationality a fractional mind drift.
Twenyour hours after the battle Santiago Harbor
seheys friends set out to cut Sampson out Of all credit
SIMPSONS friends back like a thousand of brick
Since which day there has been any fairness any noder
alton, balanced consideration either side it has not
been communicated to the public sampsone head on
the Santiago medals The court of inquiry viii give him
another boost But it VIII settle nc controversy. That
viii go Tor generations.
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