The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-30

: Vermont, and the natives came back
! III strong force to give account of
! themselves and reckon up the assets
of their native State. There were
meetings and reunions all over the
state, but especially at Montpelier,
whittier, among other honored visit
ers, came Senator Thurston of Ne
braska and Captain Charles E. Clark.
of the navy. Captain Clark is the man
who brought the Oregon from San
Francisco to Santiago, and gave a re-
markably good account of himself and
his ship in the Santiago fight He
made a speech at Montpelier in which
| he ca ed roll of the living heroes of
Vermont, felicitated his neighbors
on the distinction of Green Mountain
>.eCrCC Dewey, and made a strong ap-
peal for promotion for that famous
veteran of the civil war, General
" Badly" Smith. General Smith-W.
f. Smiths one of three or four of
the corps commanders of the civil
war who still survive He is seventy
seven years old. He resigned from the
army III 1861, but was put on the re-
tired list some years ago, with the
rank of major. Captain Clark held
that he ought to receive commission
as major general in the regular army
with the emoluments of a retired
officer OF that rank, and the proposal
was received with enthusiasm at
Montpelier
Even stronger is the sentiment in
those parts that the national obliga-
tions to Captain Clark himself have
been insufficiently discharged. The
captain himself does not seem dis
turbed about it. He got everything
that was coming to him in the way of
glory. He is ineXtricably associated
with the wonderful performance of
the Oregon i'll coming home from the
Pacific, and he did more than his
share of the effective work at Santi-
ago. There are no doubts about his
record or his deserts, and it does not
seem to trouble him that he is a cap
tain still, while other good men, whose
recent services were less obtrusively
brilliant than his, are vice. dmirals.
his turn to be vice admiral hasn't
come yet, and he seems to be waiting
for it calmly. But his admirers in
Vermont show less respose. The
Montpelier Watchman and Journal
has been clamoring with exceeding
zeal for more adequate recognition
of Captain Clark and what he did.
1t wants him made vice admiral forth
with. Vermont, it thinks, should
bestir itself to see that Captain Clark
gets his dues.
The Watchman's sentiments are a
credit to its heart and to its States
loyalty but it seems doubtful whether
1t can do Captain Clark such effec.
tive service i'll any way as by letting
him alone. 1t says he is in excellent
health and spirits; not repining; not
looking to the four points of the com.
pass in hopes of seeing promotion
come his way, but taking life cheer
fully as he finds it and casting about
for a chance to benefit venerable
brother in arms. One would hate to
see such man in such a case impli.
Gated in any way in a Congressional
squabble for promotion. -Harper's
Weekly,
The Waterman must inform the met,
ropolitan contemporary that the
grade of vice admiral does not ex-
list in the navy of the United States
Therefore, "other good men" whose
services, recent or remote, as the
Weekly truly remarks, were less bril-
liant, "obtruslively " or otherwise,
than Captain Clark's are not vice
admirals. Captain Clark's f" turn"
to be vice. admiral will come when
Congress creates that grade, the