The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-25
Political Nondescripts.
Nashville American.

Nashville American.
 Says The Washington Post: "Schley Is rot a Southerner !n any sectional sense: he is not a Democrat so far as lis nearest friends know-on the con trsry. his family are nearly. if not quite. all Republicans. and certainly no one served with more vaIor or de- votion under the Union lag than he did durirg the Civil War. /. Schley belongs to no party nor any section. He is a United States officer and he has given his life to the service of his country. He Is no more Southerner than he Is Northerner, and his most intimate friend does not know whether he is Republican or Democrat. We do not believe he knows himself"
 A Southern paper in an unfriendly criticism of Captain Robley D. Evans recently. revealed the snimus of its criticism by the statement that while he was born in the South, he failed to stand by the South in her hour of need. but on the contrary, fought against her. This statement is true. It is also true of Schley Evans was born in the Old Dominion of a fine old Virginia family. Schley was born in Maryland of Ger man stock. They were both in the na- wy when the war broke out. Schley being the elder. and they both remain ed and fought bravely through the war though the first impulse of young Evans was to resign and take up arms for the South. His brother did hght on the Southern side. and there was no braver soldier than Samuel T. Ev- ans. who served in Pelham's famous battery and was later a special courier between General Lee and President Da- wis. It would be difficult for those who know Captain Bob Evsns to say what his politics is. He was once a Democrat but of late years his views and utterances have been largely those of a mugwump. He declined to be made a political tool of bv Chandler when the latter was Secretary of the Navy. hence his trouble with that pep pery person.
 Admiral Dewey is a Vermonter by birth and was at one time a Repub- lican. but what his politics Is now It would be hard to say. As The Post says of Schley. he probably does not know himself. He Set himself up as a receptive candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. Schley and Ev- ans. Southerners by birth, fought the South. as did Dewey and Sampson, Northerners. Sampson Is said to be Republican, but he Is probably as de-
 
 mentioned He is silent and reserved in manner. cold. studious and reticent. while Schley is genial, Dewey talkative and Evans somewhat garrulous. It may be said that as rule naval o1il- cers have no politics in partisan sense. They are citizens of the United States and national rather than sec tional or local in spirit. They have lit- tie voice in politics. and their duty Is to the government. no matter what party is in power The attempt to make the Schley Sampson controversy a political matter or Schley perse- cuted Southerner and Democrat is ab- surd. The suggestion of the yellow New York Journal that the people of the South sign a petition to the Presi- dent in behalf of Schley Is simply an exhibition of ridiculous impudence on the part of a yellow journal which is seeking an advertisement and which proceeds upon the theor ythat most Daopla are fools,