The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27
''I'LL FOLLOW HIN TO SPIN, If
L H4TE TOO

HAD sampson ana his partlSanS deilb-
erately planned to immortanze Admiral
Schley their efforts could not have been
crowned with greater success. The evil
dence now about complete leaves no doubt
as to who did the fighting and to whom
is due the lions share of the glory of the
greatest of modern naval victories.
with heroic distinctness, in the hottest
of the battle and during the exciting
chase of the Colon. are two vessels, the
Brooklyn and the Oregon; and like Sauls,
head and shoulders above their fellows
stand the figures of Admiral Schley and
Capt. Clark. 49,
1t is a significant fact that the officers
who were in the fight from the start to
the finish-who bore the brunt of the
enemys fire-are ready to accord to ADJ
miral Schley due honor; and those who
saw the battle from affair are equally
ready to denounce him as a coward and
to pluck the laurels from his brow
Whether a conspiracy existed to derame
Admiral Schley, or whether the insane
attacks made upon him were the result
of the jealousy of those whom fate kept
from this field of glory, does not matter
now The world knows the facts, and
knowing the facts the world will see that
history is not falsifed. Dewey, Schley
and Clark are the three names that will
be known in naval history-the hero of
Manila, the hero of Santiago and -theehere-
of the Oregon
When Grant announced his determine
ton to crush the rebellion at all hazards
the nation thrilled with responsive SYM
pathy Il will fight it out on this line
if it takes all summer became the shib-
boleth of the Union. The heart OF the
nation swelled because this homely ex-
preston of the commander-in-chief proved
that the war had at last found its mas
ter. it94 S.
Equally characteristic and more dra-.
matte We're the words of Admiral SchIey
when, after having passed through a hell
of fire; after having seen one after
another of the enemy's fleet driven a.
wreck to the beach; and when the Colon,
the fieetest of them all was straining
every nerve to escape, he exclaimed:
TIL get him yet, damn him, I'll follow
him to Spain if L have to. III follow him
to Spain. Here is the deelarauFon of a
man who would carry the message to
Garcia" even if he had to follow him to
Spain. Like the silent man of Galena.
he would fight it out if it took all summer
and if he had to cross the ocean to re-
ceive his surrender. This is the man
whom the Sampson press denounced as
coward; the man who was 1.-THE first
to show the stern of an American war;
ship to the enemy in battIe;'' the man
who put up "caitiff fight at Santiago
If there be traducer of Admiral Sehley,
who after reading the account of the
battle off Santiago, as given by those
who were in it, does not wish to hide his
diminished head in abject shame, he is
beyond moral redemption. Some, GOOD
has, however, come out of Nazareth; for
the trial has given to the nation another
great expression-an expression hot from
the lannon's mouth-the determined cry
of an heroic soul at moment when the
fate of nations was in the scale-"Ifrl-
follow him to Spain, il. L nave to-"
Lawrence in the agony of death and de.
feat, cried, Don't give up the ship"
Perry in the after-calm of victory am
nouneed: eve have met the enemy. ana
they are ours And schley, when the
battle was not yet won; while shells with
the roar of a. railroad train" were hurt
ling Ger his head; while the Colon was
running like stag before the hounds
calmly exclaimed: 'T'll get him yet, damn
him, I'll follow him to Spain, if I have
to-" Certainly this man is a coward.
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