Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-09
MISS TAYLOR DISMISSED.
Criticised President Roosevelt in s
Newspaper Communication.

Miss Rebecca ]. Taylor a clerk in the
adJutant generals Office War Department.
mas been summarily dismissed from office
by direct order of Secretary Root for abus-
lively criticising President Roosevelt. Miss
Taylor is sister-in-law of Representative
McCleary of Minnesota, and resides at 1000
18th street. She was appointed a clerk at
Sofo on the temporary roll of the War De-
partment in January, 1899 and was trans
1erred to the regular classified civil service
a Few weeks ago in pursuance of the nro-
visions OF the legislative, judicial and exec
utlVe appropriation bill, transferring all the
temporary clerks of the War Department
to the classified service
MISS Taylor is deeply interested in the
FhlLlppine question, and has written sew
erai letters for publication antagonizine the
policy of the administration in the conduct
OF military affairs in the archipelago She
contended that the army had acted cruelIv
toward the F1lipinos, and took especial ex-
ceptlon to the speech recently made nv
president Roosevelt at the banquet of the
sons OF the American Revolution in this
CITY, IN which he commended the army
hlShly for its course in the Philippines and
declared that The flag shall stay put
IN signed letter to a local paper in re-
gard to the Presidents speech on that oc-
casion Miss Taylor said, in part:
In the face of the official Philippine
horrors that are being disclosed horrors
which have been perpetrated with the
military authorities in the islands, the
American people will read with dismay that
at the recent banquet of the Sons of the
American revolution, the President of the
united states, the communicative chief of
the army and the navy, drank to the
health of the soldiers and sailors of the
present day, who, during the last three
years, have done such splendid work in the
1nconcelVabiy dangerous and harassng war;
rare of the eastern tropics = How
battered must be the survivors of the
Grand Army Of the Republic how exalted
the military giants wearing the blue and
the gray how elated the Sons of the
American Revolution, whose ancestors fell
at Lexington and fought at Bunker Hill
and left the prints of their bleeding feet
upon the SHOWS of Valley Forge-what
worldwide fame to have their names cou-
pied with those gallant CO Americans dis
gracing the uniform of the American re-
public in the Philippines
Long will Theodore Roosevelt drink to
the health of those who wrought the
splendid work of death ere the spirit of
liberty shall be crushed from the souls of
the infant heroes of the Philippines, but
not till the land is left desolate not while
humanity lives in the American heart not
till the doctrine CT the brotherhood of man
dies in Christendom, not until God forgets
His brown children will the flag stay put
on the blood-soaked soil of the Philippines
Eternal shame on such ignoble warfare"
1t is said at the War Department that
Miss Taylor admitted the authorship of the
letters attacking the administration, and
that Representative McCleary, at whose
instance she was appointed, has tacitly as
scented to her dismissal.
Miss Taylor declines to discuss the mat
ter, and 1t is not known whether she will
take any steps to test the right to dismiss
her.