The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-01-10
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, ...........lsO2.
Carson Letter.

EDITOR COUhIERs Inc real Queeblou
is not who was in command at Santi-
ago de Cuba, July 3, 1900, utwho COM
manded on that occasion. The Samp-
son partisans sickle for the technical
term ''in command" They should be
asked s'who commandedT' and they
would have q difficult time to explain.
Technically, Sampson wasin command.
Actually, Schley commanded, and that
is all there Is about controversy that
an entire nation is wrestling with.
SIMPSONS case is not like that of Will
liams the First, of Orange, at the battle
of the Boyne. There, the Prince of
Orange was splitting out his lungs on
the banks of the Boyne while his forces
were battling against the troops of
"Shamus O'Hockin,p as the Irish Bit
terly call James the Second. But the
Prince directed the movements. Fur
Their, while it is true that Sampson had
laid out the plan OF closing in, and the
distribution of the vessels under Schley,
in case the Spanish vessels came out of
the harbor, and the plan was followed
out as far as it could be, the advance
of the Spaniards beyond certain line,
necessitated an immediate change of
plan, and that new plan and new order
of battle was the immediate creation
and command of Schley. The result
is known.
The attack on Schley utterly failed.
The object and purpose of the attack
was to brand him as a coward and a
caitiff. (To show how infamous the
charge, / turn to the dictionary.
''Caitiff. A base, mean, wicked wretch.
Vile, cowardly, and basely wicked
''This caitiff Monk, for gold, did swear."
Scott's Marmion. Remember of what
blood thou art, and strike the caitiff
down." Aytoun, Execution of Mont
rose.) Admirals Benham and Remley
he did not do all that he ought to have
done, and did not take the chances
that he ought to have taken, and Adj
miral Dewey found that he used sound
Judgment in everything that he did,
and did all that could be reasonably
expected, and that he commanded at
Santiago. The three Admirals, con-
stituting the Court of Inquiry, unani-
mously found that he was brave and
cool In battle. He certainly was.
There is steel bridge on war vessels,
which is the most exposed and most
dangerous part of the vessel, but the
most commanding part to command
from. There is also a steel coming
tower, by the bridge, built for the pro-
lection of the commanding officer, and
it affords material protection. But
the view is more or less INSTRUCTED,
and the officer cannot command as
well from it. At Manila Dewey scorned
the tower and commanded from the
bridge. Schley did the same at Santi-
ago. The enemies of Schley wanted
conviction of coward and caitiif. In
steat of that he got the Endorsement of
the Court that he was brave and cool
In battle, which judgment amounts to
a conviction against them of having
vilely slandered brave officer. That
is the Judgment of the Court, and of
the country. The incident ought to
be closed.
An exhaustive report on the trial,
execution autopsy and mental status of
Czolgosz, the assassin of Mckinley,
written by eminent physicians, appears
in the New York Medical Journal.
The doctors find that he was in all re-
spects sane, both legally and medically,
but that he was socially diseased and
perverted. Nothing but the horror OF
the crime can postpone liberal at
tack upon the judgment of the doctors.
Yet, few men who care more for
truth than sentiment land who are not
candidates for office) will certainly at
tack 1t. 1t appears to me simply alb
surd that man sane in all respects
will commit such a crime, or that a
man sane in all respects will "drink
himself to DEATH" or do anything that
men with well balanced minds will not
do. ] do not combat the philosophy
of the age which has inscribed on our
statute books, that if man knows
enough to know that he is doing
wrong in taking human life in cold
blood he knows enough to hang for it,
because society requires it, and it is as
well that it should be so. But to hold
that such man is sane in all respects
is shock and offense to common sense.
If the judgment of the Medicos is to
pass unchallenged, it eliminates the
element of insanity from the juris-
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