The age-herald., 1902-04-18
Washington Day byDay


 spoudence to criticize the present admin l istration. it must suffice to simply call
 attention to the latest honor conferred upon an official slanderer of Schley.
 Lieutenant Potts, a creature of
 Captain Chadwick of the warship New
 York. has been appointed United States
 naval attache at Berlin, one of the most
 desirable three places In the naval
 service, the other two being the honors of naval attaches at London and Paris. P-o-t-t-s was the only servant of the higher official conspirators against schley
 who had the brutal effrontery to swear
 before the stocked court of inquiry against Admiral Schley--a court appoint ed for the purpose of degrading this ad- miral-the only creature, be it repeated and remembered, who had the audacious temerity to swear that Admiral Schley was a coward. Of all the conspirators, only he swofe to cowardice in battle on the part of the most lustrous name in the annals of the United States navy since Farragut, lashed to the mast of his flag
 ship, won the fight against Southern
 vaIor in Mobile bay, nearly forty years ago.
 P-o-t-t-s Is exalted for swearing that
 coward. and in swearing so damnable a
 falsehood carried out the wishes of Crow
 ninshield, Long & Co.,, and by such perju- ry so pleased them and the President that he is now given one of the highest and most pleasing honors that can be conferred upon a naval officer. He is
 commissioned to proceed to Berlin and there to pose for three years as the naval
 attache of the United States, and there to repeat In clubs and elsewhere his
 islander against his official superior, the | third man in rank as recognized by his
 enemies, in the United States navy. Po-t-t-s is exalted for swearing that | the admiral commanding the fleet in
 which he himself had no more part in
 battle than hao. Sampson or Chadwick | was a coward.
 | It Is amagihg--it tries the utmost reach | of human beiief-that our government l is unaware that the true facts of the
 naval battle of Santiago are better
 known to the German Emperor and all
 his officers, naval and army, than they l are known to a large element of the
 American people.
 Jest and gibe and ridicule will attend | upon P-o-t-t-s throughout all his stay in
 Germany. No German officer of either the
 navy or the army will entertain even the slightest respect for the person P-o-t-t-s. 1 Every one Of them knows that he alone swore that his official superior man
 of worldwide fame, was a coward The l Emperor knows this as familiarity as Sec | retary Long knows 1t: and it will be most
 astonishing if the Emperor does not re- fuse to recognize the wretched perjurer as United States naval attache. If the I Emperor does recognize him, his majesty
 will place a premium upon insubordina-
 ton and islander on the part of his own | officers
 If the Emperor should in his ever abun- dant good nature and spirit of real diplo- macy, consent to recognize P-o-t-t-s as the United States naval attache, poor P-o-t-t-s would haunt the imperial pal ace and the imperial admiralty office a branded man. His gold lace, his cooked
 hat. his sword never unsheathed in war;
 will arouse the laughter and the sneers of all honorable men. He Is quite as well known for his record as slanderer under oath in Berlin as he is in Washington. Our government rewards him for that swearing which brought him into the con tempt of his own country and the world
 but this writ of our government does not
 run amongst the army and navy officers of Germany or any other country-it does
 not run amongst moral folk anywhere upon the earth.
 P-o-t-t-s, Potts, P-o-t-t-s He is the last grain of send required to break the camel's back.
 Crowninshield. the arch-conspirator Crowinshield-this bureau warrior is to command the magnificent American fleet Of one ship in the great naval display at | Spithead In honor of the crowning of King Edward. His glorious uniform, so beftting hero of scandal bureau in
 Washington. win sh-ne resplendently in Westminster Abbey-and he will be
 laughed at by every honest man there! Thus 1t is eminently fitting that the creature Of conspiracy, Potts, should show his glorious uniform in Berlin.
 where everybody will laugh at him and his country.
 Crowninshield, o P-o-t-t-s-great is American valor!
 Low fallen indeed is American manhood
 if 1t does not resent these disreputabie and dsgraocful conditions as brought about by a little gang of conspirators in
 the navy department.
 It is enough to make any honest citizen
 have the impulse to go out in the back yard and have himself kicked to read about these things and about the goings on of some of our official representatives abroad The sober and always reliable Associated Press informed us the other day that the United States naval officer Beehler, who had been attaohe at Berlin for two or three years, and whom the
 cad P-o-t-t-s is to succeed, had stated to
 one of it's reporters that he had dined 'twenty-six times with the Emperor"
 had been invited to the imperial palace
 "forty-one times" and that on one occa-
 sion the Emperor, "who is very fond of Beehler," placed his hand on the said
 Beehler's shoulder and familiarity called him Bill" That was and must remain
 utterly impossible; but possible or impos- siole, the story proves Naval Attache
 Beehler an unoonscionable snob and cad
 in one! What are we coming to when a
 United States naval officer proudly gives
 out the insane faisehood thaf Eunpornr