The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-16
ROOSEVELT AND WOOD
CHARGES AGAINST DR. WOOD AND HIS 1GEA0RE MILL
 TARY RECORD.
Promotion by Favor an Injustice to oid Soldiers and DemoraliEing
 to the Army.

New York World.
 President ROosevelt's prornptness and the nomination of Leonard Wool to be Major General. 'compels ugther consider ation of the reasons. whether Of fact or credible testimony ;aSgainst snSn 1, General Woods chief opportunity to demonstrate his fitness for command has been In the administration of Cuba. sue eeeding General Brooke, It Is charged that to hasten Brooke's recall General Wood introduced to Major Runcie: his ad- wiser and housemate. MT. Ray Stannard Baker, a writer. Major Runcie prepared an article denouncing Brooke and sent It to Baker with note that said: Use this
 in any way you think ht in any puhlica- ton. There seems to be a dawn
 be the beginning of better day for. Wood as well as for Cuba The article ap- peared in the North American Review. General Wood wrote concerning 1t: MT. not for publication" Major Runcie tndig- nantly denied making any such statement.
 Secretary Roots comment was: T do not see how this paper could have been writ W CT view on MT. Runcie's part than that 1t would be published MT. Baker has de- nied that Colonel Wood knew of the in- tended publication. The controversy re, and Runcie.
 9. General Wood is accused of using as a press agent to herald his exploits both i in Havana and Manila the adVenturer and ex-convict, Bellairs.
 8. While Governor of Havana, General Wood gave the Sociedad Anonyma Jai- Alai ten-year franchise, which; un1er our treaty with Cuba. Is still good. Gen eral Wood was informed of the gambling features of the 'tfronton," where the game is played. Imagine, a huge open be legally placed upon ball games or horse races. and one can gain some idea of the enormous and demoralizing profits of the
 {. The Cuba Quarry Company, formed by Mrs. Woods brother and brother-in- law. furnished stone to Havana during Woods incumbency at $S.S per cubic metre. W. N, Donald. Superintendent of port that when new quarry was opened near Havana he wished to effect a saving of S1 per metre by buying stone there but that this authority was not granted" Havana stopped buying the expensive stone sold by Mrs. Woods relatives Af- terward the Cuba Quarry Company failed. 5. General Woods accounts In Havana were in some confusion attributable to the state of war recently existing there. His administration. while eeicient, was far more expensive than that under the Cuban republic has since been. He. is charged with improperly admitting free of duty an expensive silver service to be
 presented to himself as a token of esteem. mus lar the TFclIal mas Dden con eTneCl with General Woods Havana work which was of civil character. Following are
 the facts of his military .career; G. Five years ago Wood was an assist
 ant surgeon. with the rank of captain He served as Brigadier General and Major General of volunteers until February (, 1901. only two years and ten months ago, when he was made a Brigadier General
 of regulars. To this rang he was jump ed" over seventv-seven colonels. sev 'nty- six of them civil war veterans: ninety eight lieutenant colonels, two hundred end
 seyenty-two majors and hfty-nino cap- tains.
 L General Wood has had no war expe-
 rience in independent command. Yet, in case of war occurring between the years
 1909 and 1924 he would be the general com the successor of Gront. Sherman, Sheri. dan Schofield and Mics. & So late as November 2S last, General Davis. retired. who had just come from
 the Philippines, where he was familiar
 with the Jolo situation, reported in Wash ington that he dld not look for any sert- gus trouble with the Moros: From the
 exhibit in the Philippines, the only paop z there whom We were really at peace. General Wood's exploit in killing some hundreds of the defenseless natives. even if it were not undertaken without due provocatiop for the impression it m ght produce upon the enate. luTtihes the sus-
 nicion of a nasty and inJudicious temper
 9 General Wood has already been pro- noted oyer qepera's R'ndall kobb4 Grant Bell Gillespie. Davis Funston, | Crozler Baldwin Whit Lee Carter. Bliss. l Sanger and OReil'y. IL is now proposed | to advance him past Greedy, Breekinrldge
 Wade, Ludir gton. Ainswnrth Bates. Wes-
 ton and Summer eight ronnarkable men every one of whom has tn his record ser vice of unusual value. And Of al, th SC | men. General Funston is the only Cne
 who can ever be the head of the army II
 General Wood Is promoted and lives until ' 1924