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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08
President RooseveIt's War Record

ed. and no one Of them was written
by any man who saw the alleged he
roic charge against the San Juan ket-
tie. Roosevelt says, in his Rough
Riders page 125, thatshe tried to find
General Sumner and General Wood
and could not. Colonel Mills was
wounded and out of action long be-
fore the charge. Recommendations,
in general terms, by subordinates
amount to nothing. Such unofficial
recommendations may be had for the
asking.
The charges contained in the bro
chure, published In 1900, remain unan-
swered; the charges of the August
Army and Navy Critic remain unan-
swered. And / repeat, and defy any
man with knowledge to refute
them.
General Macarthur obtained his pro-
motion as Major General by making
a report about his maneuvres in the
capture of the city Of Manila, which
we now know to have been a sham
battle, and Admiral Dewey swore be-
fore q committee of Congress that the
city had practically surrendered to him
a week before and it was arranged
that the Spaniards were not to fire
back.
Colonel Funston obtained his promo
ton as brigadier-g general upon his own
report of his own heroic deeds in the
capture of Aguinaldo, which we now
know to have been put up by Aguin-
aldo himself, who says, i'll Everybody s
Magazine of August, 1901, that the la
dies had come over the day before
from Casiguran to Palinan to have a
dance, thus traversing the very road
over which Funston passed in his hor-
rible privations.
Colonel Roosevelt has obtained pro-
motions by false report in his Rough
Riders of his own heroic deeds in an
imaginary charge on an imaginary
horse UP an imaginary hill against i'm
aginary Spaniards.
ALEXANDER s. BACON,
81 Liberty street, New York City.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08

We now come to the most humiliat-
ing fraud in recent history-the cele-
brated battle of San Juan, in the Span
ish War of 1898, which has given
scores Of brevets for every dead Span
lard.
The first act in the drama was to re-
move every West Pointer from heads
of departments excepting the engi-
neers and ordnance, which contain
graduates only, because West Point
ers and contractors are natural born
enemies. The next act was to put in
command of the army of invasion an
officer who was wholly incompetent
to serve in tropical climate, weigh
ing $50 pounds and having permanent
physical disabilities.
The facts of the battle are briefly as
follows: General Skaters plan of bat
tie seems TO have been all right, but
was not carried out. General Lawton
was expected to capture Ell Caney by
{ o'clock in the morning; then turn to
his left and form the right wing of the
attack on the San Juan hills; the CEN
ire to be occupied by Wheeler and his
cavalry; the left by Kent and the in
fantry. Eel Caney was not captured
until 400 in the afternoon. In the
meantime the Wheeler and Kent divis-
ions simply drifted toward San Juan,
through dense jungle, of which there
had been no reconnaissance, and the
Spanish skirmish line on San Juan ex-
ercised itself at target practice from
6 o'clock III the morning until 1870 In
the afternoon, simply shooting at the
roads and trails where the American
troops were helpless, in column.
Is it not high tim that some of the
mists surrounding the battle Of San
Juan were raised? The War Depart
ment, when asked how many Span
iards We're IN Santiago when it sur
rendered, and how many Spaniards
We're killed and wounded at San Juan
and FL Caney, states in a letter that
they have no records that throw any
light OH the subject. Prominent of
fcers, who have Knowledge, give eva
sive replies. Lieutenant Jose Muller
Y Tejeiro, second in command of ma
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08

some time after / reached the crest.
reported that the Sixth and Sixteenth
Infantry had captured the hill, which
now consider incorrect. Credit is
almosts equally due the Sixth, Ninth,
Thirteenth, Sixteenth and Twenty
fourth regiments Of infantry"
General Miles official report contains
the reports of scores of officers on the
battle of San Juan, not one of which
bears out Colonel Roosevelt's absolute
~ false report of,the battle contained
in his Rough Riders" There is not any
official report of the battle from any
source corroborating Colonel Roose-
velt's official report Of the battle. !
therefore repeat the charge that
Colonel Roosevelt has obtained promo
ton to the Presidency OF the United
States by report of his own alleged
heroic acts at San Juan Hill, which re-
ports We're knowingly false. l repeat
there was but one blockhouse, and one
entrenchment on the San Juan Hills.
These were captured by the infantry.
This infantry had lain for hours in
and around the sunken road in advance
of Kettle Hill, and AFTER the infan-
- hhA NaRt0lCu kc1ii Ju0At 1k0OStfckt
and his Rough Riders came out of the
tall grass, where they had been con-
cealed for hours, and went up Kettle
Hill, which had never had upon it an
entrenchment or a Spanish soldier.
Colonel Roosevelt had had no mill.
tary experience. He left position in
the navy, where he might have been
of some service, in order to take a
spectacular position in the army, where
he was the laughing stock of regulars
and volunteers alike. All the world
honors brave soldier, but all the
world despises false pretences.
s'Roosevelt's Military Record" pub
lished by the Republican Campaign
Committee, is mere collection of
platitudes, and the recommendations
of Roosevelt for brevet and a medal
of honor met with no serious consid-
GRAFTON. They were rejected. The let
ters of recommendation are very guard
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08
PARTING OF THE WAYS.
The People Must Decide Whether
the Nation Shall Be Republic
or an Empire.

We are now at the parting Of the
ways-one Democracy carries US for
ward in the grand avenue traced out
for US by the founders of our nation,
a path of dignity, honor, peaceful, hap
py advancement, which marks US as
the hope of mankind in all that makes
for wisdom and good government;
while the other Republican) road takes
US into the great arena where ancient
peoples, full of ambitions, civil hat
reds, religious feuds, feudal miseries,
trailing their slime across the centur-
les, are facing each other, burdened
with armor, TO fight out questions Of
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08
COLONEL BACONS HOT SHOT
I viii GHs One Thousand Dollars to Any Person Who VIII
Prove That One Line Of That Article is
Not Strictly True"
WAS EUTENANT-COLONEL ROOSEVELT
GOOD SOLDIER, OR DID HE HAVE
A GOOD PRESS AGENT?


to
n
In 1900
BEEN ANSWERED. Critic
rue
the Infantry, by the Cavalry
. he coulds one.
3-colonei
San Juan Hill absolutely false.
fronts Of the
san hills never contained Spanish soldier Spanish
They did NOT take possession of Kettle Hill
n
6Earer the Riders right
AFT infantry left
Riders tall up
reports
and a absolutely
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family, or Of territorial and CONNER
cial greed.
By the latter path we abandon hu-
mainly, and with drum and trumpet
and warship, hurl ourselves into the
wretched wrangle which has been go
ing on in the old world since the dawn
Of history, and the new world then
ceases to exist. This is the track into
which, tentatively but surely, our Gov
eminent has been trying to push, with
accelerated pace, during the last three
years, and now the people of the Unit
ed States are about to be called upon
to say If it be their wish to continue
the march. II they say yes, let them
marshal their heaviest battalions,
change their form of government to
a dictatorship, and prepare their
purses for a drain in comparison to
which that of our Civil War was light.
The Republic is, indeed, at the parting
Of the ways.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08
LETTER NO. 2.
San Juan Hill. July 10. 1885,

LETTER NO. 2.
San Juan Hill, July 10, 1898.
No change since my last letter
There are rumors that we will attack
the Spanish in the morning. Seems
likely that we will. as we have received
orders to pack rolls and haversacks at
a. m. tomorrow This afternoon /
went along the entire line of our
army. Had nothing else to do, and l
wanted to see just how we were To-
Gated. This is the way we are sit
uated: Letter furnishes map not
deemed necessary to publish. ED.
You will notice little hill in the
rear which l have marked "R. r."
That is where the Rough Riders did
all their terrible fighting on the first
day of the fight. l don't know, but
honestly believe they never saw a
Spaniard over there. I hear that it is
in all the New York papers that
Roosevelt and his Rough Riders took
San Juan Hill. That is a lie. He
didn't take San Juan HILL He didn't
even see the hill, and he has never been
near it yet. We took the hill. and
we've been on top of it ever since.
The actions of that man are the laugh
ing stock of the army. He is continue
ally blowing his horn, and seems to
think he is the biggest man down here.
If he were not Roosevelt | believe he
would be drummed out of camp. 1t Is
quite sickening to see the airs he puts
on. / suppose before the war is over
he will be commanding the army, and
that will mean a through ticket to the
Presidential chair. It's all politics.
The men who did the fghting-the
regulars-have very little to say. They
don't seem to be in it for glory. They
simply do it as a matter Of business.
But Roosevelt is out for glory alone,
and he seems to be taking all he can
get. Now he wants to get
back to the United States probably to
pull some wires. He has done nothing
but kick. kick, kick for the last three
or four days, and he has made himself
very obnoxious everywhere. He kicks
because he can't have toast and eggs
every morning for breakfast. He kicks
because he has to sleep on the ground
instead of a hair mattress. He kicks
because his men are homesick and
want to see their best girls. I'm
homesick myself, but I'm not kicking,
and / haven't heard kick from any
one in the regiment yet-not even from
one fellow whom helped into trans
port wagon TO be taken back to the hos
pital. He had both eyes shot out,
wounds through the neck. chest, abb
domen, legs and arms. but the only
thing he said was: "Who's got a pipe
handy?" l gave him mine. I didn't
think he'd live more than an hour or
two, although he had lain in the grass
three days without attention. but they
onf him in to tho hocnifaf olfva
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-11-08
LETTERS FROM A PRIVATE.
I'm Glad I'm RguaThy Go Ahead and Do Their Business Without Any
Fuss Fah-But I'm Sorry That We Will Not Get Any erel For
Our WorkIhey Say Our Charge Will Make Roosevelt President
Some Day and That is What We Went to War For"

said that there is between 10000 and
10000. We have only 1900 men on
the island, of which 1000 or 5000 are
volunteers, so you see what kind Of
stuff we are made of.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
FORM NEW SOCIETY
AIIOpathic Physicians Organize New
Society to Affiliate With Nation
al Medical Association.
KENOSHA HAS TWO ASSOCIATIONS.

Kenosha is to have two societies
among its physicians as the Allopaths
of the city have organized the "Keno-
sha County Medical Society" which
will be affiliated with the state society
and with the American Medical Assoc
citation. The Kenosha County Med
ical Association which has been the
agent for a. great deal of pleasant
social intercourse between the physic-
ians will not be disbanded but 1t will
be continued and the new society will
be side issue. The forming of the
new society was made necessary on
account of the fact that DR.. Ripley the
one Homeopath in the city was one of
the best known members of the old
association and the members were un-
willing to ask him to retire and at the
same time they could not belong to the
state or national society SO long as
they had Homeopathic doctor on the
mem bership list.
Doctor Ripley offered to take an as
sociate mem bership in the old society
but the doctors, after considering the
matter, decided that it would not be
fair to DR.. Ripley and the only other
way out OF the difficulty was to found
the second society. This action has
now been taken and the officers of the
new society are as follows:
| President-Dr. G. Windesheim.
| Vice President-Dr. H. J. Stalker.
Secretary-Dr. F. E. Andre.
Treasurer-Dr. ]. Russell Eastman.
Immediate isteps will be taken to
affiliate the newEsociety with the state
society and with the American Med;-
I . a. association. The new society will
have membership Of dozen physi.
clans from the city and county.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
PENSIONS FOR LIFEsAvERs.
Hearing ON Bill Pensioning Life Savers on
February g.

The congressional committee on in
terstate and foreign affairs will hold a
session on Feb. y, that will be of es-
pecial interest to mariners on the great
lakes. The event will be a hearing of
Bill Fl. r. 827, which provides for the
pensioning of 1ifesavers AID which, if
passed, will probably result in greatly
increased efficiency of the service.
The bill was drawn by the life saw.
ing department at Washington and is
understood to meet with the full ap-
prevail of the secretary of the treasury.
If it becomes law the expectation is
that the difficulty now experienced in
securing good and reliable men for the
service will have been overcome. At
present it is absolutely impossible to
induce the required kind of men to en-.
ter the life saving service. The best
men on the payroll today have been
kept in line merely by The holding out
of possible inducements from congress.
That is, congress would do something
for them. The crisis has now arrived.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
Managers OF the EicheIman Hotel Plan
to Introduce a Unique Feature
in the Hotel Business.
TO GET BETTER FOOD PRODUCTS
Kenosha Hotel Men Plan to Raise Their
own Vegetables and to Supply the Milk
from Cattle on Their Own Farm.

The managers of the Hotel Eichel.
man are planning to introduce unique
feature in the hotel business in this
section Of Wisconsin and they are now
negotiating for the purchase of small
farm on the limits of the city on which
they expect to raise the greater part
of the food products used in the hotel ia
the future. Heine and Mine and a
sulky pillow will do the business that
will put the Eichelman in class by
itself. The plan is simple one. The
managers will secure farm Of twenty
or thirty acres and it will be utilized
entirely in raising vegetables, fruits
and in making dairy products for the
use Of the hotel. 1t will not enter into
competition with other market garden
ers about the city but all the products
of the farm will be brought directly to
This plan has been adopted by sever
al hotels in the larger cities Of Illinois
and it is said TO have proved of great
benefit. Mr.. Hale in speaking of the
matter this morning said: 1--WE are
seriously considering the plan to pur-
chase farm near the city and one has
been offered to us at reasonable fg-
ure. It is just this way: In the season
when the green garden truck is in the
market it is almost impossible to get
the best of the fresh vegetables as the
market gardeners are shipping them
to Chicago, and if we could have our
own gardens we would have the first
choice of all the products. Again
there is the matter of expense and the
hotel could save a large sum of money
annually by raising its own vegetab les.
The item of milk in hotel is large
one and with the farm we could keep a
few cows and manage to have the best
milk and cream at cost tar below
what we are paying now"
So far as can be learned there is not
city in Wisconsin which has a hotel
with farm and Kenosha is ready to
take any distinction that the managers
of the hotel decide to put upon her.
Of course it is possible that the hotel
managers are not experienced farmers
but in couple of months either of
them can become expert in the art.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
SMITH BOUND OVER
Dan Smith Accused Of Shooting Charles
Windsor Held in Bonds OF $500
BY Justice Sturges
MYSTERY OVER A CALLING CARD.

Dan Smith was arraigned before
Justice Sturges this morning charged
with shooting Charles Windsor with
intent to kill and after the evidence in
the case had been threshed out Smith
was bound over to appear in the Cir
cult Court, his bail being fixed at five
hundred dollars. He furnished the
cash required and was released from
custody. Windsor was released from
the hospital this morning and his
wound is not considered dangerous.
The story of the little affair of honor
over the love Of girl was told in its
details in the court this morning.
Windsor was first called to the stand
by the prosecution and he told the story
of the shooting. His story did not
differ in any way from the one that
was told at the time of the incident and
the cross examination of Attorney
Cavanagh who appeared for the de-
PENDANT failed to shake the testimony
of the injured man. Two of the men
who witnessed the fight were called by
the prosecution and both of them de-
clared that Windsor had the better of
the fight and that he had been pulled
off by them and pushed up against the
opera house. At the time the shot was
fred the two men had hold of Windsor
and he was making no effort to assault
Smith. The one thing in the case that
has not been explained is the card
which is alleged to have been offered
by Smith to Windsor. Windsor re-
fused to accept the card and he stated
in court that he was ignorant of what
was written on it. The other two men
state that Smith handed the card to
Windsor but that he did not read it.
The defense has promised to produce
the card when the case comes up for
trial in the Circuit Court.
After the evidence of the prosecu-
ton the revolver with which the shoot
ing was done was introduced in evil
dence and the case was closed. The
defense offered no evidence and Smith
was at once bound over. The hearing
of the case drew large crowd of spec
tators to the court room but the young
lady over whom the affair of honor
took place was not among the specta-
tors. Smith was accompanied IN court
by his mother and sister. The case
will probably be tried at the March
term OF the Circuit COURT.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
LUCY JOHNSON FOUND.
Woman Wanted by the English Consul
In Chicago Is Found Here.

Woman Wanted by the English Consul
In Chicago Is Found Here.
Chief of Police Fred Reinold We'd
nesday discovered the whereabouts Of
Mrs. Lucy Lille Johnson, whom he
was asked to locate for the English
Consul IN Chicago. The woman was
found working as domestic at the
home Of z G. Simmons. Jr., on Prai-
RE avenue.
When she was located by the officer
she stated that she could not under
stand why her mother had asked the
Chicago consul to look for her al she
had written to her several times dur
ing the past year and had received no
response. Mrs. Johnson has been in
Kenosha all the time, and it seems
that if the mother had written to her
she would certainly have got the let
tiers.
Mrs. Johnson states that there has
always been the most kindly feelings
between her and her mother, but that
she had not been able to hear from
home and had not written for several
months. She wrote to her parent the
day before the letter was received ask
ing the police to search for her where
abouts.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
Price Of Coal for Kenosha People is
Increased by Fifty Gents by the
Dealers This Morning.
COLD WEATHER IS THE CAUSE
Great Demand for Coal During the Pas
and Other Increases are Possible.

With the thermometer registering ten
below zero and a propsect for long
spell of winter weather the people of
Kenosha got up this morning to dis
cover that the price of coal had jump
ed fifty cents during the night and the
price demanded by the dealers this
morning was eight dollars instead of
$3.50. The dealers state that it is i'm
possible to go into the details causing
the raise in price but that it has been
demanded by circumstances. H. M.
Baldwin, in speaking Of the matter
stated that during the entire season
the dealers in Kenosha had been SELL
ing coal at $3.50 ton while in other
cities in the neighborhood the price
had been $7.75. He stated that he did
not know if uniform increases had
been made in other cities. The coal
that had been sold during the early
part of the season had been shipped to
Kenosha by boat but the coal that
is now being handled is now coming in
by rail and the dealers declare that the
increase in the cost of handling the
coal is much larger than the increase
that has been made in the cost to the
consumer. It is possible that the deal
ers will see fit to put another chunk
under the price of the much needed
commodity but as yet no notice has
been given Of other increases in price.
More coal has been sold in Kenosha
this year than in any year in the last
decade and for this reason the supply
has RIM to lower mark than is usual
at this period of the winter. There
seems to be no reason to believe that
the shortage will amount to a coal fam
inc but the dealers admit that they are
kept busy in getting in coal to fill the
orders. Out of town orders have been
refused and by careful management
the dealers will be able to keep the peo-
pie supplied during the winter. Tele-
phones from other cities in the vicinity
state that the price of coal in Wauke-
gan and Racine, as well as in Kenosha,
has been put up at eight dollars since
the opening of the cold weather and
that it is almost impossible to supply
the demand in these cities. This may
be comforting to the people of this
city as they can feel that they have
been buying coal cheaper than their
neighbors.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11
SEEKING RECRUITS
Corporal James Price Of the United
States Army Opens an Office in
Kenosha to Secure New Men.
ALL BRANCHES IN NEED OF MEN

Corporal James S. Price of the
United States Army has come to Ke-
nosha to seek recruits for the United
States Army. and for the next week he
will be in Kenosla and offer the ad-
vantages of the army life to the young
men of the city. Recruits are needed
for all branches of the service and the
opening for men is now better than
ever before. The volunteers have
nearly all beer disposed of and while
there is no likelihood of war there is
lots of room for good men to find prof
table employment in the army.
Corporal Price has been on recruit
ing service for many weeks and he has
taken large number of men from Ra-
cine and Milwaukee. His Office in Ke-
nosha has been established at the
Office of DR.. F. E. Andre, who will
have charge of the medical examina-
tions Of candidates for places in the
army. The Corporal is the first army
officer to come to Kenosha on a recruit
ing trip since the close of the war with
Spain. During the Spanish war one
of the army officers managed to secure
thirty. seven men in this city and near
ly all of them are still in the regular
service either in the Philippines or at
some of the army posts in this country.
The men who are enlisted at this time
will be able to join one of the COM
panies now at FIT. Sheridan and they
s1a1 - e
ty to do at this post. The men who
are now being recruited must be TWEEN
ty-one years of age and able bodied.
The term of enlistment is the same as
usual and the men will be forwarded
to the army posts without any expense
to them. The company which was re-
Gently formed consists of many Racine
men and the Kenosha boys enlisting
will be practically in home company.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-02-11

The war between Japan and Russia
is liable to put stop to the sale Of
camphor in this country. The Japs
need it to make gun powder out of.