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The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04

some time after l reached the crest.
reported that the Sixth and Sixteenth
Infantry had captured the hill, which
L now consider incorrect. Credit is
almost 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 Roosevet's absolute
ly 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-
velts official report of the battle. |
therefore repeat the charge that
Colonel Roosevelt has obtained promo
lion to the Presidency of the United
States by report of his own alleged
heroic acts at San Juan Hill, which re-
ports were knowingly false. l repeat
there was but one blockhouse, and one
entrencEment on the San Juan Hills.
These We're 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-
try had captured San Juan, Roosevelt
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 Il Spanish soldier.
Colonel Roosevelt had had no mill.
tary experience. He left Il 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.
"Roosevclt's Military Record" pub
lished by the Republican Campaign
Committee, is Il mere collection OF
platitudes, and the recommendation
of Roosevelt for brevct and a medal
of honor met with no serious consid.
GRAFTON. They We're rejected. The let.
tiers of recommendation are very guard,
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MOST HUMILIATING FRAUD
Col. Bacons Review Of The Events Of July |, I.ss--
Daring Capture Of an ljndsfended Field A!te1js!
With Imaginary Slaughter.
ROOSEVELT AT SAN JUAN OUT FOR
GLORY, HAVING BEFORE HIS EYES
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

was reinforced by another company"
The artillery on san Juan consisted Of
two old pieces that looked as II tltE
We're a hundred years Old, mounted o.
riCkctY old carriages. They were eft
behind. This echelon Of san Juan WAS
attacked by 1900 Americans with i.Gt
batteries and a Gating battery-thiF-
ty 10 one. The American loss ut san
j uan, in killed and wounded, was HoEe
than a thousand by the official iigrfes.
The Spanish loss was substantially
nothing. Every spaniard killed Or
wounded four Americans, The per
centage Of American loss at Suu JUAN
was twice that of the British at ths
bloody" battles of Tugela River. Ihe
Spanish loss is unknown, but waB
practically nothing.
One of the regular officers who WIS
one OF the first to ascend the san j das
hill and occupy the blockhuusc, when
asked, before the Scycnty-lirst Regi-
ment Court Of Inquiry, "What did ydu
see on arriving at the top Of the mug
replied Nothing" .. Nothing ut
alI?" A. Nothing but scenery" O.
mo Spariards:' \. "WeII, few
might be seen in the distance retiring
to their trenches" The fact is that 9s
soon as the Americans formed line 81
battle and proceeded up the hill ut
about 1.3O p. m, the Spanish skirmish
line retired TO their brcastworks aroUqd
Santiago, which We're never captureH,
but We're surrendered with the city on
July II.
About 500 yards in front of the San
Juan hills was a small stream called
Purgatorio Creek. with denscly wood.
| ed banks 1t flowed close by Il siig1fi
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President RooseveIts War Record

ed, and no one of them was written
by any man who saw the alleged he
role charge against the San Juan ket-
tie Roosevelt says, in his Rough
Riders" page l25, that he tried 10 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 l 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 committee of Congress that the
city had practically surrendered to hin,
week before and it was arranged
| that the Spaniards were not TO lire
| back.
| Colonel Funston obtained his promo.
! ton as brigadier-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 Aguim'
aldo himself, who says, in Everybody S
| Magazine of August, 1901, that the la
dies had come over the day before
from Casiguran to Palinan to have II
dance, thus traversinS the very road
over which Funston passed in his hOr.
rible privatons.
Colonel Roosevelt has obtained pro
motions by Il false report in his Rough
| Riders of his own heroic deeds in IN
ina ginary charge on an imaginary
horse up an imaginary hill against i'm
aGinary Spaniards.
ALEXANDER s. BACON,
| 81 Liberty street, New York City.
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We now come to the most humiiiat-
in. fraud in recent history-the cele-
brated battle of San Juan, i'll the Span
ish War of 1898, which has given
scores Of brevets for every deai Span
lard.
The first act in the drama was TO re
move every West Pointer from heads
of departments excepting the enSI-
neers and ordnance, which contain
graduates only, because West Point
ers and contra ctors are natural born
enemies. The next act was to pat in
command of the army of invasion an
officer who was wholly incompetent
to serve in tropical climate, weigh
ing 800 pounds and having permanent
physical disabilities.
The facts of the battle are briefly as
follows: General Shafters tlan of bat
tie seems to have been all right, but
was not carried out. General I.awton
was expected to capture FL 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
tire to be occupied by Wheeler and his
cavalry; the left by Kent and the in
fantry. Ell Caney was not captured
until 40 in the afternoon. In the
meantime the Wheeler and Kent dfvis-
ions simply drifted toward San Juan.
through dense jungle, of which there
had Leen no reconnaissance, and the
Spanish skirmish line on San Juan eX-
ercised itself at target practice from
O'Clock in the morning until 100 IN
| the afternoon, simply shooting at the
| roads and trails where the American
| troops were helpless, in column.
Is 1t 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 were IN Santiago when 1t sur
rendered. and how many Spaniards
were killed and wounded at San Juan
| and FL Caney, states in letter tina
| they have no records that throw any
light on the subject. Prominent of
| ticers, who have Knowledge, give eva
sive replies. Lieutenant Jose Mule
| y Tejeiro, second in command of ma
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COLONEL BACON'S HOT SHOT
I VIII Give One Thousand Dollars 10 Any Person Who viii
Prove That One Line Of That Article is
Not Strictly True"
WAS UTENANT=COLONEL ROOSEVELT
GOOD SOLDIER, OR DID HE HAVE
A GOOD PRESS AGENT?


al spanish war veterans with statement that the President is being
resent the bitter campaign aoods which being uttered about him
This pamphlet probably
nsmber is
charge article.
In brochure
BEEN ANSWERED. The August Critic has been issued
dollars who will
July 1888 Infantry, moth ~ h Cavalry.
nots
position
2colone oil
San
in Of
Infantry
they had
to the Of
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Rough Riders tall up
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CATION OF THE ROAD ON
WHICH WE STOOD was another
hill surmounted by large painted
house. This is the hill SUISSE
QUENTLY captured by the cavalry
| division and opposite to which their
lines extended though they We're not
i'll sight from the road.
This was the first opportunity Of
fered to efficiently carry out General
Hawkins order to eniilade the San
Juan Hill, upon which my regiment
and the detachment of the Sixteenth
now opened hot fire. to which the
trenches responded, and this CONTIN-
UED FOR AN HOUR. 1t will be OBJ
| served that except for Captain Whit
ais detachment of the Sixteenth THE
| ALONE IN its attack on the San Juan
Hill
Here the Sixth remained, contend
hidden by 'iife hul. IGOR ABOUT AN
a road trench ,(sunken road) our cas-
ualties were net heavy. At' the same
time l was not satisfied With our po-
sition on the road, which, being OBJ
lique to the hill, gave only an oblique
and comparatively not effective fire
l therefore concluded to advance the
1
and weeds lying between our present
position and the San Juan blockhouse.
AS they drew nearer we dis
tingushed the tall hyure of General
Hawkins, with his aid, Lieutenant
| Ord, Sixth Infantry, charging at the
head of the skirmishers and waving
their hats. AS soon as this
Guild be stopped by signal the min
| gled troops of the Sixth, Sixteenth.
| Thirteenth and Twenty-fourth swept
up and over the hill and it was won,
| Captain Charles Byrne's Company II.
| and Captain Kennon's Company e, CT
| the Sixth being among the foremost,
| if not actually the very first, on the
| summit"
Captain Whitall, of the Sixteenth In
| fantry, says in his report, page 80:
During the entire action, from the
| time General Hawkins ordered my
| company forward, | never received n
! command from any one until after my
company had carried the colors to the
| blockhOusc, where it was the first flag
on the San Juan Hill. At the time OF
my arrival at the blockhouse on the
crest of the hill l could see no other
men there but those of my company
and few men from other companies
of the regiment"
Lieutenant Stcdman, Of the Six
teenth Infantry. says. in his official
report page 2S2): II here ascertained
that the other companies of my battal-
ion We're TO my left, IN THIS SUNK
EN- ROAD. | moved my company to
the left and went through an opening
in wire fence, which had been cut
by Cuban who was very prominent
in the first charge. This was about
The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04
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-onc Democracy carries MS for
ward in the grand avenue traced out
for US by the founders of our nation,
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 licpublicanD road takes
us into the great arena where ancient
peoples, full of ambitions, civil hat
reds, religious feuds, fcudal miscries,
trailing their slime across the ccntur-
les, are facing each other, burdened
with armor, 10 fight out questions OF
The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04


family, or Of territorial and CONNER
cial greed.
By the latter path we abandon hu-
mainly, and with drum and trumpet
and warshp. hurt ourselves into the
wretchcd wranglc 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. If they say yes. let them
marshal their heaviest battallons.
change their form of government to
Il dictatorship, md prepare their
purses for drain in comparison 10
which that Of our Civil War was light.
The Republic is, indeed. at the parting
Of the ways.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04
LETTERS FROM A PRIVATE.
"m Glad I'm RegnThy Go Ahad and Do Their Business Without Any
Fuss IeatsrsBu I'm Sorry That We Will Not Get Any Gre For
Our Work They Say Oar Charge Will Make Roosevelt President
Scene Day and That What We Went TO War For"

said that there is between 10000 and
10000. We have only 1I,OC0 men on
the island. of which 1000 or 5000 are
volunteers, so you see what kind of
stuff we are made of.
The Holly chieftain., 1904-11-04
LETTER NO. ..

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
4 a. IN. tomorrow. This afternoon l
went along the entire line of our
army. Had nothing else to do- and
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. led.
! l haqu y will notice little nh in tn.
| all their terrible fighting on the fffrss
day If the fight. L don't know. but
honestly believe they never saw
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 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 continu-
ally blowing his horn, and seems to
think he is the biggest man down here
If he were not Roosevelt l 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 through ticket to the
Presidential chair It's all politics.
The men who did the fighting-the
regulars-have very little to say. They
don't seem to be in it for glory. They
simply do it as matter of business.
But Roosevelt is out for glory alone,
ana 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 hair mattress, He kicks
because his men are homcsick and
want to see their best girls. I'm
homesick myself, but I'm not kicking,
and / haven't heard Il kick from any
one In the regiment yet-not even from
one fellow whom l helped into q trans
port wagon TO be taken back to the hos
pital. He had both eyes shot out,
wounds through the neck, chest, ab-
domen. legs and arms. but the only
thing he said was: who's rot a pipe
handy" ! 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
got him into the hospital alive.
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house has a vacancy on the road for a
sober reliable man to travel in New York
ana Pennsylvania; inexperience no bar. but
must be faithful worker and willing to
start on moderate salary and expenses.
Address Drugs, % American Express build
ing, Rochester, N. Y"
The advertisement inserted by Agent Gal
loway was similar in wording except that
ane man was wanted to travel In Indiana
Inc Post Ofiice Department, through the
once of the assistant attorney general
learned that Galloway received one-half of
sans.; mnai money was put up by the persons
oeposlting sum of $50 as security for
samples loaned them for their work.
II Is asserted, In the recommendation of
the assistant attorney general In his re-
pert to the Postmaster General that con-
tract was entered into between the comma
ny ana any person who had the necessary
soo py winch the latter was employed as
agent at a salary of 1892 per annum nro-
vided he earned it by selling a certain
amount of Vital Tabloids" He was told
that the 700 was for the security of the
company against less and that the money
would be returned to him at the expira ton
or his contract. The tabloids cost the COM
pany not more than SO and their sole object
was to get this deposit, knowing that the
conditions In the contract made 1t impos-
sible for the dupe to carry out his part
Of it.
AS q fact there are this time not more
than four of these agents working for the
company, although every man who has
had the 500 has been employed, and If
some of them did not have that sum the
company would take what 1t could get, it's
OBJECT and rule, it is claimed, being
TO let none escape. In letters passing be-
TWEEN the manager of the company and his
agents these gentlemen of the $50 habit
were referred to as come ons'' and
dupes AS the company made more than
forty dollars on every man employed the
business was fairly profitable until the
sleuths of the Post Office Department
struck their trail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-17
examination for Philippine Service.

An examination will be held for assistant
for physical chemist in the Philippine serv-
ice June and 2 All applicants must show
that they have completed the course of
study covered by the degree Of B.S, Ph.B.
or B. "A: but competitors who have received
the masters degree. preferably the degree
of Ph.D will be given a higher rating in
the subject of training and experience.
Age limit, eighteen to forty years.
Each applicant for the Philippine service
will be required to submit to the examiner,
on the day he is examined, a recent photo
graph. not more than three years old of
himself. which will be filed with his ex-
animation papers as means of identifica-
ton in case he receives appointment. An
unmounted photograph is preferred. The
date place and kind of examination, the
examination number. the competitors name
and the year in which the photograph was
taken should be Indicated on the photo
graph.
Applicants should at once apply to the
civi! service commission for the required
application forms prior to the hour of
closing business May 25
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QUARTERS ARE INADEQUATE.
Chairman of Democratic Congressiona
Committee Seeking Accommodations.


Committee Seeking Accommodations
The democratic congressional committee
will In a few days have established in this
city headquarters, which will be used until
after the national convention meets. Rep
resentative Cowherd chairman of the COM
mittee, is now engaged in the work of Sc
lectfng appropriate quarters to be used by
the cdmmttee1 The committee now has
two rooms in the Bliss building. but they
are inadequate for the larger work that is
to be carried on.
The committee will probably remain in
this city throughout the campaign and in
any event the headquarters will be either
here or in New York
There are many advantages to facilitate
work during the campaign here The dis
trlpution of literature is easily ACCOMPLISH
ed and the facilities for reaching the col
umns of newspapers through the 200 cor
respondents is acknowledged to be an inn
portant feature In the conduct of the work
to be performed
Charles H. Mann of the press gallery.
House of Representa- to whom ap-
pncatlon FOR press seats at the democratic
national convention in st. Louis should be
made announces that he will not receive
any applications after June s.
The republican congressional committee
has not yet decided where its headquarters
VIII be located. but they also will be
either in this city or New York
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RUSSIANS CORNERED
jap Force Surrounds 200 of
Cars Troopers.
WILLSTARVE THEM OUT
ONLY PROVISIONS AVAILABLE
MUST BE SECURED BY FORAGE.
Desperate Situation of Soldiers North
of Anju - Rumored Kuropatkin
Will Abandon Liao-Yang.
WILLSTARVE THEM OUT

SEOUL. May 18. 6:3O p.m.-It is reported
that a Japanese force has cornered 200
Russians north of Anju and is endeavor-
ing to starve them out The only provisions
in the possession of the Russians are those
secured by forage, and it is expected that
the food of the besiesed men will soon be
exhausted.
The Japanese surrounded the Russians
before they could make a move to get out
of the valley but made no attempt to force
them into a fight Intrenched in a strong
position, where they practically have the
Russian soldiers at their mercy. with no
means of obtaining supplies, the Japanese
have settled down calmly to starve the
czar's soldiers until they surrender.
The japanese are bringing to Seoul two
Russian non-commissioned officers who
were captured at Anju. The prisoners are
being brought here with the intention of
producing a moral effect on the Koreans.
At Japanese headquarters numbers Of
Chinese-speaking Japanese have been en-
gagged as interpreters for the Manchurian
campaign
Kuropatkin Waiting for More Troops.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, May IA cablegram from
st. Petersburg says: The Journal says it is
reported that Kuropatkin will abandon
Liao-Yang and retire upon Harbin with
10000 men and await the arrival there Of
$1,000 men on their way from Kharkoff,
southern Russia, and $4,000 which are
about to be dispatched from the Moscow
district.
Krupp Works Very Busy.
BERLIN, May IA special dispatch
from Essen says the Russo-Japanese war
causes great activity in the Krupp works
In the production of both cannon and Ship
building materials. Large orders for field
guns have been received, and the steel de-
partment is very busy. The dispatch does
not say which country causes the activity.
out 1t is assumed to be Russia
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ISSUES A CHALLENGE.
Washington Boy Would Have Type
writer Speed Contest.

Special D1spatch to The Evening Star.
NORFOLK, Va, May 17-G. Patterson
Boyle of Washington, graduate of the
Washington Business High School, for
merly official stenographer In the Supreme
Court Of United States and for the House
judiciary committee. and late private sec
retary to Representative Brownlow of Ten
nessee, sent from Norfolk to John A.
Shields at Ottawa, Kan, today a chal-
lenge to a typewriting contest, which
promises to become of International in
terest. Mr.. Boyle expects not only to
break the present of1acial worlds cham
pionship record held by Charles McGur-
rim at 212 words minute, but to 20 be-
yond go words a minute.s
Boyle's challenge goes to Shields, 1t is
said, as a result of the publication of
statement In which a Kansas man claims
TO have written 300 words per minute on
his typewriter. Boyle, whosis now a gov
ernment stenographer In the office of Naval
Constructor Stahl at the Norfolk navy
yard, has agreed, 1t isssaid. to back him
self with $500 or any other smount Shields
may name. The copy is 10 be an editorial
selected by the mayor of tbs city in which
the contest Is held.
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IowANs MEET TOMORROW.
Hawkeye Republicans to Hold Their
State Convention at Des Moines

DIES MONIES, Ia, May 17.-With Secre-
tary L. NJ Shaw of the Presidents cabi-
net, Senators Allison and Dolliver and ev-
cry member of the lower house in Congress
In the city to attend the state republican
convention which meets tomorrow. the in
dications point to one of the largest attend
ed affairs of it's kind in the history OF the
state.
MIR. John N. Irwin of Keokuk will be
temporary chairman. OF the thirteen hum
dred delegates over one thousand are con-
ceded to be with the stand patters" and
the only discussion before the delegates at
the present time is the wording of the reso-
luton upon the tariff question. 1t is con-
ceded that the plank will be worded just as
the stand patters' desire.