Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-09-28

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 today"
 Commenting upon this story and
 writing to the Buffalo (N. Y) Times,
 "A Soldier" says:
 ''Now, Charles Rankin may know
 Roosevelt we'll and he may have been
 with him on 'that day, but neither
 he nor any other negroes could have
 saved Roosveelt's life on San Juan
 Hill for two very good reasons: First,
 Roosevelt's life was not in danger
 that day; and secondly he was not
 in the fight at all on San Juan Hill.
 It is astonishing to find to what ex-
 tremes this myth will go. San Juan
 Hill was assaulted and captured by
 Gen. Sam Hawkins and Col. Wycoff.
 the latter being killed in the attack,
 and Mir. Roosevelt had no more to do
 with 1t than the Buffalo base ball team.
 "Col. Bacon, in his review of the
 military operations in Cuba, in the
 August number of the Army and Navy
 Critic, exposes finally and for all
 time Roosevelt's claim to military glory from the San Juan episode. After San Juan had been captured, Roosevelt decided that it was time for him to charge something, so he marched his men frantically up Ket- tie Hill. Kettle Hill derived it's name from the fact that an old kettle was found on top cf it. It was not fortified; it contained no intrencb- ments; it held no Spaniards. Col. Bacon says that it never had held any Spaniards, and that the American troops had passed by without a thought of marching upon it, because there was nothing on top to march for. Roosevelt charged it purely for the benefit of his press bureau, and Col. Bacon states positively that during that engagement that day Col. Roosevelt never saw a Spaniard un- less he was able to look through Ket- tie Hill"
 Now I am surprised at the Morning Courier for printing this kind of rot which is only slap at President Roosevelt by democratic paper. But as they have almost copied the re- publican platform to get an issue: and large number of them have gone into socialist ranks, almost anything will do to throw mud. But still you will find thousands of good staunch old democrats, clean Americans that will throw their votes to President this fall.
 In making an answer to the above trash of Col. Bacon $ and not recoe- nizing the nergo burglar or the un- known soldier, I will, say that I was buck private in the 1st volunteer cavalry troop B, and took hand at San Juan Hill and we were fighting with good American soldiers and not newspaper writers, and I have the irst Rough Rider to hear say that we took that hill, but we were fighting with some of the best men that ever wore the blue.
 Col. Bacon says there were no 5paniards at Kettle Hill, a spur of San Juan hill. If his statement is rue how was it that so many Arizona boys were killed. Out of a possible % in troop B, four were killed and everal wounded.
 am not speaking of the Arizona roop A, or of the men killed on San Juan Hill or Las Guymas, but on Ket- le Hill and my own troop. How was t Col. Wyckoff was killed on Kettle ill when Col. Bacon says he was charging San Juan, with Gen. Hawkins?
 saw Col. Wyckoff lying on the ield and remarked to wounded man whom l was helping back from the leld that war made no distinction be- ween a private and a colonel. As David Loge was lying only a short distance from him, it shows we were II in line. He says there were no 'paniards. What was that Spaniard loing in the chimney when we rushed o the old sugar mill? suppose the emocratic press will say he was the ne that killed Capt. Buckley O'Neill then he was coming back on a trans ort one thousand miles away.
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