The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-18

pinos when in the saddle? They couldn' I
understand II; but It was an assertion of
was chief intelligence officer, frequently
made II impossible for him to refuse the
fearful pleadings of the women relatives
of prisoners over whom he had jurisdic.
ton. More than one brown fellow owed
his freedom at that time 10 Maj. Bells
sympathetic nature,
Such incidents as these became noiscd
about among the Fillpinos, were re-
counted to Bells credit. and helped him
as General in his pacihcatory career.
Bells Tactics His Own.
Bells experiences as chief of scouts led
him to the belief that the only way TO
fight the Filipinos was In whirlwind
style. Hence. when Gen. Macarthur, after
Bell had formed the Thirty-siNth United
states infantry. gave the latter great
freedom In conducting operations, Bel
sprung his own brand of tactics on the
army. Conservative officers were prone
to critlcse him as being reckless and for
sometimes leaving his rear unSuarded
for a time, at Bacalor; but the reeults
that Bell obtnined proved so beneficial TO
the American cause that his style of
nghtlng gradually came to be copied by
many Of his old critics, in part at least,
After he had formed his regiment, and
while he was waiting for orders to go TO
the front, Col Bell daily gathered his
officers around him in school and pro-
ceeded to teach them the tactics he had
evolved. To THE preparation was partly
duo the success that attended the regi-
ments flshting career from the first
clash.
Col Bells method OF maintaining dlsci-
pllne is peculiar Of the whole man. Repri-
mands were administered In the form OF
reasonable talks between man and man.
AS a usual thing. this sut1ced. But woe
TO him who failed TO heed ms advice
there was straight talk that could not be
forgotten, or punishment of a more Sc
we're character. And tho queer thing
about 1t was that the man experiencing
the CoIoners wrath swore by him still
indeed. frequently swore by him all the
harder
explained Course. j don't Ike this
hauling up. but we all know the old
mans on the eauare. and so It's all right,
damn me, If tain t.
that took him to Dagupan that Col. Bell
learned Tor certainty mat the rank OF
BrIgadier- General had been conferred on
him. One morning there appeared uhcN-
pcctcdly on tho crest of a hill the detach-
mcnt from the regiment which had been
campaigning on the other SIDE or the
mountain The men let out a cheer and
then came down into the valley with the
latest news. which was that they had lost
their Colonel but gained General And
tho way they gave the news was by call
ing Bell Colonel, and then. with mingled
pride and regret. correcting themselves
and making 1t General;
1t Is already clear that not a few OIL
GERS are deeply discounted over tho pros
pect OF Franklin Bell becoming chief of
stan II Ia safe TO say thnt this u far
from being the frame of mind OF single
man who strenuouslv campaigned with
Col. Bell in the Thirty-sixth United
States infantry
BelI was in his forty-third year when he
got his great opportunity In the Philio-
pines. He was 30 on the 9th Of last Jan
unry, but he has taken such excellent
care OF himself that he looks about ten
wears Younger than the records make him
To be True he has seams In his face.
but they arc the seams OF soldering. not
of age.
II. ls Kentucky born ShelbYvillc being
hIs birthplacc There he received q
common school education. after which no
entered West Point graduating In 1873.