Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-09-27
BOB EVANS AGAIN A HERO.

variety of hero to-day is Admiral Rod
lev ID. Evans of the navy. According
to the high authority of Admiral
Evans himself, he borders clo'ely Oh
being the whole push He was LOO
loyal to come South at the beginning
of the civil war and cas- his lot Win
the Confederacy, though we hear his
good old mother begged him to DO SO,
as be was a Virginia. He was educated
at Annapolis, and this tied his love SO
tightly around the flag that even a
mothers tears could not break the
bonds which his conscience held so
sacred. This same question confronted
Gen. Lee who was educated at west
Point, and Admiral Semms who was
educated at Annapolis. They solved
it, and of course solved it differently
from Evans. We hate to speak in the
same sentence of Gen. Lee or Admiral
Semms, and Bob Evans In conscience
as in every other respect they stand in
general estimation so like giants by
the side of pigmy that it grleves us
to contemplate the contrast. The Ad-
miral got on the wrong side, of course,
of this rs of other questionsi in trotting
around after that conscience of bis.
but he was on the winning side this
time and this has no doubt boosted
his conscience bit. 1t is refreshing
to know that all men who make i'm
tant decisions do SO for conscience
sake, indeed who could sail without
such pilot But al we learn Admiral
Evans conduct in tits matter Of con-
science rendered him particularly OBJ
noxious to Virgi mans. and possibly no
less so to the whole people OF the
South, aid he thus became the most
unfit person to command the naval
squadron at Jamestown that could
have been selected. In occupying that
position Admiral Evans evidently was
ill at ease, and no less go was the Ex-
position. He seems to have gone there
in a surly mood. No matter from
whence came the inspiration, the Army
and Navy Journal began to TEEN with
vituperation of the Exposition which
if not inspired, was evidently winked
at by him. That journal is not in the
habit of teeming VITA imaginary con
ditions. 1t moLrned and walled be-
cause-''our naval officers were made
to blush for their country" Is any
body so blind as not to see who was
meant by OUR NAVAL OFFICERS I
These bushes are usually of the "high
balI'' variety, but in this instance
must have been additionally intensl
fed b ' The fact that ''Our navy is used
to advertise a scheme for greedy mon
ey makers" The President. as is wei
known, had ordered squadron te
) Hampton Roads that the people o.
this Nation might see for what thell
millions went, that Iney might know
u battleship from an Q IF d scow, AID d
course to fully educate and impress
them something more than tnt
l ship itself Was necessary. There mus
needs be some gentlemen with cocke'
bats and rooster tails jill them gil
lace, buttons, trapplngs hung abou
like circus horses 1.-THE ignorant ar
always impressed Dy circus horse
}, sw ord and medals, with possibly ions
8 huge and glowing probAsciees, bIotct
cd faces, and ruddy cOmplexions. III
y trophies OF many b battle with Adm
al Barley corn. III evidence too,
70 lend grace and dignity 10 th
:, occasion, impress the Common pc OPP
= with the immensely of our navy. an
:, make them GLAD their money goes thi
way. Ii Admiral Evans were such
=, one 1--WE have never seen nlm) then 1
:, doubtless was thought IL, and ev
IDENTIFY much against the Admiral
will, the President designated him
pei form This humiliatilg TASK. Ho
he performed it, he. himself, tells, II
Army and Navy journal tells, and ii
* public is being told little more tbs
1t it would otherwise have known.
10 Admiral Evans, says rumor, discus
X ed the Humiliation" with the office
ID of foreign vessels, and all cussed tt
conditions. OF course this is rune
1t only. The foreigners may have ia
e. proper grounds, but rumor further ri
# it that they and the doughty Admir-
N poured their libatiOn of tears into II
It same urn, and possibly damned ever
,e body and everything in sight. and OF
OF sight, in so far as the damning vi
safe. At last, however, the forelgne
f got away, and later Admiral Eva
ID made his escape. evidently in bis wor
at possible mood. Whilst there the who
~ atmosphere was pervaded with III
pleasant aromas.
He has never had the reputation
drawing crowds on account of his pc
:" sonal beauty OF for any other know
W duality, so far as heard from, so VIII
:, he got away everybody sighed wi
- relief, and suppressed Thank 60
" was visibly audible. Everybody wish
him bon voyage, and a happy new
return. A safe harbOr elsewhere, an
where, oh Lord, but there. He is +
q ported to have looked on visitors. th
'i0 is the common people, somewhat
swine, and this was 80 marked, and
- evident to most people. that one OF
" Governors of the Exposition, Mr.. B;
ton Myers, wrote to Mr.. VIM.
Hearst on the subject. The letter "
" not intended for publication, but \
~ Hearst visited the Exposition f
tweeks ago, and was more than delig
ed, and on returning to New York
newspaper, the American Journal.
Gan Giving due praise to one of