The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-14

Inc navy fight.
The question of Admiral Brown
sons resignation is likely to go far
Today Senator Hale declared, not In
the senate, but in the cloak room
that he intended to offer resolution
for an investigation OF the reason.
for Brownsons retirement. Senator
Hale is, next to Senator Aldrich
the strongest man in the United
States senate. II he offers such a res
olution. the chances are very grea'
that 1t will go through. Talking tc
"A friend from New England, Senator
Hale suggested this. Admiral
Brcwnson offered his resignation
The president accepted 1t immediate
ly, and ordered that 1t should take
effect at once. Possibly It might have
been as well that the president should
have said that Admiral Brownson
whose services had been well known
and very effective in the navy, might
have been allowed to reconsider the
resignation. At any rate when the
president said that the resignation
indicated a lack of loyalty to the
commander-in-chief of the army and
navy the answer was easy" People
who know something about the mill.
tary history of the president who
rebuked Admiral Brownson remem.
ber this: That when he was merely
colonel in the army, in command
OF a single regiment. he arranged
what Is called a round robin at San
tiago in '9S-he had 1t signed by all
the men under his command he had
It forwarded to the secretary OF war
II he had not at that time been re
garded as a coming politician, nc
would have been court martialed and
put out Of the United States service
obedience and loyalty are the
most essential qualities in keeping the
service up to the highest standard"
That is what Theodore Roosevelt
says today. When he was colone
Of the Rough Riders he paid no at
tention to obedience or discipline
! lie did what he chose and he destroy
ed discipline by presenting 'roun'
robins without regard to what nigh
result from them.
The Flight Of the Fleet.
Nobody in Washington believes tina
the voyage OF the fleet to San Fran
cisco is going to mean trouble witt
Japan. But II certain newspapers II
New York and in Paris have their way
II will. The Paris newspapers are tn
more violent in their expressions. TIL
New York newspapers are more o
less inclined to force trouble wit
Japan. Why It is no one can tel
Some people believe that there is a
intention on the part of the admir-
istration 10 force war in orde
to maintain the present party /
power, II Is matter of history tina
any administration which conducte
a war has been retained in powe
until the end OF that war. Peopl
say that the Roosevelt administration
now very doubtful OF It's retention |
power, looks upon a war with Japa
as its best opportunity for mainteI
ance In power.
In the London Fortnightly Review
publication altogether friendly
the United States. ! find paragrap
which bears upon this subject:
The American battle fleet has d
parted from Hampton Roads to Sa
r Francisco. Its voyage is fourtee
, thousand miles. 1t, will last one hu
dred and forty days and the fle'
Is expected to reach San FrancisC
= by the beginning OF May which wi
$ be convenient for the purposes OF Il
republican party in next years pre-
\. idential campaign. - Even SO a