The Nome daily nugget., 1914-03-18

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 the police of Cambridge. Mass. ar- rested him that day when he tooh ct mmand of the continental army and thrown him into jail on bread and water and sent his generals and col- onels and captans to the stone pile Tn Boston and had the fire department of Cambridge turned the hose on the mtri0ts gathered meath the elms Of the Massachusetts town would not Washington have been as is Kelly tuday with the high hopes of the fu- tmre dashed. the noble purpose trailed In the dust and the ambition busted Verify 1t seemed that the only differ. erce is that Cambridge was not po- Heed by good Britishers end did not have . modern high powered ire en- zine with which to sprinkle the en- thusiasm out of the minutemen of Concord and Lexington.
 Such . little thins. too. to change the course of history. Just cold water. Just plain. cold wet water. Water. and it's attendant wagon. have done many things to the history of many places ond water 1t was which sapped the | vitality of the gallant army under Kelly which might have carried out its avowed purpose and marched on l the nations capital.
 I Of course Kelly and his officers did not propose to capture Washington and siege the United States govern ment with the two small regiments that started from Sah Francisco and were so disastrously defeated ut Sac ramento.
 It was the intention to recruit the force as 1t traveled east and to invest Washington with an army worthy "f iie noble object. which wus the over throw of the government.
 The army did not reach Washing tn. But suppose it had. Suppose that once again the old Long bridge over the Patomac resounded to the tread of marching feet and from the hills of Maryland and the Virginia shore the invading hosts poured Into the great city.
 It Is not a pretty picture f"r d patriotic American to contemplate.
 Near Washington. at Fort Meyer. three are four troops of regular caval- ry and one field battery of light artil- lery. Down at he navy yard there are four companies of marines. Al tho arsenal there are two companies O engineers. Scarcely one full regi- ment of United States troops In the entire garrison of the nations capi- taL It Is pitiably weak and sad. and yet the army is so small that tha' force is all that can be spared for the capital city of the nation.
 Washington has in addition to this force a fair sixed police department Eut IL is only large enough fer the drily police needs of the city.
 That is all the force that could have been mustered to meet and defeat tho army of Kelly.
 And yet there was way. Hadl Kelly not met defeat in his first skirmish with the Sacramento fire dc- pnrtment. had his men bccn able tol stand the streams of clean water and th have taken town after town in thf march across the continent and arriv c.l fine and At before tho gates ot Washington. there was way out of the disgrace of having the nations capital invaded. captured. sacked.
 President Wilson from security O the executive mansion could have signed an order declaring n half holi- day in the government offices and de pcrtments and made the continuance i'm office of the thousands of super fiuous officials and clerks dependent uron inc dciivcrance of the city from tho hands of tho invader.
 The four troops of cavalry and the lirht battery could have remained at Fort Meyer. The marines and the engineers could have continued |" rest i. their barracks. There would have bt cn no need to call upon even the efficient Washington police. kcily's q, my, no matter how strong. would never have crossed into the nationn city. No army of ten times the size of that with which Kelly proposed to attack could over get into washing ter if tho government clerks and of- flclals wcrc turned out and told t' defeat the invaders ar loose their jobs And sc Washington was s.lfc after nli.
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