The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1917-05-26
The Man Without a Country

eys If the New YORK Herald OF Angus, |
fsth observed. IN au obscure corner, |
among the deaths. the announce
,,.rt.
NOLAN Died on board T. : Cor
ge,te Lesaut Lat : degrees II minutes
\ Long III degrees " on the flth
II Nay. phAtp Nolan
happenod to observe H. because !
yas stranded AZ the old Mission house
in Asckluae. waiting for Lake su.
psrlor steamer whtch did NOT choose 10
come. and vas drguur.ug. to the very
stsblle. all the current literature !
could get hold OF even aoNh To th'
deaths ana marriages ~ 'h' ii''a''.
Ny memory Tor names ana p'"p'' u
good. and the reader VIII set, ar nv
goes an that ! had reason enough !"
remember l'mtlp MEAN ihe'e are
hundreds ot readers Nh" ""u'" nav
paused at That announcement u NV
officer Of the Lrtahl "ho reported u
had chosen 10 make II mus. i'"a'
May nth. The Man "tliioa' 'ou''
try For II "as as Tue Man "i'h"a'
a Country lhal poof thlilp MOAN h'u
been s'h"fatty known pa '''' "''''''s
uhn haa ann III 'hait' eu'i"e A"''''
"A A.t III 10 IN Ae g.
'itil years, as lhd'ed, oy al 'o' H''"
wto had saliea ubatt 'atH. a"i'
SAY there II many man WI" nus 'eh'"
sine "lth htm o'to' l'''R'k"'' W Z"
three years cruise "he never hhe"
that his name was N"iaoi OF "h''h''
the poor wretch hah ans name ~ ""'
There can nov be no possible harm
ia telling this poor creatures story.
Reason enough there has been tiil no"
ever since Nadisous administration
went out 10 isiI for very strict secrccy
the secrecy OF houur itself among TIA"
gentlemen of the navy who have had
Nolan IN successive charge. Aud e'F.
taiuly Il speaks yell for the esprit de
cnrpt ut ths profession ana the per
scaal honor OF its menbers, that to he
press this mans story has been wholly
unkueNn. aud think. Ia the country
at large also.
have reason TO think, from some
Investigations ! made tn the naval
archives when | was attached to the
bureau Of construction, that every
official report relating to him war
burned when Ross burned the public
buildings at Washington One Of the
fuckers, OF possibly oue al The Wal
sons, had Nolan IN charge 1T the end
Of the var. and when. on returning
from hin cruise. he reported at Wash
lngiou to one Of the Crownihshieids
who was IN tie navy department Sheu
he came home he found that tie de
paftmeni ignored the whole business
Whether they really kHew uothine
about II. OF whether II vas q non ln
rlcordo determined ON as a piec" OF
policy, do not know Hut this DE-
knew, that since 1917, aud possibly
before. no naval officer has mentioned
Nolan In his report of a cruise
As say, there Is no need for soeree,
any longer And nov the poor creature
IL dead II seems 10 me worth while e
tell little Of his story. by way 81
showing young Americans of toda,
what II IL to be
A MAN WITHOUT \ COUNTRY.
philtp Nolan was as fine q gounl
officer as there was IN the Legion o
the West. as the Western division o
our army Was then called When AaFoi
burr made his FIRST dashing expedition
down to Nes Orleans in 1895, az For
Massae. or somewhere above ON tbs
river be met, as the devil would have
IL. this gay. dashihg, bright yOunI
fellow. a, some dinner party, | think
Burr marked him talked 10 him wafk
I'D with him. took him a day CT tsoi