Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-06-17
Denby Expected ToHan-
Handle Admiral With
Firm Grip
BY q. B. HUNT.

d .. d. TlONi.
WASHINGTON, June 17.-Wheth-
w er it will be three times and out
/ for Admiral William Sweden Sims
will be known shortly after Sims ap-
pears on the carpet before Secre-
tary of the Navy DENLY to explain
his latest flight in fervid oratory.
Sims is on his way from London
to Washington. He will arrive al
the capital June %.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.! the su-
perstitious exclaim.
The admiral has had two othef
| headons with secretaries OF the navy
His clashes with his higher-ups have
always been interesting pyhotechnlc
exhibits. But they have been pyro-
technics and nothing more-except
for the official reprimand of Presi-
dent Taft, which Sims regarded only
as a polite slap on the wrist.
Secretary DENLY, however, is lo!K,
ed upon as a man who uses solld
shot instead Of fireworks. His re-
voking of Sims leave, his order that
the admiral return at once and report
in person to him is sample OF the
direct methods he employs.
And that Denby-who once was
marine-propose to follow his own
course in the Sims matter was m
dicated when, asked ifhefavoredcon,,
dicated when, asked if he favored
another congressional f1iqt1if'y y-75ve7f
Sims, he replied;
."No; this is my pErty"
The latest Sims ruction is the re-
sut of an address made by HIM be-
fore the English-speaking Union, IN
London. June 7, in which he IS re-
ported to have said:
"There are many in our country
who are technically Americans, nat,
uralized and born there, but none OF
them American at all. They are Amer
lean when they want money, but
Sim Feiners on the platform. They
are making war on America today
They are like zebras, eth
or white horses with black stripes; or
black horses with white stripes. But
we know they are not horses; they
! are asses. But each Of these asses
has a vote and as there are lot OF
them. it is necessary to cater TO
! those votes"
Sims always has prided himself
on his ability to "speak out -, IN
school, and get away with it. me
fact that he has gotten away with II
in nrevious encounters. it is suggest
cd NAV have led to recklessness.
Tn the Guild Hall speech" de-
1ivered in London. Dec. 3. 1910, at a
dinner at which Sims and 800 men OF
the u. S. Fleet were quests OF the
Lord Mayor of London, Sims said:
eff the time ever comes when the
British empire is seriously menaced
! bv an external enemy, it is my opln-
ion that you may count upon every
man. every dollar, every drop OF
blood of your kindred across the
seas" es.
President Taft, in ordering an Off
eiaI reprimand for this statement
said:
"An important part of the educa-
tion of a naval officer is instruction
in international law and diplomatic
! usage, He is under special obHga-
non to see to it that what he does
or saws shall not embarrass ms
government in its foreign relations.
'rWhenever he is called upon in
foreign country to speak in public,
it is his obvious duty to avoid in
vidious comparisons and to limit his
expressions of friendship for the ma
tion whose guest he is to language
that will not indicate a lack OF
friendship toward other countries.
at should be the business and
training of a naval officer to restrain
himself within the limits of diplo-
matte intercourse. To depart from
it is only a blunder, but fault for
which his government cannot excuse
him"
Prior to his Guild Hall speech,
however, Sims had an encounter with
Secretary of Navy Metcalf, from
which he emerged victorious, due to
the championship of President Roose-
welt.
Roosevelt, as assistant secretary Of
the navy, was always ready to heed
the kicks of officers who thought they
saw something the matter with the
service.
In 1897 Sims, then a naval attache
in China, reported to Roosevelt that
our naval target practice was q