Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Schley Won the Victory. .. Sampson has had plenty of pot* ting from the administration. Too much, apparently, for his own good. Scliley has not been coddled by the president, but he has won a Diace in history and in the hearts of the American ueopie equal to that held by Dewey. It will do Sampson no good to endeavor to suppress Schley, for Schley bottled Cervera and finally crushed the Spanish fleet. It is alleged that Admiral Sampson spoke to Commodore Schley after the victory of Santiago as follows: “Commodore Schley, my flag* ship was in signaling distance, as you well know. Had this effort of the Spanish fleet to escape been successful, or had it bi ought disn aster to this fleet, would you have assumed responsibility'?” Commodore Schley is said to have hesitated when the matter was put to him in that light. “Then I cannot allow you to take credit for the victory to my d;sparagement. ” It is hardly reasonable to suppose that Commodore Schley “nesltated” when Sampson asked him if he was prepared to assume the responsibility. It is a glorious fact that Schley did assume the responsibility, and that he won a great and signal victory. Sampson may not allow the comm :dore “to take credit for victory,” but Schley has the credit he so bravely won; and no effort of Sampson will keep that ciedit from being recorded in the history of America’s war with Spain.- Ex.

Capt. Chas D. Sigsbee, bronzed and hearty, dressed in his summer uniform of white, delivered a short sermon today on the seamanship or our navy that will make dear to landsmen a number of things that now se'm hard to grasp. “In the first place,” hesaia, “our navy was on a superb war footing when the trouble broke out, tho’ the country at large didn’t know it, or the enemy either. For months and years there has been no let up in drills and practice work. “Take a fleet that represents $25,000,000 of money. To sail it at nine knots thro’ rough weather and fogs and keep the entire squads ron continually in touch —and this was a frequent occurrence-re quires great naval ability anc ex. act seamanship. “When we were lying with the Maine in Havana harbor the Viz* caya and the Oquendo were there too. They were splendid looking war ships and apparently well officered and manned, but theie wasn’t the rigorous discipline, the incest sant drill work to which our crews are accustomed. That’s one point. “But a matter of more conse*quence in the present clash of forces,” Oapt. Sigsbee went on to say, “is the fact that our men are tr iced not alone in accuracy of firing but in rapidity, too. It is this deadly combination that the Spaniards cannot stam‘; thoy are stunned, paralyzed, bv the awful effects. We dash at them and smother .hem al ve They have no chance to breathe. The appall ing volume of lead hurled at tne en* emyare features of modern sea-> to which the Spaniard is a total stranger “The impact must be something awful when a few of oui broad* sides, with l ig and little guns, hurl