Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Chicago Chronicle expresses surprise at the report that Gen. James H. Wilson,o. Delaware, is to be made military governor of Guba. General Wilson was a Jis* tinguished Union officer in the civil war and was appointed a' ma*jor general of volunteers in this war. His fitness for the office of military governor is not questioned, but the Chronicle says "Bj ill considerations both of fitness and sentiment thit position belongs to tbe man who is universally admitted]to be m< st conversant with tbe situation —the man who'fa ed danger and death in protecting tbe interests of Mb country and the lives of his countrymen and who left tbe island at tbe command of the President. “It is not necessary to recite the services of Fitzhugh Lee as consul general at Havana Every one knows of them For weeks he wa tbe central fig re in the events that preceded tfce war. The eyes of the American people a ere f cused up him and under that searching scrutiny his conduct was without a daw. He served his oountry with a fidelity and earnestness! that earned for him th ■ vindictive hatred of tbe Spaniards—hatred that m invested itself in the deliberate slight put upon him Dy Blanco at th time of his dope: ture. He is above all other , the American Spaniards hate and the Cubans trust. “He quitted Cuba with Spanish jeers rim ing in his ears. H should return to it as military governor of tbe island. To pass ever him in favor of any other nun would be the rankest injustice injnstice wnich would be resented by the Ameiioan people—Republicans as well ns Democrats There is enough septiment left t ♦his country tain ist that demands of poetic ju tioe shall be satisfied—that the man who left Cuba, hissed by the Spaniards, shall return to it as ruler and governor of thejisland.l Nothing less will do. “General Wil on ay be an excellent t ffleer ud an adminis rator of ability.— Wi have no desire to dispa age his mer its. But if be combined the mil tarv genius of Napo'eon with the statecraft of itio ilieu his claims lo supreme command in t üba woull not eighas mueh ns a hair in the balance against the considerations which demand the appointment of General Loe. "The d mauds of justice and the sentiment of the American people will not be satisfied wi'h any proposition whici does not include toe selection of Fitzhugh Lee as governor general of Cuba."

Afeatu»eof the circus parade is the c.lebiated Wallace man eatiLg lioDs. Four ferocious brutes with a terrible history. Captured after having laid waste a p ovince. A present to the foreign agent of the show bf( the Akoond of Rajpostanah. The largest and most expen sive a imal den ever constructed contain the.-e animals, which is open in parade. At Rensselaer, Wednesday, August Bd. It is said that Me Kinley is thoroughly aroused over the delay in the of General Miles and the expedition under his command to Porto Rico, and has issued personal orders to Admiral Sampso that he should proceed immediately to Porto Rico with General Miles, that the instructions are imperative, and juscepti ble of no misconstruction. Bamp». son's polit eal backing from the Hanna-Elkins following may not s ve him from a r< buke from the administration. The Wallace This Ilg circus iD .Shows stitution is making a splendid re* cord this season, receiving nolhiug but words of prai efrom the rress of every c : ty visited. The following is taken from a leDgthv article which recently appeared in the Mt. Carmel (Pa ) Star: “Bpac3 alone will not permit our giving credit that is justly due to Tne Wallace Gircus which showed here yesterday For good, honest, conscientious v ork they deserve a lot of good things being said of them. The man that advertises his wares, and then gives even bettr r than he contracts for, is a phili tbropist and his name is "few’ and Mr. Wallace can be classed among these few. \\ hy go into a 1 ingthy dissertation o the individual features of the show? Their- own press notices deal in that kind of •~oods and we know, now, that they are ot a quality j st a »hade superior to what it 18 claimed foi them If mention must be made, the first to demand recognition would be the Nelson family. Their act is one whole show in itielf, and storms of applause greet their work. They They stand unsurpassed. A clos" second is found in the Stirks, in their bicycle “turn.” Their control of the silen* steed must be seen to be appreciated.” At Rensselaer, Wednesday, An gust 3d.

Sampson as Admiral Sampson a Gbabbbeb, has a peculiar habit of t yiug to grab things which belong to somebody else. He grabbed the prisoners Schley ban captured when the Cristobal Colon was sunk,he tried to grab the credit of Schley’s victory over Cervera, and he attempted to grab the Spanish ships lying in Santiago harbor and surrendered to General Shafter by General Toral. So far Sampson has not had very good success in his scheme of grabbing. The people of the United States have decided that Schley is the m. n who deserves al the credit for smashing the Spanish fleet commanded by Cervera, and the government authorities have derided that Sampson has no claim to the shipe surrendered by Toral (