Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sampson The report of the Disappoints commodore to tfe His captain, and of sh Friends. captain to tiie gov-, ernment, have been made public We ha\ e searched the captain’s report for a single expression of the piaise or credit which, omitted from h 7 s early dispatches, his friends promised would be accorded to the commodore in his extender account of the battle. W e have not found it. In the whole length and breadth of "Admiral” Sampson’s report on the annihilation ofj Cervera’s fleet the name of the man under whom the annihilating was done isimr-ntione 1 exactly twice. The captain who commands a commodore says: “Commodorj Schley, whose chief of staff had gone on board to receive the surrender, hfd direoted that all their personal eflecls should be retained by the officers. This order i did n t modisy. * * * The reports of Commodore W- S. Schley an of the commanding officers are inclosed.” The Brooklyn’s individual part in the fighting is briefly alluded to, tempered with this piece of faint acknowledgment: “The Brooklyn’s westerly blockading pi s tio i gave her an advantage in the oka e which she maintained o the tnd, and sh» employed h;r fine battery with telling effect.” This is the meed of praise for the hero who won the fight. This is the prase of his ship that it "had an advantage and maintain ad it.” Here ar the justice and generosity the administration favorite’s friends proclaimed fiom the housetops he would show the superior officer he had put under him just as soon as he got a chance. In distinct contrast ,s ti e report of Schley. The commodore in the black alpaca coat has applauded every ship commander who came usder his observation during the fight, and many the minor offi cers down to aid including the carpenter of the Brooklyn. Full credit is given to every man w! o conspicuously helped in gaining the victory, and the simple statement of the manner in whi< h the Brooklyn’s crew stood to their guns while their ship was under the con verged fire of three of the enemy’s vessels is the only evidence we have of the peril undergo e by the modest man who wrote the report.

We fear (?apt. Sampson has di jappointed his fr ends. His grudging references to Schley are not the cheerful and frank aeknowledg ment o. honor where honor is due they had led us to expect. The captain’s attitude is not creditable and can not be covered up bv sin* ister suggestions and veiled insinx utions about Schley’s failure to regard previous orders. Had Ceivera escaped we believe Commodore Schley would have been edven a very prominent place in the report. (Jervera did not escape, and Schley has an enviable place in the hearts of the Ameri can people. As we have sa ,- d before, Sampson wasn’t tbeie; Schley was. —Chicago Journal. Every exchange we Have seen remarks on the tact tnat tba Wallace Shows is the one show that really exhibits everything that it advertises. At Rensselaer, Wednesday, August 3d.