Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1898 — AN EXAMPLE FOR CARSTENSEN. [ARTICLE]

AN EXAMPLE FOR CARSTENSEN.

Major John O. Martin, chief surgeon of a brigade of the First corps, was as frisky in talking about the drinking water nt Chjokanmugu, as Chaplain Carsteuson was in his talk concerning ihe surgeons and hospitals there. What the major afterward wrote will apply to nearly ull tales of camp horrors and suffering. liis letter is a model of humble retraction ami* admission that he lied. Under date of July 16 to the assistant ndjutaut general at Camp Thomas, Major Martin wrote: “1 desire, and do retract, each and every word spoken toGoueral Boynton during a private conversation held in the Read House, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the evening of July 14, believing it best for myself and for the interests of the public service.” “Believing it best for myself” is a very suggestivo expression. Chaplain C&rsteuseu and the other horror promoters are informed that there is no oopyright on it. What right has the Democratic party to ask the people to trust it wheu hundreds of thousands of its own voters throughout the country repudiated it two years ago? They have observed no evidence of reform in their party’s counsels and the boyoott continues.