Show I p WEST 1ST i EST POINTERS TOBE TO TE TEBE BE REINSTATE Secretary Wright Wins Ov Ovel President to Have Men Sent Back WANTED TO SCARE THEM Cadets Won the Confidence o othe of the War Department Head Oyster Oster na Bay X N Y Aug 1 1 resident noo o elt and Secretary of at War Var ar I J I. I 12 R Wright after a stormy In Interview In- In I tel JC today declared that the el eight hl cadets r recently dismissed from West Vest WestPoint est I Point aint academy for hazing should be ie Immediately reinstated It wa sas announced by Secretary Wright that the Presidents President's approval of f the dismissal of the cadets anti and his refusal to see them was simply a ascare scare c scan scan- given the cadets by the h PIe l- l dent en t. t It is learned however that their reinstatement Is undoubtedly l due to o the rhe s stand t an d tal taken n Im in their behalf I by IW thi the secretary tal of or war against the President President dent lent and the officers of or the academy Secretary Wright received the dismissed ells dis missed cadets in Washington a few Cew e days days- as a ago o. o and when he arrived here her h he bluntly asked fd President Roosevelt elt I what the President meant by hy approving approvIng I ing the dl dismissal of the ca cadets ets over ove the head of or the war department It is is' understood that the President Lieu hi h he had acted Impulsively Ii in inthe the case an and l was willing WhIling to nave Ve hi hl nc action lon overruled by hy Secretary Wright upon the lie ground that proper course of procedure had hod not been followed and anet that no tin definite action Is s a valid I III I without the signature of the secretary Wright Will Not Tn Talk 11 When hen seen en today Secretary Wright II ht would not flot dl discuss cu J the report that he ho had practically forced the PI President to agree to the reinstatement of tit the cadets cadet The Till President simply signed the theor or order er to scare can the cadets said salti the s secretary Of OC co course UlSO without my signature to their dismissal th the tho matter mattor mater mat- mat tor ter er was waR left loft open I told the President PIe dent lent that I lint hall received the tho cadets and W was f much Impressed by their man manly bearing bearing- especially especial was waR I Im- Im Im Impressed I lre pressed h by the tho ho attitude tul taken n by tho the cadet who admitted that be hue huens was ns the the- I ringleader He lIe said sold that ho hu lULl luul started arced all nil the trouble and wished that ill I the thC punishment should Id come con to The Thin dismissed ed cadets have albeen alidy al- al idy been punished They are now u nJ ll mj t on o. o I Il l t 1 W tf IK teil uy na Pl The t cadets er cete 11 on Jul July Lily 23 rhe They are arc Byron yron Q Q Jones and ml George V v. Chase of or Nev ew York William r T. nu Russell sell and Harry G G. over of Illinois n first lla class s men W William Wil It- It liam Laun V. Yo Prude of or Alabama Tc- Tc Isaac Spaulding of or Oklahoma William Nolle o and Janice James A. A A of or Vir Vir- ginia Tho rho decision o of the secretary of oC the President nt war and the action of or Is certain to cause strained relations of or war and Col Col- Colonel Colonel h between tw en th the secretary onel II II 11 1 L. L Scott t the e superintendent ent at the military academy Not ot only had Colonel Scott gone on record in suspending the tho el eight ht cadets but ut had hall publicly expressed ed his gratification editorials in various newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- ove over the his action Ho lie wrote papers sustaining sustaining- t. t In ou i in n I n fo rm g y vu I I tal take e p pleasure l have ha taken against that th the tho stand stam you the United States military hn hazing at nt academy hail had mt ll marked ed effect In Iii strengthening the hands of the authorities au au- au- au her hero here In In Ina a mall matter r so deeply rooted as Os this an editorial Is often orten more mOle convincing than a regulation U. U S. S A. A SCOTT Colonel I II 1 1 L Superintendent Headquarters Military 1 III tan Academy Y West Sl Point N. N Y July 2 27 j 1908 Put Scott in iii IJ ht In the tho light of the above letter H it HIs His itIs just what Colonel Scott is hard to see and ancI other officers of or the academy em will reinstatement of the men mcm The do places the colonel in an un unenviable n la le before ron the cadets as aR his action action action ac ac- ac- ac position it Is believed believed be be- overruled and tion has been heen oV I this will vIll mean menn the e continuation of o f h hazing az i ng said The town of Highland 1 Falls Fails Is I Ito sympathy with the be In thorough to of or Colonel Scott as the residents residents resi resi- efforts that hazing has have known dents secluded parts of been going on in reservation and that the hazing the tho of or ormen the thc forcing not always been een has and count lou black men to ho pick up Ull ants ill m Recently an underclassman was been heen from having for several days das compelled to drink a bottle of or tobasco sauce that threw him into aJon agony Still more recently A jt party of women wom woin- In Highland Falls accidentally en The stumbled over o a 0 hazing party they saw caused them to protest sight and anti to denounce the cadets and anti affair to lo the threaten 1 to report the authorities at tho the academy |