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Show SAMPSON AND SCHLEY. The controversy in the navy regarding regard-ing the relative merits of Sampson and Schley will not down. Just when the friends of each admiral had begun to subside through sheer exhaustion the Republican politicians of Maryland bob up with the charge that that state was lost to the Republican party because of the navy department's persecution of Admiral Schley, who is a native of Maryland, and much endeared to its people. These representations of the Maryland Mary-land politicians have evidently incensed Secretary Long, who has published another an-other letter, in which he unmercifully excoriates Admiral Schley. The candid can-did reader may be pardoned if he is not much impressed by Secretary Long's letter, which bears evidence that it was written in passion and anger. This Sampson -Schley controversy may continue for generations, but the American Amer-ican neonle will not fnrrrot tv.ot a,-i Schley was at the battle of Santiago when the Spanish fleet was destroyed, while Admiral Sampson was miles away. It may also be of some importance impor-tance to note that Schloy is a. Democrat Demo-crat and Sampson is a Republican. |