Show WHO SAID l ARTY HACKP Before Arthur Brown cracked hIs whip before the Republican state con ventlon endorsed McKinleys conduct of the war a morning contemporary was mercihess inlts arrdlgnrnent of the administration for the way the soldiers had been treated in the war with Spain I It has changed since It lays part of i the blame On the 45 state governors and I on the volunteers themselves now It jl says that all the wrongs cannot IJe centered on one head and a successful i campaign made upon it and upon the lies put out by to or three despicable newspapers and their lying correspOndents i correspOn-dents What despicable newspapers and their lying correspondents have putout put-out these storIes Is reference made to the volunteers whose stories hav been told through its own columns Does it mean Frank Goodwin of Logan Lo-gan Does it mean its other informants infor-mants whose harrowing stories it has printed By despIcable newspapers perhaps it includes the following On the 6th of August this year the Tribune said If the quartermaster commissary and medical departments of the army have not been shamefully handled there is nothing in signs and it is poor policy to reprimand an officer offi-cer for making pUblic the incompetence which has had control It made the foregoing statement after af-ter the war was over It didnt refer to mistakes at the beginning of the war And it knows that governors of states did not organize or appoint the quartermasters commissaries and surgeons who have been to blame The fOllowing also appeared in the I editorial columns of our Republican contemporary long after the close of I the war The most distressing feature of the war thus far and the one which is worrying the people of this country more than anything else is the condition condi-tion of our sick at Santiago They are numbered by thousands and judging by those who have been sent away and by the way they have been sent they are not receiving the attention that they should If the directing head or the medical department of the army Is not only utterly incompetent but at the same time utterly Impractical then there is nothing in the accounts that come from the front Ve published pub-lished the other day the account of 0 ship reaching New York from Santiago with scores of sick and wounded and with only one nurse on board and with only such ospital stores as she could beg before leaving Santiago A ship came up to Old Point Comfort last week from Santiago bringing sixty sick soldiers and was refused a landing because of fever aboard and she proceeded pro-ceeded to New York without one nurse and with no medicines on board No explanation can set such work as that right and there should at once be a wholesale decapitation of the officers responsible for it Whether the following refers to Alger or McKinley is not known but It too Is taken from the Tribune They have had the city for four weeks Why has not a camp been organized or-ganized in the hills where the air is pure for the whole command save a small garrison There Is some educated educa-ted and obstinate ass in charge sure and this country is paying for it with the lives of her heroes ThIs Is a matter mat-ter even more important than the discussion dis-cussion of peat terms with Spain for Spain is whipped the men who helped to whip her are ding and they should be seen to first 1 |