Show Coghlan Will Talk Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh has I had n habit for many years of sneaking his mind rather freely and It has seriously seri-ously interfered with lsa promotion rim I Washington correspondent of the Detroit Journal says sS Tho first time Coghlan got Into trouble for speaking his mind was for telling a chief clerk in the navy office what he thought of him He lost thirteen numbers num-bers Coghlan remarked to a friend about this time that the only person a naval officer could speak his mind to was the ofcer cook or washwoman and then he must carefully shut tho front door The next time when he was about to bo promoted he wroto a friendly letter to a brother officer In which he cooled as an entertaining witticism a remarc of Dan Voorhees about Grovcr Cleveland The brilliant Hoosier had said Grover Cleveland must be a great man because he wears a No IS collar This letter was read at a dinner Cleveland heard about I and refused to promote him |