| Show HOBSON DECLARES THAT ADMIRAL SAMPSON IS DYING OF I BROKEN HEART Atlanta Ga Ga Oct Oct 22 During ing his iS present visit to his home in Alabama and wherever he has ha appeared before the public Lieutenant Richmond P Hobson has ha been quoted q as as saying that Admiral Sampson is dying of a broken heart owing owing to t the Schley controversy which followed d the naval engagement ment at Santiago Santago He Is II quoted as follows When hen last las Saturday Oct Oct 13 I saw sawn in i n the papers pape that Admiral Admirl Sampson was ill 1 I 1 took tok the next train trin to Boston and spent Sunday with wih him His health is declining His physicians are baffled at his malady His organs are all aU allright allright right but his bis health does not improve We Ve touched tuche on one or two subjects For a little Itte while he could not speak Soon he had to be carried to his room and ad I did not see him again in Mrs rs Sampson told me that this great geat man was brooding was breaking his heart at the thought that his fellow coun countrymen countrymen were so unkind I 1 said sid to Mrs Ir Sampson When I visit my ray southland if the opportunity offers itself I wish to tell teU them some thing tIng of his I s majestic character ch She replied You dare not not Your southland was quick and vigorous to resent what was las a thought to be an attempt to take takeaway way away the fhe laurels laur ls of orn one ond of its ita ia great geat men m n menI I 1 came oame by Washington Wah ngon and saw sw the secretary of the navy naY and to him also I Ij my r intention inte ti n and he gave me his consent warning waring me however of what I might expect t Mr Hobson in his speech at a public reception here today said Admiral Sampson had not received simple jus justice Justice tice at the hands hand of the American pro peo people pe plo He said saidI It I has been sought to place him in a despicable light before the world to tomake tomake make him an incompetent incompetent narrow minded man and ad jealous of the fame of his contemporaries con particularly of one Illustrious naval chief cief As A his ju junior officer f er serving under him I ex express express express press the deliberate opinion that Ad Admiral AdmIral miral mimI Sampson is the colossal colo al figure of the warthe the genius of the naval victory of Santiago Santago He is unmatched today as the te di directing sea reeling mind of a war squadron on the |
