| Show Sell Y Capt U 1 8 S X Origin of ut the Trouble Kansas Canas City CIU Mo Aug Ul 25 2 James McQueen Forsythe U tT S N who Iho had charge of ot the naval station nt at Key ley KeyWest West W st during durin the tho war var spout spent today in Kansas City It while en n route from rom Pan inn Francisco to his hla home In III Philadelphia To a n Times reporter Capt Copt Forsythe For talked of ot the thc controversy y and that paper In per tomorrow will quote him him as QI Sri lIa Ray Raying ing While we wt have hao been Instructed by bythe bythe the thc navy nl flat department not to discuss the thc merits of ot the he ease case ra every en one knows that the thu navy looks upon Ulon the controversy ns no an nn unfortunate affair We believe bellevo there was plenty of ot glory glen for or nil all concerned con concerned The fact that a It Junior man was placed in command above his seniors Is responsible for tor the thc whole business continued Capt Copt Sampson was wall a captain and the seventeenth fI ranking officer of or the navy nM No one ever eer thought of ot him as aM the suc sur successor ur cessor of Admiral and I dont believe 1 he over ever thought of ot It himself Hut But he h Willi familiar to 0 tile the lie j eople of oC Washington n rind and they the decided to place him In command Of Or O course the tho officers who out outranked outranked ranked rAnker him did dill not like It It Is not to tobe tobe tobe be expected that thaI they the would But Washington said saul Sampson arid that settled the matter maUrI was wall among the out outranking outranking ranking Bimpson and nOlI ns nil he was thrown directly under the Juniors com corn command mend mand he naturally felt elt the promotion more mo than any an of oC the others The battle of or Santiago was Willi one ont of ot the most moat brilliant In history less of oC who was WRIt responsible for tor or the thc titan plans or who ho was directly responsible for or such effective execution there was wn llor enough for or both Sampson and Schley Shley The present controversy serves to dim the of or the victory and It Is hI to be greatly deplored dellor That any anyone nn one oat should question the bravery of ot either of o the lie men inca n n Is particularly un unjustified Unjustified justified Cant who will vill III I retired on September r under the forty ort years Cr service act A hu hIlS been n associated with Admirals and In Sampson nt nl different times during durin his hili long life lIe In Inthe Inthe Inthe the navy M When he hI left lett Key ICI Key West est ho took command of the battleship In Indiana diana 1 nA Later he chief of staff to Admiral Watson In charge of ot the thc Asiatic squadron for or the thc past pan soy sev several c ceral eral months has hai been second In com corn mand inand at ul the Maro Mare Island navy nar yards ards at San nn Francisco l Capt left tonight for tor St Louis where he lie will spend spent a few tew days lIa s before proceeding to Philadelphia |
