| Show I Till m ItI Th The pp nt or if th Ih ulry IM is I publish hip Ina I with WIlli wll nur nr or lr fres Inti com onto comment ment the pip recent nt nf ut Hull nf of f the thu Ih Ir r i u of ot the l Iou of or lp that thaI The Th Arm r u ii 1 not he b worse or oft off Ita It ond I l ul d l rate isle r Now the tho Ih i IM I r f thin this demoralisation tion In Is I ih th u ho I II U I I f tonI it nd pr per onal ennel f f T m i In III among mr hll M to t lull Hull lament tile tie untoward v 1111 i u if ut the Ih aini ornu m he ho h en rn entirely 1111 fill rl t I KIM gi I thin particular ular phane Dha if u t r ih uP fi f MI ih It Its Ji Juit t ilu lU In tn fact lii it tI HI oil at h nuke ak no t u i it ll Ito 01 tn I for to tog RolIn g r fl MI t Itt ugh thi thu of hIM hi miI tl M that MM bis ton son John JohnA A w a i t a In iwi 1111 M lu major In InI I th I Ii h 1 a 10 11 ent rtIn 1 H depart ill in iMil I l I y rl to tn tobe tobe be I u it I nt itt 1 he the Ih age II Ip at of ofil il 9 i i J Iu v T r the Ih hend of or I 12 1231 1 ji I 1 T 1469 69 9 lieutenant Pili nl a YU 10 nor Warren of or Wo l mIn of or the Senate Senat e tt e on irv affair d to III se tle secure secure cure ure the Ih pr notion of hi bit nun on In law Captain T of ot the Fifteenth aIry alry try to 10 n II generalship over the heads head of ot 82 officers of ot higher hl r rank and long 10 service for this officer only 01 grad graduate rad ustel from Went Wt Point In JIlt The noe public has haa h not yet forgotten n the pro promotion motion Uon of General Leonard Leoard Wood who graduated ual from Harvard In tn UM 1884 was wa bat an assistant Ilant surgeon In I ill 11 In th tM the tar service with wi the th rank of ot cap caplAin tarn lAin but In was waa wa jum to a brig br In the regular lar army arsey Only two iwo yean afterward un an Wood waa we made mad major mar general To 10 be he aura sure General Wood made an au excellent record aa as an n administrative officer ofer o r In lit Cuba but wt It was wai not generally that hie ht hi vt were Ill of a nature nal to warrant his hta ht the ahe lb II elevation k vat on to tn Wg bt rank In the UIe r over oe the U u heads head of mew men II grewn 0 gray while wU he a was waa yet yat a con coet contract tract net tv et surgeon Burgeon Butt Bell la I ia ta e trots ran a tJ M In Inthe tb the Cavalry Can to be lot brigadier general 1 In after being heing captain only two years yean and yet et smother another Mr t taral ii 1 aral promoted frow froan a cap 1101 to be brigadier general th Ih the pr present nt MeIer brigadier general genera was waa l Into IJ ue the rag reg tar V from a In lit the U volunteer In IWi 1103 aa a and anti la Ii at Ute the Uv next hext retirement t thant front from the tt lint of ot major r generals la to be 14 elevated ted to that rank nude It tt la Ii hiu UI seine lee tion for tor promotion pro through and anti personal pP nal InDuce rather than t fw tot seniorIty or actual performed that la Is tb the commIssioned i er of ot the Ih army aimy It tt detro hon lion ambition slides nate a atlon It leave le v who ho have no pull at ut Washington of ot any anything anythIng thing Ilk Ilki early earl advancement when under the Ih regular order of or e nt this advani should be Ix realized realised It would he bO well II for tor the tile chad chaIrmen men of t tho the house Iou ente Benat on Mill Kilt tar tarv affairs affair and the th Pr ld nt alo also to tole 0 11 le Home ration to thi this loud boil od on the Ih army Mrian luSt Hint In is I een n nII II o thing larger r a i n hand bond |
