Show Till I 8 City Star Tho The lamentable accident on the lire battle battleship battleship ship Missouri will undoubtedly furnish fresh tresh campaign material to tho the op opponents of o President The argument It may be confidently pro lire I dieted will take about this form The captain of ot the ship shill on which the den occurred Is the presidents pro l brother inlaw doubtless ho he owes his position to that fact and not to his hi competency therefore presidential favoritism Is IH re rl h for tor the appalling loss lo s of at life i iThen I Then rhea somebody will look loop up tho the facts in inthe Inthe Inthe the case caso and will discover that Captain i I I Cornice Cowles had a n fine record of o over oer 30 20 years before his brie marriage In ISM 1896 that IhaL the tho present pres nt assignment came cane to him in inthe Inthe inthe the regular order otter after forty orl years ears of o faithful service that the President hid had nothing to do with the case and finally that the captain woe probably no more responsible for Cor the tho accident nt In the tur turret turret ret Iet than he was tor for the latest eclipse of ot the moon Worcester Spy Sp A modern battleship Is a great greal ma ilia machine machine chine requiring electrical experts and to operate It In Instead instead stead of ot fighting sailors anti Intrepid naval captains In III sonic somo way wn the skilled mechanics mechanic and men of at training nerve lIone amid skill are tiro re te required reo to discharge these modern guns gun It means moans economy as IS well mi nil success In iii both to tt have the shells shell hit the murk mark markA A gunner who can land nine thirteen Inch shells on nn nil K boat within a few tew minutes Is III worth millions of at dollars to ills his government Springfield Republican The frightful explosion In the tho after turret of ot the tho United States State battleship Missouri resulting In tho tiro death of at 31 men pales In hr comparison with the sink lInk sinking lInkIng ing hog of at the Russian battleship at Port Arthur but the tho Missouri Is hI our own and ane the accident to her Is right at nl home Not long lung ago a 11 similar accident occurred on another of ot our warships These cn casualties that are arc the result le ulL of oC chance or carelessness In III modern na navies navies vies leH seem to cost ns many lives a n naval battles battle The Tho accident on the Missouri Is evidently the mOst deadly ono one Ol In our navy since the loss Iou of or the tho Maitre Maine Cap 1111 lain tain Cowles of or the tho Missouri will com command command mand public sympathy on account of o othe the series of at that has attended at nt attended tended his hili service on this ship His presence of at mind In Hooding the maga conga zinc Is said Bald to have ho 0 saved the Missouri front from thin thu tate late of ot the Maine Maitre and It Il Is to tobo tobo bo ho hoped that neither he nor any of o his officers ore are censurable for or the turret explosion Cincinnati In lu our own oln diner which despite the tie much smaller lost loss comes conies nearest homo hona to us the tho mishap Is III paralleled by that tint tinton on the ln when nine men mell wore killed and It In Is attributed by hy our to the same cause calise They The say Al there has hu grown up on each ship slip a n de IC desire sire to surpass PS nil all others std bent beat the thu record In rapidity of at and that the superheated gas duo due to too great haste hll le caused cau the explosion If It this ho be betrue true truo It ought t to be possible blo to regulate 18 the rate of oC firing In hI the line future so 80 as ms to prevent the th recurrence of at such Buch harrow harrowIng Ing anti and costly caRli results There here are some however who tribe tho tiro view that tho tiro explosion lon was duo to some same loose pack Ing material which got unto Into tho the gun mud and Ignited The of ot the tho ship appear to have has acted with great promptness bravery and Pueblo Chieftain Hut lint now that the tho danger 1 has icon henn so terribly demonstrated any further ex ox experiments o along this line are arC eary and wrong wron line Tho navy lIa depa department should establish a maximum trite rate Ito of sp lI speed ed ell for tor working wanting tho the hug big guns anti and title this should not nol bo be exceeded under any clr ch except those of at actual bat hat battle battie tie tle It iI Is III only by Iho he chance airmen that the Ih magazine of at the tho Missouri did not explode with the tho loss of ot the tho ship chip p and nil all Its lis crew No o more mOle risks of or this kind should bo hI taken San fian Francisco Francl co Chronicle Thi Iho Inquiry which In Is sum earn to in tallow follow should bo be of tho tine most mo searching character and If It I any nil surviving Is III tor for the tho conditions condItion which produced cd the Ih fatal explosion he rte should tat not bo ht spared Tho The good of oC tho tiro service I certainly demands that tho tiro safety safely of o othe the men urea should he ho more moro secure I Curo In hl time of or pence than ran In of or war which does not appear to be lie tho the case eRBo now no |