| Show I L NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I IA A ROOSEVELT WAR PLAN THAT FAILED fly UV E Eo J 1 f ad This dully dUy i rl rles s of ot In dolts antI and lud I J nu that theu throw new Inter and nd dramatic light on moul n and M personalitIes M of nr the tOut act have ban been by Mw dw during n jr v forty ars tar af et roie ot o less lees mete mal with Hh Ith man many of if the h country Su ry lo I leaders lers deu since th the Civil War Each Kach ar anecdote dol 0 os t isi is fresh from Mr and d In III whole ole 0 or In pars r it constItutes hi New News Newil e or Of Valeda garere frum frem the race who snide th the from sources As AI tin of o this the human In sort ort lo to history n these articles have a value all the their Ir own When the real Inner history of all II 1 the he e eel enis lI that preceded ded and led up u w uhe wIh Ih he war with Spain path Is s written I sim that It wilt wIll make al n read lag Ing ng tn In the best t meaning of If f the tho word wont I know enough of the history to lo me mf In saying this and Ind I alito also am a In adding that in It that his it Is hi I eer ever written tte name of Theodore n will ill re no M In Jn mention The VIc 1 li fr r iee we one wiO 1 det el MInt om post 1 at nt Wash WashIngton Ington In ton Just before Lefore and du the tar vr with Spain and for n a I year roar or two after of tel it was terminated Yes YeL he hp reiterated the lite name home of ot I Theodore Theodle will Mill certainly re to receive cele more mOTe hen thon parsing notice and I X II oha reason for fo believing that Sir Ur hu hail kept heist complete document documentary documental Cry ary al data and that ho himself unity may m be 00 betho bethe tho the man who will wilt sometime give che us our real tory of ot th thu war with Spain In that tha t event L I daresay he will 11 tell cli among amon other things what h be as ae u or of tho the nay navy ed doing with the tiso Philippine Island bland after I we ve hart hail wrested thorn them from Spain ao so OGlIng to tho the strategy he lie planned This bit of Inner Inn 1 history came ame within ii ni personal l and tv so fOO far as asI asI asI I know kOUI has hlll never be beco ai n put tn In print One of or the this moat mO ft intimate whom Ool Col Roosevelt ever aver had bait was the late John n It Proctor president or the United States civil olvil commission anti and whom hOln y Mi 1111 served im n a commissioner The two men were era ern lust Jut enough ugh unlike In temperament to toI toli I li entirety entirely congenial COnK the one to this tha I ach understood under tood the other per par I believe belleC that Proctor hud had a tetter betler understand Ip g of K xu I than any nn other othe of ot tho tim latter frIends or acquaintances u A t few days daYI after att the Maine hart half been wrecked wre in Havana harbor I to tl jn m t Mr Proctor He lie wa Will wavery very ety 81 much excited Ho Ito thought that war was Us Inevitable limit But wont It Il be foolish to precipitate precipitate tate war I 1 asked him You Yon know kno Jont hont you OU that tha we I Ben tion enough In la our Atlantic t de dc defences 1 reuses fences to ert en erve tie the guns gune more mure than once Taa 1 I know that he hI replied and 10 to does Roosevelt Ill tell you OU what plans plane doing tie lie went on hastily and hea lies going to do Oo it right away aa Were ero going to have war that cant be avoided So Bo velt is I plan planning planning ning fling to have hao Dowry DeWilY who is II now near hoar Hong Kong Iong on with his hi Sheet go to Manila and detroy destroy the Spanish fleet there says that Dewey can rn kuock tho fleet lo to with within wIthin in two hours hOu Then when he lie has hap dune that the are at out ow mercy It 8 was the tl lint time line that I 1 had bad thought of or the Philippines in connection connection tion with the Impending war yar with Spain except remotely mid and I said ald to Proctor Well If It I eny destroys the tile and captures artur the tile Philippines what hat are we going to do with the th archipelago Oh replied Proctor I 1 cant tell ten you certainly but I 1 am aol an strongly of the tha opinion that expects that wo can an turn them over oer to Japan after we wc f have slashed IIla hed the Islands oft off from Spain You know which Japan con controls c n trolL far away and Japan would be bo only too happy to sold uld the Philip Philippines PhilIppines pines to Us liB own archipelago Instantly It was plain to me that th t Proctor spoke thus thuR guardedly because ha ho did not want to commit t his hi friend but ut that he h laid hall positive personal knowledge from trum headquarters that It wa was his hili young youn friends pur purpose pose POliO to slice Mien off ort tho the Philippines from Spain and thorn Into Inlo the keep keepIng Ing log of Japan I am um positive that If hae have had his way wa thU Isle would have b beon on done with what nhat hat eels con sequences In the far out east no man OlIn can cansay say liar But Rut the momentous diplomacy which made this action Impossible Is te another story and It too will snake sensational history when It Is III told Tomorrow Mr will tell How tho tile World mid lost latt In ft a a Great Groat Novel lit 1st |
