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Show Rear Admiral -Charges Sec. Daniels Misrepresented Acts of Leaders -, WASHINGTON, Juno 2 6. The Slms-Danlels row over the navy's conduct con-duct of tho war wa3 revived today with the publication of a letter from Rear Admiral Benton C. Decker, commandant com-mandant of the seventh naval district, Florida, in which he charges that Secretary Sec-retary Daniels in his testimony before the senate investigating committee "intentionally and deliberately" mia-icpresented mia-icpresented certain acta of Rear Admirals Ad-mirals Suns, Fullnm and Fiske. The letter, dated Juno 17 and addressed ad-dressed to. Chairman Hale of tho committee com-mittee was published In the Army and Navy Register, a service magazine. Admiral Decker said he also had sent a copy of It to Secretary Daniels. Admiral Decker formerly was naval attache at Iadrid but was rem.oved j during the war. Secretary Daniels has stated that his removal followed I representations from Ambassador Wil-la'rd Wil-la'rd to the state department that he ;vas encroaching on diplomatic functions func-tions in his activities there. I Contents of Letter. I The admiral declared in his lettor that "from my personal knowledge of I Air. Daniels' character I am led to be-lieve be-lieve that whatever is cited in hl3 statements to the discredit of the officers offi-cers is so perverted and twisted as to give the actual facts a false meaning." "It ig "probable and more than likely," like-ly," Admiral Decker's letter said; "that If these officers hud bowed down and had served tho gods that Air. Daniels worshipped they would today have been fattening on the navy as commanders of fleets on active dutv or In pleasant Jobs In Washington." To I me, as to other Jiigh officers of the navy, it has come that If we would bow down and do the wishes of Mr. Daniels we. would receive the rewards therefor Intimations that come bv circuitous routes and underhanded, sneaking ways, so that no one can take hold of them. "My explanation of the incidents sot forth by M Daniels is basea 'ipon my porsonal experience with him. This! explanation Is that Mr. Daniels found these officers -would not follow him to the limit of demoralizing and degrading degrad-ing the navy; that, even though thev honestly desired the rewards and pro-motlon pro-motlon of their career-which all honorable hon-orable men reasonably desire, they wore not willing to sacrifice their character, their manhood and their country. And as a result Mr. Daniels determined to break them by the use of all the power of his high office, by the use of the power of ridicule, sarcasm and half-truths, that as a newspaper man he has learned how to use-so skilfully; by the use of strength of publicity secured through his newspaper news-paper connections, all the weapons which Prusslanism used to destroy its enemies, and autocracy has- used through the ages to jnalntaln its power. t "In my opinion all credit is due to these men that they have fought unto the end and upheld tho standard of uprightness, loyalty to country, self-sacrifice, self-sacrifice, hard work and gentlemanly eonduct, uttrlbutea that the Ideal naval na-val officer has always revered. "I have no desire In this letter to bring out my personal experiences with Mr. Daniels but he knows of them and he knows, If ho knows the difference differ-ence between right and wrong, that ho has been dishonest; that he has been autocratic, that ho has abused his power; that ho has done all this for unworthy motives." "In any re-organization of the navy today," Admiral Decker continued, "the navy needs and the best interests inter-ests of the country demand that there 'shall be placed In tho navy department depart-ment a naval officer, big enough and broad enough and of sufficient ability to maintain the standards of tho navy against the encroachments of tho civil-Ian civil-Ian secretaries, who seek to make of I |