| Show OUR NAVAL SHOWING The pitiable showing or exhibit of our naval resources by an expert board of examiners should touch with grief even the rollicking tar who writes the naval articles for the morning Republican organ In three years half of the navy will be unfit to go to sea and in ten years all of it will be at the bottom or laid up in rotten row Where now are your jibes and grimaces so often made in deference to the party wand waved for Billee the Kid alias Chandler Where are all the boasted ironclads and what has become of all the millions sucked up by the Navy Department of the Republican Re-publican Government for twenty years It is all centered in the Dolphin What a picture of shame and humiliation to present to the people of the country and ask them to strengthen the hands of the horde who did these things The naval appropriations have been as regular regu-lar as the seasons up into hundreds of millions and now there is nothing to show for it That great ship the Trenton that beat the 0 and 0 mail boats into Gibraltar is accorded but ten years to float and she has cost over 4000000 since she first was lauched This is a specimen of the general rottenness existing exist-ing in all tiepartments of the government when Democracy obtained control and all the false figuring in the world cannot change it How different from all this sounds the latter part of the dispatch dis-patch containing the humiliating acknowledgement The Democratic party have taken hold of the matter and in four years from date the country can hope for a naval showing adequate to her wants and with a chance of still enlarging enlarg-ing on the ships now contemplated No rotten timber and misfit machinery but firstclass material to produce the highest speed attainable und be able to meet and vanquish anything afloat It is another t sign of the great good the country enjoys from Democratic rule and proves that personal jobs are not a tenet of the Naval Department of a Democratic Government Secretary Whitney had a hard row to hoe when he took Chandlers portfolio but he is clearing up things in grand style and our people abroad will soon bo that they can enter into conversation conver-sation on marine and naval matters without with-out being called on to blush at some thrust made by a foreigner nt our disgraceful dis-graceful naval showing f |
