Show I 1lirSIDCNTIAT UAOKDONi S President Cleveland has given 1 tho Hu publican press and the lavenderscuntei military circles of Wellington moth leason foi abusing him ns lie bus Kent ill the name of Captainllinodoio Schwa of the Kloxenlh Infantry for the position of Assistant AdjutantGeneral of the Army In the pi lice of Greeloy the Arctic explorer This is announced as an outrage out-rage because Schwan M n imtivcho German and Greeley I Is a nitivoboi American It will bo remembered tha Greoley was profiorod Iho milk of Colonel on the retired list and 1 refused it wishIng wish-Ing 10 he in active service and his lnro tlcular friends procured 1 his nomiiintio and confirmation as Captain in the hope that the President would ylelul to the t pressure brought on him from tho lue 0 ilerBccnted army annex and put Ureelc in this really nice poiltlon True to his lino of action uinto ha hocamo Presiden Cleveland sent for the names of lIIell eligible under the law and l Captain Schwan was one of them Cluvclam l appointed Bclnum and every right 0 minded man will applaud the oct whell ho reads Captain Schnand record whit Is as follow I Bchwnn iu a native of Oormiiuy Hoe listed Ill tim regular army as n private 5000 tf uMl after Ills immigration I to this irI to tHAT Ha served through tho war 11 rut ns n private then corporal sergeant nud final t oco ra m IIl1ga I second lieutenant receiving n captain ii commission and a majors brevet iu the ro organisation of the army in Ib07 Ho tins i thus been iu thin regular I service fur itearly I ri d rh rll Olfrr i thirty years and bus an excellent record Ho stands No M in the list of HV enptoi of Infantry U is stated at the War Do partuient that Captain Kebwau linuS tin po I Iitical ie backing iII that bo was reoo mended by IdsBupenorofliceraoiilyand that his up > oiiitinnt was intended to be II recognition of the services of a gallant sol j I 1 dier who bad risen from the rooks by hid Ithhn dlmiluhO merits boa served faithfully with loin I rtgi menu and tins never had a detail outside of i mcrcgOThcihTToiunt appointment t of this sort that ins bus n itto been ncinu made I i Jy lloBldell1 Clovelnlld within II tow rnoitha j thin other lIellll that of Captatll J W Gloss I of the Iwetntyfonrth Jofautry to lie Aaoint I snot Jadue AdvneutetIiticral Chum like Bohwan enlisted an n private in 1857 noon I I after tie onto from Germany nud served usa us-a noncommissioned olllcer during lIsa war I Lieutenant Greeley was proflerrcd I I o A r it several positions nil of which he refined I hoping In Iho end to corrall this particular particu-lar ofllcc which would necessarily keep him nt the headquarters of the Army neil in Washington life but the 1resi dent san fit to reward n deserving olllcer I over his head and one far his senior in I Into of rank nnd all the vituperation of a jinndiced pre s cannot lead honorable men to bclievu 1resident Cleveland did wrong H such notion is wrong then VTC hope the President will continue it until ull the deserving men In tho Army nnd Nny line been recognized 1 who vvero kept In the background only bo nu e they did not chime with Hepnb Hum politicians |