The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1899, Page 1

aper not to be from the Library.++++ ta R(;! Tall VOLUME LXXXVI—NO. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 CRITICS OF AMERI SOLDIERS D 1899, CAN | ENOUNCED Chaplain McKinnon Excoriates Detractors of Brigadier General Funston and of Himself, The Lecturer Bitterly Rebukes the Monitor and Pays an Eloquent Tribute to the A — mies in the Philippines—The Story of the Looting of the Church at Caloocan. hed broadcast by SENSATION was cr shebebeded [ R e e DA S, what I could ha essary to 1at there ther: he Cni- I reco redators sc to the res of sacred articles, Archbishop « sent Could in erend fers met »a sctor mair w was Brigac ¥ St nd the charges which these gentlemen wh s xious it > uphold the dignity of our church in- ad of secking to cast opprobrium on ¥ Ame: an soldiers now that t 1 b e but to g0 to the P » and if th r 2 find any church pre pe y ha C H . % 1y to report their dis and the prop- ¢ L Metoal? sill Enow bim o le erty will be o ated and returned to Béari > ol 3 foll the rightt I will speak now = wpdr oLl a1 e more partic but one man, Briga- ¥r »nel Metcalf was not gullty | dier Genera n, arged against him. And| “Ispeak of him because he is one who is arch at Caloocan. We have | Not of that class of bigots that hate the t deal of it, and before you | Name Catholic and all that it means. I x will hear & great deal | know him as a e nerous, high- something of the looting | Minded man and 1 feel grieved that that is laid at the doors | &Zainst one of the bravest, noblest, broad. Jidiers. On October 3, | €5t generals who fought in the war of the r months before the Fil. | Philippines such st, absurd and ma- otion: T 'via lignant charges should be made. It seems il ge to me th rs of some everything | ©f our papers s mouths ¥ Th"“, ;_,2";:’4; like ducks to suck 18 testimony . upation of the | Of soreheads ir evidence nd T can ses|SEAiDt that ho, above all e 1 others, have peak—Father L A ‘”‘; JAmerical | Reaney, the chaplain_of the Olympia; j ts Taonths | Father Hart, Father Fitzgeraid and my R self, four priests whose fir duty is to their God and whose tell the truth. “Rather than accept the testimony of these priests, these editors swallow the words of some drunken scrub who was in the guardhouse more than anywhere else, who was sober only because he could not »t drunk. When the Reverend Father P. Yorke was the editor of the San Fran- only obligation is to 11 will say again, ¢ and desecration t and robbery vestments. I | s precious ar- American sol- 1 will not lcally insist iever saw the ration of a church by ng or the dese- der the lashing scorn of Father Yorke and American sol- the Monitor the pulpiteers, cheap editors w r and scribblers sought their hole: but how ‘And I say to reverend and irreverent | the Monitor has fallen from its high es- gentlemen, to misguided and foolish edi- | tate. t that this looting and desecration | *Its editor goes out of his way to in- which we all depr * Was committed by | sinuate against the honesty and the sin- ! by Chincse, and by them | cerity of Catholic chaplains. He follows | ®lone. When the campaign began the | eringing in the wake of political sheets as wtr rders in reference to these mat- | insignificant as his own to brand Cathoile ters issued by General Anderson. | priests hirelings of the administration— These orders were read ageln by General | as pald supporters of the Republican par. CHAPLAIN McKINNON EXCORIATES HIS CRITICS. Badaat o ot 2SS S +oe@ held responsi- ! ¢ g not in the | (0o Monitor that newspaper was a great | * st degree for these out- | nower fn our midst. We were proud to rux During my Ye months’ Stay | gaq that its light of intelligent criticism in the Philippines 1 was with General | throw bigots deeper into the darkness of 1 with Gene Wheaton, with | thejr own malice; that when religion G King, h General Smith and | peeded a defender it was first to the with General MacAr and my eyes | frone: that when the good name of women N en and 1 ha as dearly | and the honor of men needed a champion an in U States the In- | pather Yorke and his pen were not found s of my chureh, ]-l' I say to-night | wanting. We were glad to know that un- D T o T I S e e IR RCIR SRR I want to he is mi I want to tell him that T am not privileges of a peaceful parish, he t myse € of home and kindred, di- from people 1 scenes that I love, to undergo the hardships and privations, sufferings and per- haps a bullet In order that I may become the hireling of any adm: no anxiety to go to the 1 will g ratton. I have Philippines, an commission to any priest d is acceptable to the aila the editor of this sheet s not know that the Archbishop of Manfla wrote a letter to the Archbishop of San Francisco asking him to have me retained at Manila and that the Archbishop of San | Franclsco granted his request. the Monttor, In its attack on me, refers to my trip East as a junketing tour. I want to tell the editor of the Monitor that I am no politician; I have nothing to g; and much to lose in returning to my post in Manila, but bound to tell the truth as the Monitor, these political-religious papers, that are doing more harm to re- liglon and to truth than the American armies, by their unjust and lying criti- cism. It is they who are prolonging the struggle, and I can conceive of no good American citizen who would fiinch now in what he conceives to be his duty and I suppose his patriotism, and I would be recreant to my sac 1 calling were 1 to fail in telling what 1 know to be th truth—that American soldiers not guilty of the outrages which we all most sincerely de plore. And I will tell the Monitor that there is not an office in the gift of the President of the United States nor mone ugh in the United States treasury induce me to defend any administration that I believe to be wrong. “But 1 have no time for newspaper con- troversy, and I would leave the attack on me and the other Catholic chaplains to the people of California to decide. I can conceive an honest and just criticism in reference to the policy of the administra- tion: I can understand that sincere, pa- triotic men may differ in thinking the war just or unjust, necessary or unnecessary, | but I can know of no patriotlc American ‘rmzen who would attempt to bring de- feat to the armies of his country under | the conditions those armies are now strug- gling in the Philippines. Our soldiers de- serve better, fairer treatment. 1 know what they are. “1 have been among them in life and in death. I have seen how bravely they fought and how calmly they died. I can see now their pale, emaciated upturned faces and hear their words of remem- brance to their mothers and wives and thelr loved ones. I can hear their last messages, begging me to counsel their loved ones not to mourn, for they gave up their lives for their country.” They de- serve support; not criticism. “As 1 have sald, there may be legiti- ——— e Continued on Becond Page. in | I am in consclence | It is such papers | to | NEGRD TRIS BT Wi THE CITZE | Fort Ringgold, Texas, the | Scene of Most Exciting | Encounters AN VOLLEYS FIRED United States Soldiers Declare They Were Attacked, but Are ' Accused of Bombarding the Town. | —_— ! | 1 to The Can, ' Nov. 2L.—Reports re that there was t night at Fort Tex ached d h a pitched battle Ringg Rio nde City, Texas, between of the Ninth 8- C garrisoning tha fort, and TW citizens ) attacked the post shortly after dark. Three thousand hots were said to have been fired dur- ut the casualties are not id that all the iren have been sent away nd that runners nf ts for the citi- tary authorities are ocgu- wires and full reports That the affair is a d by the activity in pying tt cannot be obtained serious one Is inc milit DEATH'S HAND LAID UPON VICE PRESIDENT HOBART Weakened by His Long Illness, the Invalid Suc- Maj in com: d at Fort Meln 1p all the Krag-Jor- | gen n in Laredo to-day, and is hurriec a special train with mules the avail- able fore scene of the troub! and a special en route here from | company from Fort srande City. ov. 2L.—To-day Gov- n receipt of a telegram commanding officer of the t San Antonto con- | on that there was a | e City last night | between the troops stationed there and the citzens of that town. About the same time another telegram came | from the County Judge at that place, and | the telegrams are somewhat confusing. The military commander at S8an Antonic General McKibben, telegraphs that the report he recelved from the commander at Fort Ringgold, near Rio Grande City, states that all the troops were in th gar n last t at 7 o'clock, when the citize f that town advanced on the fort and fired upon the guard. The guard returned the fire and the entire garrison at once called to arms. The citzens cumbs to an Attack of Heart Failure. continued their firlug npon the fort, the | | soldiers returned the fire and fnally had | to bring thelr Gatling guns into play to H—-8-0-B3-0-0-B-9-0-80-8-0-8 0-85-B-—0-B-8- -8 8-0-0-0-0-8-% 828 disperse the attackers. The commander | By the President of the United States—A Proclamation: states t he fears further trouble and To the People of the United States: Garret Augustus Hobart, Vice President of the United States, died at his B asks for more troops. home in Paterson, N. J., at 8:30 o'clock this morning. In him the nation has lost one of its most lllustrious citizens The telegram from the County Judge (M one of ts most faithtul servants, His participation In the businese life and the lawmaking body of his native S W states that the negro soldiers in the forts was marked by unswerving fdelity and by a high order of talents and attainments; and his too brief career as Vice ! there deployed ravine on the edge of | M jdent of the United States and President of the Senate exhibited the qualities of upright and sagacious statesmans L the town and the town for about | | In the world of affairs he had few equals In his contemporaries. His private character was gentle and noble. e an hour and a f, shooting into a num- | @ long be mourned by his friends as a man of singular purity and attractiveness, whose sweetness of disposition wor w ber of wounding one man, and | | hearts, while his e ed purposes, his unbending integrity and whole-hearted devotion to the public good deserved and frighten women and children so acquired universal respect and esteem " badiy that a number of them had fled to In sorrowing testimony of the loss which has fallen on the country, I direct that upon the day of the funeral the the surrounding ranches for safety; that executlve offices of the United States shall be closed, and all stations of the army and navy shall display the national [g the attack was entirely unprovoked and flag at half-mast, and that the representatives of the United States In foreign countries shall pay appropriate tribute to | that the commurity was highly incensed the llustrious dead for a period of thirty days. | and further trouble was looked tor at | In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. L | once. | Done at the city of Washington this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and | Upon receipt of these telegrams, Gov- | a ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fourth = ,er or Sayres ordered Adjutant General WILLIAM McKINLEY. curry to the scene of action and he left | By the President: JOHN HAY, Secretary of State. u to-night for his destination. The Governor i = i B " also telegraphed to Washington to have a | @~ u-u a-8-5--0-5-8-uu —B full Investigation of the maiter and to re- EW YORK, Nov. 2lL—Garret A.jeager to attend the services it is sug- ) Schley, Governor Voorhees of New Jerse move the negro t The commander Hobart, Vice President of the United ed that they be held in the armory, | Senator Sewall df New Jersey, Senator at San Antc special detail of | States, died at his home in Paterson, | which accommodates 10.000 persons. It is | Hanna of Ohlo, General Russell A. Alger. officers to the scene at once to investi- | N. J., at 8:30 o'clock this morning. | known, however, that Mrs. Hobart wishes | Senator Foraker, Senator Fairbanks, Gen: gata. All is quiet to-night At his bedside were Mrs. Hobart and his | the funeral to be as quiet as possible and | eral Castillo, Civil Governor of 8. ntiago, This afternoon G sent the | gon, Garret A. Hobart Jr., together with | there is little likelihood that the pruvl Assistant Secretary of War Melklejohn, following teicgram to retary of | pr. Willidm K. Newton and his wife and | grame will be changed. | Genera! H. C. Corbin eneral Wesley War at Washingtc | Private Secretary Evans The Mayor and Aldermen of r‘nlerwn; Merritt, Governor Wolcott, M. Thiebaut, Please direct impartial and | Mr. Hobart's death had been expected | have suggested that the body lle in state | Charge d'Affairs of France General searching inv the conduct of | for some hours. Yesterday afternoon | at the City Hall on Friday or Saturday | Sickles, Judge McKenna and Grand En- negro soldiers ©r County, | there was a sudden failure of the heart, | morning, and this suggestion probably | campment I. 0. O. F. of Indiana. In ait Texas, last night. Also rders for mme- | and from this attack Mr. Hobart never | will be carried out. . The pallbearers have | about 5% messages were received by Mra, diate removal of trooy | rallied. He had been sick for a long time been selected, but their names will be | Hobar:. Followlng telegram Just recelved from the | and had suffered frequently from heart | withheld until they have been notified and | Although many regarded Mr. Hobart's County Jud Starr County: ““Negro soldiers | failure, and his strength had been under- | have accepted. | liness In the early part of last summe Fort Ri deployed In a ravine at the | mineq” Gradually the failure of the | Nearly all the representatives of foreign A% ‘mevicus; 1t was: not it &% Osto uth edg at 7 o'clock last night and | heart's action became more apparent, and | nations In this country have sent m n;:n his family and friends began to de- mes into and over the town. | goon after midnight last night Mr. Hobart | sages of sympathy to Mrs. Hobart. One Soats ot M b Hobail then The S Disyaie Oxep me unconscious. He remained in that | of the first to his sorrow at the | pioor 100 U0 ine fatal character of i hour hides 410 b condition until his_death death of the Vice President was President SR la—difited Viats art, ¢ tom his b m“‘,'r‘:"; 'n":l‘ Mr. Hobart's de due directly ta| McKinley, who had been notified by tele- | T HEF g tion is lde to dly act. The terrorized. avenge the: | ctvil authorities would trol. 1 understand that Lieutenant Rubottom, | commanding, directed this rdly assault. No cause for the act. Wire Washington and San Antonlo for searching Investigation and | removal of troops at once.” JOSEPH D. SAYERS. Governor of Texas. Governor Sayers received the following official message from the commanding | general (McKibben) in charge of Texas | division, U. S. A., from his headquarters | in S8an Antonio: | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 2L—To Governor | Sayers, Austin, Texas—The following dispatch has just been received: “FORT RINGGOLD, Tex.—Adjutant General, Department of Texas, San Antonlo: Every | man In garrison last night: citizens began fir- g on our guard at 7. Troop D and scouts placed on guard around garrison. Enemy opened terrific fire on garrison at 7:3 on side next to Rlo Grande City and continued for some time. Our men, obliged to protect garrison, fired several volleys. Finally ordered out Gat- ling gun and silenced enemy's fire. None of our men hurt. No trouble since, but rumor is of gathering In country. If true, may need | more troaps. Cannot treat with citizens, who will not even respect United States mail ear- rier; unsafe for garrison. Shall 1 send men after mail? RUBOTTOM.™ Have ordered troops of cavalry from Fort Broad to proceed by forced marches to Ring- gold. Am taking every precaution to prevent further trouble. Wil keep you advised. Please wire me any Information you may obtain. McKIBBEN, Commanding General. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 2l.—Colonel Reaser, post adjutant at Fort S8am Hous- ton, left this afternoon on a special train for' Laredo with a detachment of the Twenty-fifth_Infantry to make an inves- tigation of the trouble at Fort Ringgold and to make & full report to General Mo- Kibben, the department commander. Gen- eral McKibben has consulted with Gov- ernor Sayers on the subjec. and has been asked by the Governor to take whatever steps In _his power to conciliate the citi- zens and the soldiers. Trouble between the negro_soldlers on the frontler posts and the Mexican population has been brewing for some time. A collision be- tween the police and negro soldlers * at Laredo a few weeks ago has resulted in the abandoning of the post there, A small-sized riot also occurred at Rio Grande City last month, in which some soldiers were shot and others were fre rested and fined. Since then the Mexicans and soldlers at Rlo Grande City have been at the bitterest enmity. poweriess to con- | | preach the sermon. phone by Private Secretary Evans. At- torney General Griggs. who was in Wash- ington, telegraphed that he wouid return to Paterson at the earliest possible mo- ment, and he Is expected to take charge of all the detalls of the funeral. | Among others who sent messages of | angina pectoris, c ting myocarditis. Owing to the prostration of Mrs. Hobart the funeral arrangements will not be con- | cluded until to-morrow. The only step | declded upon is that the services shall be | held in the Church of the Redeemer at | Paterson and the interment in the family “Well, If it must be that T am to zo, I may as well be resigned to my fate.” On the morning of October 31 it was thought that the end had come. but the patient rallied, and for more than a week continued to Improve and eat solid food | | | . - e v vef th a relish. Three days ago, however, plat at Cedar Lawn, where the only ‘rnndnhnce were Sir Jullan Pauncefote, | Wi y . ho 3 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hobart was | the British Embassador; Count G. de | his appetite failed and he gradually K:vv\ burled six years ago. Rev. Dr. Magee will | Leichtervelde, Envoy Extraordinary and | weaker and weaker. He realized a few hours before he became unconscious that he was near to death, and he sald to those about the bedside: Minister Plenipotentiary of Belgiu The church can accommodate not more | Count Cassini, Russian Embassador: than 800 persons and as thousands will be | former Vice President Stevenson, Admiral | “I know that my time is nearly up, but death Is welcome to me. Mrs. Hobart remained in the room to the end and after her husband's death, until she and her son, who was with her, were taken away by friends. The last caange for the worse in the Vice President's illness occurred yester day afternoon, when he was seized by & weak spell. He had battled through seve eral similar attacks and it was thought for a time that he would come out of this one. He did. but he was very weak, and it was plain to be seen that he was sink- ing. He rallied again, however, and tried to be cheerful, but toward midnight his condition was beyond hope. Dr. Newto: called Mrs. Hobart, the Vice President's Widow and Son of the Late Vice President.