WASHINGTON. April 2l. 1915.
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WASHINGTON, April I'll, lS4o


Secretary Bancroft, Com Bolton, and Professor


MGoioan's Discharge The Hon. Secretary in


Snari-1he Way of Future Satsty Indicated


Rotation is Reform-Ihc Big Offices Of Phiia-


delphia and the Candidates Threfor-D Dedication


of a mcw Methodist Church in 1o,cr -!Smbscrip.


tions Oft Cabinet for Pittsbvg, 3c.


We are afraid that Secretary Bancroft is running
headlong among the breakers. A cool and circum-
spect observation. end steady hand al the wheel,
are essential in his position, or he will run aground
He is Ia fair way Of some little difficulty from
recent discharge made in the service. We alluds
20 the case Of Bartholomew M'Gowan, professor
of mathematics in the Navy. In 1889 MEOW
All was attached to the Brandywnc, under com
mand Of Com. Bolton, cruising in the Mcdlttera.
mean. The captain and officers of the ship, It ap-
pears, were all wings, excepting MCGOWAN, who
had the misfortune to bc democrat and an Irlsh-
man. Bolton and his supporters formed an uncon,
querable aversion 20 Gowan, and so Tar raHed and
bnlied him as to ronse MS Sh an,Sh' ~ .io.l .a
sisted all attempts at tyrannizing over MIN. Inc
Commodore. determined to get rid of The ssd-d
stubborn Irish locoioco," addressed complaint at
msd nu 5H Of M'Gowan on board shp-his OBJ
sf; M cv and his insubord'natiOn-and praying his
recall home. Paulding replied that the speci6ca-
sether Insuficient--that they absolutely amounted
TO nothing. M'Gowan, on the return OF the ship,
was ordered into service again, accordingly. Sub
seouentIy he was placed by Captain Tyler as Pro-
lessor az the naval station at Norfolk, of which,
unfortunately for Mac, Captain Bolton had been
made the Commandant.. The.Capt.. bent on rid.
ding himself oftbis "d-d Irishman, "frstaddressed
q letter to Secretary Bancroft, recaptulating the
offences and objections he had before urged upon
Secretary Pauding, against the retention ofM'Gow-
an in the service. But, to make the work more
sure, the Commodore himself, some two weeks
since, came up on this important mission OF secur-
ing the discharge Of MCGOWAN. He was success