Article November 9, 1899 Issue

General Grant and Admiral Dewey

Philadelphia Ledger

The resemblance between Admiral Dewey and General Grant is strikingly close. The merit record of the one in the naval academy is almost identical with that of the other in the military academy. They were at about the same place above the bottom of the class, they were deficient in the same studies, and their conduct marks were much alike. The one reached the highest position in the army and the other in the navy.

In modesty and dignity of personal bearing they are singularly alike. They resemble each other also in their disposition to award full credit to their subordinates in every achievement. Their manner of speech is identical. It is direct, terse, right to the point, and in plain, vigorous English, such as the plain people can understand. In another respect they are also alike; namely, in securing the cordial admiration of all foreign Powers with whose representatives they came in contact. Both of them, in the words of Dewey, "scratched gravel" and had their reward.

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