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Show GRATTERS PLEAD POLITICS. It is. lamentable that so many trusted agents of tho Government in charge of the Indian schools and Indian interests in Oklahoma should have proved Tccrc-ant Tccrc-ant lo their trust. Tt is natural, however, how-ever, on tho exposure of their recreancy that they should promptly join the anti-administration anti-administration forces and claim that there is anti-Roosevelt politics behind their downfall. This, as we say, is natural and was to have been expected. If is the inevitable refuge of the criminal crim-inal to plead some sort, of immunity or some sort., of persecution in his case. Discovery always moans misfortune to the discovered. President Taft will un-doubtedjj- he denounced by ovcrzenlous friends of the Boosovelf nnd Pinchot variety for- the interfering with the "working1' of the'' Indians by I ho Roosevelt, appointees. Tt is unfortunate 'that this makes the question of grafting a question of politics, poli-tics, but under the circumstances, it is exactly what must, be . expected, and what cannot be escaped. Criminals will naturally invoke protection for themselves" through political 'influence; hut in court, politics is no defense. In the meantime, the public will view with lively interest tho developments in tho case! and will behold with delight the punishment, of an' alleged criminals that riiav be found to bo guilty. " |