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Show Mutatis Mutandis IN HIS article in the Outlook sharply criticising General Otis for doing anything like prejudging prejudg-ing the guilt or innocence of men accused of crime, Col. Roosevelt forgot, evidently, that on the word of a Binglo man, he, last year, deliberately deliber-ately insulted a gentleman who had been accused ac-cused of accepting an office which he had obtained ob-tained through the votes of men, three or four of whom were suspected of having accepted bribes or their votes, A senate committee was at the time investigating investi-gating the case and getting ready to report, but that did not for a moment cause Col, Roosevelt to assume that the charge was other than true, and on the strength of that impression to insult the senator. In the Roosevelt home consistency must have lost all her jewelry just about the time the Colonel was born. But there was more to the matter. His insult in-sult to Senator Lorimer was evidently to get even with the man who had defeated his friend who wanted a re-election; the assault upon General Gen-eral Otis was clearly to curry favor with the labor unions. It does not all amount to much except ex-cept to show that despite the Colonel's many really real-ly great attributes, he has some that are not - only not great, but are really such as in a less famous man would be called contemptible. |