Show CASE OF COLONEL STEWART Nothing more repugnant to all Ideas of ot popular as exem exemplified exemplified by this republic has come to light than the of president ent Roosevelt in exiling Colonel William Wllliam F Stewart of the coast to a de deserted deserted deserted post in Arizona Lately Latel Mr Ir Roosevelt has graciously consented to mitigate Colonel Stewarts sentence to lo lothe the tho extent of transferring him to an another another another other abandoned but more accessible post in Florida All AU this has been done without gh giving giving ing Colonel Stewart a hearing though he has requested an opportunity to be heard In other words we have a man condemned cond to exile deprived of his command practically stripped of his rank disgraced and subjected to lo the bitterest possible humiliation without a chance to defend himself The only reason assigned is that Colonel Stewart is temperamentally impossible It Itis ItIs ItIs is difficult to conceive such a happen happening happenIng happening ing In this republic We Ve only know it has happened Under our constitution the most de depraved depraved prayed criminal is given ghen the right to face ace his hiis hl accusers A trial conducted ed without the bodily pretence presence of the de defendant defendant defendant is IR i an invalid trial It has even een been held that when a court permits a jury unaccompanied by b the defendant to th visit visit the the scene scene of a crime a reversible ble error Is committed We Ye can imag imagine mag ine Inc ex ex x parte condemnations In au auto autocracy autocracy autocracy cracy Those things do happen some sometimes sometimes times in Russia But they Hey are utterly foreign to the republican form of gov government And yet the Stewart proceeding is not altogether unlike President Roosevelt The man Is intoxicated with his own power pow r Time and again hE has usurped the functions of ot the other branches of our government and today he seems to lo proceed proc ed on the theory theor that there is nothing he cannot do His treatment of Colonel Stewart however caps the climax of his autocratic record The Tue Herald knows nothing of the case cage against ag this officer He may be utterly unfit to lo command a regiment of ot artillery We e know from the records though that last July he stood third on Oil the list of ot artillery colonels and that he has given more than forty fort years ears of his life to the service of his country And whether he is fit or unfit he lie Is entitled to a fair fall and open hear im If It he is not afraid to let all the facts be known it certainly in not in incumbent Incumbent Incumbent upon the president to conceal them thern If Jr we mistake not the publication publication tion of the Ule appalling story stor of Stewarts degradation d will III arouse a storm of pro protests protests protests tests that will make m even Theodore Rex hunt for cover cOer |