Show JABBING THE PRESIDENT 4 of f Georgia Georgie has touched tile the present in a tender spOt though he be bea has a as yet given no DO evidence of Injury This Georgian Alfred Alfrd C Bloom has bas written a letter to the president ask asking asking ing hIm In vl view w of the serious ill iII illness ness DeN of Mrs Jefferson Davis to re rec recall c call JI the harsh words h he once wrote rote about the late pre president ident of the south southern southern ern Confederacy Mr Roosevelt ali as some will rIll remember described Davis Davia as un Sit arch traitor and akin to Bene Benedict Benedict dict Arnold This is regarded by Mr Blo Bloom m as entirely too severe and for Mrs Mr Davis sake he be seeks the lion eon After speakIng or of the probable fatal termination of Mrs Davis DaYis iU ill illness ness the Georgian goes s on This ohis done Mrs Davis will meet death with the sweet consciousness that she is the bearer berer of a 8 welcome message The scarred veterans of the Lost Last Cause will m J love ve and honor you JOU the reunited country will approve you and mankind will applaud your manly deed It is not at aU all likely that President Roosevelt will witt pay any attention to this appeal And he re really Jb should not De be held accountable for his impetuous remarks about Jefferson Davis They were written years 80 ago when hen he was wasa a aa a hotheaded youth who wrote rot without thinking That he be did this is evidenced by the fact that hf he nev never rem remembered that he had an arch traitor in his own family The father of President mother was as Admiral Bul Bulloch loch Joch of the tAe Confederate nAvy Prior to the breaking out MI t of Ute the war ar he was an in the navy avy of f the United States or Of course he took an oath to sustain and support the constitution of the United States Therefore when he be en entered entered the Conf Confederate erate navy he fore swore himself He was untrue to his oath as an officer or of the navy just as Jef Jefferson Davis was untrue to his hla oath as a senator of the United States Slue Mr If RO Roosevelt cannot make an arch trai traitor traitor tor out of the one OM without making all an arch traitor out of the other Yet he be said when he visited the home borne or of his mother In Georgia last year car that Admiral Bullock Bulloch was ras the most complete incarnation he had bad met In real life Ufe or of Colonel Newcomb Also the president In recent years ears hu has talked frequently and eloquently of the esteem in which he be holds tM the themen men who wore the Confederate gray he be has long been ge sorry rry for his jD intemperate te criticism or Davis but he be wIn wilt never Dever be drawn Into a public that It was 5 as R an 11 just crIticism He is not big enough for that |