Show SENATOR LODGES Q QUIBBLE LODGE was gui t of the SENATOR 3 shabbiest kind of qUibbling w wien en he said the Roosevelt letter to Dr Albert Shaw on Panama had been Published It was published true enough but not in full tuIl The most interesting feature or tha was omitted We Te are tod that tha t the correspondent aeh t to hom the letter was given ghen the closing p Dh which was Privately Isay I say to you that I should b be delighted it if Panama were an lade Inde U strite or if It made Itself so at this mom moment nt but for me to say so publicly would amount to an instigation lion tion of a revolt therefore I cannot say i Lodge Longe and other friends of may mILY get people outside of the newspaper profession ProCession to belIeve the correspOndent deliberately par paragraph gr ph but they will m never get newspaper men to believe it itA ItA A who would throw throwaway throwaway away or of free will and accord a news item or of such tremendous value alue would be discharged d Instanter and he get a place carrying copy on nl other newspaper it If his history were known W Washington hington correspondents as a rule are selected from the bight st news neS newspaper paper men in the country The WaSh Wash Is fa what is known in inthe inthe the the star job We fe do donot donot not believe there Is a single Washing Washington ton correspondent even it If he be does only department routine who would woul have omitted the paragraph A man who would do a thIng like that would with an Important treaty before him wire his paper that the t eaty had been con concluded eluded and fall to se forth its terms The real truth Is probably that the thc Shaw letter was wa given to the corre with the last paragraph al already already ready eliminated Either that or he heWIS was WIS request db dby the IndivIdual who gave it to him not to se the para On no other 11 hypothesis Is It possible to count for the slon ator Lodge has been in h hington ington long enough to appreciate th the truth of this nent |