Show MESSAGE OF ROOSEVELT DOES NOT CLEAR UP THE PANAMA CANAL DEAl DEA I Indianapolis News Replies to the Latest Outbreak and De Pe ar hing Be BeA Made I A J I Indianapolis Ind Dec Dee 16 The In Indianapolis Indianapolis is News e mentioned ned in the ape special cial message on the Panama canal deal I sent to congress yesterday by President Roosevelt today issued a reply to the I chief executive It says I It Is difficult to characterize ful fulLy the latest outbreak of the president without resorting to th use of lan Ian language language guage as undignified and bla blameworthy as that which put the presidents utter utterance utterance utterance ance in a class by the official literature of the high office he holds hI s Whatever provocation Mr Roosevelt may have felt pricking his soul nothing could justify or extenuate the torrent of or invective and virulence which he be poured out in a state paper upon the head of private citizens The Thc Country Humiliated No one in his sober senses can fail Call to regard the performance as a grave rae derogation to the dignity of the presidential presidential station a pitiable exhibition of lowering rage on the part of f the chief f magistrate and the source of humilia humiliation tion and chagrin to the entire country It is quite Impossible to think of any of ofIr Mr Ir long Ine lne of oC distin distinguished dIstinguished distinguished predecessors that could possibly possibly os I bly so far forgotten the dignities and decencies of his exalted position as nato to transmit to congress a message mes gp in any anyway anyway ny way wa comparable with that of yesterday Denunciation and bitterness of speech are not explanation and amI no an n awer Assumption lon that the New Sew ork World and its proprietor were vere influenced influenced in flu by base or unworthy motives mothes in it inthe inthe the publication of the reports touching the Panama Pan ma affair cannot be b justification tion no matter who may be the person I that makes it ft Matter Not Cleared U p The News states that the tle World un undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly has what it honestly consid considered considered ered good grounds for believing that thai everything has not been what it should I have been in the th acquisition aC by b this 3 country of the canal for its it former fonner owners although a paper pape may ma mabe be deceived The News Nes states that thai whether Mr Roosevelt knows knovs It i or not rumors rumors and reports touching the Pan hon Panama Panama ama transaction have hav been numerous 3 and persistent and that In spite of all at I assertions people are still not con convinced convinced vinced that everything was way as it should I have haye been this without in the tile least im un impugning impugning the good faith of the Ule president n t tor or his agents In the negotiations The Tb News said many miny points have not been beer cleared up and they cannot be cleared I up by threats of libel suits and pen per 1 lashings of editors that hold the good I name and the interests of the tho th country countr count quite as s dear as does the president n The paper in says sa s the th Rainey resolution should be b adopted I and that congress ss should shounI make a searching of all Ul the facts circumstances and rumors connected I with Ith the Panama activities of the gov government government government |