Show DANCING ON THE CORPSE CORP E EIt If It executive action by the president of ot the United States can be effective Senator Foraker Is doomed to o disappear from Crom active political life at the expiration expiration expiration tion of his term Having Haying seized the Standard Oil on episode during the cam cain campaign m to smite the senator the prem president dent lent now devotes a special message to him though its ostensible subject is the Brownsville affair In which Foraker Fo ker played so important a part as a critic of oC the the presidents p order discharging the negro troops from service In his message the president adroitly Conveys the Impression that Mr lir For Foraker Foraker aker alter has been impeding the effort of secret service men to discover the real criminals In the Brownsville shooting By Ib B inference though not n t directly the message suggests Roosevelt belief that the senator r encouraged a negro witness ess to adhere to evidence which the secret service agent declares was perjured Here Is the sentence In letter to the witness on which the president hangs this most serious charge I remember you well wen as a witness be before before before fore the committee and I am sure you did not there tell anything an except only the truth In other words the senator expressed a simple conviction that the witness had hall been b m truthful and for tOl this expression expression sion son of ot confidence he is accused of ot en encouraging encouraging encouraging perjury and the obstruction of Justice Coming Coining from any an source such a charge on so flimsy a foundation foundation tion would be Infamous coming from the president of ot the United States and unsupported by any confirmatory evi evl evidence en dence denee it is mo mote e than tha an infamous abuse of oC power a perversion of oC a high office for the gratification of or a personal animosity Senator Foraker may mar ma be unfit to hold office he ma bave ben been b en wrong in his attitude on the th Brownsville Investigation tion lion but he entitled to plain justice and some redress for ar tt great personal wrong rong It Is to be hoped the Invest investigating 1 gating committee which he h asked for I will vill be Instituted that it will wilI go to the bottom of the affair from Its inception inception tion to this latest anil antI most disgraceful development He Is probably roba ly dead po politically politically but ut that is no reason why the president should be permitted to d dance nce on his corpse for tor his hi own gratification I |