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Show OLIVER IS DOOMED. This man W. J. Oliver appears to be determined to ruin a fair reputation. In all his fifty 3-ears of life Mr. Oli-' Oli-' ver has been recognized b3' that large part of tho larger public which has been familiar with his proceedings, as a man of intcgrit3' and ability honest and truthful, energetic and successful. Of all the men who made bids upon tho Panama canal, he and his proposal were most satisfactor3. Other men either asked too high a percentage of the I total cost; or wcro themselves tainted with improper conduct or relations, or ! more fatall3- tainted with a suspicion existing in the mind of, the Chief Executive Ex-ecutive of tho Nation of their holiness. Mr. Oliver scoured the counto' over and found other men like unto himself; and the supposition universal!' entertained enter-tained throughout the United States wa3 that the canal would be built nnd would be all the better because it would be built by spotless men. In this view Mr. Oliver spent some mouc', he sa3'3 .i'40,000, in organizing a corporation all of whoso stockholders passed the final approval of tho White House; and Oliver Oli-ver and his friends fondly imagined that this enterprise would but add luster lus-ter to his alrciuly splendid name. And now this man seems willfully and maliciously bent upon ruining his fuir fame, and handing down to his postcrit' a heritage of shame. Ho is compiling the histoiy of his relation to this case, including all the correspondence correspond-ence with the White House, and pro-poses pro-poses to publish tho panic. As a prelim-itiary prelim-itiary or an iudcx to his formal showing, he declares that. President Roosevelt assured as-sured himself nnd his friends that ho was to have the contract; and that, acting act-ing in good faith upon such promise, ho cngagpd in the largo expense and labor attendant upon the desired prepara tions. Nothing but a blind and besotted, a willful and reckless insistence upon self-ruin could prompt Mr. Olivor to engage in such 'contest. Has he no remembrance re-membrance of the experience of Henry M. Whitney, of Massachusetts? Hair he forgotten former Senator nnd former Secretary William E. Chandler? Has the rapid rush of events in this countrv obliterated from his mind tho memory of Dear Maria? Mr. Oliver should know that it is an. immutable fact, from before the world was, that an- one whoso recollection, of events and utterances differs from that of tho Chief Executive is of the rnce of liars and the truth is not in him. Furthermore, it has been given out cold b' New York newspapers ivhiob have close information from Washington, Washing-ton, that a misstatement of facts is not. essential to induce a charge of falsehood. false-hood. The man who, having had rein- ' tions with tho White House, omits an I unauthorized statement even of facts is subject to denunciation as a liar; because, under the new and rigid rules which have authoritativeh hocn constructed con-structed by the White House to fstab-lish fstab-lish tho personal equation and the ethical eth-ical relation existing between the Rulir J and the Ruled, an indiscretion of uitor-ancH, uitor-ancH, however lili-nilly trnrjiful, b- ' i-omes, by the ipso dixit of the lixecu- ' : tiyc, a lie. With this foreknowledge Mr. Oliver, former honorable American citizen, teems inexorably destined to bo cast ! into the outer darkness' with Engineer! Wallace, with .iudson and Harmon, with iJcllaiin- aud- Maria, with" Governor I |