Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The Lorimer incident awakens a ripple in the newspapers Hartford Times Under the circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances the action of the former president In demanding that a notification be sent to Mr Lorimer that he remain away from the dinner will not be approved by anybody any any- body we suppose who understands the rules of decent society Syracuse Standard Post-Standard But the colonel colonel colo cob nel does anything unostentatiously It wasn't so much that Lorimers Lorimer's face in inthe inthe inthe the hall hail would have tave grieved him it was that Theodore Roosevelt booting Lorimer out of or the hall hail appealed to him as a fine spectacle How it appealed to his hosts the Hamilton club didn't concern him Chicago Inter Ocean A New York I newspaper once stated that Colonel Roosevelt's alteration falsification and I publication of ot a private correspondence several years ago agoras WaS ras adequate cause for his expulsion from any gentleman's club In the country A A- A similar comment applies applies applies ap ap- ap- ap plies in this case He played a dirty trick and was not ashamed No principle of honor no scruple of decency once crossed his mind It is sad but it is true St. St Louis Post-Dispatch Post But the Mr Roosevelt who would not sit at the table tabla with Senator Lorimer is the same Mr l Roosevelt who broke bread with Guggenheim in Colorado and took much care that Senator Guggenheim be supplied with the requisite tin cup Buffalo Times There J Is no recorded Instance of any disposition on the part of Roosevelt to shun the society of the who heaped heaDed up the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican campaign funds of 1904 and 1908 Colonel Roosevelt did not snub the Black BlackHorse BlackHorse BlackHorse Horse cavalrymen of New York Why then this spasm of nicety as regards Lorimer Albany Albiny Journal In the circumstances Citizen Roosevelt's successful protest against the presence of United States Senator Lorimer at the dinner given by the club of Of In honor of Mr Roosevelt was was gant presumption His sole prerogative tn n the circumstances wa was to decline the Ibe invitation sent to himself himself himself him him- self If It it did pot not please him to sit at table with another or others whom the club had invited Providence Journal But there was some lack of good taste in the refusal to accept the Invitation of ot the Hamilton club if Mr Lorimer a member were to be present It may be that the former president president president dent was moved only by a sense of public duty and not by the desire to make a sensational profession of his moral supe supe- Even so his message was hardly courteous to his hosts Everyone would admit that this dictation was I if It were attempted on a private occasion Does the fact that a more or less public function was in contemplation make it I well bred |