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Show GRASPING AT A STRAW. Colonel ' Roosevelt must be getting desperate. Hio would be arraignment of General Otia is not only an exhibition of hia persistent disposition to butt in, but it is a plain bid for the support of the labor unions. General Otis made an honorable name as a sol-dier sol-dier before Theodore Roosevelt had made any name at all. General Otis is an old man. . Naturally the destruction of the newspaper offiea which waa his pride, and the assassination at the some moment of more than a score of trusted and innocent employ-eea, employ-eea, must have set on fire every dark thought in the old man's soul. What if his editorial was a little imprudent f There was nothing in it to influence in-fluence anBaAJpiDioUi-JIJhoulrLCploneL Roosevelt seize upon it as an excuse npon whu-h tc parade his superior morality t Does he in brooding brood-ing over the place he occupied when he landed in New York year ago and the place to which'he has fallen, imagine that be can reinstate himself by a great show ot bogus anxiety lest the laws be abused f It looks to us as though he vras rapidly gravitating down to his proper level, and as though it would have been the salvation of his reputation had th ship on which he last came from England gone down in midocean with all oa board. |