The evening times., 1900-06-02
Honor and ExtradItion.


In the Senate yesterday Mr. Hoar called
up the Nicely Extradition bill and declared
that the honor of the United States de-
manded that 1t should be passed without
delay. We are not quite clear as TO how
far the honor of the country is involved
in the matter, but there can be no doubt
that the convenience of the Administration
would be greatly promoted by the dcpor-
tation of Nicely. II ii were necessary to
try him here, there is too much reason
to fear that great deal might become
public which in a secret trial under the
executive autocratic government of Cuba
could and therefore would be suppressed
The same considerations which make the
Administrator anxious to railroad Nicely 10
Havana render it equally desirous of keep
ing Rathbone there. He has been foolish
enough to make faces at the wo,f and the
hyena while stIn in their lair He ought
to have jumped into a sailbost at night,
and made for the Barbados or Jamaica.
Then he could have brought one, who shall
be nameless.Ste terms and to his knees,
like winking. Instead, he began to snsp
and snarl ID Havana. and to talk about
pulling down. the pillars Of the temple. as
If. forsooth. he were veritable sampson
with Merrimac pull on the Administra-
ton. Snr
He has his reward. He knows how the
small boy feels after conducting a Con-
gressional enquiry into the Ioadedness Of
a four-dollar Shotgun. Rathbone has been
warned thatrhe will be arrested and Jug
ged in the cellar of Cabanas. if he makes
the least attempt to escape. The same
thing viii happen If he opens his mouth to
begin any sort of pillar-pulling. He is
surrounded by detectives, and If he has
been indiscreet enough to carry documents
TO Cuba, duplicating any old friend in HIS
Ohio or other adventures. those papers
are in his possession no longer. The best
that Rathbone's friends can hope for him
now is that he has had the detective sense
to salt down the proofs of what he knows
and could disclose in a confession, some
where in the United States, and in the
hands CT some trustworthy person. who
could spring them On his prosecutors
should they remove him or lock him up
indefinitely II he has had the fore
thought to do anything of that kind. he
may be excused for the defiant language
in which he has INDUCED OF late Other
wise be has merely sealed his fate.
Returning TO the subject OF extradition
and its relations to the honor OF the coun-
try. it would not be bad idea for Senator
Hoar and Others to reflect that NeeIy's
is not the only case OF the kind on the
peoples docket. There. for example is the
yet unliqGidated affair of Taylor. the
Hanna leader in Kentucky, who is a fugi-
tive from justice in Indiana. charged with
being an accessory to the crime OF murder,
committed upon the person OF the late Gov
ernor OF his State. Unless Governor Mount
Of Indiana has changed his mind
about the protection OF fleeing Republican
malefactors, the honor of the nation will
be badly mixed up with his action in re-
fusing to surrender Taylor to the officers
Of the law he is accused OF ontraging.
Paragraph of Section Of Article " of
the Constitution reads:
"A person charged in any State with treason.
felony, or other crime. who shall fee from Justice
and be found in another State shall on demand OF
the executive authority OF the State from which he
fed. be delivered up. to be removed 10 the state
having jurisdiction Of the crime"
While the Senate majority bushes itself
in passing a law, the object OF which Is to
get an Inconvenient prisoner out Of the
country. perhaps it has not time TO reflect
what Republican spectacle is presented
by Mount, in his defiance of American Iun-
damentaI law, that Taylor, wanted for a
murder in Kentucky. may be kept safe to
appear as a delegate-at- large. and per
haps a popular candidate for the Vice
Presidential nomination at the PhiladeI-
phia Convention.