Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-27
ROOSEVELTS WEAKNESS.
Allows Personal Considerations to
 Outweigh COuntry's Welfare.

Outweigh Country's Welfare.
 Assistant Secretary of State Loomis is charged, in the most direct and ex- plicit way, with receiving money from the asphalt company whose interests are at stake in the complications with Venezuela and with many other acts of official misconduct, amounting to the grayest scandal that has menaced the administration since the postOlfice frauds came to light.
 We do not know whether Mir. Loomis is guilty of these things or innocent, but there is not the slightest doubt that, guilty or innocent, he is utterly unfit to be connected in any way with this gov ernment, and he should be dismissed at the earliest opportunity. His per formances in connection with the Vene- zuelan affair were simply disgraceful. His attitude nearly plunged the na- tion into an unnecessary var, and his partisanship in the controversy was too obvious to escape any discerning ob- server. We do not now recall any phase of Mir. Loomis' official career that has not been objectionable, and
 
 that were justly censurable to make him a proper man to hold a place of such great importance as the acting head of the state department
 The whole incident painfully illus trates one of the weaknesses Of Mir. Roosevelts character that must cause doubt and hesitation in many men hon estly desirous to applaud him unreserv- edly. It appears in this case that Avery D. Andrews mas assured the president that Mir Loomis is all right. Who is Avery D. Andrews? He was a member of the New York police board when Mir. Roosevelt was the president of that body. Mir Roosevelt was en- gagged in a wrangle with another mem- Der, Mir. Parker. The dissensiOn, which amounted to apublic scandal, endured for many months. Mir Andrews stood by MT. Roosevelt and was his friend. Consequently Mir. Roosevelt is now un- able to believe that Mr. Andrews can have any ulterior purpose in indorsing Mir. LOomis, and even the fact that MT Andrews is an officer of the asphalt company whose interests are involved in the controversy does not awaken the slightest suspicion in the presidents mind. He likes Mir. Andrews, and that is enough.
 It was the same way about the beef trust and Mir. Garfeld's absurd report. Mr. Roosevelt entertains an extrava- gant admiration for Mir. Congressman Lorrimer of Illinois. MT. Lorrimer is the special congressional representative of the packing interests. He assured MT. Roosevelt that there was no such thing as beef trust, and the president. blindly taking his word for it, allowed his administration to be led into the l ridiculous position of denying the ex- istence of combination that it was al- 1 most immediately afterward obliged to | prosecute.
 Loyalty to deserving friendship is | one of the most engaging of the human | virtues, but with this amiable attribute | the kind of tethered allegiance that | prompts the minimizing to a blind fol lowing of unworthy men to evil things is not to be confused. Moreover, the of {; flee of president of the United States | IS magistracy too high to be affected | by personal considerations of any sort. It is not Mir. Roosevelt's admiration for his personal friends and partisans of | which the nation needs to be assured, 1 but of his absolute, unalterable and in- evitable sense of justice.-New York American