Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-09
ENTER BRUSH AND PAIL
Relegated Job of Whitewashing
 Resuscitated.
THE MEDICATION OF MORTON

Nation Amazed at Artistic Manner In ]
 Which the Coat Was Laid on For
 mer Head of the Navy-Hue of the |
 Ethiopian Suddenly Changed to
 whitenesS of snow.
 When the square deaP' was in-
 augurated it was expected that the l whitewash brush and pail would be | relegated to the political property | room. and for awhile it was like the |
 big stick so laid away. But the exi- | gencies of party politics have compelled l
 whitewashing to be again resorted to, | and. as if to make up for lost time, the |
 coat laid on to Paul Morton, the late l secretary of the navy, is the primest and most artistic job that has probably ever been accomplished. It has amazed
 the nation by the masterful way in which the wash was applied, and it
 has staggered the old politicians of the
 national capital by the sudden change
 from the hue of the Ethiopian to the
 vivid whiteness of the viudication. It
 is seldom that trim political barometer,
 the Washington Post, becomes rattled at any sudden change of the political temperature, but even its general state of contentment and sang froid was overcome, for in its comment or this
 latest strenuous job of President
 Roosevelt it said:
 A fact that stands out in terrifying sharpness in the correspondence of the president and Attorney General Moody | regarding Paul Morton and the Santa
 Fe rebate scandal is that the Santa Fe is q corporation of uncoatrOllably evil propensities-a cold blooded, calculat- | ing. persistent violator of the law. On the other hand, the officers of the San ta Fe are not only observers of the i law, but one of them, MT. Morton, is l the champion who made it possible to secure an injunction against the mon ster. The officers of the Santa Fe | have done the best they could to curb | the lawlessness of their corporation,
 but it plunged wildly on, while they
 stood powerless and aghast. They are no more to be blamed, says Mir. Nor | ton. than if it were a case of a mis- | placed switch resulting in bad wreck. | They did their duty, and if there was a violation of law nobody is to blame. | All of our orders were carefully con- | sidered and carefully issued he says, | but so far as this particular case is | concerned, seem to have been over
 looked
 When Attorney General Moody went outside of his department to se- cure the services of two eminent law | yers for the investigation of the Santa ! -r | the evident scarcity of good material 1 in the department Of justice for such work. But the bold, almost overbold, ! official statement that these able gen | tleinen had been instructed to probe [ the matter to the bottom was an as- surance that the task was a grave | one. too difficult for the regular off | cers of the department of justice. It | was also taken to mean that the in- | vestiGation would be made without the ' possibility of a whitewash, which i might have been the case if subordinate i officials were to investigate a scandal | involving a member of the cabinet. | 'Niesse-s, Harmon and Judson did | their work thoroughly-too thoroughly by far. They appear to have taken their instructions too literally. They 1 made the mistake, too, of confoundlng | the Santa Fe as a corporation with | the Santa Fe officers. Obviously they l had no idea that the Santa Fe had | burst from the control of it's officers and was dashing headlong on it's own | pathway We have no doubt they re | ported, that the laws have been vio- | lated by the traffic officers of the Atch- | ison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ! company and they recommend prompt ! proceedings against them. Of course ! the investigators were set right by At
 torney General Moody, and. their report [ being palpably disappointing. their res | ignations were accepted.
 Tt is difficult to tear a monster away
 from its feast, but Mir. Morton must ! learn to rule even if he Is forced to
 wean his company from a good thing. It is to be hoped that he will be sue l cessful in preventing mutiny among
 his subordinates in the Equitable such
 as that which made the Santa Fe so
 uncomfortable.
 "As for the Santa Fe, it is a bad,
 wicked, diabolical corporation, which
 must be hunted down and punished at
 all hazards On with tue good work"