The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-23
HERBERT BOWEN'S DISMISSAL
President Roosevelt Removes Him From the DipIo-
matte Service. -..Makes CaustiC Statement in
Which He Sets Forth His Reasons.

Washington, d. c., June 20.-Her
bert w. Bowen, until recently United
States minister to Venezuela was to.
night, by the direction of President
Roosevelt, dismissed from the diplo-
matte service.
In the same document announcing
this action the president endorses the
decision of Secretary Of War Taft,
who in completely vindicating AS
sistant Secretary Of State s. F. B..
Loomis, of charges of bribery and
malfeasance, while minister to Vene.
Euela, expresses the hope that Mr..
Loomis' '.bitter experience in this
case. makes 1T unnecessary to fur
ther point the moral that an official
representative or the government
should abstain from all appearances
of evil"
The president, in his endorsement
Of the finding of the secretary Of war,
both OF which documents were made
public tonight takes up in detail the
Bowen charges against Mr., Loomis,
interfering here and there this is,
incidentally, an untruth," or which
Is again an untruth."
He says Mr.. Bowen's declaration
that "he made no charges" against
Mr.. Loomis is "a mere matter OF ter
minology," and characterizes his ex-
cuse as "disingenuous."
H., .rtv,
Bowen's removal from the service in
the following language: 1T appears
from the testimony that Caracas is
seething with scandal and that all
kinds Of accusations are rife, not
merely against Mr.. Loomis and Mr..
Bowen but against practically every
other diplomatic representative now
residing. or who has recently resided
there. There Is no excuse whatever
for repeating the injurious and mali
cious gossip circulated about the vari-
GUS men. Mr.. Bowen himself, how
ever, has not only furnished and
brought forward a great deal Of such
gossip about Mr.. Loomis, but has evi-
IDENTIFY been one Of the main sources
from which 1t originated. TIE tried
10 tamper with the cable here through
Dur consul at La Guayra, Mr., Gold
schmidt, in order to secure what he
hoped would be discriminating evil
dence against, Mr.. Loomis. Mr. Gold
schmidt's reply was, 1t would be dis.
honorable to do what you ask of me-
Mr.. Goldschmidt, in his letter of May
Bird, 1905 says:
"'Mr. Bowen never lost an oppor-
tunity to belittle Mr.. Loomis' charac-
ter, ability, ETC., when he spoke to
me of him, and seemed to bear an ex-
traordinary animus against his pre-
decessor'
"Mr. Bowen asked one Of the men
he himself produced as a witness,
Senor Pastor, to enter into the employ
of certain company for the purpose
of obtaining Tin plain words, OF steal
ing) documents which he hoped
might incriminate Mr.. Loomis. He
has evidently for many months, in
deed for the last two years devoted
himself to hunting up every piece Of
scandal or gossip of which he heard,
affecting Mr.. Loomis, until 1t has
seemingly become a monomania with
him, and has caused him to show
complete disloyalty to the service to
which he belongs, and therefore to
the country which he has represent
ed. II was his duty to make known
10 his superior officers any facts re-
fiecting on the honesty of Mr.. Loom
10 or any other oficial; but It was
breach of his duty to make loose and
reckless charges and especially to
give these charges public currency
after their submission for investiga-
sion by the department w
, "Mr. Bowen's conduct 10 especially
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