Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-20
N STEWART'S BEHALF
;enator Rsyner Calls Up Reso. luiion Asking For Court of
 Inquiry.

QS tue pTo5lucnt Io oPPoth' f inquiry to investigate charges |gainst Colonel William F. Stewart i the coast artillehy now stationed
 | Fort Grat, Ariz. MT Rayner said |e took this action as he was satis- led there would be no report from he committee on military analrs on lis resolution duringt his sess,on or |bngress. He reviewed the sending I his resolution to the committee Ast Wednesday and his appearance |efore that committee on the follow Ing day. Last Friday he was in prmed he said that papers Ill con lection with the case had not arrlv- h from the war department and he ]hmorously referred to the difficulty f sending a messenger from the war apartment to the senate before con
 fess adjourns. Speaking sarcasti- |hlly of his belief that the president,
 le war departures and the ,commit- De on military affairs were hastening | |ction on this case, MT Rayner con- .nued:
 Tt is proper for me to remind the
 Pnate, however, that while this case being thus expedited, Colonel |tewart is up on the heights of Ari- |bna. He is at a high altitude, as Ugh as the president can get him, |ith very little change of his get ng down any lower within any defi- lite period of time. Being at high ttitude he ought not to complain. he climate is salubrious and uni brm, it being as cold in winter as It hot in summer; the surroundings te all salutary, his companions are estive and convivial, consisting of a hretaker, teamster and several |pvernment mules, and the society ] this fashionable center is there- bre extremely exclusive and select. I he president is delighted with the |tuation and therefore the chairman ] the military committee ought also ] be satisfied" .. If the president is satisfied every |bdy ought to be satisfied. Why not? That right has anybody to be dis ktisfied with anything that satisfies he president. Who would be guilty | such a reasonable act? The king hnnot commit wrong, and there bre the president cannot commit |rong. Congress may make the gray bt mistakes Courts may err. Hu- |an Judgment at the. zenith of it's trength may arrive at faulty and |.roneous conclusions but the execu- I've can never blunder. lnfallibility one of his attributes. When he bmes to conclusion upon strictly K parte testimony, his position is |hpregnable. When he has finished with the |osecution and there has been no |stimony allowed to be produced on I |ther side he is so we'll fortified and |trenched that you cannot dismantle I'm.
 When he has his victim upon the bighths of Arizona and declines to |ceive any communication from him bd positively asserts that there is no ecessity of examining his witnesses | hearing his testimony, he is then a position to administer justice |ith an absolutely impartial and un- |lejudiced mind. A judge who hears bth sides may have his mind disturb but a president who hears only be side can proceed with accuracy |hd precision to final judgment with |lt the slightest danger of making by mistake upon the testimony he hs heard. The constitution gives len to criminal the right to be in- |rmed of the nature and cause of |e accusation against him; and to bve the assistance of counsel for his kfense.
 The president prefers to try the lse without any witness for the de- |nee. because if witnesses were sum- oned he defiantly proclaims. to use l $ own language, they could not ,ssihly upset the Judgment that he |id already rendered"
 This is the presidents conception of |stiee and his army of courtiers and |Htterers who bask in the sunlight of
 s favor eulogize and applaud Linn. I r Rayner appealed to the senate for vote on his resolution.
 Mir Rayner said that he was no. |nbued with threatening spirit |ut he could indulge in a prophecy
 hd not a threat. "I predict" he lied. "that if there is no relief any |here if the presidents resolve is De final scene in this tragedy, then Pmething will occur that has hap ened over and over again before. |ublle opinion does not realize the |tuation now: all it knows is that De president has punished an officer the army because in his judg- lent he is objectionable to the ervice. It does not as yet compre- lend that the president has taken stand that no sovereign or mon- tch in any other civilized land buld dare to take a. this enlight- bed day When 1t understands the Opposition fully then public opin- In WiIl move, it will move slowly |ut surely to the place of captivity will take the unfortunate officer
 nd transfer him from the custody the president into the presence the president and trampling with , iron heel upon the desperate ex- eriment of authority that the presi- |sut has used t will give to it's vic
 m humble unimportsnt and preten- |onIeSs as he may le the right 10 heard in self defense. a right not |Iy accorded him by the laws of |s land. but a natural righ thzs Ia has given him and which it ionId not lie within the power of a I,kntate or ruler in the United |akes to deprive him Of If there
 any conscience or humanity in
 heart Of man or auv fusffca lnft