The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1908-09-18
after STEWART AGAIN
NHUMAN TREATMENT OF AN AMERICAN ARMY
OFFICER BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

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as secretary Of and later by w H. Taft in the same n m
by Theodore Roosevelt president Of United States is one Of M
ranca and disgacefu facts the history of the American
army These high officials undertook Colonel Stewart t re-
sign from the army they had charges upon which to base de-
mand for martial They have bounded the colonel for more
than years and have placed him at Fort Grant na
an abonable place where there abandoned army post where
has only two companions negro and white civilian
Recently Colonel Stewart ordered Fort Huacluca California
take ninety mile riding test but this order has reversed
The News contains the following article regarding the Stew
art case
Why has Colonel William F Stewart of the u S A. been or
deed back into exile without chance prove whether ply
scaly fit?
any bias shown generals promoted
over Stewards head declared Stewart unfit?
What bottom the strange against the man
who is being called the American Dreyfus?
Army the country again asking questions
order, mailed September by General Earl D.
Thomas Denver yesterday Colonel Stewart back his
lie Fort Grant Ariz without his having had opportunity
establish his physical fitness by the ride recently prescribed for
him by the department
General Thomas night said the
surgeons who examined Colonel Stewart discovered that his
heart weak and that the ride would endanger his life
After his exile of years blocked every efforts to
square himself with the department said author
Colonel Stewart will be retired by the department for al
legged physical weakness
Colonel Stewart who Fort Huachuca, in California,
where lie had exp,i his test ride OF ninety male; iI de-
part tomorrow for Wilcox, Ariz where he will be met by his co
day the three will drive from Wilcox Fort Grant the lonely
post at which Colonel Stewart has spent the past year
STEW14RT IS EXPECTED TO RESIST RETIREMENT
said Colonel Stewart will resist retirement and that
he will demand martial before which ne CLAIMS ne can prove
himself fit He also declares that he will never surrender
the breaking process without being hearing or chance
to prove the truth falsity OF his claims
But the army that it and will break any
man deemed unfit be officer and associate with those " W
law indirectly designates to be gentlemen
FOuro
been promoted over Colonel head and these men have sao
they believed him to be unfit for service.
Senator Rayner pointing that these four had been proo'
Stewards head suggested the officers who had once ps
Junior TO Stewart remembered disciplinary measures used by the Col
oel allowed grudges prejudice them IN their reports @
cernng him
has been one Of the boasts Colonel Stewart that he IS P
scay one of the most fit men army notwithstanding ue "
that he almost 40 wears old and has been the since he was
u His father and grandfather before him were oHcers ana l
naturally turned to the army !.
The only light on the reasons Colonel Sewarts eN'e anu
humiliation is contained rurnors IN army clIo
peanental unitness phrase coined by hlhu k0o VII" -
secretary of is said that President KooSeFe" =
Stewart
Ii the war department can make physically unit 1nag
stick it will be necessary await and keep hiI m n ~
posts until he o2 years old in 1911 20 get rd o i se
Civilians who have become interested in Colonel ee"aLS @
saying that his plight is one the severest examples
ing an officer the army that has occurred N y s he pass
smPatlizers in California, Arizona and also fio'u'
0u much OF his baniShment weak
eing Or becoming gutter Every effort dsodse hum rSs
Tar proved futile ,.,,,ts bar
Here are the salient facts in the case Of Colonel stewart =
barors exile:
Brigadier General Frederick D Grant % irrtant
Of Stewart or relief from command Refers 70 NM q
Causing trouble at all posts where he was stauope
1907. .e.. Stewart that n
September 23Adjuant General Ansvortn f,rt years SER
the president IS ready to him on account q lJ Fort Grant
wee Or send him TO a post without garrison p0o''
Ariz - s he