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    "ocrText": "3\nman who will bo much more than a good follow. We want him to be a men\nof profossional capacity who will tako prâde in the work from a prow\nfossional stampoint. As far as I Innw wa havo not hnd any roal testi\"\nmony of value as to Mr., Lowie* eminonco in the scionce of survoying or\nof mining enginooring, or hie spocial knowledge of the public land laws.\nI do not think that this partiqular office is ono in which the man can\nbe primorily a politicion and only accondarily a surveyor - and this is\njust oxactly what Vivian has boen. I do not Invo to tell you that 1\nboliovo in polities and in politicions. I claim to bo a politician\nmysolf. It is alvays a count in a mon's favor if he is a politician, -\nthat is, if ho ia en honest ono - and 1 have not the slightest sympathy\nwith the goo=goo and mygnamp attitude in the mattor; but noithor can I\nafford to take, nor would you wish mo to tako, the ground of placing the\npublic interest second to any\ninteroste If Lovis is\nroally the boat zom wa ought to haro on record tostimony as to his sci-\nentifie and practical knowlodge and an to has business habits, which\ncreate a\nwall at lensi ty presumption that ho will roforse Vivien's\nno\nmothods, and no longor loavo the colorado Survoyor goneral's\nOffice whore it is at prosent in point of businoss efficioncy, at the\nfoot of all theso offices in the United Statos\nSincoroly yours,\nTHEODORE ROOSEVELT.\nPhilip B. Stowart, Esque\nColorado Springs, Colorado."
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