Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-28

atrar WANT All tliAte
eNeihn Greatest personal sacrifice
W, could accept it, How in the end
w.. W. ALWAYS take itg And yet there
he cvnies and folk of sour stomachs
r,bo insist that patriotism ana a Will
,~,gness to sacrifice self upon the al
taTs of the common good are dead In
the land.
Mr.. Ballingcr Is tnatfectcdly
Democratic.
Mr.. Ballinger. Snake-Killer. reform
mayor of Seattle, became spperin-
endents of the Government Land Of
fice. True to his employment, Ire did
for that land office what st. Patrick
did for Ireland. When he got through
not a graft-rattle, not q fraud hlss
could anywhere be heard. The lane
snakes were gone. With broom o.
law. Bosom of dismissal, Stakeholder
Rallinger had swept them out.
Mr.. Roosevelt was working as
beaver never worked to make Mr..
Taft his successor. Brother Charles
Taft down in Cincinnati was spending
5000 600 of his wife's money-in-
herited from her iron-mongering
father, old Dave Sinton-in the same
good cause. Mr.. Ballinger, inspired
nv so much and such high example,
bpgan TO get pussy dlolS SiiillIdl llIlto.
Mr.. Ballinger caused himself to be
named National Committeeman from
his state of Washington. He saw to it
that he was sent delegates to the
chicago convention. He ma~noeuVered
himself delicately yet sufficiently upon
the conventions platform committee.
on all occasions and in every corner
he was for Taft and Taft alone. Also
he showed himself as apt for politics
as any Irishman.
no Mr.. Ballinger, as debts of poll
ties are counted, Mr.. Taft owed much.
II was the expected thing that Mr..
Ballinger should be invited into the
Cabinet.
1t was Just as expected, that being
invited, he would come. He was in
vited. He did ONE He's there now
to the destruction of the Glavises and
the dismay of the Pinchots. 1t might
be subjoined, too, that he is there to
the advantage of the public and the
truth in no wise be over-run.
In figure Mr.. BaIinger is wiry,
alert, and gives forth a clean-strain
impression that belongs only with the
thoroughbred. He has a good fore
head, a good jaw n a nose and
mouth that might be worse. His eyes
are brave, bright, honest; his gaze is
level and steady. Much of his hair
has remained true TO him, Dut III the
severity of what service it has seen it
could not refrain from turning a dis
couraged gray. Also wken he took
his Cabinet oath he sported a disad-
vantageous mustache which | hope he
has since seen cause to lay aside.
Mr.. Ballinger, after the western
spirit, is unaffectedly democratic. He
meets men as M who respecting
himself. also respects them. He does
not wear the nj of II who eX-
poets to find his inferior. Still less
would he remind you of him who
fears he may meet his superior.
Never does he pose or seek to trans
act his dignity at the humbhng eX-
pense of another.
lie has two tall, slim boys in col
lege. Unlike his father he has heaped
up a moderate store of gold. His
home in Seattle is what local litera-
tours call "palatial."
Mr.. Ballinger "a laugh. There's
sanity in mirth. Gloom is the mark
of unsound minds; the serious are
often the insane. Mr.. Ballinger can
see a joke and crack a joke. Folk
like him; he owns a genius for the
popular. In this he has the better of
every other of the Cabinet eight.
Tie has two claims TO fame. Flo