The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-08-25
THE. BALL|kGER
AND P|NCA0I
FIGHT TO DEATH
Great Battle is Over the Per.
petuation Of the Roosevelt
ian Policies.
BAllINGER CHARGED WITH
AID|hG Water. POWER TRUST

ket O Ms C0leI anu tdo DS6tle Wul
Not End TIL One or the Other Be.
tires.
Washington, Aug. 25.-Despite the
fact that Richard Achilles Ballingef
the secretary Of the department Of
the interior, started his official life
by inaugurating sensational battle
to overturn the policy Of his prede-
cessors by reaching for the onacial
head of Director Frederick N. Newell
of the reclamation service, the fight
has temporarily swung to National
Forester Clifford Pinchot, and in him
Secretary Ballinger has an opponent
to be feared.
Whether the secretary or the fores-
ter will win u.s. hard to say, but pow.
erful interests are standing with Mr..
Pinchot and that five senator's have
told tho president the cabinet
minister is in the wrong and that
the Republican party will suffer ire
parably in the west IL the Roosevelt
ian policy of conservation is further
interfered with.
Flshuns WIN nack W WALL
Because of the bitter fight now be.
ing made against him by Mr.. Pinchot
Secretary Ballinger has made no re.
cent attack upon the chief Of the re.
clamation service. His desire at first
apparently was merely to relieve Mr..
Newell from duty and seize the
branch of federal service over which
he presided as a pleasant pasture
land for friends and political follow
sers. But now he has got his own
back to the wall In q night that Will
only cease WREN President Tan de.
ses sa 81 wneenea =. ha.har eans - tmo =, % .na
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"so :. 'n . 1 ~.
lnat MT. balMnger Deneyed tne
oustlng OF NeWell Woula De easy -
essured tnaS ne contenipasseu slvhns
MS position 70 an untrlea man anq
OF Shipping otner untr1ed men INTO
very important posiuons is certain.
BUT II Is just as certain tnat MS every
plan mas oeen SO 1aF ploSkea ana
tnat nve senator's quickly lneo up
against MIN ana voiced their protests
70 the president IN no uncertain way.
Inree OF tnese senator's appeared AT
tne Wnlte mousse weeks ago, ana one
NJ pai,,raar,s .ot;ons had aS-ea%n
M d,vorced tSe votss ~ ~ ton @ was,arn 1
a s4otas s,,,,,. | a. pen,,hi,.as ,,... e,n
that "if he were allowed tn continue
his program Of undoine the good
work done -by the reclamation ser.
vice eyery state vest of the Mississin-
nj river wouid he found In the Demo.
cratic column four wears hence"
rh.... l.,,,ss p.,,,.
o". e0' Ae","'' A'''"e
AS many now Know, the charges
against Mr. balnnger Is that ne gave
TOO mucn comfort TO the ruthless wa
ter power TRUST, which Is rapidly
forming Tor the purpose OF sei7ing all
water power sites on the western
rivers. He Is charged with having
thrown open valuable lands which his
predecessor, James X. Garfield. had
caused 70 DO w'tnarawn tna1 tne
shon1d ha % s,vad to the the neon,a % Aaants
- the watar nower ~ trpst % were, % ~
W.shineton two weata nr;or IN tho
releasing of the lands ana the 1nt,mas
ton wos mada that thav tneu tnas.
r;ch % nr;zes ~ would ha iaid a. at tha;s
saas M - .
80" ~, ~
inc SITES were seizea as soon as
entries couia % naae ana tne evil
naa oeen done.
Since then much has happened. At
torney General Wickersham has been
sent for by President Taft and asked
TO consider another reclamation case
and give another decision; the posi-
tions which Secretary Ballinger prof.
still held by the men appointed BY
Director Newell; the people on the
former arid lands have told their SEN