The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-29
WHEN THE COLONEL COMES
HONIE--WHAT?

President Taft has become entangled
with the trusts, high tariffs. high
process and conservation problems ask
do you think Roosevelt will be NOM
mated for PRESIDENT" There seems
to be a popular notion that the re-
markable statesman. who has just
emerged from the jungles of Africa
will allow himself to be nominated
when he sees the reelection of Judge
Taft is impossible and that the Re-
publican leaders will turn to him as
their only hope of retaining power.
The problem Is one incapable of early
solution unless Mr.. Roosevelt should
announce his intentions, and he will
not likely do that for such are the
chaotic conditions in the Republican
party that he will want time to make
himself acquainted with the facts.
And unless there is an extraordinary
and unexampled pressure for him to-
take the reins again, he Will not DO
SO. Indeed it may be safely said
that President Roosevelt Will no,
take the leadership of his party
again. However unpopular may be
his administration, it seems likely
that Judge Taft will be renominated
unless he should withdraw voluntar-
ily. That would probably occasion a
shaking up in politics which has had
few or no precedents in our history.
So much for the hearing OF
"Bwana" on the main issue. 1t Is on
Il collateral affair that the coming
home of the faunal naturalist may
fairly be expected to really take the
larger interest and entertain the
greater concern-that of the protec-
ton of the public property and care
for the vast national wealth which
the Guggenheims, the Morgans, the
Clarkes, the Cunninghams and others
had planned to grab for their corpo-
rations. 1t Is known of all men tha'
Roosevelt when President, with his
usual prescience and zeal, threw him-
self into the breach and held back
the minions of pillage, brigandage
and robbery of the public lands the
coal, the forests, the minerals the
vater-sites, the dynamic power that
really belongs to the American peo-
ple and not to highway robbers, ana
which IL properly conserved wouid
be a mine of wealth to the govern
ment and serve the people in the up
building of Greaser America for gen.
erations and ages to come. When
President Mr.. Roosevelt had placed
f., nosition such men as Hon. James
r.. Garfield as Secretary of the Inter-
ior. Hon. Clifford Pinchot, VINO is
a scientist, an enthusiastic student OF
forestry, man of wealth and re-
anement, as Chief Forester, and they
annointed as their aids such men as
CLAWS Davis and others who were
entirely dependable.
But since the new administrator
has come into power there has been
very startling change. These scien-
lists and friends of Roosevelt nave
heen "relieyed" or discharged from
the service and a new set of men un-
der the direction of Richard A. BAL
llinger, Secretary of the Interior, nave
been appointed. Who Is Ballinger'
and why was he appointed instead OF
Garfield? Why was CLAWS thrown
down and Pinchot kicked out? Wha'
was the crime or the vice of these
men? That they were Vigiiaht III
carrying out the policies of Roose-
welt. that they were giving the gov
ernment an honest service, that they
we're protecting the public property!
why was that a vice or crimeE
President Taft was committed tt
the carrying out of those policies ol
his predecessor but the specious ah'
contemplate objection was made ina
Mr.. Ballinger wanted 1t done "ac
/ oording to law" and that these peo
pie were doing it, law or no law
That is they were doing It, = ina
appears to have been the really Cd
iectionable feature of the matter t'
the mind of Mr.. Ballinger He mac
bee nthe attorney of the cormorant
) and they had scented wealth whici
; would outshine that of "ormus or
Ind" and they were seeking to se
titles to the mighty riches which Coz
=. Almighty had laid up in that spien
: Ldid treasure house under the Alaskan
mountains for the benefit of unnum
> bered millions of people who are l
I succeed us on the stage OF actor
Hence. he found objection to DAVIS
to CLAWS, to Pinchot, to Garfield anc
no doubt, to Roosevelt. himself. an
he and the hired casuists OF the mon
oplistic pirates who were seeking
q grab these valuable properties nav
: ben trying to paint up their villainie
and put attractive colors on thel
crimes and clothe their wolfish bodie
"a .o,Is In ahaen'a Parments Hay