The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-06
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Sycamore Hill.
LEAVES WITH BROAD SMILE

colonel Announces That Bunch OF
Most Rabid Insurgents In Country
Are Scheduled For Call Tomorrow.
BalIinser.Pinchot Controversy is
Rock on Which He Is Liable to
Split With observation-disclosures viii
Tell Troubles Next Friday.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. July eff Col.
onel Roosevelt is going to fall in
line and indorse the administration,
as good many political sharks
think he will do. he is employing
novel method of making his attitude
known. The colonel announced that
some of the most rabid insurgent
leaders in the country are coming to
Sycamore Hill tomorrow. The con
ference gives every indication of be.
ing the most important gathering
that Mr.. Roosevelt has participated
in since he got back from the other
side, with the possible exception of
the meeting with President Taft at
Beverly last week, which apparently
as the Beverly dispatches would have
It. Mr.. Roosevelt refused to give out
the names of approaching insurgents.
II has been stated frequently In the
oyster Bay dispatches that the cx'
president is cautiously feeling his
way before he let's the public in on
how he feels toward the administra.
tion. 1t has been remarked also that
the Ballinger- Pinchot controversy is
the rock upon which Colonel Roose.
welt and President Taft are likely to
split. For the first time, the colonel
defined clearly his opposition 10 Sec.
retary Ballinger by telling Represen.
tative Poindexter thatN he will in.
dorse his candidacy in the fight for
the United States senatorship
against Senator Piles of Washington.
Piles is identified with the Ballinger
wing Of the Republican party in the
state of Washington. PoindeNter is
and militant insurgcnt.
The question of the arrival of Gov.
ernor Hughes Is just about settled.
The colonel thought that the governor
would call about Friday. The length
of his visit will depend upon how in.
terested and excited Mr.. Roosevelt
gets when he learns at first hand
what has happened in New York
state and what the prospects are for
future anti-Hughes happenings. The
colonel will confer with the governor
on the direct nomination bills and he
will probe deep into the condition Of
the machine that opposed and whip.
ped Governor Hughes. Roosevelt will
take hand In attempting to rout the
opposition and the state fight next
fall will be sizzle. Take 1t from
the colonel.
Representative Miles Poindexter
hoped off the train into Oyster Bay.
A tall, gaunt, nervous cong ,cssman
is PoindeXter He told the reporters
who swamped him on his arrival that
he would have to ask the colonel
what he might say about his visit,
because he understood that was Sag.
amore Hill etiquette-so they let him
go.
The congressman had so little time
to talk with the newspaper men on
his return from the Hill two hours
later that the affable conductor who
is used to such interviews neld the
train for couple of minutes. Poin
dexter informed his inquirers that he
was running for the senatorship in
Washington and that he was utterly
opposed to Ballinger and his ideas.
He qualified himself as IAN insurgeni
and upholder of the conservation
platform"