Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-01-19
PINCHOTS DISMISSAL AS LA Fol
LETTE SEES III.

Evidently the patronage Club that
President Taft and Postmaster Gener-
al Hitchcock are holding over the Re
publican Insurgents" has no terrors
for Senator La Toilette. In his weekly
magazine of last Saturday he prints a
full page portrait of Clifford Pinchot,
and under it prints this: Whose dis
missal from the position of Chief For
roster removes from public life a
REAL servant of the people" After
that there can be no question as TO
what view La Toilette has of the pro-
ceedings up to date, or where he pro-
poses to stand with regard to the adj
ministration and its attitude toward
conservation that will conserve.
In his two pages of comments on
Penchot's dismissal Senator La Fol
letee says:
The guilt" of these subordinates
was not, as might be inferred from the
use of that word in this connection, n
participation in any public land steal,
but a violation of official propriety
attempt upon the part of others, con-.
| nived at by Department officials, AS
| they believed to steal the public lands.
| =
1t may we'll be admitted that Pin
! chot committed a breach of official ct
! iquette in giving out his letter in ex-
! tenuation of the over-zeal of Price and
| Shaw in the public interest.
| D,1+ f- +rO HI 4 -,
| down too deeply into the life of the
| lightly upon some point of official
etiquette.
Is such a record of invaluable public
service and unselfish public devotion
| to be sacrificed upon a pin point of Of
! fetal etiquette? The American people
are just Likewise they are intelligent.
They have begun fully to comprehend
! what it means to them for their gov
| eminent to retain title now and for all
time to its water powers, its COAL its
| timber-the last remnant of its natural
! resources.
|
We think it will be hard for the pub
| lie to accept the Presidents decision
when he declared to Clifford Pinchot
that by writing this letter to Senator
Dolliver he had destroyed his useful
ness as a helpful subordinate of the
| government and it now therefore be-
| comes my duty to direct the Secretary
of Agriculture to remove you from
| your office as forester" In his con-
| sideration of Mr.. Pinchot's offense in
writing letter to a Senator to be
read on the floor of the Senate, be-
cause it might influence public judg-
ment in a matter which had been OF
| might be the subject of executive ac-
ton, the President seems quite to have
overlooked the case of Mr.. Secretary
Ballinger. He seems to have overlook
| ed the fact that Mr.. Pinchot's letter
was called forth by one written by Mr.
Ballinger "denouncing certain For
estry officials and written to a Sena-
tor, for the express purpose of having
it read during a session of the Senate
as part of its proceedings"
Search the records for case to
match it! Behold a member of the
cabinet whose department has been
| charged with corrupt or improper
practices relative to coal lands in AL
aska, angered at other officials of the
executive department because, as he
says, they are the source and inspira-
| ton of the charges. Behold him ignore
| his superior, the President, and come
| by letter upon the floor of the Senate
| to file charges against his official col
| leagues of the Forest Service, MEM
bers of the executive family He does
no complain that they have violated any
statute or betrayed any public trust
| but that they have criticized and in
| spired criticism and charges against
officials of the same administrative
| household and urges that they be in
yestigated by Congress. He ignores the
| fact that under the Constitution the
executive and legislative are separate
Independent, and coordinate branches
| of the government; that Congress has
no authority over these executive Of
ficials; that the President alone can
| deal with them, acquit or condemn, ap-
prove or punish.
No criticism is made by the Presi-
dent or by any of Mr. BaIlinger's
friends in Congress of this most ex-
traordinary conduct on the part of the
| Secretary of the Interior in address
ing his complaint against certain for
estry officials" to the Congress rather
than to the President.
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